Gas Prices

My son actually goes home on the school bus which is

within a stone’s throw of his school. So, going to

pick him up from school vs picking him up at home is

not any difference in the amount of miles between

them.

The only thing that I can do is make a special trip on

the weekend when we are doing other things OR plan out

a special shopping trip on Saturday.

For instance, this past Saturday, I didn’t have enough

time to go get the groceries that I needed during the

week and I needed him to be with me to pick put the

cereal that we purchased (it was on sale and I wanted

to buy enough for 2 to 3 months).

So, we made a special Saturday trip which costs me at

least 2 gallons of gasoline at $3.67 a gallon. Means

the trip itself was a little over $7.

Each time I look at these trips now I look at the

actual cost of the trip. I look at the mileage of the

stops and add them together online and see if the

sales ads are really going to be saving me

significantly more than that if I make that trip.

It means that I have to do comparison shopping as well

as gasoline usage impact shopping to make sure that I

don’t do more harm trying to make more specialized

trips than making one to a store that has more regular

pricing.

This time the trip plan worked. I actually saved

probably close to $120 on my groceries so my outlay of

between $7 to 8 dollars in gas worked out okay.

CeCe

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