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All entries for 2006
12/26/2006: My 3 day weekend.

12/23/2006: Gift giving.

12/22/2006: Mind of Mencia

12/19/2006

12/16/2006: Where have I been?

12/09/2006: Only the minimum.

12/08/2006: untitled

12/07/2006: untitled

12/05/2006: Public restroom experience.

12/04/2006: Closer to my goal!

12/02/2006: Baffled.

12/01/2006: Where has my week gone?

12/01/2006: Why me?

11/30/2006: Wash your hands.

11/28/2006: Something is very wrong...

11/25/2006: Do you dream in different languages?

11/22/2006: Sex, deception and Taiwanese vs. Japanese.

11/22/2006: Psychos, houses and mother-in-laws who can be considered psycho.

11/20/2006: Big trucks + me driving = 90% change of accident

11/17/2006: Blogmad.net

11/16/2006: WTF!

11/15/2006: Angel and Vic Zhou

11/15/2006: Vengeance is best served slow.

11/14/2006: There needs to be a time limit rule...

11/13/2006: Mars.

11/10/2006: Where is the rain!

11/09/2006: The cleaning ninja!

11/08/2006: Confession is good for the soul.

11/07/2006: Over priced movies and kids.

11/06/2006: Marie Antoinette.

11/03/2006: Uneasiness

11/02/2006: Dirty looks...

11/02/2006: Menopause Fairy where are you?

11/01/2006: WOOT!!

10/31/2006: All in a name...

10/31/2006: I feel the love!

10/30/2006: Personal space.

10/29/2006: Finally done!

10/29/2006: Password protected recipe.

10/28/2006: Almost there.

10/27/2006: Appropriate gifts.

10/27/2006: untitled

10/26/2006: Behold the power of QVC!

10/25/2006: Do you want fries with that?

10/24/2006: Random thoughts.

10/20/2006: Fickle and can’t seem to learn...

10/18/2006: I want...

10/13/2006: Finding happiness in hectic times.

10/11/2006: Being responsible SUCKS!!

10/04/2006: And then there was none...

09/30/2006: Only to be single...

09/22/2006: Free at last!

09/14/2006: My mom always did tell me not to stare at people...

09/12/2006: Manga, homeless, Jun <3 and lack of sleep.

09/10/2006: Karma.

09/07/2006: His ears must have been burning.

09/06/2006: Bangs head against wall...

08/31/2006: Hot water.

08/22/2006: No pain, no gain!

08/17/2006: Mixed feelings...

08/15/2006: Buyer beware and why I dislike UPS!

08/09/2006: Hobo Stew.

08/07/2006: Oh to be so close and yet so far away...

08/06/2006: "I long for you." It's a compound of love with zero impurities.

08/05/2006: In need of a maid...anyone willing to work for free?

08/04/2006: Say WHAT?!

08/03/2006: Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho…Back to work I go!

08/02/2006: Is there a doctor in the house?

04/13/2007 11:49 AM
Perceived savings.

So a couple of days ago I'm watching a Friend's episode, "The one about all the cheesecakes", and by the end I'm just craving a piece of cheesecake from Marie Callender's. I absolutely adore their New York style cheesecake. Sure Philly cream cheese now makes cheesecake filling, smart company...but it took them long enough, and I could have made my own, BUT it wouldn't be the same. So I call up the one on my way home and see if they have two pieces. They do so I make a plan to head over there after work. Well we needed milk. Ok not really we, it's mainly used for my boyfriend's cereal. We'd been out for a couple of days, but hell if he wanted it so badly he could go or he could just eat the cheese Danishes we bought at Costco.

Well when I got to the store I was very surprised at how expensive their piece of cheesecake is. Normally a slice of piece isn't more then a couple of dollars. To be told a piece of cheesecake is almost $6 I was stunned. I then asked how much a whole cake was. The person told me $27.99! To me I'm thinking it's a steal of a bargain. I ignored the over 20 dollar rule my boyfriend and I have and bought the cake. (If anything is over 20 dollars we talk about it. This is to help situations like this. It does not include normal grocery shopping though.)

