Subs for Dinner

I got to school every Thursday evening. So I don't eat dinner with the family. They take advantage of this and usually do not cook. They might eat some take out. On special weeks they go out. Today they went to a Japanese steak house. It was Little Kat's first time at this restaurant. He said it was a great time.

After school I was in the mood for some steak subs. I usually try to hurry home to watch Community with Momoko on TV. Ha ha. I come home from community college to watch a show about community college. I drove quite a ways to go to the good steak sub shop. This one costs more than Subway. But their food is much better too.

It was strange that they were busy so late at night. I think only one person was working at the store too. She was busy cooking up some orders when I arrived so I had to wait to place my order. Another customer pointed me to some coupons sitting on the trash can.

I grabbed a coupon and got a free fries and coke, a $3.19 value. Oh yeah. I did not worry about the store too much. They were still making money off me. I also go to them a lot, paying full price normally.

Value Searching

Little Kat and I have the weekly duty to do the Walmart / Target shopping. This week was no different. We usually go on Sundays. I subscribe to the newspaper 7 days a week. The Sunday paper has plenty of coupons. You know I am clipping them to maximize our value.

One coupon I clipped was to save on some plastic bags. I brought Little Kat to the aisle where they were. He showed me the brand they like. I told him I had a coupon for another brand. But the coupon does not tell the whole story. We compared prices between the favorite brand and the discounted brand. Turns out the favorite brand was cheaper (most like due to a store discount). We ended up getting the brand the kids like. Using coupons is nice. But the main objective is to save money.

In other news, we bought a new Christmas tree today. I thought we should get an imitation Douglas Fir. However Little Kat voted for an imitation pine. Momoko concurred with Little Kat. Now he wants to put up the tree really early this year. I am a bit sad that we are retiring the tree we have been faithfully using each year. But it is getting to be time.