The attack of the $4.00 Aluminum Foil…
Oh. My. Gosh. So Sunday is grocery store day around these parts. I usually try my darnedest to get my crap together and get it done on Saturday - but I am also pretty darn good and finding a random excuse not to, so Sunday it is.
I’m up at the butt crack of dawn, even though I’d gone to sleep like six hours past my bedtime last night - I feel like crap, I am clearly dehydrated and John and Jerrett are complaining, again, about having to eat Saltines for breakfast. *sigh* Off to the store I go.
I’m not a big store person…I don’t cook a lot…it’s just not my thing. It’s not that I can’t cook; I just hate doing it…so I do it as little as possible. It stands to reason that my trips to the store are few and far between (although, I will walk across broken glass to get coffee, creamer and sugar, for my morning addiction).
People that don’t cook don’t really keep tabs on the cost of anything beyond the staples. You know, bread, milk, coffee, sugar, cream, Doritos…you get the idea. I rarely find a good reason to go down the “Charcoal, Storage Containers, Napkins, Plastic Forks” aisle. As I’ve said, I don’t cook…therefore I have no use for any of that crap…
Until today.
I’ve decided I am going to try to start making sandwiches or something for lunch every day. Our new office location isn’t conducive to cheap lunch time jaunts and incase you missed it somehow above, I don’t cook.
Last week, a coworker showed up with this “wrap” that even as a non-cooker, I thought I could pull off fairly easily. So off I go to do my Sunday Grocery Shopping (for the first time in three months).
I should have known this was a bad idea when, in the parking lot walking up to the store, I started to get ideas of grandeur for dinner. I start my excursion in the Fresh Vegetables section and by this time, I’ve already talked myself into Chicken Tacos for dinner - and what goes better with chicken tacos than Guacamole? You get the idea. I’m walking out of this store with $200 worth of food that’ll sit in the refrigerator until someone gets sick of looking at the green fur that covers it or it just disintegrates into nothingness.
So, anyway, I’m nearing the end of my shopping excursion when I realize that, even if I do make this fantastic wrap for lunch, I’m gonna have to put it into something to get it from the house to the office. So, off to the Charcoal, Storage Containers, Napkins, Plastic Forks aisle I go.
Now, I should say in advance, there was a time, long before we moved to Arizona, that I did, in fact, cook. Nightly even. I was such a good wife…I bet John misses her a lot. So, it would stand to reason that, at some point in my married life, I did have a ‘thing’ (box?) of Aluminum Foil in the pantry - but, I don’t anymore and honestly, I can’t think of a more ecological and earth friendly way to get my wrap from point A to point B.
I pull my cart up to the ‘foil’ area and I literally start laughing. Like seriously laughing out loud. People must have thought I’d lost my freakin mind. I try to regain my composure because I am clearly making an ass of myself…but I am hysterical.
Please, tell me when Aluminum Foil started to come with this thin gold plating? I mean, it must be there…50 Sq. Ft. of generic aluminum foil cost…(wait for it)…$3.88.
FOUR DOLLARS!
Now, as I said above, it’s been a while since I’ve actually purchased aluminum foil (I don’t even call it that, I’m a throw back to the old school, I call it tin foil) - but I distinctly remember being able to buy a small thing (box?) of Diamond Aluminum Foil (generic) for under a buck.
I am so floored (remember the hysterical laughter from above) that I have to get my phone out, call my mother, and ask her about this $4.00 tin foil! Like me, she’s floored and urges me (the daughter who doesn’t cook, doesn’t like to get out much and damn sure won’t do in two trips what can be done in one, even if it’s gonna cost me a little more) to go to the Dollar Store.
Now, I’m all for the Dollar Store - but seriously…if the Dollar Store can sell it for a buck, why can’t Fry’s?
Please tell me that there is some crazy premium on tin foil due to the astronomical price of fuel…please tell me that there is a shortage of aluminum coming from the aluminum factory because all of the aluminum factory workers are on strike or something. It is not possible for the price of foil to be this high…
It’s un-American!
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