Shop with less money

Inflation rages, and nobody knows that better than she who goes for groceries. One of the best ways to build a defense, however small, is to break up your shopping among stores.

Shop first at the Dollar-Store/Big-Lots type store. There you can pick up the basics, the convenience items, the soap and the paper products and batteries and stuff like that. Work your shopping list down as near to the bone as possible in these stores first. Don't forget Save-A-Lot on East Main Street.

Yeah, yeah. It's more convenient not to go to more than one store, but it's a lot cheaper if you do. Meijers, supposedly an economical place to spend money, sold me an item for nearly $7 that I paid $2 for a the Dollar Store, though the latter was lower quality; still good enough.)

More work, more driving, more time, but I bet the pay-off is pretty handsome.