It was a pretty quiet day here. Tim decided that he did not want to go hunting today, so we stopped over at the lawyer's office to sign some papers.
We headed off to feed the kittens down at the new house.
Tim wanted to go to Titusville when we were done. I asked if we could hit a thrift store. What a score that was. He found a new leather belt for himself. I found a Land's End wool coat, egg plant color that matches very well with the scarf I found a couple weeks ago, for $8.99. I found some books for the box of books I'm putting together for Christmas. You know...just browsing...and then...
This canister set was a reproduction jadeite set and it is greener than it appears in this picture, but...
it will match perfectly with the wallpaper...
It was $6.99 for the set, and I could see them so perfectly on the hoosier cabinet,
...in the new pantry
that they were in my cart in an eyeblink.
We also bought some more Christmas gifts today which was fun too.
We stopped at a grocery store to pick up some pepperoni to make pizza for supper tonight. I had a loaf of Italian bread which needed to be used up, and so I figured that I'd split it, top it with sauce and onion and peppers and pepperoni and cheese and have a pizza. Tim decided he'd rather have it topped with sausage and so we went back to the meat coolers. We found a rope of Italian sausage. I said, "Well, that can be split up, and it will make 4 or 5 meals for us. He said, "That's a good buy for $9. We glanced through their meat, and were shocked to see pork chops being sold for $1.49 a pound. They had family packs ranging between $6 and $8. I counted the pork chops and said, "Gees. A couple packages of this could break down into 6 or 7 meals for you and me." They were very well trimmed which we liked. Tim said, "You need to pick a couple of those up."
Once the packages were opened up at home, and repackaged into smaller portions for the two of us, we had 11 more packages of meat to put in the freezer, and as ridiculous as it sounds, it is something that makes us both feel good.
The all important giggle!
This gem was brought to my attention by Gigi from Canada.
She posted it on John Gray's blog, and I shamelessly stole it because I laughed until I cried. Tim came out to watch it and laughed as hard as I did.
So. Here's your giggle for the day.
What a prank!
ReplyDeleteI know! Did you laugh as hard as we did?
DeleteYou have a good eye for bargains.
ReplyDeleteIt helps if angels sing. :)
DeleteYou have the best luck thrifting! You've had the kind of day retirees are supposed to have, here and there doing fun stuff. I can get excited putting bargains into the freezer, too, you're not alone there.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, that woman! She had me laughing for sure.
That woman was a screamer. I would have hated to have grown up in her house, that's for sure!
DeleteTerrific shopping plus Aunt Chippy? You’ve had a great day.
ReplyDeleteBonnie in Minneapolis
It just felt nice to relax and do something different for a day.
DeleteYou keep making me want to go to a thrift shop!
ReplyDeleteWhen I started the video… I thought this wasn’t a good prank because I thought she’d get a heart attack BUT then I couldn’t stop laughing. I have tears running down my cheek! Oh gosh!
I would love to take you thrift shopping!!!
DeleteOops! I forgot to tell you it was me. Kay of Musings. You must have known it was me because I just got your comment on my blog. :-)
ReplyDeleteI did know it was you! The 'oh gosh!' gave you away!
DeleteHappy shopping day. Bargains galore!
ReplyDeleteSure were!!!
DeleteNothing like thrift stores and bargains all round!!
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun when you find things that you need...and at a great price.
DeleteGreat shopping. I would have been happy, too.
ReplyDeleteMade our day, and none of it was unneccesary!
DeleteThank you for posting the Aunt Chippy clip. I've watched it twice and both times had tears rolling down my face. Fantastic start to Saturday morning! Sending best wishes from across The Pond.
ReplyDeleteAlison, Leeds, West Yorkshire
She's quite a squawker, isn't she? We howled.
DeleteOh what bargains!
ReplyDeleteOh what fun!!!! Has a seasonal sound to it, doesn't it?
DeleteThere's nothing better than finding some bargains.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't!!!! It was a fun day.
DeleteBrilliant video, hubby and I laughed so much, great bargain find.
ReplyDeleteGood to know that we were not the only fools in the world who laughed themselves silly!!
DeleteI get the same thrill from getting good meat at good prices, and breaking up the packages and vacuum sealing them. We bought a new upright freezer with drawers and deep shelves so that we could keep our finds more organized, but dang, it's a job to keep it that way! Every now and then I have to take stuff out of all 3 (yes, 3!) freezers and reorganize. I agree, Chippy is a yeller, and that would have killed me!
ReplyDeleteI had a friend whose father was a yeller. Come to think of it, they were Italian too. When I was a kid, I was always terrified. Her father would be yelling and 10 kids would just be milling around ignoring him. He was just non-stop. In my house when our father was yelling, someone was about to get hurt.
DeleteIn later years, I read about a woman who was murdered by her husband. In my eyes, the warning signs were all there. One detail of the story stood out though. Her sister was talking about when they were kids and talking about the time that somebody had gotten so mad they had taken a kitchen knife and was chasing someone else around. It clicked then, for the first time. The poor dead woman had not registered the scary behavior of her husband as scary because she'd lived with this sort of behavior all her life.
I love your new canisters. As to the video- I must disagree. I have nightmares about being in a moving car that I can't control. They could have given her a heart attack. But that's just me.
ReplyDeleteNo, it is NOT just you, actually. I have always had nightmares about being in a car driving down the road with no driver. I'm in the back seat when I notice this, and there are always other people in the back seat, and I'm trying to push through them to get my hands on the steering wheel. Sometimes I do manage it before I wake up, but I always wake up before I can get my whole self up there to get my foot on the brakes.
DeleteSame here.
DeleteI do the same when I find meat at good prices. Once I even found a large package mismarked at Costco, a very good day.
ReplyDeleteAunt Chippy is 84, Jimmy's lucky she has a healthy heart:)
They've pulled many a prank on her and filmed it for the show. I find myself wondering if she figures things out at some point and just continues her over the top response because 'it makes good tv'.
DeleteThat was my first thought was that surely the meat was mismarked...but it wasn't! All of it was marked at that $1.49 price. Pretty amazing to figure that worked out to less that $2 per two serving meal. That is quite a bargain.
DeleteGood job on the shopping bargains. No on the video. I couldn't watch it all the way through as I felt sorry for her. That would be terrifying!
ReplyDeleteWell, when she went after one of her kids belting and slapping at him at the end, I kind of did not feel sorry for her any more.
DeleteOMG. That was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! I have to show Dave!
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of Aunt Chippy videos.
DeleteWell done with all your bargains - you had a good day's shopping. The clip made me laugh - gosh, she was good and cross!!
ReplyDeleteMad as a wet hornet, as the saying goes!
DeletePork prices tend to be very cyclic compared to other meats and right now, it has been very cheap. We cooked pork chops many times this summer, the first time in a handful of years. Pork was also very cheap about the same time my parents started raising hogs back in the late 80's. My brother and I always had a freezer full of pork in our college apartment that we shared.
ReplyDeleteWe grilled ours with rosemary and salt and pepper.
DeleteOH my gosh. All thoughts about how wonderful your shopping went flew out of my head with that video. I had to restart it so my husband and I could watch it together and our stomachs hurt from laughing. What a bright spot in our day!! Hilarious - thank you thank you
ReplyDeleteI feel as if I can say 'mission accomplished' on that video. Hats off to Gigi!
DeleteI love Jimmy Kimmel. Thanks for the side splitter.
ReplyDeleteI'm rarely up that late, but I love watching snippets from his show when I can.
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