Monday Shopping - Day after Christmas

LOL! So I'm still a week behind - it's now New Year's weekend, and here's my Christmas post. Ah well, with any luck I'll catch up one of these days :)

I kept my weekly shopping to a minimum this past week, visiting only GiantPA for the "essentials" that are shown here:

I actually didn't do as well as I was hoping to. I would love to tell you exact numbers for everything, but I have apparently misplaced my receipt (oops). I do remember that it wasn't quite 50% because of the milk and the Oreos. At the same time, my OOP was only about $13, so not exactly an extravagant expense for the week and to end the month (and year!).

The Christmas Oreos were for my son, who loves cookies and came into town to visit the day after Christmas (yay!!). By the time he left a couple days later, there were only a few Oreos left, which I took into work. Gone in a flash.

An interesting thing happened to me on Christmas morning. I opened a new box of Kona blend k-cups, shown here:

But what I found inside wasn't 18 Kona k-cups, it was only 9 Kona k-cups and 9 House Blend k-cups. This was some sort of quality control mixup at the packaging plant.

I went to the website mentioned on the box (http://www.tullys.com/), used the contact form and the box lot information printed on the Kona carton, and a couple days later I received an apology and a promise of a couple "free" 12-ct package coupons that I can use either on more Kona or some other blend at the store. Good on them for excellent customer service!

And finally, the Christmas present my sister sent -- I had asked for something that would entertain my cats. As you can see, she did an excellent job helping Santa with this:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas/Yule/Kwanzaa/Hanukka/Holiday and that New Year's finds us all having a wonderful 2012!