FALL-WINTER 2023 Shopping Fun and Frustrations!!!!

So frustrating. I had a long comment all set to go but I dropped my mouse and lost it all. I'm going to call my cat. It's a caracal (not really). I hate commercials. I really hate the Verizon commerical and when people start screaming and wake everybody up. I hate the radio commercials where they say the phone number 10,000 times. Hulu at a buck is a great deal. I'm lucky that all I get on Hulu is a blank screen until the program comes back on. If you have unlimited money, then by all means pay extra and skip the commercials but if you're on a budget you have to save where you can.

A quick question on walking and I figure that you're a good person to ask.
I'm starting to have a lot of problems with my walks and I'm going to have to stop. It's too much wear and tear on my body and I'm getting a lot of chest pain in my incision area (which I think is from carrying things home from my shopping trips). Here's my question. The elevator is being repaired where I live so I have to walk up three flights of stairs. That gets me more tired than walking ten miles. If I had to walk up five flights, I'd probably go into cardiac arrest. Do you have any idea why walking up the stairs is so hard for me? I'll get out of breath and feel like I could fall backwards down them. I passed my stress test a few months ago so I shouldn't be having this problem. Any ideas?

The commercials are almost never captioned so they are wasted on me anyway.

I have a couple of guess about the stairs thing. The first guess would be it's simply not an activity that you are used to doing so it's more taxing on the body, just as most new activities tend to be until you build stamina. I dont do a ton of stairs in my day to day life so as much as I walk I am the same way. When we stay somewhere on vacation where I have to do a ton of stairs I notice that my calves start cramping up and that I need to be conscious about stretching them more frequently. So. please be aware of that. The other guess which has to do a bit with the breathing difficulties is maybe posture related. As in, maybe you are hunched over some and compressing your diaphragm. Maybe try taking the stairs (unladen with purchases lol), use the hand rails for safety and really focus on correct posture, even if you have to correct yourself after each step and/ or go really slowly. If you can, do this exercise several times a day, even if it's only one flight or partial flight, until you have trained yourself.

Ive dont some pretty extensive PT which has helped me a lot but I learned that the body will do things to compensate naturally that will set you into habits that may not be the best for long term use but because you have become used to them you continue them and have to unlearn them for the overall betterness of your body.

I got caught in a rainstorm today but I got my Red Bull and chips. The chips are going to be hard to find. They had a few with the rest of the chips and few on an endcap. Maybe 10 all total. Hopefully, there's more in the back or on an endcap that I missed. I have to go back to Vons later today so I'll check it out. Red Bull and the big bag of chips came out to 15 cents with the plastic bag. I somehow managed to keep everything dry on the walk home. I got soaked but I have a really good jacket that kept me warm.

I found 2 Glucerna mini treats, need 3 to do the deal. I hid the 2 and waiting to see if I find one after the next truck or if I get to another store and find one. But wondering if I could have bought the 2 this week, and one next week.

Monday MIGHT be a good day for chips.
We can add the offer until Sunday but have Monday to actually pick it up. If they stock on Monday. I'm not sure when chips are stocked- when I worked for SW, who stocks chips varied store to store -the night crew or swing shift.
My closest store's night crew starts about 9-10pm so that's when I usually check.

And SCO is still open.

CVS: it seems logical that we can complete a deal over the 2 week ad period, but I don't trust logic at CVS.
I found 2 Glucerna mini treats, need 3 to do the deal. I hid the 2 and waiting to see if I find one after the next truck or if I get to another store and find one. But wondering if I could have bought the 2 this week, and one next week.

Plus, I want to turn around and spend the 10ecb I earn immediately on dried cherries, which are showing OOS or 1 in local stores, and hoping they'll get more in so I don't have to go back.

Just here to say that each week of the CVS two week ad stands on its own. So if you buy two boxes one week, and the third box the second week, you won't earn ecbs in either week.

The real reason for the 2 week ad was to limit our digital coupons. If you think that CVS did it because they care about their employees, then I have some Soy Joy bars that I want to sell you. Trust me, they're really good...lol

LOL, I liked Soy Joy bars back in the day. But at this point any you have from when they were being sold would not be good.

Also, a reminder that spring has sprung.

Also, a reminder that spring has sprung. https://static.slickdealscdn.com/ima...ilies/wink.gif