Finishing Our Yearly Grocery Haul _ Flying Back to Kake _ Storing a Years worth of Dry Groceries

Right now , we are at Western Auto Marine and we are getting fish glove fishing gear .

We're getting like an anchor rope and we're also looking for rain gear .

Joe needed new rain pants and I needed a raincoat .

Bonnie is gonna go look at pets and pet co and we gotta go check out Sportsman's warehouse for a few things .

What's a bird say ?

Tweet ?

Tweet ?

Is it so cute ?

You saying ?

Hi .

Where are we going ?

Honey ?

We're going to the barge .

Do we have to send more stuff home ?

I'm no fairy from Juno to cake until like the end of August and we're in July .

So , uh we're gonna have to barge some stuff home , which is not as good of a deal , which hurts my soul , but you know , you gotta do what you gotta do .

And so right now we're driving down the Barch .

I'm in one car and Joe's in our other friend's car because not everything fit in our car .

So , oh , you wanna play at the park ?

I know you just love the park , but we have to um , bring this up to the barge first .

We're driving to downtown .

Do you know , the barge is through downtown .

So you have to drive all the way through downtown in order to get there .

Here is our Juno Am L clack of stuff .

Uh There's no ferry back for a while , so I just had to do it , but the bullet send it on email , but we got bon and cool wagon , got some food .

If you've been following along at this point in time , this is the exact same company that sent our stuff in Seattle except we are now in Juno sending stuff .

Um And what's unfortunate about the way that we're doing this now is it has to go all the way down to Seattle first and then back up .

So it's just kind of a kind of a pain .

It's a loop .

But you know , does the trick when you need to , your favorite part bringing us up to AM L .

So this one ended up weighing £385 .

So we'll go see how much that costs the final tally .

The final total for shipping stuff to cake from uh Juno was 100 and $38.24 for almost £400 worth of stuff , which really actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be .

So , um , yeah , not bad here we are back at Costco .

We needed to go shopping for our produce and our vegetables and our dairy products and then we needed to , uh , we had , we asked our couple of our good friends if they needed anything while we were in Juneau .

And so they had kind of sent us with a list as well .

Not too many items , but we had to send everything back on the , this stuff back on the plane .

So , um , there wasn't too much but each of them was like , oh , yeah , there's a few things we could use for sure .

So we ended up getting some things for some friends and then we got our stuff that would go in the fridge that we can't send on the March .

Working through Joe has to go get another car .

Car was just too old and we need more stuff .

Yeah , we're gonna go into Fred Meyer and do some last minute uh grocery shopping .

We leave today on the plane but we need to send some produce home for ourselves .

So we have some food when we get there .

We just sent £200 of groceries to ourselves and now we're getting ready to send some groceries to grandma , Papa Mic and Kirsten and Uncle John .

Uh yeah .

So we're trying to help people out while they're in town and send them some groceries .

We got done dropping everything off .

Auntie and uncle laying with .

I had a few .

Wow .

Oh , Bonnie , we're on our way to the airport .

It's time to go back to cake after our almost like two month vacation .

You ready to go home .

You gonna go on the airplane ?

Where are you gonna go ?

I do home .

He eat dinner .

Yeah .

So the ghosts love you .

I go on the airplane .

The airplane .

Are you so excited ?

This is Papa Juno .

Oh I'm fine .

But can you say ?

All right , we made it , we're , we're officially home .

Um All of our friends came to meet us at the airport which was freaking awesome .

You guys rock .

Um I got , I already got my , a negative COVID test .

So that was pretty cool .

That was a very quick turn around in June .

Yeah , we're excited to be home .

We have a long journey ahead of us .

If you've been following along so far , you guys know what the whole process is gonna look like .

So anyway , now we uh have to get home and get a little one on the potty into night , night .

So , yeah , and find some dinner .

Yes , dinner .

Yeah , probably smoked salmon .

I don't know who knows who herring eggs .

Bony is discovering all of her toys and having lots of fun .

We went down to the barge and we ended up getting our bikes and Bonnie's bed and our um containers were kind of behind some other people's stuff .

So it was really hard to get to .

So we didn't want to take everything out .

We were just gonna wait and uh , but we wanted to get our bikes because we really had to go for a bike ride and try them out .

