Have you ever walked out of a doctors office and felt that the doctor had ripped you off? Have you ever felt that you needed a second opinion, no matter what your doctor told you? What is your method of choosing a doctor?

There has been times where I have moved to such a distance that I could no longer see the same doctor who I have trusted for years. There was one time when the doctor informed me that he was retiring and that his younger associate would be taking his place. After a couple visits, my wife and I had decided it was time to find another.

This past week, I came across an article from Nielsen Wire about the relationship of health and financial responsibility. The day before that, I got to sit in on a lecture by Dr. Stephen R. Covey. The underline theme of both messages was personal financial/health before professional financial health.

It got me thinking that attitudes carry over to all parts of our life. How we manage our personal, and home finances will tell how we manage our business finances. This will be reflected in our physical appearance.

Yes, you are going to find the occasional person walking around in old torn clothing, with a million dollars in the bank, but those people are the exceptions to the rule. Most of the people I come across can be read by their overall health and dress.

Labor Day weekend is here. This is the last great of the Summer. I don’t know how you are ending your weekend, I am ending mine with a barabque. Yes, a family barabque with my family, and we are going to cook up something special.

The first step is get a recipe of something we never cooked before. We chose a barabque sauce that we saw being make on the Food Network by Sunny Anderson. I noticed that we did not have some of the spices needed. I put them on the shopping list and headed off to the store and pick them up.

Now I want you to note that I did not just go to the grocery store to buy just spices. The trip I took was my weekly shopping, along with some recon. I am constantly adding product, price and store to a database that I keep.

When I went to the fresh produce section and saw the that ginder was $2.48 for a decent size root. I nearly had a heart attack. I know it has been a while since I have bought ginger root, but I do not remember it being so expensive.

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Well I thought I would go over to the spice section. There I could be a small container of ginger. I could not believe my eyes, a little 8 ounce bottle of ground ginger was even more. It was$2.89. At that point I thinking Wal Mart had just mispriced their ginger.

I shifted gears to finish getting the other items I was going to get while I was there. I left Wal Mart and headed over to another grocery store that was on my way home. From knowing there prices, I didn’t really expect a whole lost less, but I want to check on the price of ginger. I was thinking that maybe I should invest in ginger and not gold.

The other store was Albertson’s. They wanted $4.99 for the same 8 ounces that was the same bottle Wal Mart wanted $2.89.  The fresh ginger root was a little bigger at the price of $2.48. Now Winco sell the same 8 ounce bottle of ginger for $2.02.

Later that day, I went online to see is there is some kind of price fixing being done on ginger powder and ginger root. I had forgotten how ginger has been used for centuries as a medicine. After doing some research, I found that I have been ignorant to the value and price of ginger root and all of it’s processed forms.  14 ounces of ginger root on Amazon sells for $8.90.

Bottom-line: Ginger is more than a nice spice to put in barabque sauce. It does have some health benefits. However, if I am going to use ginger in anything. The cost of whatever I am going to be making is going to cost a bit more.

When I went to get gas at a local gas convenience store, they had on the counter, next to the cash register,  packets of Tylenol and other pain relievers. I check my head. I did not have a headache.

As I was walking away, I looked back and noticed the price. 4 tablets in a pack for 1.98. That would make it about 50 cents each. Recommended dose is 2 tablets every  four hours.

I went down the street to a chain drug store. It was there I got a bottle of 50 Tylenol tablets for less than 14 cent each. The store brand of the same thing was almost exactly 4 cents per tablet cheaper.

The store brand is $2 cheaper than the name brand, for a bottle of 50. Unless it is an absolute emergency, I do not want to buy any Tylenol from the convenience store.