Yesterday I went to Lin's at 5:30am to purchase some fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts at the butcher block for $1.29/lb! I was happy to see I was the first and only one in line. It only stayed that way for about 10 minutes. I honestly began to think I was crazy and that I had got the sale date/time wrong, boy would I be embarassed. My fellow savvy shoppers arrived closer to opening time of 6am, by then there was about 20 people waiting for the doors to open. I verified that the people behind me were going to be civilized and not run me over with their carts. They promised that but I still got my heel clipped while I calmly waiting for the girl to get the key out of the door and make way for us, it was an accident and I didn't even care all I could think was how to make my way to the butcher block. My friend De'dy met me there and we tried to figure out how much chicken we could buy. I had offered to buy some for Brenda and Misty. They had 40lb boxes and 4lb packages, people were going crazy grabbing several boxes (I'm thinking these people must have a huge family or a walk-in freezer at their house). I headed to the individual packages so I could think clearly and check the quality. All was good so I started loading up the chicken. I ended up with about 10lbs extra (I don't have a deep freeze so I couldn't store too much) so I called my trusty friend Sarah who has been avoiding the whole coupon craze since she has 3 kids and an almost full time office job. She agreed to take the extra chicken off my hands. I got a food saver on Friday so I could package the meat and other food storage items better and I love it. I wish I would have had one years ago. The bags are pretty expensive but they make food last a lot longer (according to the info on the box). I figured after bagging costs (not including my labor) it was about $1.60/lb for the chicken, supposedly the bags make it last 2-3 years in the deep freeze. Well we are building our food storage/stockpile while we can so I'm learning a lot about longevity of items. I'm pretty much stocked up on on household stuff from the sales and have come to an interesting conclusion. I think I know my limit of enough. I read the book Your Money or Your Life and it talks about when enough is enough. Everyone's opinion of enough is so variable. I get 4 coupons so I can get 4 items on a really good sale, usually really good sale means the expiration date is soon. The reason for my enough is we have stores where the shelfs are empty, we have figured out how to reconfigure sales to our advantage with store and mfg. coupons and now we've told everyone. If I can get the item for free I will but if it's an item that I have enough of I will give it to my friends (to those of you who live out of town, if you come visit me and I have excess I will give it to you). I feel I'm on the verge of enough and greed, that is why I will give it away or not buy it. I don't want to be the only person that gets a good deal. I think it's a good idea when they limit the quantity that you buy. I reall think they should have limited the chicken to only so many lbs per person because I'm sure a lot of that chicken will sit in someone's freezer forgotten about until they move or clean it out. Instead of share the wealth, we should share the savings. I wonder if Lin's can get chicken at this price all year long. I just lost and found my blog, I am no longer using msn for my blog posts because this has happened too many times and with the way I write, aagghhh!
That's my 2cents for now! oh I added this cute pic of Cash, we were feeding the ducks at the golf course and he posed for me.D
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