BUDGET FOOD HAUL! February 17, 2024

Pete and I went to 2 of the places where we used to shop when we lived in Houghton Lake: Pineview (McBain, MI) and Ebel’s (Falmouth, MI). We haven’t been there to either one in a very long time. This is our haul.

Little Thrift Store Haul – Oct. 2, 2023 (with alt-texts)

Pete and I went down to Saginaw for an appointment he had at the VA this afternoon and while we were down there we stopped at the MASSIVE Volunteers of America thrift store. Everything I bought was discounted. I got a computer bag, a frying pan to replace mine which is wearing out, a maroon …
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Costco “Receipt Haul” – September 28, 2023

Just a few notes: Those items with a dot after the name are the mainstays of Pete’s diet. He doesn’t eat pork or poultry, and eats beef once a week or less; his polish sausage is 100% grass-fed beef, not a typical sausage. Those items with a – after the name are what I bought …
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GUEST POST by Don: Self-Scan

SELF-SCAN We are still in 1990.  That’s about when this trend began. It was horrible then.  The scanner often failed to identify item after item.  What did you have to do then?  You had to punch in the numeric code hidden on the product (often unreadable).  There were piles of impossible to read items which had to be returned to …
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GUEST POST from Don: Shopping

SHOPPING My wife cannot go shopping with me. How does she shop? I don’t know exactly. I only know that she does not go in a straight line and spends more. LIST. That’s how I shop. I only need to look AT and FOR the items on my list. The list says 5-grain bread…and I …
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Day In The Life – Day Trip to Gladwin, MI (includes meat haul!)

Today didn’t turn out ANYTHING like what we’d planned! But we can wash blankets at the laundromat anytime, right? I have mentioned before that we have about a dozen larger towns and smaller cities within an hour of where we live; Gladwin is one of them, though we don’t go there often. We go THROUGH …
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