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I’m honestly not someone who goes grocery shopping very often.
But when I do, I buy a boatload of wine.
I’ve told you all about my minor obsession with our sponsor Grocery Outlet, but even a store I love that much doesn’t get me in the door more often than once a month or so. It is a gigantic ordeal to time a trip with my three rowdy boys’ naptimes and nursing times and downright cranky times. Magically coordinating things so we wind up in the aisles when everyone is feeling happy and I can focus on shopping is a rare treat so when we do walk through those doors, it is OPERATION STOCK UP.
Grocery Outlet’s supply is based on excess inventory meaning there’s a lot of fluctuation in the items that I buy there, so I time my…
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