Frugalityisthenewblack
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Dec 14, 2008
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Now that I live in Atlantic Canada, I noticed different attitudes compared to Central Canada. In Ontario each shopper more or less keeps to themselves and if there is any social interaction with another person it is usually when one shopper recognizes a friend.
Every time I shop in Nova Scotia it seems invariable that another shopper or clerk engages in conversation with me. Advice about the best bargain, merits of a paticular product, short recipe tips...whatever! People you've never met before. They like to shop and talk. I enjoy it. Yesterday my niece went shopping with me. She took soda crackers off the shelf while I scanned the array of soups. An elderly lady asked my niece if she had tried the crackers, were they good? My niece and the lady had a converstion about the quality and price of the budget crackers and how they compared favorably to the brand name crackers. The lady selected three boxes of the cheap crackers recommended by my niece and explained that she was donating it to the food bank. Another short conversation followed. It was charming to watch. The older lady was out on a shopping expedition, had some social interaction, and whatever her retirement income was, she chose to use some of it to help the less fortunate.
Every time I shop in Nova Scotia it seems invariable that another shopper or clerk engages in conversation with me. Advice about the best bargain, merits of a paticular product, short recipe tips...whatever! People you've never met before. They like to shop and talk. I enjoy it. Yesterday my niece went shopping with me. She took soda crackers off the shelf while I scanned the array of soups. An elderly lady asked my niece if she had tried the crackers, were they good? My niece and the lady had a converstion about the quality and price of the budget crackers and how they compared favorably to the brand name crackers. The lady selected three boxes of the cheap crackers recommended by my niece and explained that she was donating it to the food bank. Another short conversation followed. It was charming to watch. The older lady was out on a shopping expedition, had some social interaction, and whatever her retirement income was, she chose to use some of it to help the less fortunate.