Y'know, Ep, I used to agree with you on the whole 'avoid WalMart, they're evil!' thing. Not saying that's necessarily your stance, but
when someone spouts off about avoiding WalMart for personal moral reasons, that's usually it.
But then I ran into the hard realities of living life on a tighter budget than before. Rising fuel costs, rising food costs, rising costs for everything from
clothes to electronics... and my salary isn't rising fast enough to keep up with them. Oh, I'm not going to lose my house or anything -- I wasn't
stupid -- but my disposable income has vanished.
So my choice boiled down to this: I could feel smug and morally superior and not feed my family, or, I could buckle and swallow my pride and go shop for the
things I need at Walmart where prices are still reasonable.
If you don't have to make that choice, good! I still don't like having made it myself.
To head off the inevitable rebuttal about "if things are that tight, why are you buying crap you don't need": the money for this MP3 player came
from me mowing lawns on the weekend. That's how I make my play money these days, and if things don't look up soon, that'll be how I start making
my bills. Re: Walmart vs other places: round here, there really aren't any other options for low-cost goods.
Yeah, I feel dirty, but I can live with that.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
when someone spouts off about avoiding WalMart for personal moral reasons, that's usually it.
But then I ran into the hard realities of living life on a tighter budget than before. Rising fuel costs, rising food costs, rising costs for everything from
clothes to electronics... and my salary isn't rising fast enough to keep up with them. Oh, I'm not going to lose my house or anything -- I wasn't
stupid -- but my disposable income has vanished.
So my choice boiled down to this: I could feel smug and morally superior and not feed my family, or, I could buckle and swallow my pride and go shop for the
things I need at Walmart where prices are still reasonable.
If you don't have to make that choice, good! I still don't like having made it myself.
To head off the inevitable rebuttal about "if things are that tight, why are you buying crap you don't need": the money for this MP3 player came
from me mowing lawns on the weekend. That's how I make my play money these days, and if things don't look up soon, that'll be how I start making
my bills. Re: Walmart vs other places: round here, there really aren't any other options for low-cost goods.
Yeah, I feel dirty, but I can live with that.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs