2nd July 2024
We decided to do our shopping a day early because of the holiday, mainly to avoid the shelves being emptied by hordes, stocking their freezers, and eventually their tummies.
At Aldi the shopping carts require a twenty cent coin to release them, and there is an unwritten rule that if a cart still has it’s coin in the slot, you leave a coin for the next user. Well Kelli intercepted someone bring their cart back, and offered them the coin, but this person refused to take it, so as per the rule we left the coin on the ledge for the next customer.
We then discovered that the cart had a mind of its own. It wanted to go in the opposite direction to where you wanted to go. “This is why that person gave it to us”. Looking at the axles it appeared as if it had been dropped from a great height. My arm muscles were bulging as we made our way down the isles, I tried to avoid changing direction because it was easier to carry the cart round corners than to steer it.
So with the truck filled with food we headed home, all the time Kelli is looking for stuff by the side of the road, and by the way, we never heard from the person with the dresser left outside that we left a note for.
There were a few things that we could do in the garage, but that was interrupted by reports of a free dresser on the north side. Leaping into action we got there before the allotted time. It did have to be carried up a grassy slope that was covered with duck droppings, but thankfully we managed to avoid those.
It’s been a good month for free stuff.
We finished the child’s hutch, took it outside between showers and took pictures, although it takes as long to do as most dressers we can’t charge the same amount for it.
Another Lifetime to go 