Monday, July 30, 2012

Chain store savings....

or not.  I priced the baseboard trim at our local hardware store. The exact same trim at our local store was a whopping $0.04 more expensive per foot.  Maybe it's me, but that's not worth driving to the next town!  So I bought 24 feet.  And the paint was the SAME.  So, a local hardware store has the same prices, but the Home Depot has all the fluff. Martha Stewart paint instead of paint.  Eco-friendly cedar instead of cedar.  It's all in the marketing, and consumers are suckers.  Hence the consuming. 

I am pretty happy that I got to do the distributisty thing for the house projects and buy local.  I even got paint that is from the Northwest. I'm not sure how "from" that Northwest it is, but I want to say Tacoma or something.  I could drive to the plant!  Not that I want to, but I could.

I still haven't gone for a real grocery trip, but my peas are coming in, so we may do stir fry all week!  Who knows!  We'll see what this week brings!

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