Silly me!

I have this weird method of "saving $". Basically, when I am purchasing an item, I will just look at the various brands and pick the one which is the cheapest. This, I realised yesterday during grocery shopping with hubby, that it is super silly to do so. Why? Because I totally forget to take into account quantity and quality differences. Basically, instead of going for the cheapest, I should be thinking of getting something value for $.

Hubby and I did a silly thing yesterday. We went to GIANT supermarket to do some shopping, thinking we were getting some cheaper stuff. haha!! We totally forgot to take into account our transport charges and time taken. We ended up expending so much energy taking the bus there and back (with so many things on our hands) but not really achieving much cost savings. (We even had the silly thought of taking a cab back, can you believe it!) haha! We laughed at ourselves after the whole trip and decided to do ALL grocery shopping right at our area in future.

But well.. we still had a great time shopping at GIANT and laughing at our own silly jokes and behaviour! :) So that made up for it.

Lessons learnt:

(1) Value for $ is more important than going for the cheapest item on the rack!

(2) Always take into account transport charges, time and energy expended while thinking of cost savings.