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Groceries, a Crazy Wife, Internet, and the COVID.......How I got "Conona-ed" this Week

FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭
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So with the stores shelves being completely bare around here for a couple of weeks (like those pictures you see on the news), we've just been fixing meals from the pantry stash, enjoying deer from last season etc. No problem. That said, my wife has been working her on-line Walmart grocery account to try and resupply dairy products, baking ingredients, vegetables/fruit, etc.  Needless to say, she has not been having much luck. Well, apparently she had the bright idea of adding multiple different brands/sizes of EVERYTHING to her cart, on the assumption that Walmart MIGHT have one out of the four items. So I go to do the grocery pickup and guess what?  They had it ALL.  So now I am about $600 lighter, have 9 gallons of milk, and enough baking junk to last a couple of years. With tele-work in place through the end of May, now I REALLY have no reason to go to town for a while. Suits me just fine.  
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    Local Safeway has a list of items with quantity restrictions.  For a while butter was on the list.
    Now they have a special where you save $ 0.50 per pound if you buy four pounds.  I only wanted two pounds, but what the hell, saving money is saving money.  Little gal at the checkstand made a point of looking to see if butter was restricted.  When I mentioned that I would have only bought 2 pounds had there not been special pricing for 4 or more, she just shook her head and smiled.
    It is nuts out there.  Hopefully the hype will settle down and we can get back to normal in a week or two.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • FrogdogFrogdog Member Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭
    Yea, the wife must have placed her order at just the right time when they got shipments in. I felt kind of bad picking all that up at once, but there was nothing to be done. It was already paid, packed, and loaded, and the workers were too busy to try and undo any of it. Live and learn, I reckon.

    And, Don - we only live once. More butter is ALWAYS the right choice. Well done, sir. 
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,275 ✭✭✭✭
    I have more than a little 'prepper' blood in me and it's turned out to have been a good thing.  My wife used to make fun of me for always keeping 18-20 months worth of TP on hand.  Not any more!  Now she keeps telling me to go get more.  
    The pantry is probably good for 6 months or more and there's a butt-load of meat in the freezer.   
    Should the power go out there's the generator and enough gas to run it quite a while.  
    We're set here, which is not to say that I won't pick up more of certain items if they're a bargain.  
    Too bad I lost all my guns and ammo in that canoeing  mishap.  They'd sure be handy for protecting the stash about now...
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