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>>1.You'll spend a lot more in one trip. You could spend $100 - $300 and find yourself broke much faster.
Doing a budget before you shop alleviates this entirely.
>>2. You'll consume more. Having that illusion of abundance will lead you to eat carelessly and you'll be without food faster than you think.
Again, budgeting, just with portion sizes and the amount or food you prepare.
>>3. You might spend more per item. You might buy some name-brand item in bulk, but still spend more or the same as you would on a store brand item elsewhere in non-bulk.
Again, budgeting...plus not being lured by brand names, although you seem to have the wrong idea of what I meant by buying in bulk. Rice and beans aren't really subject to much branding, same with meats. I'm not talking about buying bulk wonderbread and Bar S bologna here.
>>4. There are OTHER COSTS. Studies show Americans especially don't compute costs well, such as travel costs and bulk-store membership costs.
Once more, when I said bulk I wasn't referring to buying from costco, THAT type of thing would carry those extra costs and the usefulness would be mitigated.
>>5. Waste. Buying more than you need will lead to things going bad, either through mold or freezer damage and again studies show more goes to waste when you buy bulk.
That's why you bulk buy things that don't go to waste, like rice and beans...maybe flour and honey, though bugs can get into flour, but the joke is on them because they add zest to your soups and stews.
>>Buying what you need when you need it is sometimes called "European style" shopping. If gets you the freshest stuff.
Spending just $10 to $20 4 times a month is easier to swallow that $100 all at once. It gives you a hard limit on how much you can eat so you don't over-eat. And the reduced size of the load and closer location of the grocery stores means no gas use by car/taxi fare.
When I said buying in bulk, I unintentionally seem to have given you the idea of someone hefting huge bags of frozen corn and tubs of peanut butter onto a bus and cursing life while doing so. When I buy in bulk this is my list:
3 lbs of beans
3 lbs of rice
2 lbs of meat
flour
3 bags of sugar (for making alcohol lol)
That gets bought at the start of every month like clockwork, so those things never run out. Fruits and vegetables are always best fresh as ya said, so of course those things will be purchased as they're available and in reasonable quantities, nothing is worse than buying tons of cabbage only to have it rot, something that happened to me when I first tried to buy everything in bulk and didn't realize that it only applies to CERTAIN things.
>>You might find the bus unreliable, but accommodate it (leave earlier). Obviously smoking a joint every 3 months is not going to bankrupt you and I wouldn't teetotal that hard, but if you're defending your drug use to me online then maybe you are using it more often than that. Please see part 4 in the OP again.
It IS less reliable compared to driving there yourself, walking or getting a ride though, not that that makes it unfeasible. You have to take at least two buses unless you get the first one to wait for you somehow, I'd rather walk than take the bus for grocery shopping because then there is at least exercise but that's just me. Next, fun things, whether they are drugs, partying, hookers or whatever, are quite necessary unless you plan to sit motionlessly with a straight face when not working, eating or sleeping. Again, BALANCE and BUDGETING. I just bought a cheap tablet and some nootrpics for 75$, that's my whole pleasure budget for the month. I WANTED to add a bunch of kratom to the list and could have done so, but then I'd be justifying things outside of the acceptable levels, which wouldn't be a good thing to do. There are more things than groceries that are needed, and don't even get me started on being thrifty when you've got a girl in the picture. Your words are good, they just need more experience and fine tuning to be applicable to a wide audience, I'm not attacking you, your method just wouldn't work at all for me, if it works well for you then go get em.
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