And then we also wanted to get Bonnie's bed because we , we didn't really want her to be sleeping in her crib anymore .

We wanted to just go right into a bed because she hadn't been in her crib for like two months .

And so we thought the crib would kind of freak her out again and she just want to crawl out of it all night .

So we went and got the bed and put it together .

So that way she could sleep in her big girl bed .

So this is what it looks like when the crates are coming off of the barge .

So this is what our stuff got put on on the barge .

And here is one of our , I think Bonnie so far is the most excited about her new stroller for the bikes because she really wants to go on a bike ride .

Who smooshed careful , babe .

Push it .

Stay where mommy dad can see you though .

What does daddy have Bonnie's new bid ?

We're so excited is the mattress we gotta put together , babe , we'll be doing that today .

Exciting day .

We got Bonnie hooked up to the bike ready to go on our first bike ride .

All right , let's see it .

You're gonna go fast , ready .

You're safe .

Ready .

What ?

Right .

We got this far .

I'm setting up the bed and then we realized we probably need to do it in Bonnie's room .

Jeez .

And then we needed to take her crib out of her room and uh , we can't get it out without taking it apart .

Here is Bonnie's bed , big girl bed all done .

So it will eventually extend here and it can extend like another foot and then another foot to equal a regular size bed .

But for now this is all the size she needs .

So it's so sweet and it gives her more , more room .

She doesn't really play in here much .

But once we move her into her actual bedroom , this is just kind of was still her nursery .

So once we move her into the bedroom , she'll be in , there'll be more toys and stuff in there .

So she'll be able to play in there more .

Yeah , dad , dad and good .

Hang on .

Is it you , we cleared out this section so that we can .

Yeah , Bonnie got her baby .

So that way we can get all the stuff off the barge and have somewhere to put it .

It's gonna be crazy .

I'll show you when we get it all .

When we went to go get our stuff , we'd asked one of our friends to come and help us put it into our car .

But then another friend actually drove by while we were doing it and he had a big truck .

So they ended up just putting , we put some , we put the stuff from one of our tubs into our car and his truck and we ended up just putting the whole box into his truck , the other whole box into his truck to just to bring home and unload there .

So that we didn't have to unload it twice .

And that worked out really well .

So we were really glad that he came by and asked what we were up to .

So that was perfect .

So it begins , well , all in all not too bad .

I feel like this is a reasonable amount of stuff .

Uh you know , just like £1000 worth or whatever .

But um , then we also have some stuff coming in the barge from Juno and that will be here .

I don't know , man , I guess next Wednesday .

So in a few days .

But um , yeah , so now we're gonna work on putting everything away and going through stuff and yeah , Bonnie's over here eating her , lunch , her eggs .

I think that's all she's eaten so far .

She's got her eggs and cucumber and watermelon and tortilla and water .

Look at our fancy new micro .

So .

Oh yeah , Joe's peeling off stickers and everything .

Got our stuff from Juno about three boxes , some food , a couple of chairs , got a little table and we got some charcoal out here in a big pot and then away again .

But we got all our stuff .

Now we just got all our stuff put away from the bar from Seattle .

And so now we put away our stuff from Juno and we should be pretty set .

Um , the only other things we might need are like , produce things .

So like freezer stuff , fresh vegetables and fruit and then , um , like dairy products .

But for the most part , most of the dry stuff , which should be pretty good for the rest of the year .

Um , we might rain out a couple of things .

But , uh , yeah , we'll be traveling this year some more .

So , um , if we run out of a few things , we'll be able to kind of stop and get some stuff when we're going through Juneau or , um , Seattle or things like that .

But for the most part , this is what we got and now it is time to show you where we keep all of these things in our house .

Everybody has been asking the , the last year in our last year , the grocery haul and I just never got to it .

It was just too much of a mess .

But this year we decided to just go for it , show you our mess and , um , show you where we keep everything .

So here we go .

So , in our kitchen , one of the really nice things is that when my parents put in these shelves , they have a lot of kind of like pantry space just right out in the open .

So we call this our goodie cupboard .

It kind of has just goodies in it .

We have like nuts and sunflower seeds up there .

This is a box got like marshmallows and some chocolate and graham crackers , jello , some bars to eat .

Um , there's some dried fish , but back there there's just , I don't know , random stuff .

