Plus über-eating and über-drinking!
There is a propensity to over-buy this season. Silly me. Or more correctly, woe me! Because I get sucked into the hoopla big time. If you aren’t like me, then lucky you. Tell me how you do it!
I was grocery shopping last Wednesday, as I always do. It is very hard not to notice the overflowing supply of…food at Woolworths. Here, there’s a whole section cleared and stocked with ham of all shapes and sizes. Here, there’s a freezer section devoted to turkey. Aussie groceries do not normally stock turkey. I wonder if they are imported. Ha. I am going to prepare turkey on Christmas Day. Something I have never ever done before. I believe this is not typical of an Aussie household. We tend to prepare fresh seafood as our Christmases are so freaking HOT! (Aside: Let’s create a new buzzword ~ “oven fever” ~ as opposed to North America’s current “cabin fever”. Down under temperatures today soared to 40degC.)
Here, they’ve overstocked first-class chocolates at 50% off. The Lindt’s and the Ferrerro Rocher’s of the chocolate world are ripe for our picking. So, I get a few cartons of those wicked treats. I am thinking that we will have time to gorge on them because there’s plenty of home time. It’s also summer school holidays down under, 6 weeks of oven-like temperatures at home! I rationalise that there are more chances to eat… What? What chances am I talking about? Time remains the same, no more no less. There is no such thing as more time. Only more space in time.
Here, here are some divine looking biscuits from…Denmark, Holland and Belgium. Wow. I must have those too in my trolley. Because I come by them quite rarely. Really Cha? I don’t think so. These biscuits have always been in the shelves but not displayed so in-the-face like now.
Let’s take stock of what’s in my trolley. I’ve got 12 mini cans of softdrinks. Ariel and I share (that’s about half a swig each) a mini on weekends only. The boys and grandma have one each on weekends only. Always just the weekend, it’s a treat. It’s never a daily thing. There’s too much chocolates in my trolley. I’ve overstocked on plain flour as pan de sal and homemade pizza dough are in the offing. It’s also time to use my breadmaker which I used quite extensively last year and suddenly stopped this year. Why is that? I went low carb, that’s why. The family subsisted on rice and pasta instead. I’ll bring back homemade bread and pizza next year. If I get a chance, that is!
Aussie shops will close down on the 25th and 26th of December, so people tend to stock up unnecessarily, as I do. My pantry is actually full, brimming to the brim, yet here I am adding a few more items. Oh, my favorite tuna brand, Sirena, is selling 4 for $7 (small tins). Ha. I have 8 of those. Mura eh. Ariel and I have tuna when we run out of leftover meat and add it to our lunchbox of mixed greens~spinach and rocket. I never buy anything else. Just spinach and rocket, prewashed, so it’s good to go. Lately, Woolies started adding baby kale to the mixture. What’s not to love about a salad with kale, eh?
These should be enough. Enough na! Tama na. Put a stop to my overspending. I’ve not bought too many gifts this Christmas. Opting only to gift Migo’s teachers and our closest of friends. Gab does not give to his High School teachers anymore. Shy na. We used to give to primary school teachers. Or more correctly, I did!
Are you like me? Are we on the same boat? Let’s get off this commercial liner while we still can, shall we?
PS: This is my 29th post of 52 weeks. I stopped shipping for 3 weeks. I do have a few unshipped blogs before we enter 2014. I hope you come back for more of 2014’s myGloryBox.com. I do believe it is time for a new theme, watch for it!
From my bottomless heart,
THANK YOU for reading me in 2013.
TRAVEL SAFE and LET’s ARRIVE SAFELY in 2014.
LET’s GET BUSY LIVING (lifted from Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King)
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