When I got home I slipped the pie and the container of whipped cream, they gave it to me for free, into the frig. and didn't say a word to my boyfriend. Normally he wouldn't notice something like that. I should have put it in the veggy chiller since he never checks there. I then started dinner and went to my computer once it was in the oven.

He leaves and when he comes back he has the cake in his hand and asks, "What is this?"

I look up from my phone game and reply with a large grin, "It's a cheesecake."

He glares and says, "Did you forget the 20 dollar rule?"

"Well I was going to just buy a few pieces, but they were 6 dollars EACH! Instead I bought the whole cake since it's like getting 6 pieces for free! It was cheaper!" I said with the large grin on my face still.

"No that's what you would call a perceived bargain. You should have stuck to a couple of pieces and you would have saved a lot of money and been under the 20 dollars," he replied in a matter of fact and not so happy tone.

"No, it really was a bargain. I really wanted four pieces, so we could have it for a couple of days and that would have been the same cost of the cake! It's a bargain!" I argued.

With a sigh he put it back and tried to explain what a perceived bargain is to me. Who cares? It was cheaper and I got a whole cake! MUWAHAHAHA!

I went last night to get groceries since he didn't want to. Instead his job was to start dinner, but that didn't really happen like I knew it wouldn't. Not a big deal though. It's never good to send me grocery shopping. He knows this and knows it well, but when he's too tired or doesn't want to go he just trusts me not to spend too much.

Well I bought some flavored sparkling water the other day. It sucks. There's hardly any flavor at all so I was stuck with 3 other bottles of barely flavored water. I then saw some bottles juice on sale. I figured I'd add some of their mixed berry juice in with the crappy tasting water. This way I wouldn't waste the three bottles of water in the frig. Yeah when I got home I got another "lecture" on perceived bargains and how just tossing or giving away the crap water would have been cheaper then spending another $2.50 on some juice to be able to drink the water.

I still don't get "perceived bargains". If it's a bargain then it's a bargain. You're spending just a little more for a lot more. I mean isn't that why people shop at Costco anyways? Isn't that why we shop at Savemart instead of Food 4 Less or some not as nice grocery store? The food is more expensive, but the service and quality of a lot of items are a lot better. Oh well as long as I do the grocery shopping he has no right to complain. He knows this so he normally doesn't, but with us being on a tighter budget knowing I spent 30 dollars on a cheesecake did not make him very happy. Why 30? I gave a small tip of course. The girl was very nice, helpful and friendly to me. I guess it was really 31 since I also gave a dollar to some guy on a bench that asked if I had a dollar. He wasn't homeless or anything, just asked for it. I think it was so he and his girlfriend could take the bus or something. I wasn't really paying much attention.

4 Comments.


Perceived bargains... you're not really saving anything, they just make you think you are.

I fall for them all the time. WOW! THIS IS ONLY ???? IF I BUY 1092809? OK!

Then I find that had I shopped around, I'd have saved even more... I bought Dave and I shirts, they were "on sale" 25% off and ended up being 24.75. Regularly the shirts are 24.99... but they don't have the school logo, which makes them 33 dollars.

I figured that's a perceived bargain, I could have gotten two regular shirts for the same price as two logoed shirts "on sale"
» ikimashokie on 2007-04-13 06:38:48

I agree with Ikimashokie.

In my case, I get dragged into those all the time. I always think I'm getting a bargain and later on I find out that what I want to buy is cheaper else where. I really need to stop impulse buying -_-
» Haiyu on 2007-04-14 12:13:19

Perceived bargains happens when you think that it's a bargain but it actually isn't.. it happened to me a couple of times and I think it was when I was buying clothes. Thankfully my dad don't know enough about clothing to be telling me that I'm stupid. I think it really is a bargain for your cheesecake, you can always not share it with your bf XD
» Nuttz on 2007-04-16 05:33:19

hehe that's happened to me before ^^;;
but its okay! in the end, what you got was still cheaper! XD my parents just tell me off for buying more food than i can eat! XD

L8r,

—×Kuri×—
p.s.=GLOMP= ^_^
» Kuri on 2007-04-16 05:26:32

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