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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Truly Knowing What You Are Buying

For some reason I was reading this article about processed foods today which listed all sorts of facts on how some things are made. I wasn’t too shocked at some items such as how food colouring is from certain bugs. For some items though, it was funny reading comments from others on how now that

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Business

Inconvenient Product Recalls

What surprising news this was as I read an item I bought recently as a result of building a computer has a global defect where certain features are rendered useless. Therefore, the company was offering full refunds. The other interesting thing was I didn’t even notice this as I never even used that particular feature.

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Financial Management

Using A Credit Card or Saving Pennies

Recently I went to this place where it looked like a wholesale type of store for consumers that requires no membership. As you would expect there were items and packages that were pretty large. For example, a can of pineapple looked more like you were buying some paint for the house. The prices weren’t honestly

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

The Way You Present A Product

I thought this was interesting as there was a restaurant that presented their dishes to the customer by stacking items like onion rings on top of each other so that when you actually receive the dish it looks fairly tall. Usually you would see people just spread items like that on a dish. I was

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Financial Management

Spending More Money For Reward Points

I was looking at this catalog of items you can get from redeeming reward points that you accumulate as a result of purchasing a particular company’s products. Essentially, you register the products online for points which you then redeem for items. This reward program was a little different as you have to spend your reward

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Financial Management

Buying It Because It Costs So Little

The other day I was talking to a person who was clamoring about this streaming movie service that he subscribes to. He was saying how for only about $10/month it enabled him to stream movies to his phone and that it was such a good deal. The interesting was that out of curiosity I asked

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