Friday Follies: More fun at Albertsons (link up your follies, too!)

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Why do I even have a grocery budget, when I keep overspending it?

Don't get me wrong, I had a good reason.

My local Albertsons is going out of business - today is the last day - and the sales have been progressively getting better and better and better.  And I keep going back for better and better deals.

I went on Tuesday, when groceries were 40% off, and here's what I got:

 

I spent $25.13 on all this stuff: 5 rolls of paper towels (free with coupons), 7 boxes of tissues (also free with coupons), 5 cans of fruit, 4 cans of tomatoes, 2 boxes of Special K fruit crisps, 1 box of granola bars, 1 bag of popcorn, 5 cans of tuna, a bunch of bananas (only 25% off), and a loaf of bread.  I had coupons for everything except the popcorn, bananas, and bread.

Then I went on Wednesday, when groceries were 50% off, and got all this:

I spent $29.24 on this stuff: 4 jars of spaghetti sauce, 4 cans of pineapple, 4 boxes of herbal tea, a gallon of milk (only 25% off, but when do you get a sale on milk?), 1 grape juice concentrate, 1 nasal spray (75% off), 4 jars of sprinkles (90% off), 2 packages of frozen fish fillets, 2 containers of hummus, and 4 containers of salsa (with coupons, 11 cents overage on each one).  I had coupons for about half the items.

Well, if the damage to my budget wasn't bad enough, I went today, when the sales were 75% off on groceries and 50% off on dairy.  I thought the place would be pretty empty after all the sales, but there were still quite a lot of groceries there. I got all this stuff for $36.29:

Yes, it took two pictures to get everything:  2 bags of cocoa, 2 boxes of cereal, 12 cans of tomatoes with green chilies, 2 packages of fruit cups, 10 cans of mushrooms, 6 cans of mixed nuts, 3 boxes of drink mix, 1 box of cake mix, 1 can of frosting, 1 bottle of strawberry syrup, one bag of marshmallows, two bags of dates, one box of wheat gluten (for baking whole-wheat breads), 18 2-packs of butter, 4 cans of orange juice concentrate, 6 cheese chunks, 4 boxes of cream cheese, 4 boxes of pectin, 3 packages of glue sticks, 3 boxes of pain reliever (90% off), and 4 jars of sprinkles (95% off),

So, all together, I spent $90.66.  Granted, I won't have to buy a lot of stuff for quite a while. But, why do I even claim to have a budget?

Link up your good shopping stories at my other linkup, Wednesday Weekly Shopping, and check out more bad days at Friday Fails and Friday Frustrations.

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