We feel stupid. We feel really stupid.

On Saturday, Aaron and I were wandering around the house, looking for something to satisfy our sweet teeth. This happens on most nights. Suddenly, we spotted some coupons that were sticking to the fridge. The coupons were for Coldstone Creamery. "Come and get a Love It size ice cream--2 for $6" and "Come and get prepackaged quarts of ice cream--2 for $9," the coupons summoned us. Now both Aaron and I know that we could get a 5 quart container of Macey's (i.e. pretty good) ice cream for around $7, but we figured this must be an okay price for Coldstone's (i.e. exceedingly yummy) ice cream. Plus we had $12 left in our food budget so we said cha ching! (Chinese for Sweet!) and were on our way.
Once we got to Coldstone, our thriftily trained eyes spotted that the regular price for Love It size ice cream is $3.44. So our coupon saved us less than a dollar. But looking at the prepackaged quarts, we saw that they were regularly $6 per quart. So if we bought the quarts, we'd be "saving" $3 instead of $1...and getting more ice cream...and would still have $3 left in our food budget! As you can see, there was lots of good thinking happening. We had outsmarted corporate America once again. Don't try to pull that ice cream flavored wool over our tongues. Boo-yah! (Chinese for "Take that!"). The high school boy worker happily swiped our debit card, then we left.
Once outside, Aaron asked me, "Did you see how much a 1/2 gallon costs?" I responded, "I heard that worker tell the other girl they were $8.99." That's when Aaron did the math: 2 quarts equals 1/2 gallon. We'd paid $9 for 2 quarts. Regularly, a 1/2 gallon (aka 2 quarts) of ice cream is $8.99. With our coupon we'd paid 1 cent more for our ice cream than regular customers. We feel stupid. We feel really stupid.
Here's the load of ice cream that we got for 1 cent more than the regular price:


Here's us letting out our anger on our ice cream and capitalism:



Here's us being happy because the overpriced ice cream was really good:



There are two conclusions we could draw from this experience: 1)Brother Obama needs make laws against lame coupons and the making of ice cream that is too delicious for the human tongue to resist or 2)Beware all coupons!

Here is a pic of Annie with her Uncle Alan because she wasn't in any of the above photos and because she looks really cute. Could I really publish a post without Annie in it?