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NP, I can understand your POV, but I think anyone who spends brain-time thinking about the small stuff is doing themselves a disservice. I guess it's different for everyone.

Hehe, that works out similar to my maths: 0 x $3.50 per coffee + no coffee habit = $14,000 not spent

This is how I see things. Eg, why worry about paying $1.59 at the bowser when it's only $1.53 on Tuesdays...? Do you realise that's probably only $3.60 per week you're worrying about? Not worth worrying about when you could be looking at the bigger picture.

Tell them it's cheaper for regulars, and see if they keep coming back.

No, not Woolworths, but retail stores like David Jones and Myer are easy as pie to get a discount off the sticker price, not to mention Harvey Norman. By the way, when I mentioned the sink, that was just the sink (no labour) with a price sticker on it.

Why does it bug you that someone wants to save money? On a renovation job, I had a sink I wanted picked out, called up a few stores that had it and asked them how much it was. Clive told me "It's $195". I said "Yes, that's your retail price, but what's your best price?". He then told me I...

Big congrats LA! I'm in the club too and I still get around in my 13-year-old car. My unofficial rule for doodads is "Can I afford to buy 5 of them?". If the answer is no, then I don't buy yet. eg. I'll buy the $150,000 audi when I can afford to blow 750k on 'cars'. And I'll buy the $30m jet...