I realized today that I am now officially in the frugal living club. I began inching my way into the frugality club last fall when my husband took a position that, for now, pays a salary that is about half of what we've grown accustomed to. Knowing that it may be a year or so before we're back to the salary we're used to, I decided to take on the intense mission of cutting our grocery, gas, entertainment, and utility bills.
So, today I'm at Wal-Mart making my bi-weekly shopping trip, which by the way is an accomplishment I am very proud of. I used to make weekly trips for my "supplies" as I call them, for about the same as what I spend in my by-weekly trips.
But today, as I'm loading up all my junk into the truck, after I've already strapped Kaydn Rye into his seat, I look at the receipt and realize that the clerk lady forgot to deduct my coupons. But as I'm digging through all my bags I can't find the coupons either. I thought, "Not only did she forget to ring up my coupons but she took em!"
I thought about it for a millisecond and decided that was $5.00 I was going to fight for, so I told my already sleepy Kaydn Rye that we were going back in for another round.
He reluctantly agreed that we needed that $5.00 for our train set, swing set and sandbox fund.
So we tromped into the store and very politely asked the lady what happened to the coupons. With about ten people waiting in line for her services, she handed em to me and said, "Just take em over to the customer service desk, they'll give you your money back."
I look over at the customer service desk, and what do ya know, The line is three miles long. So we tromp over to that line.
So we wait. And we wait. And we wait.
Finally, praise Jesus, it's our turn. Yeah!
But the journey is not over.
We wait. And we wait. And we wait for the lady to type the latest edition of Webster's Dictionary on her little Wal-Mart computer, and then all of a sudden, magically, the lady says, "Thank you, have a good day," and hands me five bucks.
It was a good day.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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LOL I am so glad I have left the bigger city walmarts behind! Living in a small community, our walmarts NEVER gets that bad, however you do have to deal with small town mentality of strangers wanting to sit there telling you their whole life problems and medical conditions you REALLY do NOT want to know haha! Glad you got your $5 bucks back!
Ha that is so funny, you can go to the grocery stores in the little towns nearby and run into the same problem of WAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION!! I love it, it's great! By the way, I love your frugal blog idea! All of you frugal bloggers have saved me lots of money in the year or so since I stumbled upon the blogging world.
Good on you for fighting for that $5.00, better in your pocket than Walmart!
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