Rules for Shopping

First rule, not original with me, is never go grocery shopping when you're hungry.

Next rule, which was discovered on Tuesday and adopted immediately is:

Never make your shopping list when you're hungry.

I ate lunch and then made my list this week and nothing looked quite as appetizing as it usually does, so my listed ended up about 1/4 the usual size. Not bad. Smaller list = less time involved in acquisition.

There are other rules that make this chore more bearable for those of us who don't like to do it. The one kind of shopping I rather enjoy, though, is second hand shopping. I've stumbled onto brand new clothes with the tags still on for a fraction of the new price. Today, I happened to find the cloth napkins and placemats that match a table cloth I've had for about 4 years now and paid a grand total of $2.00 for the complete set of 4 of each. This I can deal with.

Of course, I'd still prefer to have things just magically appear in my cupboards so I could eliminate the chore altogether.