2-15-14

8:30 - 1:30pm

We have been running for 5 hours.

Glad to be out of the truck!!  LOL.

Went down to the South end junk yard by Obetz.

Yeah you heard me right, the junk yard.

The place that has a ton of junker vehicles all covered

in snow and out in the cold!

I couldn't tell one vehicle to the next to even

try and find a specific car!

Was looking for a tire and rim for hubby's car.

He's been running around on a doughnut because

his rim got bent then the tire went flat

all due to these darn potholes!!

No luck with finding a rim.

Then went through Reese to see if a pickup truck was

still for sale.  It was gone.

Stopped in the South end of Columbus 

near the flea market to pick

up one of the boy's friends to spend the night.

Then stopped by the house to pick up the

youngest son and we took both boys over to

a Hilliard BMX store.  Then from there went

to Upper Arlington to hubby's work.

There was a move out and I found a couple things

they threw away, a clothing steamer, a wooden magazine

rack and a couple other things.

Stopped by Little Ceasers on the way home

because I don't have much food in the house

to feed 3 boys and us.

I am so tired.  My carpal tunnel started acting

up and in the middle of the night the pain in both

hands start acting up keeping me awake.

I've taken ibuprofen and tylenol.

It helps just a little but my hands keep falling asleep

and feel swelled up.

I don't know if sewing is causing it or if it's

a few white knuckle rides in the truck from

gripping the steering wheel too hard when

we had a few good snows and slippery roads.

5:15pm

Just got back from Kroger.

Don't even have a menu planned for the week

so it was interesting walking through the store

trying to figure out some meals.

Our grand total was $66.14.

With coupons, including the $25 off $50 food purchase coupon,

our total we paid was $38.78.

I think the best mark down I found was

bags of mini carrots for .50 cents each.

I bought 6 bags.  4 bags will be for the kids snacks

and 2 bags will go with a deer roast, potatoes & gravy.

We have been looking all over Craigslist

(everything is either gone or no one responds back

to emails or phone calls),

sides of the road and car lots for a vehicle.

I'm tired of looking!  We decided to go back to

the first one we looked at, the 96? Ford F150.

We agreed upon $750 for it and the guy will

have it towed to our house through his AAA he has.

We preferred to have it towed due to no tags

or insurance on it at the moment.

It's too far out to drive home and risk it.

It's out past Plain City.

Sooooo,

tomorrow we drive out to BFE past Plain City

and go pay the guy for the truck

so he can have it towed to our house.

Monday him and hubby will go by the BMV

by their work to have the title done.

I will be glad when this weekend is over with

because I feel like I will have toured Central Ohio

with all the driving we will have done!

I'm just giddy to have found a truck for half the

price I was willing to spend.  That means

$750 can go back into the bank and be used

for other things or hospital bills.

I know it's an old truck and not the prettiest.

I actually prefer some of the older vehicles to the

newer ones because we can work on them ourselves.

That alone saves us tons of money!