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Financial Management

Forgetting About Statutory Holiday Hours

This was a boo-boo today as I needed a piece of wire for an equipment and so I went with another person to buy it from a store. Unfortunately, it along with a lot of other places closed early today due to it being a statutory holiday here. That then resulted in the mentality of

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

High Price Quality Bias

While looking for a camera lens cleaner today I didn’t do my research ahead of time on what would be best in terms of value and quality wise. Therefore, I mostly relied on the price and what I saw in the packaging. I couldn’t help but to think in these situations that the higher priced

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Financial Management

Shopping For Deals Throughout The Year For Events

For some reason I noticed recently that quite a few businesses are advertising back to school sales even though that is quite a bit away. The deals don’t even seem that great compared to what you could find closer to the school year too. I then saw one particular ad where its sales pitch for

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Financial Management

Buying The Not So Perfect Produce

I saw this neat video today called “Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables” which was neat is it revolved around taking fruits and vegetables that would normally be deemed as unsellable where people would sell it at a discount. Interestingly enough, people bought it. This I the video for those who never saw it: If you think

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Financial Management

Paypal Surcharge Fees

I was surprised to see this today as I was interested in making a purchase using Paypal as a payment option and to my surprise the item was more expensive than the listed price. Upon looking at it closer, it seemed like the merchant was charging its customers a$2 surcharge fee for anyone who wished

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Financial Management

Still Waiting For Sales In A Membership Based Store

I was with another person doing some shopping and price comparison today where they happened to have a membership card to a store which supposedly gives you better prices for items compared to traditional retail stores. Upon our little journey though, that definitely wasn’t the case in many instances the regular stores often offered cheaper

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