Peeved

Wednesday is always my busiest day. Between my clients, activity days (my calling), grocery shopping (my other job), and my normal motherly/wifely duties, I have little to no time left for anything else.

I like being busy, but by the end of this day, I am fried. Especially because I grocery shop around 8 pm. I used to love grocery shopping. It was relaxing, fun and low stress. These days my grocery shopping is like a full contact sport; intense, fast paced, and MUST be organized.

My weekly grocery trip is about a 9 step process. I’m not joking. I won’t bore you with the details, but I do it that way to ensure we  save money and don’t spend more than we have to for anything.  I have become very thrifty in my 5.5 years of marriage.

So, I’m sure you can imagine, I get very peeved when I go through so much to save money and the cashiers/registers ring things up improperly, charging me more than it should be. This happens to me EVERY week. I have to go to the service counter, wait in line, explain what happened, and plead my case all get my money back.

I used to not ‘care’ about a few dollars here and there if I were overcharged because I thought my time was more valuable than waiting to get a couple dollars back. But, now it’s my job to save us money and I realized it totally ads up. Plus, why should stores get more moolah for something than they advertise it to be? If it happens to me every week, I guarantee it happens to the majority of other people too, they just don’t check their receipts.

So, the moral of this rant? I’m not quite sure it has one. What I am sure about is that that was very therapeutic ‘cause I feel much, much better now.