Big Shop.

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About every three or four months we do a huge shopping expedition at the Real Canadian Superstore and bring it all home in a taxi (since we don't have a car).  The prices are lower, yes, but the cost of the taxi takes care of that, so why do we torture ourselves?  Cat litter.  One person cannot carry home enough for one change of the pan, so we like to stock up.  We did try an alternative brand that was lighter to carry and from a closer store, but Sammie showed us in no uncertain terms what he thought of that, so no more sanitary experiments for us, no indeedy.

Once we are in the insanity of the box store and paying for a taxi home, we might as well make it worth while.  I now have enough laundry soap for six months (maybe more),  three months body soap for each of us, much diced tomatoes in tins, ground tomatoes in tins, black beans in tins and tuna in tins.  Oh and mushroom bits in tins.  Lots can be done with those things.  There is also facial tissues (three months) and ibuprophen in the industrial container (time value subject to rate of woundage).  Cat snacks (snacks for, not from), kitten chow (Sammie's favourite) and bathroom nuking supplies.  Many lumps of butter now frozen.  Assorted whims (my SOGP likes sweet green relish - urgh - they have a six inch high jar for $1.27 (cheap cheap cheap), so  one of those).

What an ordeal.  Shoving it around the store (have you been in a box store grocery store?  arrrrrrgh), taking it all out of the buggies (yes, plural) to be scanned, and then putting it all back in the buggies in re-usable fabric shopping bags, and then taking it all out of the buggies to put it in the trunk of the taxi (boy did we have traction - no snow - but boy did we have traction), and then all out of the taxi to the side of the street, all from the side of the street to inside the entryway courtyard, then all from inside the courtyard to inside the foyer, then all from the foyer to inside the elevator, then all from the elevator to outside our door, then all from outside our door to inside the apartment - and then all away.

I'm exhausted.

It's much easier to just pick up what you need on the way home after work and bring it home one fabric bag at a time - and storage is definitely less of an issue.  But cat litter, y'know?  And once you are there.   Argh.