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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Preparing Financially To Go To A Fair

I will be spending some time at a local fair tomorrow and of course that means being in an area where food and beverages are marked up like crazy. For example, a bottle of water costing over $3. Therefore, it’s not too bad of an idea to actually prepare some stuff ahead of time if

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Financial Management

Paying High Prices Dining Out To Be Polite

The other day I was meeting up with a person to do some catching up as it has been years. For the most part we simply went to grab a bite to eat and chatted all day which resulted in going to places like cafes too. The funny thing was for an unrelated shopping item

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Buying Items Passed The Expiry Date

While in the supermarket today I noticed that there were a ton of sauces on sale for as little as 44 cents. These would normally cost about $1+ or so according to the label. The catch here was that the best before date for these items were all labelled as March 2013. That means these

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Being More Price Conscious When Buying Healthy Items

Today I had to take the Seabus to get to a location and one thing that I noticed was that in the waiting area there are a few vending machines. Since I am always interested in the outrageous prices that people get charged for the sheer notion of convenience I went to see the prices.

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Buying What You Can Finish

Today I went to this sushi restaurant with my nephew and immediately when looking at the menu he said that he wanted this combo that I knew he wouldn’t be able to finish. I even tried saying that some of those combos were pretty expensive and had more stuff than he could probably handle. However,

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Buying Expired Food If The Discount Is Good Enough

This really made me wonder how many people actually do this today. While I was at the supermarket I saw this area with a pile of products that were all labelled as 50% off as they wanted to get rid of it fast. I usually see these kinds of offers for fruits or vegetables that

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