Surviving in New York on 99 cents

 

 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/dining/26ninety.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin

 

Interesting story. Our dollar stores are not that great around here and
often carry really inferior products. I'm thinking NYC has more to offer.

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~Donna
http://www.frugalsewing.com
Reduce, reuse, recycle, re-create.

 wrote:

Reading through that article it doesn't seem that the person spent
"only 99¢" to feed the friends, they bought multiple items which were
99¢ each.  But in defense of one of my favorite stores, 99¢ Only, a
person "could" make a nutritious meal for only 99¢ (there are some
items in the store listed as 3 for 99¢ or 2 for 99¢).

 Seerialmom wrote:

Around here one has to check the expiration dates closely (some stores
are better than others), and also know what stuff costs in the regular
stores.  Some items are actually more expensive at the dollar stores!

Side note--check if your supermarket has a basket of marked-down items:
dented cans, etc.  Some of these may be perfectly good but discontinued
(not expired, but just discontinued).  We get various organic products
pretty cheaply this way.  Also, post-holiday sales are good.  I once got
a pound of cocoa for 75 cents because it was labeled "kosher for
Passover" and the store just automatically discounted all their Passover
stuff afterwards.  (Hershey's cocoa, by comparison, goes for about $6 a
pound.)

Oh, and around here, sometime around the middle of Passover, my store
starts *giving away* five-pound packages of matzoh.  No miniumum
purchase or anything, just "please take it off our hands--even the food
kitchens don't want it!" :-)  (Eventually they will stop over-ordering
and this will go away....)


Also, if he bought four items for 99 cents each and fed four friends,
that would still count.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment,
and that if it does not it dies and is forgotten.  --Raymond Chandler

 Donna wrote:


<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/dining/26ninety.html?_r=1&ref=dining&oref=slogin>
 

The 99-Cents-Only stores in the Los Angeles (and other, I guess) area
carry a lot of foreign food (mostly China, but not exclusively), a
variety of name-brand sausage/hotdog products, fresh vegetables and
fruits, a lot of exotic sauces (the Philippine banana sauce was pretty
bland, but wotthehell) and a nice variety of brand-name toothpaste and
deodorant as well as a lot of imported bathroom needs and cleaning
supplies.  Like Fry's, you could live in a 99-Cents-Only store :-)

http://www.99only.com/

I love those stores.  The penny-a-minute long distance cards alone are
worth the price of admission.

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