We went back to Walmart tonight and did our shopping for the week. We brought back one of the pears and had them charge us the right price for them. It so happens that the pears we had bought are now on sale for about .20 a pound! She couldn't figure out how to change the price to .97 a pound (which is what we should have paid in the first place), so we ended up getting a lot more money back. We saved more than $5 by checking our receipt! Not bad.
Laura and I also did something super useful today. We used an Excel spreadsheet that we plugged numbers into to figure out what our budget for the year would roughly look like. That way we know if we can afford the way we are living over an extended period of time without losing money. We actually end up in the positives, so we're good!
By the way, if you want me to e-mail you a blank template of a yearly budget, just let me know.
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Oh wow! Could I have one plzzz? I'd love to learn from you guys~!!
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Diyan
I pretty much loved the Walmart experience! Definitely worth it :) We got water for our food storage instead...sweet! I think that kind of made up for the fact that the pears were squishy.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the mom and pop shops that get muscled out by Walmart? What about local farmers having to sell their land because local shops no longer exist to buy their product since Walmart ships their frozen products from their corporate farms?
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I hate to be the devils advocate here... But is $5 off your pears worth it? Isn't that just succumbing to capitalism' ruthless hack and slash economics?
In Barcelona, I buy my fruit from a fresh market, I buy food and supply from a plethora of little local shops or supermarkets. None of them are super cheap. Sure I probably pay 3-4 times as much as you guys do for toilet paper... But families are able to keep their shops open.
You might think you are getting a bargain, but Mr. Wall-mart is off on his Yacht in the Bahamas while Mr. Joey's Fruit&Vegetable is lining up for food stamps and unemployment checks :/
Just something to think about.
My little input is just about Opportunity Cost. In economics Opportunity Cost teaches that the real price of something has to be valued with what you are spending or losing to get it. So, the amount of gasoline spent to drive up to Orem, and less importantly, the time spent, has to be factored into that $5.
ReplyDeleteI say this purely to help you save money, because ever since I took that class I saw things in a better light. You probably used more than $5 in gasoline, so if you went to Walmart just for the pears, you ended up losing money.
http://www.walmartmovie.com/
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