Um , we have more bars here .

Those are ones I can eat popcorn tub .

There's a gluten free tub .

So that's all my g some of the gluten free stuff .

That's open jerky down here .

So it's just lots of random stuff .

Um , it's nice to be able to grab and go when we're like going up the road or going on to the boat .

So that's where a lot of bonny snacks are .

And then below that cupboard we have up here , this top shelf has like bags , plastic bags and some paper back there for like putting down on the table .

And then we have kind of have like our drink area .

I have some Izzy and some O J we got boxed milk for Bonnie and then she had to stop drinking milk .

So I guess we'll use that if we want cereal or something .

There's some fruit packs for Bonnie , some chewy bars back there and then we are in and we did have other stuff down there .

But then when we cleaned up and organized , um , it ended up getting moved , so I'm sure that space will be filled , but it hasn't been filled yet .

So we'll see what ends up going down there , right .

So I'm here on the top .

We have , um , jarring stuff So there's like Pekin for making jam and then in that container , there's jar lids and things like that .

Um , and then just , it's just kind of just random jars that we have out .

Lots of this kind of has like jams and honey and berry , things like that .

And then down on the bottom , there's like fish and meat and , um , smoked salmon .

So this is just kind of where we keep our jars that are out .

Uh We have a lot more jars than this , but this is what's readily available .

We don't have to go searching for .

And in this one , we kind of have on the top , we have like the things that we use like our Ziploc bags and gloves on the on this row , we kind of have like cereals and then in the back there's extra utensils .

There's also like rice on this one .

We have like our something fell back there .

We have like our oatmeal and chocolate chips and just random things splenda from when my mom was here on the bottom , you kind of have it's heavy to pull out , but you have like these big containers .

So this says rice and then this has flour and then the one the back there is sugar with almond flour and things like that .

So that's kind of what's in this cupboard .

This is kind of like our everyday pantry items that we use really often , right ?

And up above the fridge in the back .

We have our some seaweed .

Um And then we were just putting our um egg crates there for when we needed them .

We got a big thing of marshmallows on our trip for .

So we don't have to keep buying marshmallows here every time we did more nights .

So we have those up there because we still have some um and we have like extra crackers and I think there's extra zip locks back there .

And then here there's like all the extra um parchment paper and re and just a bunch of things .

So this is , this is not stuff we get into all the time .

We um it's just kind of stuff that we needed a place for it to go .

This is our back pantry .

Um On this shelf here , we have our like some medicines and things like that .

But this is where we keep a bulk of our things that we end up buying .

So we have the two metal shelves here and then we have two um big closets here , pantry closets .

Um On this one here , we have like cereals , there's some pasta things .

We have extra , like big Colanders .

I don't know why we have so many Colanders .

We have a lot of colanders .

Uh but we have like chips and some more like for when I make Chex mix .

That's kind of what I use .

Um I think this one has oatmeal or oats in it and we have like , this is just a bunch of jar stuff on this rack .

Joe actually made me a gluten-free rack because they had so much stuff this time on the bottom , we like lentils and extra .

Just , you know , all the food you see us buying this is where it's going .

Um up on top there is like a box of little chips that we'll take out when we go out for um the day or whatever , more cereal .

And then we have like more jars of fish .

So like jarred fish .

Um This is like our big turkey pan for Thanksgiving .

Um This , this road doesn't really have much food on it .

It's just kind of storage .

This is uh to tapioca flour though .

And then down here we have like crackers , some popcorn .

This is a bunch of um lentils that we got on exchange .

Uh And then down here we have like our flowers and sugar and extra rice and things like that .

And then let's see .

And this first one , this is , has a lot of food also .

This is kind of more of like our , we have containers of things .

Um So we have like powdered sugar and whole wheat , flour , brown sugar , gluten-free flour , masa .

And then we have a big thing of flour .

So we don't really put flour in that little one anymore .

That's from when we were in college .

And then behind these are like extra things .

So a bunch of mass back there because we like to make our own tortillas .

Um And then on this rock back there , there's like a bunch of mayo , there's some jars of different things , pickles olives .

Um This is kind of box stuff and like some more condiments back there .

It's hard to see though .

Um I almost need to put like get like one of those lights in here so you can actually see what's back there .

