Yesterday, I met M for lunch in the town he works in.  He works basically next door to a post office, so I am lucky in that way because he gets to handle all of our postal concerns.  Evelyn needs a passport, and minors must appear with both parents, or they must have a signed notarized formathingiedo, and since it’s been a while since we went to lunch together anyway… it was just easier to go do that than get the appropriate forms filled out in triplicate or whatever nonsense they want.  So. Yes. I carefully checked the opening hours for their passport service on the website and we showed up at 2:00. My husband eats lunch extremely late and if not for that, we would probably meet him more often but I normally eat at 11:00 so…

Upon arrival at the post office, we see a sign saying that effective in November 2009, they would require all passport applicants to have an appointment. Of course there were no appointments available yesterday.  However, the guy let me sign the app yesterday so neither Evie nor I had to come back in today.  That was sweet.

Anyway, one additional reason I like to have lunch with M is that there’s a CVS in that town and I kind of like it better than my local store.  So… yes, those two preceding paragraphs were really just there to lead up to me saying that I went to CVS yesterday.  I can make anything  a long story.

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Total Paid: $19.65  (0, 4.47, 15.18)
Total ECB Used: $19.99 (5, .50, 3, .50, 3, 3.99, 4)
Total OOP: $39.64
Total ECB Received: $43.96 (5, 5, 8.99, 8.99, .99, .99, 10, 2, 2)
Total Cost: $4.32 profit

(Edited to add: actually, $5.32.  Those two $.50 ECB  used were freebies from the quarterly spending thing so I really shouldn’t count them as part of my price paid, to be fair.)

Not bad for a day’s work!  Would have been better except they wouldn’t take two of my Pedialyte coupons and I didn’t feel like arguing.

I only bought the toilet paper because I got a $1 CVS paper product coupon from the automagical scanner, and therefore got it for $0.15.  I figured it was worth that much.

I also stopped in at Walgreens to pick up some (passport) photos, but I deemed it too boring to obtain photographic evidence of.  Bottled water + dried pineapple + photos.  :)  Expiring RR and the only thing I wanted was not in stock.