So, my beautiful wife loves to save money. She likes to spend it so that’s why she is always looking for ways to save it, but nonetheless, she always finds great ideas. The latest sensationwas something called Thegrocerygame.com. It’s a really great on-line grocery shopping, coupon clipping, money saving thing if you aren’t really a brand conscious person…and that’s where the problem is.

Ya’ll I had no idea just how brand conscious of a person I am. I didn’t care when she switched from Tide to something called “Clean Clothes”.  And I can drink any diet soda, so giving up Diet Coke was not that hard of a compromise. The dogs and cats don’t earn us any money so they don’t get to complain that their food now comes in white bags and is appropriately labeled in black lettering, “Pet Food”.  Nope, I’m a giver and all I ever want is for her to be happy so I just played along happily.

Happily that is, until she brought home some coffee that tasted like it was grown and ground in some drug house basement under grow lights next to the weed. Oh sure, it was in a blue bag just like my Maxwell House.  It even had on the packaging a coffee cup tilted to the side with a delicious, signature drop, spilling out. But, it was no damn where near Maxwell House. I mean it could have been called, “Maxwell’s Mamas’ house” where a drug dealer named Maxwell still stays at his mama’s house and grows pot and bad coffee beans, but it was not my Maxwell House.  That grow light blend had to get the hell out of my kitchen.  It wasn’t even something I could save for emergency stock.

We’re still playing Thegrocerygame.com, we’re drinking things simply labeled “Tea” and “Fruity Aid” but we start our mornings with some lovin’ and Maxwell House…both good to the last drop!!