Flowers. I love them. If I could, I would have fresh flowers on my dining room table all the time. It is a special treat when my Honey brings me flowers. I will confess that when he first started bringing me "grocery store" flowers instead of "flower shop" flowers, I was offended. I'm such a silly woman! I have discovered I like arranging flowers; and it is so much less expensive to get some grocery store flowers and arrange them yourself, especially if you have a small stash of old vases. Now flowers are *always* more expensive around Mother's Day, so the cost quoted here is higher than normal. I know at my grocery store you can usually get a bouquet of flowers for around $10.
The day before Mother's Day, my Honey came home with two large beautiful bouquets -- from the grocery store. :) Because I knew I was going to turn this into a blog post, I asked if he minded if I knew how much he spent. He said it was around $34. Readers, I got two arrangements out of these flowers! So I have a large bouquet on my dining room table and a bouquet in my kitchen. I'm going to put pictures of what I see as comparable bouquets from the Telaflora website so you can compare the "flower shop" bouquets to the "grocery store" bouquets.
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| Two Grocery Bouquets and a Vase |
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| The first bouquet-at-home, short 'n sweet and full... |
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| A comparable "flower shop" bouquet at $39.95 -- more than both grocery bouquets together! |
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| The second bouquet-at-home, simple and elegant. |
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| The comparable "flower shop" bouquet at a whopping $44! |
My youngest daughter is living with my middle daughter for a month this summer. As a tradition, I usually have flowers waiting for my girls when they come for a visit. So my middle daughter did that for her sister. She can't find her camera at present, but she bought a grocery bouquet of multi-colored roses for $15, arranged them in a short modern vase, and put a pretty pink fabric ribbon around the middle.
I personally like my bouquets better than the floral shop bouquets, and it was a total difference of $49.95. If you'll notice, my lily bouquet has a lot more lilies waiting to bloom than are in the floral shop bouquet. So the lesson here? Don't be a flower snob like I was; and be grateful that you can get, for yourself or someone you want to cheer, flowers from the grocery store!
Ps - The only way this might not work is if you want someone out-of-state to have flowers. :-)
1 comment:
I love this. I do grocery store flowers, too. And this year, I happened to be there the day after Mother's Day and got the Manager's Special - two bouquets of tulips (my favorite flower) for $1/ea. and they were stunning!!!
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