Yesterday, my wife decided to go grocery shopping, armed with a budget of $100. I gave her some coupons to use on stuff I know she buys. There is a ton of other stuff she buys that I don’t know about. Well, the coupons were $0.75 off of this $0.50 off of that.
She was talking about the gold old days when she didn’t have to use coupons. She also use to grocery shop everyday before we had a budget. It was like $40 at the grocery store and stop into CVS for another $30. Well, now we budget $100 per week for groceries and we eat out far less.
We used to eat every meal on the weekends out. We have changed that. I now spend $20 a week on pizza for Saturday night and we eat the leftovers for lunch on Sunday.
Well, when she said do you remember, I started remembering about double income and no kids. Living in a condo in Brookline (in 2004 it was $360k condo for 900 square feet). Eating at the Radius in Boston ($300 per meal, I recommend the chef tasting menu). And sleeping in late on the weekends.
Sorry about that tangent. Where was I? … Oh yes … grocery shopping.
My wife came back from the grocery store and showed me the receipt. She spent $77 this week for all our meals. She saved about $33 on coupons and sale items. She was talking about how she got a center cut roast for $10 that’s normally over $20. She was talking about how see saved on this and that.
Not all of the buys were great. She bought strawberries on the cheap and some of them were rotting.
I thought to myself, who is this woman and what did they do with my wife that left the house. And could I keep this one?
She must have had one of the light bulb moments in the store or the way back after seeing all her savings.
My wife drinks the Kool-aid
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As for the Kool-aid, I wish you could pass some to my ex-wife. Even now, she needs it if only to save herself and spare our kids.
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