Friday, September 13, 2013
Shaving off a few dollars
One thing I absolutely HATE purchasing are razor blades! Of course I
always buy them, but I cringe and moan and groan every time I have to
spend over $17 for 5 stinking blades for DH's razor. They usually have a
5 pack and a 10 pack and I can never get myself to fork over for a 10
pack - even though I know in the long run it's a bit cheaper and of
course they will be used (he's been shaving for 30+ years now, LOL). The
past few shopping trips at Costco I noticed they have a 24 pack of the
Gillette Mach3 razors for $49.99. DH needs razors again and I finally
did the math: Costco's work out to $2.08 ea razor and Target works out
to $3.47 ea razor. So, I finally bit the bullet and shelled out $49.99
for the Costco pack. If I had bought that many at Target (over my usual
purchases of a 5-pack each time) I would have spent $83.28 -so a $33.36
over all savings........and I shouldn't have to buy razors for a really
really long time.....
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I have buying razors also. They are so expensive!
ReplyDeleteHopefully, they will last him for a while :) I swear, my husband always runs out of his razors at the wrong time (for our budget)!
ReplyDeleteI always do the math before deciding what size pack of anything to purchase. The difference in price is often shocking.
ReplyDeleteI usually always do the math too - but to have to shell out $17-$35 each time for a pack of razors usually puts my weekly grocery/supplies budget into shock and with razors, the prices are all pretty close as far as Walmart, Target, etc go. I just recently started using Costco, so figured I'd better calculate the price and see if I was willing to shell out $50 for a stock up purchase of them. Now I just gotta hope DH doesn't look at the huge supply and say "oh, I'll just put a new one in - I have lots!" LOL. I can just see him doing that - not using them as long as he did before, haha.
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