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[Nabubrush]

I used to steal coffee filters from the nearby 7-11 for . . . well, for any sort of use one might have for paper that doesn't include writing on it. I am really glad I don't have to worry about money to that extent anymore.

[wombat]

By the way, I am surprised that it's August who turns out to be the only one to confess to doing it my way, because I've seen your house on Google Maps, Aug, and you are a lot further from a supermarket than I am. So I guess the more free-wheeling approach can work even if you are not right across the street from Whole Foods.

[CortJstr]

I would rather take the time to make a list once a week and make one trip than to make multiple trips throughout the week. I hate making stops on my way home from work, especially when I still have to cook afterward. But living alone I typically only have to make 2 meals a week to get 5-6 dinners.

[jay-ell]

I just hate taking my kids to the grocery store.

[littlefallsmets]

Two questions for you:  A) Is money the only valid scorecard? and B) Why keep score at all?

Those two questions basically apply to everything ever and should be considered often.

Well done, Aug.

[Arachno-capitalist]

ACap is surely going to say that 100 dollars in the bank is earning interest while 100 dollars of food is just getting freezer-burnt.

For my part, I hope I am never again so poor that I have to spend as much time thinking about money as ACap does but, hey, whatever floats your boat. There is no right way to shop for groceries.

I spend every working hour driving costs down and profits up, its really not something I can or should just stop thinking about when the money i'm spending is my own and not the company's. If I'm going to work my ass off for their balance sheets to get bigger, it is only reasonable that I treat my own money with as much diligence.

But A-C, your post made me think.  You have an interesting mindset.  Two question for you:  A) Is money the only valid scorecard? and B) Why keep score at all?

See above. I just choose to treat my money with at least as much respect as I do the money of the company I work for. At work, yes, money is the only scorecard. Profit percentage "points" are the points in the game of business, and I like to score points. In life, no, I do not see money as the ultimate scorecard. Money is just a medium of exchange that I can collect and use to pursue other things I value. The Randian that lives inside of me would also say that money is a measure of my productivity and productive achievement is the noblest activity of any man.

[littlefallsmets]

I also like how this thread is veering in this direction at the same time as another thread is being written about collecting useless objects inside a video game.

[AugustWest]

Good answer.

[AugustWest]

By the way, I am surprised that it's August who turns out to be the only one to confess to doing it my way, because I've seen your house on Google Maps, Aug, and you are a lot further from a supermarket than I am. So I guess the more free-wheeling approach can work even if you are not right across the street from Whole Foods.

Nah, we may live in the boonies, but we both work in town.  And I come home from work in one town and go to the gym in a different town.  So it's no biggy to hit the K- Roger pretty much whenever.

[wombat]

I spend every working hour driving costs down and profits up, its really not something I can or should just stop thinking about when the money i'm spending is my own and not the company's. If I'm going to work my ass off for their balance sheets to get bigger, it is only reasonable that I treat my own money with as much diligence.

No doubt. It's good there are all different kinds of people in the world who are suited to different things, because what you are doing would make me want to kill myself.

Although, I do have to say, working just a few hours a week for a normal profit-making business for the first time in my adult life - there is definitely something to be said for it.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Thank you for recognizing that what I do for a living requires an effort that would drive others to suicide. Negotiating pennies on the price of inputs is something most people can not get in to.

[pmcd9]

I may have mentioned this, but canned goods do not last forever.

Maybe not forever

[Nabubrush]

You really ate food off the side of the road?

[pmcd9]

You really ate food off the side of the road?

No, no, no.  Well, sorta.  it's not like I was eating roadkill or a half eaten Big Mac that someone had thrown out the window of their car or anything like that.  I found a lunchbox cooler which had obviously fallen off of the back of someone's truck only moments before.  I don't remember exactly what was in the cooler, a sandwich maybe, a bag of chips and a coke.  Maybe a Little Debbie cake or a piece of fruit, I don't remember exactly, this was at least 25 years ago.  The food was fresh, it was sealed in a cooler, it was somebody's lunch. 

So I ate it.  And it was good.  And I didn't get sick.

[jay-ell]

I'm so picky that the odds of finding a random sandwich I would actually enjoy eating are infinitesimal. But even if I saw a ham and swiss on rye with mayo, lettuce, and red onion sitting in a cooler on the side of the road, I don't think I'd try it.

I'd think about it, and then my inner Mom would say, "Don't eat that! It could be a trap! What if it's poisoned, or laced with drugs so that some creepo watching from the bushes can kidnap you and take you away to a remote warehouse and chop you into tiny pieces?"

But that kind of thing would probably not occur to me if I were a grown man from Texas with a wicked 'stache. I think that line of thinking is the exclusive provenance of suburban white girls with overprotective mothers.