Just a little off…

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I have to say that it was both the best of days and the worst of days all rolled into one horrible little financial ball.  I had decided that I had to stop off at Thrifty Foods to pick up a few things for my daughter’s lunches and some food for the week.  I went to the ThriftyFoods.com website and I love their Flyer – you can click off what you want to purchase on their online flyer and then print it, so you have their deals that you want to pick up printed out – and if you register you can save your lists.  I love that.

So I was pretty stoked by all the discounts they had and I was armed to get what I needed and get out.  Nothing to be purchased that I didn’t need – that was how I was going to roll.

Well, I forgot the list of items in the car.

…. I think this is where it all started to unravel.

So I get into the store – I have a pretty good idea of what I’d checked off, so I didn’t feel I needed to go back to the car to grab it.  I was on a roll!  I picked up only what I needed, bought a majority of the food/products I needed that were ON SALE and I went to the check out.  I left with 6 bags of groceries for $77.  I have to say for what I bought I was giving myself virtual high fives all the way home.

But here’s where I stop high fiving and realize I’ve just screwed myself.

I check my bank account – and realize that I’ve written a cheque…. after the cheque goes through – I’m left with a whopping $0.06 in my bank account till payday.

This is where the high five turns into a palm to the forehead.

Now what am I suppose to do – wait it out I guess.

Then one of the girls from work says that the order I’d placed for some spices, etc has just come in and it’s $35.

Crap.

So needless to say I either write a post-dated cheque… borrow some money till payday… go to a cash lender…

I am going to see if I can borrow it and really, really get on the whole – watch your pennies campaign.