The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 02, 2022

Goat’s head soup today for dinner.

Went to the store this morning for milk. Got some frozen food, paper towels and bathroom tissue. Know what I forgot to get get? Yep, milk.

Sometimes I will pay a little more for something if it allows me to avoid making another stop.

Hey, do you sell books with your strips? I looked on Amazon and only find a few out of print old ones from decades ago.

They’re generally on sale for a reason: nobody else wants them.

Why did you get this, it’s not what we eat? It was BOGO. So now we have 2 whatevers we won’t eat. Perfect, just remember to not get the regular until “we” eat the stuff we don’t like. Warning, this does not apply to chocolate and most ice cream.

I had the wrong lyric. I thought he was going for “Pleased to meet you \ Hope you guess my name \ But what’s puzzling you \ Is the nature of my game”

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I saw her today at the super market

A glass of wine in her hand

I knew she would squeeze that tomato

At her feet was the produce man

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To paraphrase Sheryl Crow, it’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got

sounds like a plan to me… just don’t go buying weird useless items you don’t know or can’t use.

Shop till you drop.

Was that was one the flip side of the 45?

There are many empty shelves at the grocery stores, these days. But, rather than buying a lot of sale items I probably don’t want or need, I look elsewhere. As I generally move about the whole city each week, I have many grocery options available to me.

It could have been worse Brutus. She could have been shopping for jewelry or cars.

The problem is, the sale prices are the real price. I only buy what’s on sale and stock up. Love the freezer. No canned goods. Veggies for the week. Seriously, who the heck is paying close to 5.00 for Thomas’s original english muffins. 1.99 a lb for zucchini. 1.50 a lb for butternut squash ?? The good news. I’m eating less and healthier. No junk food. None, nada.

As long as the sale items are things you will make use of, Gladys, otherwise you’re just wasting money. But I suspect you already know that.

Mine is, if you can’t get what you want, get what they have. My store never has everything I need.

Since COVID, quite a few of my favorites have either disappeared permanently, or they’re really hard to find. If I do find them online, they’re so expensive that I refuse to buy them.

When I go shopping for groceries, I tend to forage. If they have enough food that I like and can eat over the period of time I need until I plan to return, it’s all good. It keeps me out of eating the same things all the time. I go in with an open mind. This is the fruit market, not a large chain grocery store. The large store is where I get my staples and order them online ahead of time and they put them in my car’s trunk when I go pick them up.

Was Gladys shopping in France???

As long as you get what you need on sale, go for it…..

Say “Hi” to Mr. Jimmy for me!

A decent strategy. She’s watching the family food budget closely.

I always get what’s on sale. Eventually, what I want is on sale in most cases.

the supermarket my wife worked at held sales every tuesday and, sure enough, was thronged with people looking for bargains every tuesday. according to my better half, the store stocked items for tuesday sales that were especially procured for the sales and not available the rest of the week. in other words, the stuff that was “on sale” was cheapo cheapo crap that the store purchased specifically to “mark down” and it wasn’t at all that shoppers were being offered bargains…

It encourages creativity in the kitchen.