Frugal Framnett

Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology found that because people expect wines that cost more to be of higher quality, they trick themselves into believing the wines provide a more pleasurable experience than less expensive ones.

Higher wine prices boost drinking pleasure – Reuters via Yahoo News

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Free Money Finance beats me to the punch and discusses grocery shopping on a budget. I have been kicking this around but have not yet written it. Free Money Finance notes an interesting statistic about shopping, that is on average, people purchase about $100.00 of goods per hour when in a grocery store. Well this makes sense, most often we do not just hang out in stores.In addition to keeping you in the stores, marketers work to stimulate your buying through the use of colors, product placement, product pricing, display design, etc.Since I have worked in retail I know retail stores do spend a fair amount of resources in designing their stores to get you to buy.Here are the things I have heard or am coming to see as good ways to minimize grocery expenses.

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