Do you consider your life exciting?

@cherokeepatti I love finding bargains too. But my house is already full of things so finding a bargain that actually does something that isn't done by the stuff I already have is getting really difficult!

@ninalanyon that’s you

@cherokeepatti The thing is that the reason I have the money to go bargain hunting is that i am quite frugal and careful with what I own. So I hardly ever really need to buy anything to use at home because things I bought ages ago still work! I'm trying to get rid of a lot of the bargains that I and my wife accumulated but I hate to just throw them out so I have them listed on the Norwegian equivalent of Ebay. Over the last four years I have sold nearly six hundred things and I have another 160 active ads. What started as just an attempt to get rid of stuff has turned in to a bit of a hobby, I get a ridiculous amount of satisfaction out of selling a handbag that I don't like for the equivalent of five USD! My late wife left me well over two hundred handbags of which I have now sold or given away over a hundred!

I seem to have rambled on a bit, sorry!

@Stereoguy At least it’s something that gets me out of the house.

@ninalanyon You don’t understand. I am buying products that I use anyway. For example, Skin lotions that cost about $15 a bottle, why wouldn’t I buy them for $1 instead of waiting till I run completely out and buying for full price in a store? I’ve bought quality items that I know the prices of so it’s worth my money. I need gluten-free baking items & foods and am finding them there, they are very expensive in the stores and online too. For a $1 each they are a steal…some of the stuff I get for less than what the sales taxes would be on them. I got natural mosquito repellent, some supplements that I use and a lot of other things. It’s not just sitting around for a decoration or whatever.

@cherokeepatti I do the same. Supermarkets here mark things down by 50% when they are at the end of their shelf life. So if I see meat or cheese, etc., at half price I buy a load of it and put it in the freezer.

@ninalanyon I don’t see so much of those in the grocery stores any more. They do good to mark down a big pack of meat a couple of dollars at the most. I made the mistake of buying something from Sam’s Club and cooked it right away. I don’t think it could have lasted another day. So won’t be doing that any more.

@cherokeepatti There is a general trend in Europe to limit food waste from supermarkets. In France they have gone so far as to forbid shops larger than 400 square metres from throwing away edible food; they have to either find a way of selling it or donate it to a foodbank or similar. Similar laws are being discussed or prepared in several other countries.