Price Per Unit

When you shop how well do you look at the different sizes and the price? I ask this question because I have made a discovery recently at Target (on of my favorite stores). I don’t have a Target where I live but I do have one where I work so when I can I shop their. Anyway I needed diapers for bed time. I buy the expensive Pampers for night time so we don’t leak (I use cheap ones during the day). Anyway I am looking at the diapers and see the large bag of size 4 diapers for regular price of $19.99 that has 54 diapers in the bag. Then I look down at the box of diapers also regular priced $19.99 for the size 4 diapers but the box has 64 diapers. I pause a second and look again, both are regular priced, the same price, but if I buy the box I get 10 more diapers, for the same price. I start thinking, I wonder how many people pick up the bag and never look down at the box assuming it is more but really is the same price but a better deal.

Kroger is one of my favorite grocery stores because they put the per unit price on every tag. So I always look at what the better price is per unit and buy accordingly. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy two small boxes of something then to buy the large bulk pack because you get more. So to answer my own question I watch the per unit price very closely with everything I buy. In stores that don’t post that per unit price, I bust out my trusty cell phone with it’s handy calculator and do the math.

So my question today is how much do you pay attention to the price per unit on items that you buy?

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My babies

As you know I walked the March of Dimes Walk last weekend. I was blessed with two healthy baby boys at birth. Not every baby born into this world is as lucky and they might start off fighting from the start.

So today I tribute my healthy baby boys!

6 lbs, 2 oz

Healthy baby boy, born 2 day's before his due date.

Today he is my healthy and happy 6 year old Luke.

7 lbs, 1 oz

Healthy baby boy born 2 weeks before his due date.

Today he is my happy, healthy 16 month old Thomas.

Don't they just melt your heart....

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March For Babies

This weekend we did the March of Dimes walk. My husbands work normally has about 1000 employees participate in the walk and there was about 5000 people in total that walked. This year he decided to walk and brought me in on the walking also. Between the two of us we raised about $500 for the walk. It was great to do something for such a great cause.

It is also a very humbling experience as you see so many families walking because they had their own personal experiences with children born early or with health issues. I saw one family with a wagon train, 3 toddlers each in a wagon and each wagon was labeled with a sign of born at 1 lb 2 oz, 1 lb 6 oz, 2 lbs…. it was great to see all three of them grown and healthy and beating the odds. Many groups walking with shirts about a child, sometimes you don’t know if they made it or not but still so wonderful to see them out there. I had never done the March of Dimes before but being a mom just makes me want to support something so great and now I want to do it every year.

We got up early Sunday morning and drove to Downtown Cincinnati where the walk began. We took the kids with us and made it a family event. We had beautiful weather this weekend. This is Ohio and in April it can be 80 or we could have snow, you just never know. This weekend we hit 80 and it was wonderful. It was probably in the 70’s when we walked early in the morning. It was a 6 mile walk and here are some of the highlights of our walk.

We started at the river in downtown Cincinnati. We took our large bike trailer/stroller because Luke is my lazy child and 6 miles is way too much walking for a 6 year old. We walked along the river and went around The Great American Ball Park, home to the Cincinnati Reds. Then we went around the Paul Brown stadium home to the Cincinnati Bangles. Here is a picture of the football stadium.

We walked down to the bridge shown on the other side of the football stadium (seen in the picture). We then crossed the Ohio river into Kentucky where we then walked back along the river to Newport.

I took a picture of the Reds stadium from the Kentucky side. This is zoomed in from the other side of the Ohio river.

We then crossed not this bridge but the next one down in the picture back into Ohio.

A total walk of 6 miles that was pretty tough when Thomas would not stay in the stroller and wanted to be carried 90% of the walk. Poor Eric did a lot of this for most of the walk.

We crossed the finish line where they had music and activities for the kids. Eric took Luke down along the river front to check things out. Thomas and I did some coloring at one of the kid activity tables.

Finally I took this last picture as I read the different posters about the different families with some of the stories of survival and of memories of the little ones that were lost. Those were the hard ones to read about. All I can say is how thankful and blessed I was to have two beautiful and healthy baby boys.

Have you ever done a charitable walk like this?