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Vince’s Wine Deal

Do you wonder what we did before Aldi came to town? Yea, me too . . I know we ate and I know we shopped til we dropped but nothing beats the Aldi experience for us.

Vince knows (and expects) that I will give him a hard time about his purchases so I think he has figured out a way to always need ONE thing that requires him to go to Aldi and once he gets his foot in the door . . I don’t have to tell you what happens next.

I really don’t care how much money he spends. It isn’t about the money . . it’s about where do you put all this stuff? I have my yarn all in tubs and labeled and I have a spreadsheet. I can find it by weight, by project, by color . . I can find it most of the time! He will come home with . . let’s say a bag of almonds. He leaves everything on the table. He will say “Don’t move those! I’m going to snack on them. I’ll take some to work.” They sit on the table for a couple of days. I remind him to put them somewhere. Finally, I move them. I should put them in the “nut”drawer but sometimes I might put them in the snack drawer or I might open a cabinet . . any cabinet . . see an empty spot, and there go the almonds. Then Vince can’t find the almonds! So, I say .. buy anything you want to buy but you put it wherever you can find it . . not on the table, not on the countertop. It’s an ongoing battle.

So . . over the weekend we were at Aldi and he bought a bottle of wine, which is another ongoing problem. He used to work for a wine company and we still have hundreds (really!) of bottles of wine. And he still buys more wine and we hardly ever drink wine. I wish I liked it but I don’t. The other day I was in his closet putting something up and the closet is full of wine. I had never noticed that before.

Yesterday I forgot what it was but he needed one thing from Aldi. He came home with two cases (YES! TWO CASES) of wine.

Wine

Wine

He bought a bottle of this wine over the weekend and he liked it.  While at Aldi yesterday, he saw it was marked down and he had a coupon for $10 off when  you spend $50 so he ended up getting this wine for about $1.90 per bottle. How crazy is that. He looked on line and it sells anywhere from $13 to $19 per bottle.

I understand . . it was a great deal but just like my yarn, he isn’t going to live long enough to drink the wine he has here. When he retires, and we have no money to spend, I guess Vince can sit around and drink wine and I’ll sit and knit.

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  1. haha! I don’t have room for all my grocery purchases. Everything ends up sooo scattered, I need to re-organize, but I’d rather do other things….so.

    Speaking of Aldi, I looked for the Corned Beef there and was delighted to find one! I’m gonna cook it in the next day or so. Thx for the inspiration!

  2. The wine will be an excellent item with which to barter when you know what hits the fan. Vince is just practicing ‘preparedness’!

  3. I don’t recall seeing wine at our Aldi. I never looked, because I don’t drink and wouldn’t buy it, but you’d think I would notice an aisle with wine. I wonder what Vince plans for a whole closet plus 2 cases of wine. That would be a heck of a bender!

  6. You and Vince are quite the pair! We love wine & have a small wine cellar in our basement but are not privy to bargains such as Vince got. If we’re ever in your area we will stop by and help Vince drink all that wine!!! It goes bad/to vinegar after a while, so there you go – you can start making your own wine vinegar!!! Hope your back feels better soon; nothing worse than having back pain.

  9. This story made me laugh! I have the same problem with the DH putting everything on the kitchen table or counter and there it will stay forever, if I didn’t move it or ask him to put it somewhere else — after 3 days! I have a pattern for wine bottle neck warmers if you need it. lol

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