Day 4*: Corner Shop Peaches

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Peaches from corner shops are actually juicy and ripe, and if they're not when you buy them, they will be AT SOME POINT, whereas there's something about supermarket ones that make them more resilient to ripening than cockroaches to a nuclear war. It's not worth buying them. You might get six of them for a pound, but the only thing they're going to be good for is stoning your neighbours when they sin, so unless you're feeling fundamental, I'd give it a miss. Treat yourself to some corner shop peach instead.

They were so good, I ate six of them.

Speaking of false economies, I've become aware of the term 'basket spend', which is pretty self-explanatory, really. You go in for a pint of milk, you come out with a Snickers, two slabs of cheese (on bogof, innit), a bag of kiwi fruit, some knocked down donuts that you have to eat today and maybe a packet of j-cloths, because you never know when things might get messy. They're experts at it in corner shops too, of course - offers on the counter, things priced around 50p so you can get two and not go over your pound, anything in a bucket. The old classic was Walmart placing six-packs of lager next to nappies, so when men picked up nappies for their newborn on their way home from work, at the request of their exhausted babymama, they'd be enticed by the tasty, cool and fizzy beers sitting right under their noses. 

So far, in this experiment, I've avoided the basket, mostly. If I've gone in for milk, I've bought milk. I can't say the thought of 'what else can I get for my pound' hasn't crossed my mind, but I've resisted, thus making it cheaper, so far, than going to the supermarket. Good. I'm glad about that. It's a positive start.

* Soooo, the days work differently on here than on Reasons to be Grateful/100 Days of Gratitude. It's 100 days of it but there might not be a post every single day, so I'm counting from the day I started.