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Sunday June 28, 2009 Saw a wheelchair brand-named "Quickie." The thought came to my mind that it lacked the room for two people to have a quickie.
To the Lake Street Rainbow Foods, to pick up flyers.
On to Cub Foods. Picked up flyers, and checked prices on shelves; mostly in the "nothing over $2" section.
On to Target. Checked grocery prices. I now know that Rainbow's cheapest ketchup is a whopping seventeen cents less than Target's cheapest. (And thirtyseven cents less than Aldi's.)
Devout frugalists search out large numbers of prices at all the supermarkets they use, and keep their price books up-to-date. For a family of six, this might make economic sense. But an economist might suggest also looking at information costs: gasoline used in driving around to supermarkets, to begin with. And opportunity costs: what else could they have done with the time?
On the other hand, I find groceries a source of entertainment. Who buys special salt for Margaritas? Premixed peanut butter and jelly? Is Hispanic spaghetti (imported from Texas; maybe sometimes from Oregon) much different from ordinary spaghetti? Wandering around the supermarkets has benefits as well as costs.
On to Aldi, where I bought groceries.
Tuesday June 30, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***Back home, I turned on the radio to see if there was any interesting news. There was.
On November 4, 2008, Al Franken had been elected Senator. So the Minnesota Supreme Court said in a unanimous opinion today.
Would Norm Coleman fight this all the way up to the US Supreme Court? At the beginning, Coleman had led by a slim margin; he said that Franken should do the right thing and not file a ballot challenge. But since then, as the battle went increasingly against him, Coleman hadn't followed his own advice.
Coleman gave a concession speech.
There are activists in both major parties who believe the United States has only one legitimate political party. The Republican ones are going to be very disappointed with Coleman.
Wednesday July 1, 2009 Used the computer lab at Southwest Senior Center.
***To the Wedge Coop. Used the ATM. Bought honey and Canola oil -- small amounts of each. I don't use them up fast enough to make larger amounts at lower unit costs practical.
***To HealthPartners Riverside, to pick up meds.
***On to the Aldi supermarket on Lake Street for most of my groceries.
A solar-powered pickup truck pulled into a nearby parking lot as I was leaving Aldi. It was topped with solar panels. Otherwise, it didn't seem much different from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. Which I suspect was the point.
To the Lake Street Rainbow Foods, to pick up flyers.
On to Cub Foods. Picked up flyers, and checked prices on shelves; mostly in the "nothing over $2" section.
On to Target. Checked grocery prices. I now know that Rainbow's cheapest ketchup is a whopping seventeen cents less than Target's cheapest. (And thirtyseven cents less than Aldi's.)
Devout frugalists search out large numbers of prices at all the supermarkets they use, and keep their price books up-to-date. For a family of six, this might make economic sense. But an economist might suggest also looking at information costs: gasoline used in driving around to supermarkets, to begin with. And opportunity costs: what else could they have done with the time?
On the other hand, I find groceries a source of entertainment. Who buys special salt for Margaritas? Premixed peanut butter and jelly? Is Hispanic spaghetti (imported from Texas; maybe sometimes from Oregon) much different from ordinary spaghetti? Wandering around the supermarkets has benefits as well as costs.
On to Aldi, where I bought groceries.
Tuesday June 30, 2009 To Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
***Back home, I turned on the radio to see if there was any interesting news. There was.
On November 4, 2008, Al Franken had been elected Senator. So the Minnesota Supreme Court said in a unanimous opinion today.
Would Norm Coleman fight this all the way up to the US Supreme Court? At the beginning, Coleman had led by a slim margin; he said that Franken should do the right thing and not file a ballot challenge. But since then, as the battle went increasingly against him, Coleman hadn't followed his own advice.
Coleman gave a concession speech.
There are activists in both major parties who believe the United States has only one legitimate political party. The Republican ones are going to be very disappointed with Coleman.
Wednesday July 1, 2009 Used the computer lab at Southwest Senior Center.
***To the Wedge Coop. Used the ATM. Bought honey and Canola oil -- small amounts of each. I don't use them up fast enough to make larger amounts at lower unit costs practical.
***To HealthPartners Riverside, to pick up meds.
***On to the Aldi supermarket on Lake Street for most of my groceries.
A solar-powered pickup truck pulled into a nearby parking lot as I was leaving Aldi. It was topped with solar panels. Otherwise, it didn't seem much different from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. Which I suspect was the point.