The Logic Of A Bargain!
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I shop at a grocery store near our home and have found a favorite cashier. Andrea just exudes with enthusiasm. She also is still a Midwesterner at heart having moved from Wisconsin to California. When I purchase a product she hasn't ever used or is looking for a new way to use, she will ask what are my plans for that product.
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Sunday morning after church we stopped by the grocery store for an item I needed. Andrea said to me, hey check out the bargain grocery cart! English walnuts instead of being $7.00 are just $1.00 for a 2 lb. bag. A $6.00 savings just popped into my mind. I checked the stale date on the label and it was "Best by Oct. 4 '09". I knew I could use them by that date and if kept in the freezer their freshness would be preserved. A voice from somewhere said take two bags and I obeyed!
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When we arrived home I was excited to share my great deal. I showed Don the two bags of English walnuts. Don is my master of reality. Don said to me, "now you have to crack them". Truer words were never spoken! It took me 40 minutes to crack the nuts and 20 minutes to pick the walnut meats from the shells of the first bag. I weighed the shells and I had 19 oz. and 12 oz. of walnut meats. I am sure I picked up from the floor one ounce of shells that flew in different directions when hit by the hammer. So that makes the cost of walnut meats $1.33 per pound if 12 oz. are a $1.00. Subtracting the $1.33 from the original cost of $7.00 I saved $5.67. Minimum Wage is $7.25 per hour. What A Deal!!!!
The Logic Of A Bargain!
***
I shop at a grocery store near our home and have found a favorite cashier. Andrea just exudes with enthusiasm. She also is still a Midwesterner at heart having moved from Wisconsin to California. When I purchase a product she hasn't ever used or is looking for a new way to use, she will ask what are my plans for that product.
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Sunday morning after church we stopped by the grocery store for an item I needed. Andrea said to me, hey check out the bargain grocery cart! English walnuts instead of being $7.00 are just $1.00 for a 2 lb. bag. A $6.00 savings just popped into my mind. I checked the stale date on the label and it was "Best by Oct. 4 '09". I knew I could use them by that date and if kept in the freezer their freshness would be preserved. A voice from somewhere said take two bags and I obeyed!
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When we arrived home I was excited to share my great deal. I showed Don the two bags of English walnuts. Don is my master of reality. Don said to me, "now you have to crack them". Truer words were never spoken! It took me 40 minutes to crack the nuts and 20 minutes to pick the walnut meats from the shells of the first bag. I weighed the shells and I had 19 oz. and 12 oz. of walnut meats. I am sure I picked up from the floor one ounce of shells that flew in different directions when hit by the hammer. So that makes the cost of walnut meats $1.33 per pound if 12 oz. are a $1.00. Subtracting the $1.33 from the original cost of $7.00 I saved $5.67. Minimum Wage is $7.25 per hour. What A Deal!!!!
2 comments:
But wait, was the original cost in the shell or out of the shell?
Jewels;
A 2 lb. bag of walnuts in the shell was originally $7.00 which I thought would yield one pound of nut meats. The second bag did give me one pound of walnut meats.
I thought I wasn't calculating for the shells since they would be discarded! You are the brilliant mathmatician. Maybe you can tell me the error of my thinking!
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