Uh And then here more condiments just uh you know , replacements for things .

We got extra of whatever we might need or want .

And then uh down here we have a lot of spices all the , all the way back there .

It's just like refill spices because we also have spices up and uncovered , but we have to have extra on hand .

Um kind of like baking stuff .

There's like citric acid and um curing salt and extra cocoa powder and you know , things like that .

Then we have our pasta area .

This all over here is all gluten free noodles .

Thanks to an awesome fan who sent me a box of gluten free noodles .

I'm pretty stocked up , which is great .

Um This is like the regular noodles that we have .

And then down on the bottom down here , we have a lot of like our oils and our vinegar um that we kind of put our oils and vinegars down on the very bottom .

We don't really have food in this other cabinet .

This one really just has like extra , um , extra , like cooking things so we could do a lot better at organizing it right now .

It's just kind of a mess so we could definitely do better at that and get more space in here .

But like , there's our big bowls for like when we brine fish and things like that .

Um , there's like big jars back there for when Joe does Kimchi , we have um , like cans that we use all the time down here .

It's really dark .

Let me see .

Ok , that's better .

So we got everything .

I like chickpeas and black beans and kidney beans and there's like some baked beans back there , coconut milk , mushroom cream and mushroom soup .

You know , I just pretty much all the cans that we buy .

We try to put some down here .

So we don't have to go like all the way in the pantry and get into boxes every time .

So that way it's kind of just ready for us down here .

This is our laundry room and we keep some more stuff in here .

Um , there's like some plastic bags here .

There's soap back in this corner .

There's like different laundry soap and bleach and just different kind of cleaning things , things you need for the laundry .

Um , there's a bunch of bounce back there .

Oh , I should probably turn the light on .

Oh , much better .

And then up in here we have all of our light bulbs on top and then more cleaning stuff .

We have like swiffer wipes and then pledge stuff , um , rags , dusters , sunscreen and bug sprays in there on this side , on the top we have , this is like gun stuff , bullets and things like that .

Gun cleaning .

Um , and then more laundry , laundry soap .

Um , and then some like hand soaps we store over here .

That's pretty much the storage we have in the laundry room .

Oh , on the window seal , there's also a bunch of sprays and this is another place that we keep stuff .

This was my sister's bedroom growing up .

And , uh , mostly this is where we keep like our paper products .

So we have our toilet paper , paper , towel , more paper towel , more toilet paper , work paper towel , tissues .

And then there's some cleaning stuff up here too .

So , like our wipes are in here and then there's like the bathroom Clorox things .

Um , and then we recently put up these shelves and so like the top is all Bonnie's baby stuff .

And then , um , there's just all kind of down there .

It's like our tote with fishing stuff .

These are like totes of clothes .

I'm getting rid of very soon .

And then over here we have , um , a bunch of jars .

So these are all empty jars that we will fill up and then once we put food in them , then we'll put them , um , in the kitchen area .

So some people have said that they were surprised that .

We only got one thing in toilet paper .

Well , I was 100% sure that we had a full thing here already .

Plus what was already in the bathrooms ?

I was wrong .

So we only have , yeah , you see Mommy in the camera .

So we definitely don't have toilet paper for the whole year with what's here , but we will , um , be traveling for sure for this winter .

So we'll probably end up just getting something then and bringing it back with us .

But that happens when you are shopping for so much and then you have limited space in the vehicle you're using .

And then there's just a lot of things that add up where it's like , well , do we get two toilet papers ?

Do we get one ?

And with what space we had , I think getting one was really the best option because I don't know if two would have fit anyways .

But um , we just do our best and if all else fails , we buy it here in cake , we try not to do that , but it does happen .

So we'll all be ok and we'll , we'll make it work .

But ok , so the next thing everybody has been packing about and wondering about is how much did everything cost ?

So I'm gonna go through the receipts here and then I'll um , do like a running total at the bottom so that you can kind of see what we ended up spending .

This is for a friend of Myers in Kent when we were in Washington still .

And we ended up spending 100 and $15.99 .

And this was mostly for totes for when we were , um , putting stuff onto the barge .

But we also got a few other things while we were there .

So , while we were in Washington , we ended up getting a gopro , which was really exciting and it's been really fun to have and Bonnie , we're gonna be going to Hawaii for Christmas .

