My wife is pissed!

My wife is soooo fucking angry right now. Why you may ask? Well there are a number of reasons really. First of all, her sister just returned from the USA. Its not that she is mad at her sister, or does not like her. She likes her sister as much as her tiny black heart will let her like anyone. Hey I am probably her most favorite person in the world, and she barely tolerates me.

She is mad because her sister returned with a suitcase full of food from the USA. My wife only eats organic food. We gave my sister in law a list of items to buy, and told her where to buy them for the best price. My wife's aunt decided she would do all the shopping herself. She would not let my sister in law come with her, because she had a "weird energy" about it. That was because my sister in law, knows my wife. She knew my wife would flip out if any of it was not organic.

My sister in law came back with a tub of peanut butter. My wife has been dreaming about this peanut butter for months. A tiny container of organic peanut butter cost about $12-$14 here. Back in the US we can get it for under $3 a container. I told them where to get it. It is a place they shop at often.

The tub of peanut butter is not organic. My wife is threatening to throw it out. My sister in law returned with coconut milk. That is also not organic. She returned with nothing organic. She dragged about 100lbs of food across the world, because we asked for it, and now we have to throw it away,because my wife will not eat non-organic food.

Wife is mad for another reason. I bought her a brand new camera. She could not be more livid. It is a $700 camera that I bought for $400 brand new, this years model. Still, she is completely irate about it. How could I have been so insensitive.

Icoop

I had my co-teacher help me sign up for a website called Icoop. It is a online grocery store here in the ROK that sells organic local products and offers free home delivery.

The site is all in Korean, but they have pics of the products, and I either use a dictionary or babble fish to translate what the items are that I am buying. Although babble fish sometimes gives me some pretty weird translations. For example I wanted to know what this product was, and Babble fish told me "The mouse eye which stir-fries conga base". While that was amusing, it was not particularly helpful. One of them was "burning nose powder", another was "Seven music truths?", but usually I can at least get the gist of the product.

There are two prices for everything on the site, if you just get a normal enrollment, the price you see is what you pay, if you get a paid membership(13,000 won a month) you get 20% off. There is also a deposited of 30,000won which you get back whenever you quit the service. With a few exceptions, the prices as listed are about the same, or a little higher than the grocery stores in my town. With the 20% off all the prices are cheaper than what I have been paying.

We have been buying 5 Kilogram boxes of Asian pears, and on the website they are 13,500 won regular, I pay 11,600 with my discount, and we have been paying around 13,000+ at the store in town. My kids go through 5 kilograms of apples every 2-3 days and we have been paying 17,800 for a box (usually they have 3 kilo boxes for around 12,000), on the website they are 20,500 and I pay 16,200.

I am saving at least 1,000 won on pretty much everything I buy, and feeding 5 people it adds up. After buying 13 products it makes it worth it I figure.