Late-Night Learning

So, inspired by the love-to-hate TLC show "Extreme Couponing," along with all this spare time that I don't know what to do with, I am going to do an experiment.

I am going to see if I can find any (even one) item that can be purchased for under 25¢ (must have had a purchase price of over 99¢ to begin with) at the local Wegmans in Allentown.  Bonus points for something that the store pays me or gives me store credit to buy.

In my egotistical way, I can't imagine that this will be all that difficult.  Since the bar for success is fairly low (one item and I win!), I'd imagine I'll do just fine.  I do wonder about limiting myself to only one store though, this might be unfairly limiting.

In case you're wondering, I chose Wegmans as the only store a) (minor reason) to make the search a bit easier through limitation, and b) (major reason) because I'm as lazy as sin and I have to go there sometime soon anyway in order to return items (not defective, just decided I didn't need them), and I don't want to make a separate trip anywhere else.  (This last point being the case seeing as I am not the primary food shopper in our household and rarely go into food stores anymore except on special trips, like returning items.  Which I made a special trip to purchase in the first place.)

The thing that does make me wonder about that show is the fact that everyone buys SO DAMN MUCH.  With the exception of one woman (out of maybe the 10 people that I've seen profiled on the show), everyone bought MASSIVE amounts of stuff that there is no way in HELL they will ever use.  200 bars of deodorant.  Really?  You stink that bad?  I am setting my bar for success low in the hopes that it might help me avoid turning into one of those people, who can't seem to realize that yes, they are saving money, but have completely lost sight of the point, which is being frugal, not playing the one-who-dies-with-the-most-toys-wins game.

Besides, last time I checked, 600 boxes of dryer sheets didn't count as toys anyway.