Happy November! My Recent Shopping and Trip "Home"

Hi, Everyone - Happy November 1st!

Here's hoping everyone's Halloween was a spectacularly spooky one!!

I confess to being sort of out of the H'ween celebrating mood this year. Between my new job duties at work that have me befuddled most of the day and then my various issues at home, I haven't been celebrating seasonally at all lately.

However, I did make a grocery shopping run this past Sunday, and here's all that I brought home (minus cats who were already at home waiting to inspect everything):

This wasn't necessarily a great shop, just a moderately good one. I splurged and bought some asparagus because it was on sale for $1.99/lb, which is usually the price at its peak during the summer. So I wanted to snap that up. According to the receipts, my total worth of goods was $45.73, and my OOP was $23.77 -- a savings rate of 48%. I now have a new kitty mouth to feed, so I needed to make sure I got some more cat food. The soda deals were virtually nonexistent at any local store this week, so I bought the cheapest Pepsi I could find (each of these bottle 6-packs was $2.20) and I got a decent price on the one Diet Coke 12-pack because there was a Giant e-coupon for $1 off plus I had a mfr $1/1 coupon that doubled, so the final price I paid was $1.33 -- too bad I couldn't get more at that price!

As for what's been occupying me so much in the category of Home Issues, my dad's mental decline continues and I had to make a visit to his house a few hours away to try and find various documents that various people needed and he couldn't remember anything about. I didn't have a lot of time alone in his house to look for things, so I basically grabbed everything I could find from 2009 forward and threw it all in my car to be sorted later.

Here is the result of my sorting (and my sorting apprentice):

As I mentioned up top, I just adopted a new kitty. Since she's my Halloween kitty and she's black (with a white nose), I've named her Wicca. However, I haven't had a chance to snap any good pics of her yet, so I will post those another day.

Enjoy the end of Fall -- it will be winter any day now (Brrrrrrr)!