It seems everyone is in a "Do Not Spend" Mode, according to all the news reports on business being slow and retailer's profits being down. While out this week, I've looked around and there seems to be a number of people spending but perhaps on the wrong things.
I recently got behind a person in line at the grocery store who was paying with food stamps. What she had in her shopping cart was appalling. Instant everything and microwave or bake and serve foods. I am not saying they may not have been good, but the cost per items of those purchases was significantly higher than buying the old box of mac and cheese, adding milk and having to cook it on the stove. I would have liked to have spent about one hour with her, if she cared, showing her how to stretch her budget a little further and how to purchase healthier food for her family.
Let me say this about TV dinners? I ate them many, many years ago and they were not good then, I can't imagine them being much better now. Are they fast? Yes, but the salt and additive content in these items is WAY out of proportion to the taste of the food. She must have had 20 TV dinner in her cart. What a great example for a child of what is acceptable, good, & healthy choices.
And then there were the drinks that were in the shopping cart. No wonder we have a health problem in the Pee Dee. There were big bottles of Gatorade, carbonated drinks, jugs of sweet tea, and oh yes, something that looked like Kool-Aid. There was no milk, but then again with all the sugar cereals in the cart, perhaps they didn't need milk on their cereal.
OK, I'm off my soapbox. Just checkout those shopping carts around you the next time you're in the grocery store.
Football season has begun on the local high school and college levels. All of you that have teenagers you Fall is pretty well scheduled if your children play sports, participate in band or enjoy hunting. Enjoy those football game, band competitions or hunt with them. Before you know it they will be gone and you'll find some of that interest you had when they were little wains the older you become. And those of you college football fans, you season has come. Enjoy it, drink responsibly, if you're going to drink, and please drive safe or have a DD.
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