How Much Is Enough?

This weekend I volunteered to chair the Hospitality Room for a group meeting that starts Friday night and ends Sunday just before lunch. The approximately 60 meeting attendees are coming from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. A few are flying in, but the majority are driving.

The budget for the event was adequate, but not extravagant. I spent considerable time researching options for food and paper products, and developed a shopping list that cherry picked the best deals at three different stores.

I thought I had everything under control. And then Mother Nature stepped in.

Coming our way

All of that purple in the Midwest is today's weather- a mixture of sleet and freezing rain.Tomorrow should be fine, but then another event--this time snow--is predicted for Saturday night into Sunday morning . Depending on what source you listen to, we could get somewhere between 2-8 inches. Based on the forecast, last night people started cancelling their meeting attendance. Today I've received a steady stream of emails from the meeting chair to keep me updated. As of 1:00 pm 18 people had indicated they wouldn't be coming, and the chair expects there will be more.

I had purchased the paper products earlier in the week (buying heavy because I knew I could return any unopened packages), but because of my schedule today had to be Buy Perishables day. My carefully curated grocery list got halved, or for some items cut even more. After lunch I went to Aldi and came home with snack foods and breakfast items, crossing my fingers that I didn't overbuy.

And if by some crazy coincidence I didn't get enough? There's a grocery store right across the street from the meeting venue.

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