$399.76

That’s how much the lady in front of me spent on junk

Went to Wal-Mart, stood in line to buy some food and some cough medicine this evening. The lady in front of me had a cart full of stuff. Nothing important, not even a big dollar item. Just stuff – and spent $399.76.

My total? $20.73. I couldn’t help but wonder all the good $400 could do for a family in a month, and how much junk we actually buy in the course of a week. A month. A year.

Impulse buying without purpose. I don’t get it.

Of course, this is coming from a fellow that buys every book he can read at Borders. But that’s not junk in the real sense of it. Reading something improves one’s mind (ideally). Buying junk just because it’s payday is insane.

Anyhow, rant over. Looking forward to tomorrow’s FLS depicting us Republicans as bashing the poor, innocent Dems. I won’t start in on the article quite yet – this is just an excerpt after all – but I’ll have a lengthy discourse on sign thieves and such tomorrow, I’m sure.