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Shopping Dear Readers: Each store here has specialty items you can't get anywhere else. Then each store here has specials at reduced prices. Then larger stores are just so big. They sell clothes, plants, and also groceries. So by the time I'm finished I'm exhausted. Today I grabbed a man and gave his son $3. just to put everything in my car. This was a big store and I never went in the clothes section at all. My feet are tired and now I had to unload the groceries into the house and then get lunch. Now the cost of most things is out of sight. Then I always forget to get two or three things. Next decision is what store is the best to get the two or three things I forgot. Now do I go without? Or do I make another trip to a second store? Next thing is what do they have on sale that I need? Oh! well, better luck next time, on another day.
Dear Readers:
Each store here has specialty items you can't get anywhere
else. Then each store here has specials at reduced prices.
Then larger stores are just so big. They sell clothes,
plants, and also groceries. So by the time I'm finished
I'm exhausted. Today I grabbed a man and gave his son $3.
just to put everything in my car. This was a big store and
I never went in the clothes section at all. My feet are
tired and now I had to unload the groceries into the house
and then get lunch. Now the cost of most things is out of
sight. Then I always forget to get two or three things.
Next decision is what store is the best to get the two or
three things I forgot. Now do I go without? Or do I make
another trip to a second store? Next thing is what do they
have on sale that I need? Oh! well, better luck next time,
on another day.
Elinor Boddie of FL @ Jun 18, 2009 16:52:33 PM
Kimberly Palmer, senior editor for U.S. News & World Report, writes about how to save money, avoid scams, manage debt, and be a savvy shopper. Send your personal finance questions to her for expert money advice.
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Elinor Boddie of FL @ Jun 18, 2009 16:52:33 PM
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