So it's gonna be super fun to have there and we're really excited about that , but we got it at Costco and we ended up spending right at like $400 .

It was on sale while we were there .

So the big Costco ha oh um that you see mostly in the video ended up being $1622.04 .

So we that wasn't the only time we had to go to Costco that Costco did not have orange juice or gluten-free flour .

And so we ended up having to look around at some other Costcos to find those things .

I think the same Costco had orange juice and gluten free flour and we ended up spending 100 and $52.93 there .

Um Let's get into IKEA .

I think that's all for Costco in Washington .

So at IKEA , we spent $17.59 on just little things that we bought while we were at the store .

And we also , I went and got some , um , a little snack and I ended up buying some , uh , apple drink also .

So that was $15.02 .

But then they actually made you buy the bed separately when you went to go pick it up .

The total for the bed was $369.81 .

So that was for the , the bed and the mattress and all the parts that went with it a little bit spendy .

But it's really cute and hopefully we'll have it for a very long time .

All right .

And I think now we're in Juno and , oh , there's an airplane going back .

Hope maybe we have some groceries on there .

That'd be great .

We haven't got groceries in like , since we got back .

So it's been like two months and , uh , we're out of every vegetable .

We have no vege , fresh vegetables in our house right now .

All right .

So we were at Western Auto Marine and that's where we got gloves and just , we ended up getting some Joe , got rain pants and I got a raincoat and that total was 2 75 98 .

We ended up having to go to the Home Depot .

I don't think we actually filmed doing that .

It was pretty last minute both of the times .

So we were just trying to rush in and get out .

But one of the times we spent 1 27 23 and we had bought boxes , I mean , a drain weasel .

Oh , the reason it was more expensive is because we bought two of the toilet seats that , um , have like the toddler seat in it as well as the regular seat .

So that way we could , um , it would be easier for Bonnie to go to the bathroom and we went , have to have like little potty seats .

And then the second time we went is because we thought Costco would have charcoal and they didn't .

So we had to go get charcoal at Home Depot and that ended up being 4 $48.11 .

So we are back at Costco in June and this is actually from before we left , this is from in May when we got all the stuff that was on sale that we thought that we would need .

And that total was 3 73 42 .

We went to Costco two more times .

One was just to get some stuff before we went on the barge that we've been wanting to get anyways like a couple of folding chairs and a little table and a couple other things like that that we could go on the barge that were dry and that one , that total was 3 40 oh five .

And then the time when we went to get our groceries to send back on the airplane , we had got I think on the video it says like five , it says 5 66 57 .

But that was including our friends food that we got there .

And then so they paid us back for that .

But we spent on our groceries for the month .

It was 2 93 53 .

And that was just for like the fruits and vegetables and dairy products that we had sent back .

And then we also saw that we went to Fred Meyers before we got on the plane .

And we ended up spending , um , $243.47 there .

And that was just for some smaller things that Costco doesn't really sell that we wanted to get and send back that we , so we would have them sending things on the barge from Seattle to cake .

The £1000 1000 , I can't remember £1400 .

I don't know , something like that was the total for sending all of that was $488.31 .

And so that was almost $500 .

It's a good chunk of change .

But the store here has to pay that same price and maybe they get a little bit of a discount for sending a lot of stuff .

But for the most part , they , they're , they're paying the same price that we are .

So , and then they still have to make money off of that .

So , uh , it definitely , it does definitely save us money to send our own things here and then from Juno to cake because the ferry didn't work out .

We ended up spending 100 and $38.24 to send .

I really don't remember how much that weighed .

I think it was almost £400 .

Thanks for watching .

This is the end of our , um , vlog where we're putting all our groceries away and this is how much everything costs .

I hope you follow along and watch some of our other vlogs .

We vlog throughout the year , even when we're not getting groceries and we just kind of share our life here in Alaska .

So if you are interested in that , check out some of our other blogs and watch us in the future .

Thanks .

Have a great day .

Bye .

Thank you .

Please .

Mommy tea down to the camera , something you sing the camera song with time .

Had the keys , please like that .

What about you ?

You know , you got yourself around now .

It's looking at your leg .

You want to see your face , you around the orange .

Yeah , you see the oranges , huh ?

Turn around and see your face , look at you or just funny or just ?