Shopping 2

The final lesson was that the shopping victories you can make, money you can save, things you can accumulate through shopping is really unbelievable. Perhaps I should try to sharpen my shopping skills next year. One time I was given a book to read about saving money through careful spending for household expenses. After reading that I think I started the habit of coupons and shopped at both at Hy-Vee and fareway to save money. Both are grocery stores in the city we live in. Some things were cheaper in Hy-Vee so I bought those from Hy-Vee. Something's were cheaper in fareway and so I bought those at fareway. I would scrutinize the grocery flyers that came to our home and compare prices. In this way I was able to save between 10 to 30 dollars a month. But driving to fareway and Hy-Vee several times trying to get the best deals would have used up lots of gas. And the effort and energy it takes may not have been worthwhile. The money saved varied from month to month. This habit can lead to the practice of buying cheap things because you are only focused on saving money. The solution is to buy the expensive brand when it is on sale and stock up. But this works only for some things such as the things you need in bulk. It does not work for everything. If there is some unmissable deals that seems unmissable to me I feel it may not be unmissable to others. Like there were long sleeved Tees for $5.00 in old navy on black Friday. The final lesson I learned is that there are determined shoppers, careful shoppers, successful shoppers who always know the right time and the right way to shop and come back home with a huge shopping bag with all the things they bought, unsuccessful shoppers who never get what they want and the moderately successful shoppers who sometimes get what they want. There are shopoholics for whom shopping fulfills some need. And there is retail therapy for those whom shopping makes happy. Shopoholic may be on the one end of the spectrum and retail therapy shoppers may be on the other end of the spectrum. These are the lessons I learned while shopping.