leanneslife.com » economy http://leanneslife.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:19:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How Half & Half cost $64.46 http://leanneslife.com/2009/09/05/how-half-half-cost-64-46/ http://leanneslife.com/2009/09/05/how-half-half-cost-64-46/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:48:31 +0000 Leanne http://leanneslife.com/?p=699 I woke up this morning and remembered I was out of half & half.  With company here I had to take care of this before they woke up and poured their coffee.  So I grabbed the car keys and headed to Publix.  I should have only spent under $2.00. 

As I’m walking in the store I remember I needed to grab some eggs. No problem, eggs and half & half.  Then as I pass the breakfast meats I see my favorite brand of Canadian bacon is on sale – $1.00 off the regular price. So I pick up bacon, too.  Then I look down the next aisle and remember we nearly finished the lime juice yesterday (it was tequila Friday) so I grab a new bottle of lime juice.  That made me remember I was on the last bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper so I’d better get a bottle while I’m here.  The dog food aisle was next and of course the babies were on their last bag of treats so that got added to the basket.  It so it went on and on as I continued to remember things like – we needed food for lunch today, snacks tonight, and Excedrin to help get through the tequila headache. 

And as I was leaving the parking lot with my 4 bags of groceries totalling $33.96, it dawned on me I needed to fill up the gas tank before we head to my moms house tonight on the other side of town.  Add another $30.50 to the tally.

That folks, is how a $1.50 carton of half & half ended up costing $64.46.

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]]> http://leanneslife.com/2009/09/05/how-half-half-cost-64-46/feed/ 5 Empty Plane – Sign of the Times? http://leanneslife.com/2009/02/28/empty-plane-sign-of-the-times/ http://leanneslife.com/2009/02/28/empty-plane-sign-of-the-times/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:43:02 +0000 Leanne http://leannejakubowski.com/2009/02/28/empty-plane-sign-of-the-times/ I flew up to Washington, DC yesterday on a midday flight on a Friday afternoon. I was on the phone with my mom waiting to board – waiting to hear that familiar “Zone 1 for Flight 199 is now boarding”. But instead, they simply called for all passengers for Flight 199 to proceed with boarding. The plane had so few passengers they boarded everyone at once. And to top that, we boarded so quickly we pushed back 20 minutes early. Everyone in the economy cabin was free to pick any seat they wanted – it was that empty. From a passenger perspective it was very nice. We could stretch out, relax and move around freely. But from an economy perspective, it was quite scary.

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