Monday, May 23, 2011

The Grocery Store Dilemma

I am a member of this mommy group and we have these playdates at each others house every so often. One of the reasons I like to go to these things is to get ideas for toys, decor, and of course to make friends. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, and for Bubu to play with some other little kids. So, one of the more organized moms had a calendar up with what their family was going to have for dinner EVERY night for the whole month! Wow. I mean, I gotta admit, it was impressive. I personally did not go so far as to do that myself but I thought it might work for me to have a weekly chart for dinners in order to help with my full time job as CEO of the Thornton household: the Roseville location.

So I pulled out a whiteboard from behind the washing machine, dug up some dry erase markers, and went to town! I am also CFO of the company and so I thought this idea would help staying within my grocery store budget too. I make my list and every Monday, Bubu and I head to the grocery store to get the 14 items we need. Here's the issue, I end up with approximately 38 to 50 items. I always wonder, how does this happen? Why do I even bother making a list? Is the problem that I'm sporadically on the phone throughout the store? Or is it because I'm prying pudding boxes out of Bubu's hands 25% of the time? Or maybe it's the playing peekaboo around the corner of each aisle that's too much of a distraction for me?

Regardless, I'm consistently over budget.

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