quick hi- nothing official!

Hi fellow DRSers, I just want you to know I have sat down to jot a quick note to you a gazillion times since the start of my blog break but then.......... I chicken out! Yep, I'm scared to get started again because i have issues with obsessiveness! Yes I know this shocks some of you, but I don't know how to do things half way (I blame my DRS condition) anyways...... My friend, Gray, has told me she is sick and tired of logging on and seeing the "June 26" posting soooo Gray this post is for you!

While I have someone to write to, let me tell you about my AWESOME Kroger run yesterday!
So, after I have all my groceries loaded onto the conveyor belt I go to the check writing station to start my coupon sorting but as I pull out the official coupon ziplock, something catches my eye...... There is a neatly clipped Kroger coupon for, are you ready for this...... $12 off a $120 purchase laying at the register!!! I look up at the cashier.... he looks back at me with a knowing look and without me even having to ask he says "someone left it, they didn't spend $120." So I say, "let's do it!"
He starts to ring up my groceries and I watch as my prekroger card totals start to escalate $92....$112....$122... all the way up to $168! The cashier then asks "do you have your Kroger card because the $120 has to be after the Kroger Card and before taxes." I hand him the Kroger card as I say "I know... this ain't my first rodeo!" (ok, I didn't really say the part about the rodeo... but I did know my $120 had to be after the Kroger Card). After the discounts were taken from my Kroger Card my grand total was $118. Yikes!!! I was about to make a mad dash toward the shopping aisles to grab anything to get my total at or above the magic number when my genius cashier grabbed something out of my "other basket" (the basket of food I was going to purchase next for the other family I cook for... are you following me, anyways...) and beeped the produce across the scanner taking my grand total to..... $121.xx!!! I then proudly handed my partner in savings that glorious $12 off coupon followed by the stack of coupons I had brought from home! In the end I spent $88 and saved $80!!!!! What a day!

Oh, how I have missed having someone to share these shopping success experiences with!

PS To the Kroger Shopper who left the $12 coupon..... Thank you! You will never know how much joy your coupon has brought to my life!

Well this has been fun. Maybe I'll check in again sometime soon! Hope you are doing well!