Tuesday, July 17, 2007

When is a bargain not a bargain? When you have to throw it away. That’s exactly what I had to do last week. I fell for the buy one get one free deal in the produce department. This time around it was cherry tomatoes in those little red net bags. You can’t check them out when they’re bunched together in a bag. And I forgot one of the golden rules, lots of produce is reduced because it’s close to its sell by date and ready to spoil. Most of these tomatoes had already spoiled, some had mold on them, others were so wrinkled that they looked like they were in urgent need of some Botox.

Seems like no matter how cautious you are about keeping all your personal and financial information safe these days, someone else can come along and spoil it. Last week I received a note from a company I’d never even heard of, or done business with, telling me they do check clearance for retail merchants and one of their employees had sold information, including mine, to a data broker. Obviously I’d shopped at a store that had sent my check to this company for clearance. Thinking it was better to be safe than sorry I headed down to the bank the following day, closed my checking account.

This week on Budget Smart Girl’s Guide I’ve been focusing on summer sales.
I’m looking for a good deal on jeans and as most of my white t-shirts have seen better days I’m on the lookout for those too.

I was just looking at the Michaels arts and craft store flyer. They have their clearance and dollar days sales this week. I recently got back into knitting and I’m trying to figure out what my next project should be. I’m leaning toward knitting myself a sweater. I have some patterns, but when I work out how much wool I’ll need and the price of each skein, it seems cheaper to buy a sweater at the store. (I suppose you also pay for the pleasure of knitting and after all, every hobby costs money, right)

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