I’m not going to lie: the day after Easter is sort of like an especially sweet day for me. For those in the know for insanely good savings, it is “Discount Easter Candy Day”. Most stores that have Easter candy have their overstock at 50% off. You see besides the day after Easter, this only happens a few times per year after a major candy holiday where you get this incredible deal, which is Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and Christmas. So on my 25-minute drive home, I calculated multiple stops for me to take full advantage of this super-sale. I first stopped off at Walgreens on Henderson Rd. I almost didn’t this year because last year they barely had anything. I’ve learned that Meijer is the best bet with the largest overstock selection and most variety. Yet I figured to give Walgreens a try since it was right on the way. This year they had a pretty great variety left over with the chocolate-covered marshmallows in the egg carton (a personal favorite of mine since they rang up for only 54-cents per carton), Bunny and Chick Peeps (you can’t celebrate Easter without Peeps!), malt ball eggs, egg gum balls, Sweet Tarts jelly beans, Cadbury chocolate eggs, and Cadbury mini crème eggs. It was the regular version of the Cadbury crème eggs that proved to be the hardest the find. They were completely sold out at Walgreens. I walked out of there buying $22 worth of Easter candy, which is a pretty good score.
Yet as I did my day after Easter shopping, I was also rather morally conflicted because all this candy was becoming severely damaging to me as I am middle-aged man. More importantly, I am now diagnosed as pre-diabetic. I needed to be extra careful to not have all this extra candy lying around the house. I had to remind myself that I was only getting it because it was a great deal that could tide our family over for half a year! It was about portion control and not giving in so easily to eating sugar just because it was around. I knew that I was buying some for my students in my three classes as well. All I needed to do was look down at my extra expanding gut to know that I didn’t need too much junk food to make me get even fatter. So I reminded myself to be extra careful with my calorie intake per day. I was buying for the year!
My search continued since I was curious what the others had for sale. I stopped off at Kroger, which didn’t have their Easter candy fully marked down to even 30% off. From there, I headed over to my main destination that I knew would have plenty of candy: Meijer. Surprisingly, they were mostly cleaned out! Last year they had an abundance of Cadbury crème eggs. This year they only had one spare one lying on a cleaned out display area. They just had some bunny Peeps left behind and that was it. I was rather surprised. It was a good thing I had stopped at Walgreens then. Since I still hadn’t found many Cadbury crème eggs (which seemed to be worth their weight in gold the day after Easter), I decided to make a final discount candy stop at CVS pharmacy on Bethel and Sawmill. Surprisingly, their candy hadn’t been picked over too much, though they didn’t have a huge display amount. Still, they had enough variety to make me happy along with two containers of Cadbury crème eggs.
My sale day, quest, and journey was now complete. My “starving artist” students will be able to feast on Easter candy for the rest of the semester no matter if they believe in Jesus Christ or not. Until next time….
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