I’m not a savvy shopper. I love stumbling across a bargain as much as the next guy or gal, but in general I’m a person who goes out with a pretty fixed idea of what I want. If I’m in the market for an eight-roll box of Earth Rated® Poop Bags Dog Waste Bags, for example, I won’t be swayed because I see that the EZ Scoop brand comes in purple or that ordering a bulk box of 100 rolls would make them slightly cheaper. And, although I see the benefits of my mother-in-law’s willingness to drive to five different grocery stores to ensure she gets the best price on Saran Wrap, you won’t find me among the ranks of the Super Couponers. Not that I automatically buy the most expensive things. I’m devoted to CVS brand cosmetics and non-prescription medications. I would buy Food Lion’s generic sodas for the names alone. After all, who wouldn’t want to drink Mountain Lion or Dr. Perky? But for most purchases, I don’t care about price as much as I care about getting exactly what I want.
Maybe it’s laziness. Maybe it’s an affectation of a newly-bourgeois person who was raised without much money and who is trying desperately to appear to not have to scrimp. Maybe it’s a affectation of a control freak who is trying desperately to be in a position to demand exactly the products she wants. Whatever Freud or Marx or any other German-Austrian dude from the nineteenth-century would have to say about my shopping habits, the fact is you won’t find me shoulder-deep in bargain bins or sleeping in the Walmart parking lot in the run up to Black Friday.
But just because I don’t get a contact high from clipping a two-for-one coupon for Stainless Steel Chicken Beer Can Roaster Deluxes (with Recipe Guides!) doesn’t mean I don’t like to offer my loyal readers a good bargain now and again. In fact, lots of readers have told me they discovered the Mount Moriah Mystery series through a BookBub freebie deal or an Amazon 99-cent discount. So for the next two days, The Burnt Island Burial Ground, book three in the series, is only 99 cents on Kindle (regularly $4.99). If you do snag this bargain, please don’t forget to leave a review and tell everyone what a great deal you got!
Mindy Quigley 