Stupid Monday's

I hate Mondays. I have always hated Mondays, who doesn't? Today made me hate Mondays even more. The day started off okay, wake up around 8, make my little man some breakfast, walk the dog, the usual. Then I was ready for my big trip to Walgreens, I was very excited to see how much I could save on the items I had decided to stock up on. This part of my Monday went smoothly. The cashier was a nice old lady who thought all my coupons were just great, she was happy to scan them all in, very slowly. I knew I would be pushing my luck if I went anywhere else but I needed to get tomatoes for our dinner {we didn't just eat tomatoes} and I really didn't want to HAVE to leave the house again. So I risk it, I head to King Soopers. I decide while I am there I will go ahead and buy the Swiffer wet jet I didn't get yesterday, I had an e coupon loaded to my card and a manufactures coupon in my purse. I go to checkout, all the lanes are busy so I go to self checkout, big mistake. I scan my items and hand off my precious coupon to the "mean" man. He gets very mad, and tells me I CAN NOT use an e coupon and a manufacturers coupon on one item, I kindly reply that in their coupon policy it clearly says I can. { I didn't mention that I had been doing it for over a month to score free stuff and get great deals} He says "Well young lady, at this store you can't" Wow, really? Did he have to go there? Why be so mean, if you won't take my coupon and you see I have a fussy kid in tow at least let me down easy. I somehow keep my cool and tell him to just take the swiffer off and give me back my coupon. As we left with our tomatoes I was crushed. I had never had a coupon plan fail, and I guess I am just lucky that this plan was small. All my big shopping trips have worked perfectly. I now know that I need to always go to my "favorite" cashiers, because I guess all they need to do to make my coupon work is press a button, and they have obviously done that a lot for me. So a big thank you goes out to all the nice cashiers out there. My big issue? Why do they care??? My coupon was for 5 dollars off, they would not be adding any "extra" savings to my coupon and they will get the face value of the coupon back from the manufacturer. I can understand when they don't want me to buy ten of the same item just because its crazy cheap with my coupon,but when I want to buy one thing with a coupon that won't make a difference to them, what's the problem? What is wrong with a Mom, or anyone, trying to save money for their family? I am not trying to cheat their system,I am just trying to use all available coupons to my advantage so I can shop for less. Don't they put out coupons to encourage people to come to their store?Okay I will stop ranting about this. Anyway, that was my morning. We head home for some lunch and thankfully a nap. As usual on Mondays I have a pile of Laundry to tackle as soon as nap time begins. I don't mind laundry as much ever since we got a new washer and dryer, wow I love those things. I am now SO happy our old washer and dryer broke, even if at the time I was very upset. I was probably so upset because this happened the same week I lost my job. Funny how bad things seem to come in packages. Maybe I got through all of my bad things at the beginning of the year, so now I will have a lot of good things to look forward to. After I start Laundry I decide to write a letter to King Soopers. I will update you on what they respond, I am interested to see if they say anything at all. Then little man is up from his nap and he is very fussy, he REALLY didn't want me to make dinner, but I did. We ate and his mood slightly improved. After his nightly bath, and a haircut.... why a haircut on a Monday night? Because Daddy let him play with his electric razor an he turned it on and took a big chunk of hair off the top of is head, way to go Daddy. But, he does look adorable, so I guess it all worked out. Okay, I made it,bedtime. We go through our routine and I put him down just after 8. Then my husband notices he doesn't have his glove for his softball game tonight, where is the glove? You guessed it, in my son's room. Great, he isn't asleep yet so of course when he sees me come in there is no way I am walking back out that door alone. So before I know it it's 9:15 and we are trying bedtime again. So far so good. Now I just need to sneak in a shower {I can't remember the last time I showered in the morning} and I plan to put on a movie. I figure I might as well watch a movie, since I can't sleep anymore. I try to fall asleep but I just can't, and I don't want to take any medicine to help me sleep because I am afraid I wouldn't hear my son wake up in the middle of the night. Too bad, I have learned to live on very little sleep, I think all Mom's have. I am just happy to say goodbye to Monday, maybe I will just stay in on Mondays from now on.  Next Monday we aren't going anywhere, we'll see how that works out, anything would be better than my traumatic coupon failure. Hopefully next Sunday I can redeem myself with a good shopping trip and once again hold my head high as I walk the isles of the store.

Kelly Callahan