Shopping Tallahassee

Don’t let the first post fool you. It’s been a very nice week. We’ve settled in nicely. There wasn’t much to unpack and we were all set up in just a few days. We went shopping just about every day that first weekend and got a lot of the food-stuff and home-stuff we needed but hadn’t had room to bring. We bought sheets and groceries on Friday night. Food here is so expensive! Relative to what we’ve been paying it is anyway. A can of beans at Kroger is 47-52 cents. The same beans at Publix (the major chain in these parts) are 88 cents! Almost everything is that way. Garlic is about the only thing we have found that is actually cheaper. We buy a lot of garlic so that’s a good thing. Also, no one sells kale. It’s Asher’s favorite and we’ve been to three groceries and no one has just kale in a bunch. He’s going to have to learn to eat romaine.



We also thought we would we would rent a TV/DVD player combo for the time were we here and save ourselves the trouble of bringing those items along with us. So we went to the local Rent-A-Center to get one. It’s a total scam! It was $124 a month to rent a reasonable-sized TV (19” wide-screen LCD with built-in DVD player). We saw the $17.99 a week price and assumed THAT was the monthly price. What a scam! We had seen a comparable product on sale for $250 in Louisville before we left. It would be cheaper to just buy the TV we wanted out right. So we did. We got a discount floor model from Best Buy (it didn’t come with a remote so we don’t really have full control of it, but that’s another story). Even after only three months here we’ll still come out ahead. Silly Rent-A-Center! Plus now we’re ready for the all-digital TV signal future.



Despite the cool new TV we got out of the experience, the best part of the day was that when we drove into the Best Buy parking lot right in front of us was a World Market! Maya screamed, Matt though we’d run over a dog. World Market is just about our favorite store and we had looked on-line for one in the area before we moved and came up with nothing so to unexpectedly find one was great. We went in and looked over the whole place just to make sure it was really a World Market. It is. Same font on the price tags, same dishes for sale, same imported trinkets we know and love. Great!