shopping

Yesterday we went into Salt Lake and did some shopping. Okay so "some" is an understatement. We did a lot of shopping. I went into Salt Lake a couple of times during January, but I didn't really do much shopping except to get a few items that were on my list. (Well the one trip wasn't exactly getting a few items. I got all of the wood for the deck floor.)

Monkey needed some new shoes so we went into Payless. Bub immediately started in on boots. So Spencer found him some boots. We had already found a pair of shoes for Monkey, but when he saw the boots that Bub had and he needed to have a pair of boots too. So instead of new shoes Monkey and Bub both got a pair of boots. All I can say is thank heaven they were doing buy 1 get on 1/2 off because at 22.99 a pair those are some expensive shoes for how long the kids are actually going to be wearing them.

When we went and got dinner I added up the receipts from all of the stores we had been to at that point and we had spent about $265. I told Spencer we would double that when we went to COSTCO. We spent $245 there. The best part of this was that even though we did spend over $500 on the trip we didn't buy too many things that were frivolous. It just makes me feel good to know that in this poor economy I am able to buy enough that I am able to add to my storage of food in case something happens and I have to fall back on these items.