Saving Money
Oct. 16th, 2008 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperYesterday at Sam's Club, I picked up a 350 tablet box of their house-brand version of Zyrtec for $17.12. That sort of beats the $19.99 for 90 pills that I was paying for the Walgreen's house-brand version by a lot. Like by enough to pay for the Sam's Club card for a year with cash left over.
In other news, Gas War Alley's being beaten out on prices lately by the dueling Shell and BP stations across the street from each other near where I work, just inside Cook County. As of today, they're down to $3.359. That's down about a dollar a gallon from just a few months ago.
Much like my 401(k).
The problem is that it takes a lot longer to fill up the 401(k)...
In other news, Gas War Alley's being beaten out on prices lately by the dueling Shell and BP stations across the street from each other near where I work, just inside Cook County. As of today, they're down to $3.359. That's down about a dollar a gallon from just a few months ago.
Much like my 401(k).
The problem is that it takes a lot longer to fill up the 401(k)...
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:10 pm (UTC)Almost makes the long drive worthwhile. Almost.
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 01:01 am (UTC)-Mike
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Date: 2008-10-17 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 02:35 am (UTC)I haven't looked at my 401(k) balance since the real bad stuff started, but if I've only lost the same percentage as the drop in the price of gas, I'll be surprised.
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:24 am (UTC)The Costco variety of NotClaritin is about $20 / yr -- in a CVS it's about $10 / month. That's $120 / yr, saving me $100 -- 1 year's Costco membership, and about 2 months' dog food.
*wins*
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Date: 2008-10-17 10:01 pm (UTC)The two are not the same -- and Zyrtec works for me in ways Claritin can't touch. (Thanks, Roper, for mentioning it to me lo! these years ago.)
We are closer to Costco in our new house, so I could go there.
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Date: 2008-10-17 10:24 pm (UTC)Generic Claritin. Haven't looked at the price of the Zyrtec yet -- possibly going to Costco tomorrow. Will check.
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Date: 2008-10-18 01:02 pm (UTC)I love LJ
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Date: 2008-10-19 12:58 pm (UTC)It's called 'Aller-tec,' there are 300 pills -- and they're $16.
That's right, $16. For a _YEAR._
(Zyrtec, OTOH, is about $16 for 150 days.)
Generic win!
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Date: 2008-10-19 02:11 pm (UTC)When I first refilled my Zyrtec after it went generic (all those TV ads saying how great this was ...) I was dismayed to find that the price was higher than my co-pay had been before.
Definitely have to get to Costco next week.
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Date: 2008-10-19 02:17 pm (UTC)WORD!!! Same exact thing with me and Claritin. Massive frustration & poverty ensued.
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Date: 2008-10-17 01:29 pm (UTC)So I can bring out my song "$3.07 gas" for the third time -- this time coming from the other direction.
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Date: 2008-10-17 10:02 pm (UTC)Is there a Costco in your area, now? Or is Sam's Club the only warehouse club option for you?
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Date: 2008-10-17 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 01:06 pm (UTC)I don't like the way Wal-Mart does business. I do approve of the way Costco does business. (My favorite example: CEO of Costco deliberately set his salary to 12 times the lowest salary in the company. He felt he could justify that, and specifically wishes to avoid the obscene, and unnecessary, CEO average salary.)
I try to live my convictions. I don't always succeed, of course, but then all good things are worth working for, right? :-)
YMMV - and not just the expensive-gas mileage.
I've forgotten where Randhurst is, let alone where it is in relation to you. Which suburb is it in?