Thursday, July 18, 2019

Shopping day.

I hereby quit drinking coffee at home. The price of a jar of coffee is too high, 19 PLN($5) for 100 grams(3.5 oz.) Nescafe Decaffeinated. When we arrived here it was 11 PLN($2.90). That and the cost of olive oil, not the most expensive kind, brought our shopping cost to 174 PLN($46) this week. That is way too high. So, I have resigned from drinking coffee at home. Our increase in our pension each year is far below the rise in the cost of living so some changes have to be made. This is only the beginning.

Nevertheless, despite the shock of the high shopping cost, it was a beautiful weather day to go shopping. There was a blue sky with small, puffy, little clouds, the temperature was 25C and we both wore shorts and short-sleeved tops and sandals. Because we went early in the morning there were no crowds of people and we finished shopping in 45 minutes. I know the store well enough that at home I am able to put numbers next to each item on the shopping list in the order we are to get them, eliminating the error of going in circles to find things. This makes our shopping go quickly.

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