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I remember giving a kid with his mom a quarter to take the cart back. Big grin on that kid.
Lol. Not Glen Showalter. My frugal skills are several notches above Glen's. Heck, the stuff he bought was Quaker Oats product. I always knew about the stuff on the lower shelves and my kids were much younger than his when I had to match wits with them.
You deem this frugality irrational, and certainly no retirement is going to fail because you buy Brawny paper towels instead of store brand.
But so what? One benefit of retirement is a clearer mind, and one way to get a clearer mind is to have default procedures in many common situations. It may not even matter what the default is, but for it to help it should be reasonably consistent. Go with perceived or assumed quality would be one default, go with the store brand another. Most of us are certainly not truly wealthy, regardless of what we might like to imagine. So most practical might be "go with the store brand, unless experience has taught you to avoid it in this store or this category or whatever.
I LIKE being frugal- so I don't consider it irrational. Its like a game- how little can I spend on things I need but don't care about (like paper towels) so that I can enjoy spending a little more on fun stuff like vacations. And we find we like "off the beaten path" vacations better than luxurious ones anyway. We once won a trip at a fancy resort that came with a butler- we had to tell him after the first day we didn't need him but thanks. We didn't want to wait for him to do things we could as easily have done ourselves.
We didn't want to wait for him to do things we could as easily have done ourselves.
We don't even like being served meals by waiters, and almost never frequent restaurants.....shipboard we eat in the buffet, and only occasionally venture into the dining rooms at the behest of friends...just hate people hovering over us.
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Speaking of eating out...
When I go to a local fast food hamburger restaurant, I buy only the hamburger... nothing else [I bring my own bottled water.]
One day on my receipt there was a special offer coupon... buy medium drink and medium fries and get a hamburger free.
On the next visit, I used the special offer coupon... and paid OVER A DOLLAR MORE for the "medium drink and fries" and "free hamburger" than I usually pay for the hamburger alone.
A friend who used to manage a fast food restaurant told me they make most of their money on those drink and fries extras... so I am sticking to my old routine.
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I would not look at it that way... I would look at it as them selling you drink and fries for $1.... now, if you do not want to pay $1 for those two items, go back to your old way...
somebody must like personal butler service or swanky resorts wouldn't offer them.
I spent a good 3-4 minutes comparing spinach at the store yesterday. Oz's per bag, expiry dates (never manage to finish spinach so I want the freshest one - an item I can use more of before tossing = deal!)
After all that, I forgot to put it in the recipe last night.