Monday Morning Musings and More!

Happy Monday ya' all-and welcome to another edition of

Monday Morning Musings.

So, for the last three months or so-hubby has been trying to

convince me that it would be a GREAT idea for us

to get a membership at Sam's club or Costco.

From hubby's point of view-it made sense for us

to buy the products we use often in bulk-and strongly believed

the savings from doing so would far outweigh the yearly membership fee, and 

the inconvenience of still having to do most of our shopping elsewhere!

 Uh huh.....

 As for me...well, let's just say I wasn't convinced that

saving a few pennies on 20 rolls of toilet paper versus 10 was a

HUGE cost-savings for a family a two!

Nope-it just didn't make sense to me-but even so, I finally gave

in last week-and we made a trip to Sam's club and got a membership. (The

nearest Costco is 3 hours away!)

The jury is still out on whether this will be a cost-saving decision

for us-(I'll keep you posted),but after an hour of roaming around the store

we did leave with a JUMBO supply of toilet paper, two organically

grown whole chickens, and enough toothpaste to last us a year or

more! (At least we will have clean teeth and bums!)

Speaking of chickens-I bought those two at Sam's club because

they were a pretty good price-but mostly because I wanted

to try a couple of Barefoot Contessa recipes!

I have to tell ya, folks- her Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken 

turned out absolutely SCRUMPTIOUS and just like

all of Ina's recipe's it was super easy!

I also used the leftover carcass and made up a batch of her Chicken Stock!

YUM!  I can't wait to try it in my chicken noodle soup!

On another note......

Okay-so maybe I haven't got the Bing Crosby cd's out just yet-but I did

start going through my Christmas decorations this week!  I say 'start',

because I have boxes and boxes and boxes that fill up an entire room in

our basement! 

Yes, it's true!  Besides having a case of the crud that just

won't go away-I'm already planning this year's

Christmas-and while I was going through all

my boxes to see what stay's and what goes-

I watched 2 Christmas movies on the Hallmark

channel! (Hubby was super grateful for his man cave yesterday!)

Well folks..that's it for today!

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or leave me a comment!

Have a great week-and I'll see you back here tomorrow!

Blessings and hugs,

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