We bought a desk at ReStore for Husby's office, which we're remaking from top to bottom. The office, not the desk. Unfortunately we had to drive to another state to get it, but since it was only $24 and the price had dropped $19 since we were at that store last week, the low price made the trip worthwhile and the cost reduction covered most of the gas and the rest was made up by buying gas at the cheapest station, savings on grocery items bought at the chain store vs. locally, buying close-out items from Office Max for my office, driving the speed limit, picking up some other office items at thrifts, and saying no to ourselves a lot at Harbor Freight.
We also got a $14 refund from Harbor Freight because several items we bought last week were on sale for lower prices this week, so they refunded the difference. The remainder of the HF items were on their ad for very reasonable prices.
We once again talked ourselves out of the 130-piece tool kit for $30 which was a suck-em-up deal. But we decided that, somewhere in the garage, we have one or more of those pocket dealies that fit over a five-gallon pail, and we have lots of duplicates of hand tools. So we're going to set up our own tool kits for free with items we already own. We concluded we should have at least two.
As always, took the cooler with water, pop, and snacks so we didn't have to buy food, although we did have lunch at Wendy's after deciding to save money over eating at Grizzly's or Grandma's. I had a really good BBQ chicken salad, Husby had an artery-clogger double bacon cheeseburger.
Hit the close-out section at the grocery store and got a lot of deeply discounted groceries. Also shopped their ads and saved quite a bit from that, too.
Instead of leaving the covers for the truck box home, we left them on for the 120-mile drive down, but of course had to have them off on the way home. We saved gas by leaving them on for the drive down, and noticed a drop in mileage with the wind hitting the tailgate all the way home.
Husby needed wire racks for hanging files for the file cabinet he bought at ReStore last week, and found the two sets he needed at GW, NIB, for $3 each. At Office Max, we found the exact same product for $15 each so saved $24 right there. :ndance:
I needed some clipboards for work and got two on clearance at Office Max, then found two more at Savers for $2 each. One of them is the storage type I had been eyeing on Amazon but had decided not to buy because they were too expensive and I didn't need them that badly. I was happy to get it. Now I think I'll be able to work down on the dock sometimes in the summer and not lose pages into the lake if there's a wind, because I can put quite a few pages inside the clipboard storage. Or use it for pens and other office items.
I got a wireless mouse I need for my office for $10, marked down from $30. Hope it works. Wireless mice and I have had issues in the past.
Bought a service cart for the garage. Where have these been all our lives? It was $110 which IIRC was more or less half price. We're going to set it up with all the tools we're always looking for in the garage. It should save us a ton of time and help us get much more organized, so we're not wasting time and getting frustrated looking for simple items. And we'll have a rolling table now to set tools on instead of trying to balance them on the sawhorses, which has resulted in damaged tools at times in the past when they've fallen off onto the cement floor.
A good time was had by all.