A costly bargain

I bought a date-expiring 6-pint container of milk from the supermarket (where I had gone to buy a fresh bag of sugar) because it had been reduced to 54p, and I thought I could use it to make various recipes. It wasn't until the next day, when I was cleaning out my receipts, that I discovered I had in fact been charged full price for the milk; I hadn't noticed because I was buying two butters and a giant bag of sugar, and wasn't surprised when the overall bill was nearly ten pounds :-(

So I was a bit cheesed-off that I'd ended up buying an expensive item that was going to be a real challenge to use up before it became completely inedible -- the moral being that you shouldn't buy things that you wouldn't normally consider useful just because they look like bargains! The irony being that one reason why I didn't check my till receipt immediately before leaving was that the 6-pint bottle was so heavy that along with the sugar I was struggling to carry it...( Read more... )