Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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f «•♦ ♦» LOW BUDGET The weekend munchies have done it again. Today is Tuesday and we spent all day yesterday scrounging the cupboards. One can of cream of chicken soup, some egg noodles, bread crusts, margarine, one moldy orange, and one can of Bud is all that is left I found a grocery list and $53.76 on the kitchen table and a note stating that myself and another poor un- fortunate person will be doing the dirty deed for the five of us this week. Also a P.S. saying I stili owed $10.00 for last weeks groceries. Upon entering Demoulas. we grab a cart and start down the dairy isle, off to the deli to get the cheapest luncheon meat which is usually bologna. Milk. eggs, margarine and toilet paper are musts: $6.97. Bread, hamburg, chicken, ketchup, Doritos. OJ., $20.84. Crackers, toothpaste . . . Oreos, Campbells soup, . . . We ' re ready to check out after dodging all the overweight housewives and bratty kids who knock cereal boxes off the shelves. We fly by a bunch of guys who must be shopping for the first time be- cause they spend 10 minutes deciding which meat to buy. The cashier says $51.49 please! Whew! We didn ' t have to put anything back. Total time — 25 minutes. On to Shamrocks!