Summer Sausage

We bought our weeks supply of groceries yesterday at Pac n Sav. Wednesday is Senior Citizen's day with a 5% discount on non sale items. While the discount is why we shop on Wednesdays, our choices are largely influenced by what's on sale. The sour dough bread was such an item yesterday. While Braeburn apples may be our favorite, we picked  up 6 Red Delicious at 98cents/lb. Other sale items included canned Apricots, Blue Plums, Peaches, Tomato sauce, etc. I also picked up Smoked Brats, Honey Ham lunch meat, and Hamburger all on sale. But it was in the meat department where we had a "family discussion". Johnsonville Summer Sausage is Elaine's favorite, and she had used the last of her supply. While we can often get it on sale, yesterday it was full price, $10.27.  I had the Honey Ham which she has used occasionally for our frequent sandwich lunches but it isn't Summer Sausage. After our discussion, I went back and picked it up. The "burden" of having lived through the drought and depression is not easy to shake off. Our total bill was $71.10 with $53.09 of it being "non sale" items on which we got the 5% discount. Our receipt shows that we saved $12.39 on the sale items and got credit for the $2.65 on the 5% discount. When we got home and Elaine started slicing her Summer Sausage, I realized we had done the "right thing" in buying it, even if it wasn't on sale.