Power Sucking Machine & Money Saving Tips

Very fed up with the electronic weighing scale at home. It sucks up the battery like nobody's business. I just changed the battery less than a mth ago & now it's showing low batt & wouldn't start up. So I haven't got the chance to take my weight in days. But I like it becoz of the accuracy to the 1st decimal whereas on a traditional weighing scale, you can only round off to the nearest 0.5 kg. It ain't cheap you know. It costs $3.50 for 1 single battery.

Anyway, I bought multivitamins from my work place pharmacy recently. They were having a promotion & I went to have a look. For non-discounted items, I get 15% discount. But the 1 I bought was already heavily discounted so I bought it for $8+ nett (UP: $14+). I saved $12+ since I bought 2 bottles! I hate swallowing tablets... so... I bought... children's chewable vitamins... :X

Although the children's vitamin contains just the basic stuff (doesn't have zinc, folate etc), it's better than feeling terrible after swallowing the adult tablet right? I've tried on many attempts to take the adult vitamin. Usually, it'll be fine for the 1st week. Subsequently, I'll get severe nausea after taking the tablet no matter what drink I swallow with. It also doesn't matter which brand I take. Hey, maybe I should take it before I sleep. LOL. By the time I wake up, I wouldn't feel a thing.

Do you know that it's possible to be overweight yet under nourished & underweight yet well nourished? When we talk about nourished, we mean getting the adequate vitamins & minerals. So you can be underweight but taking multivits & be well nourished. Same thing, we can be eating a lot, a lot (like junk food) but never getting enough V&M. Hence, I decided to buy since I'm on a diet & sooner or later, the body will suffer from the lack of V&M.

Maybe becoz of the lack of good cashflow in the household, I've become more thrifty. Without realising it, I've been buying in bulk items on offer. Like 1 kg of frozen chicken fillet cost $4.40 (UP: $5.50) & I went to stock up. Again, I saw Air Wick Gel, buy 2 free 1 for $12+ (UP: 1 for $6+) & I bought 2. We're going to view some 3 room flats later although it's very unlikely we''ll buy since the cash above valuation people are asking for is minimum 25k. There's got to be another way out. It's just whether we're willing to take it or not. Anyway, I saw on yesterday's Straits Times that a Meyer 24 cm pan is selling for $9.90 (UP: $29.90), Tefal 28 cm wok pan for $29.90 (UP: $42.90) only at Courts Megamart & Toa Payoh. So we're heading to Tampines after the flat viewing.

You may say that we're spending on things that we don't absolutely need at this point in time. But if you wanna wait until you absolutely need it, you'll be paying much more. This is a skill I learnt from my FIL. He loves to stock up when things are on offer. If you look inside their store room, you'll see many many bags of laundry powder, many more packets of toilet rolls & many bottles of floor detergent. If you look in the compartment below their kitchen sink, you'll find many bottles of dish washing detergents, stain remover etc.

It's a great way to save coz say if I buy 10 sets of Air Wick. I would have saved $90+ coz the extra free gel is from the Memories series & each is $9+. Such things doesn't have expiry dates & can be kept for a long time. Even if the thing is only on $1 discount, buying 10 of it means you save $10. Then, you just wait until the next round of discount before stocking up again. Hehe. Unfortunately, this signifies my transition into an Obasan. :(