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Self Improvement with Audible

If you are coming to The Shopping Nazi, you want to improve your lifestyle. You want to be able to get the best possible value with your hard earned dollar. If you know that Audible.com has a large selection of audio books to help you. There are books to help you improve you communication skills, parenting skills, personal finance, and even audio books to help motivate/inspire you to do what yo...

Shopping for Shoes – Intro

Before Sex in the City, it is accepted that women like fancy shoes, with high heels. Men are not any more practical. Men what boot to look and feel macho. Both are not necessarily the best approach to buying shoes. 21st century has taken over, even the shoe industry. I am sure many of you have see the TV commercial that suggests you don't have to go to the gym. All you have to do is wear this c...

Shopping for the Palm Pre

It has been over a year since Palm released the Palm Pre. At that time all the tech reviewers were joking that the Palm Pre was the pre-bankruptcy release for Palm. Well, Palm has not gone into bankruptcy. Three of the four major cell phone carriers offer the Palm Pre. In call seriousness the Palm cell phone is different than the Blackberry, or the many smart phones that use the Android operati...

Shopping for the Chevy Equinox

The Chevy Equinox is classified in what some people want to call "plus-sized crossover, small SUV". This basically means the Equinox is smaller than a full size SUV and larger than your standard crossover. The much advertised feature of the Chevy Equinox is the rear seating and rear storage. 60/40-split rear seat that could be slid almost 8 inches front and rear. In the rear cargo section t...

Money Management from the Mint

Way back in 1995, I remember when I helped a young pest control business get their first computer. We set up their books with a new software from Quicken. Over the years, Quicken has been the only real money management software for personal of business use. Since then there has been several of money management programs to come on the market and many of them leave. Then in 2005, Aaron Patzer sai...

Dean Koontz on Audible

One of the many author found at Audible.com is Dean Koontz. Do you realize you can get his Dean's book Breathless in an MP3, but it on your iPod, or other MP3 player and listen to it while driving to work, or even washing the car, or at the gym. Breathless was #1 New York Times bestseller. Author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure. The mystery unfolds high ...

Clear Expectation of Service

Several years ago, I worked briefly at this computer store. The owner would change the terms of service at least once a week, if not more. When I left there the Terms of Service was very fine print on the back of every receipt. The receipt was printed on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. This is nothing unusual. Every business has literature that states where their responsibly starts and where ...

Shopping for a 32 Inch LCD

I love sitting around coffee shops, and lounge area. What I over hear is so amazing. Just the other day this guy asked a friend, "Where was the best place to get a LCD TV?" The friend answered quick, "Fred Meyer, they have the best prices." I was so tempted to lean over and ask what empirical data he was making statement. Instead I bit my tongue. Without any ceremony, I got up and walked t...

Shopping for a Honda Fit

The Honda Fit is another one of those little sub compact cars that came into being to easy the strain on our wallets because of high gas prices. The Fit is akin to the sportier Honda Jazz. Introduced at the time of high gas prices the Honda Fit is a subcompact four door hatchback. The first-generation Honda Fit was available for just two years: 2007 and 2008 model year. The base model came wi...

Shopping for a Mattress – Intro

Next to marriage and underwear the mattress you sleep on is the next personal thing in your life. It has been my experience that what on individual sleeps well on is another individuals restless nights sleep. So when asked to help buy as mattress, I had to start with the basics. The number of different types of mattresses far exceeds the three Goldilocks came across in the three bears cottage. ...

AAA, and AA

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 17, 2009 in Appliances, Bargin Places, Home - Comments: Comments Off

batteries It is Fall. Days are getting shorter. That means I will be riding my bike more at night. In the interest of safety encouraged me to get a head and tail light for my bike. I found a good deal on a head and tail light for under $15.

Like most things they did not with batteries. Naturally, I thought that I had some AA batteries at home, from the last time I bought a pack of AA batteries. This was not the case when I got home.

I needed 2 AAA batteries for the tail light and 4 AA batteries for the head light. All I had in the battery storage bin was 3 AA batteries. Just 1 battery short for the headlight and no batteries for the taillight.

Fortunately, the next day we were making another trip back to Wal Mart. I stood in front of the battery rack feeling like Wal Mart was getting ready to rip me off.

Wal Mart only offered packs of 8 AA and AAA batteries for a mere price $5.50. That meant I would have to spend $11 in batteries to get the lights on my bicycle to work. I just needed 2 of the AAA and 4 of the AA.

I looked around the check out stands and found a 4 pack of AA batteries for $2.50. That would make the batteries cost me $8. That would be more than half the price of the lights for my bicycle.

Feeling ripped off, we bought the 8 pack AAA batteries for $5.50 plus tax. At this point I was going to settle for just having a tail light until I found a better price on the AA batteries.

On the way home we had to stop the the local 99 cent store, to pick up some other items. While we were standing in the checkout line, my eyes briefly scanned the rack of impulse buy items, that every store has a you wait to check out.

My eyes fell on a Heavenly provision. There in front of me was a 4 pack of Every Ready AA batteries. Since I was in a 99 cent store, that 4 pack of AAA batteries was only 99 cents plus tax.

I quickly unhooked the pack of batteries from its’ display hook, and put that 4 pack with the rest of items we were buying.

At that point I smiled. I had saved $1.50.

Wal Mart’s batteries even though in a larger pack were $5.50 breaks down to 68.75 per battery. The 99 cent store’s batteries cost was only 25 per battery, for the same brand. My savings were 43 cents per battery.