Spontaneity and bargains

Tonight I hosted a number of my offspring and their offspring and various spouses to a roast beef dinner.  I got the idea to do so yesterday and after I got some positive responses I went shopping for potatoes and a large onion to add to the roasting pot along with the carrots and roast I had on hand.  I found three loaves of french bread on reduced price that added up to about $1.10, a super sized apple pie discounted to well under $4, and a coconut cream pie for $1.37.  I also impulsively purchased a plastic set of drawers that met my need for clothing organization.  A single drawer I had tried to purchase from Amazon was canceled from the seller's end and this set, which is three times the size, cost less by several dollars.  As I assembled the various ingredients for my roast beef dinner this morning I noticed I was lacking two roasts.  I located them in the trunk of my car.  It has been cool lately with a late spring, but I wondered if they were still usable.  They seemed okay, but if I had not so spontaneously scheduled a roast dinner I would not have noticed the error until they were beyond recall.  We had all of David's family eventually, all of Tisha's family but one, Nancy's family, Jared and his three oldest children, and Meg, Bryan and Beth.  The teen cousins pretty much took up all the space at a plastic banquet table seating 8.  So in all, including baby Layla, we had twenty three people.  That's a pretty good sum for a spontaneous meal.