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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm realizing I know a few people who shop too much for groceries go to many different stores to shop to "get out of the house" as ones person tells me. Then they can't eat all the said food and it goes to waste. I don't know how much money they're wasting but all of them are on a fixed budget and shouldn't be wasting it on food they can't eat. Do you know anyone like this or are you like this?[/quote]

No, but you could encourage them to find the absolute best deals every particular store if they are hell bent on going just to get out of the house. Buying only items on sale (or digital coupons) at each particular store that week is often cheaper than Costco/BJs/etc. Although from what you're describing, something else is at play here.[/quote]

Yep, this is what people do when money matters.

My mother was raised by farmers who had come of age during the Great Depression, and consequently taught her to be thrifty.  Then she moved out on her own and her chauvinistic father was determined to force her back where she could be looked after.  The only way she could get the car she needed to go to work was for him to cosign and he would only cosign for a car that she couldn’t afford (in that area a car was a necessity - if there was any public transportation it was entirely insufficient and I don’t think it was even started until a few years later).  Between rent and car payments, she often went hungry with the only thing that keeping her from starvation was her share of the vegetables from the garden on the farm that she had helped to pick and process (and her father complained about those but my grandmother overruled him).  Then she married my father and working as a secretary (with the help of the GI bill) put him through school while supporting the family.  By the time I was old enough to understand money, our family was solidly middle class, but she was remained respectful of the value of her money.

I can still remember a time (I think I may have been in junior high?) when she and I hit every branch of the local grocery chain, going through the line separately, so we could each buy the maximum limit of hot dogs that were on sale that week and stock up the deep freeze.  By that time, regular price hot dogs would not have strained the budget, but “wasting” money would have been a strain on Mama.[/quote]

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