Not So Frugal Books
I went to Barnes and Noble tonight for a little escape from the house and kids. I picked myself up a magazine to bring home and peruse later tonight while having a glass of wine to relax. I went to the checkout line and there were a bunch of tables lining the checkout area. Some books for Mother’s Day coming up and a table of 50% Kids Easter books. I saw the big red 50% off sign so I thought I’d pick up a couple for the kids. Usually the same books back in the kid section are $3-4 so I figured I could get one for each kid for that since they were half off. I flipped one over and I guess because they were specialized for Easter, they were all originally priced $7-8. So I might as well have just gotten non-Easter books for that price. I passed.
Hidden under a couple of the kid books was a book that someone obviously decided against buying at the last minute and stashed there. It was Frugal Living For Dummies. There were claims on the front of the book that it would teach you to live simply and frugally. Ha. How about start by not paying $17 for a book to teach you to be frugal? I was glad to see that it didn’t actually make it to the checkout counter and get purchased. How silly.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
LOL
Um, yeah. I hope the person decided to take it out of the library instead.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I have had that same thought when looking in the “budgeting” or “frugal-living” sections of the bookstores. It is so backwards to go buy a $20+ book on saving money when you are wasting money on that book! We are all suckers…
March 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Ha! I love the frugal living books that cost so much! Clearly you should check them out from the library.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
that’s funny. goes to show that people will write books about anything just to make money. i love dave ramsey but what gets me is that he charges monthly for people to use his online stuff. i know there is a quota to meet but please, asking people to pay $10 or so a month who are trying desperately to get out of debt (that would be us!)
March 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
hey, give me $17, and i’ll teach you how to be frugal… and it’ll be less work than reading a book.