An entire blog entry about shopping for food.
Just a couple of random thoughts about shopping – I’ve made a big Costco run and I picked up a few things at the supermarket as well. Man, our pantry was BARE when we got home from vacation! Well, not bare really, but just bare of anything good to eat. We could have eaten lots of plain pasta or pork and beans, but we were out of bread, cereal, coffee, etc. The staples!
So, yesterday the kids and I headed out and picked up about 3 gallons of milk, and a few other things to make dinner last night – chicken breasts, fruit for a fruit salad, just stuff like that. When I got to the register, the cashier said, “Is this WIC? I need your card.” That seemed kind of…random! And judgmental! Just because I have four little kids with me and I’m buying 3 gallons of milk, I’m on WIC? Whatever. Actually, I WISH we qualified for WIC – it sure would save us a fuckton of money! Anyway, that just cracked me up.
And then today, we went to Costco, and somebody saw me with all the kids and said, “Daaaaaamn! How much do you spend here, anyway?” So weird! Who does that? And looking around, it’s not like I had any more stuff than anyone else there – probably LESS stuff, in fact, since I really just go there for fruits and vegetables and paper plates and string cheese. I didn’t have stacks of sour cream and cinderblock-sized bricks of cheese and giant boxes of paper towels like most people? Bizarre. And am I the only one who gets to the register at Costco and then stands in line, checking out everyone else’s carts? It seems like people always have stuff in their carts that looks really good, better than the stuff I picked out. And it’s usually stuff I never even saw! Is there a secret VIP room in Costco that has all the good stuff? Am I just missing it every time I go there?
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism.
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June 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I only have 3 kids and we go through a gallon of milk every other day. Neighbors come to us for empty milk jugs when they want to change their oil.
Nobody has asked if I’m on WIC yet though. That would totally crack me up.
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June 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
I think that if you have twins with you, people think it’s okay to make comments or ask questions that would be inappropriate to anyone else.
WIC was a touchy subject for us in the US Army world. My husband was an NCO, and all his coworkers qualified for the program. Our family didn’t, because I have a decently-paying job. I got tons of comments about being a bad wife and mother because 1) I’d wasted years of my life in school and 2) I worked instead of raising my kids like a good Army wife. Whenever WIC came up in an army gathering, I’d pretend the kids needed a diaper change so I wouldn’t have to admit we weren’t on it, because that would just prove that I was an unpatriotic b*tch. (Never mind I’m not American. We didn’t talk about that either!)
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June 9th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Whelp, people are judgemental.
I don’t know why we’re like that, but we are.
Asking about WIC was more than a tad over the top though, imnso.