make do with what you have.
if you find chicken breast for 99 cents a pound, buy $3 worth and put it in the freezer. very similar to what you had to do in the old days, where you took care of your family and grew your own food and canned it, froze it or whatever to make it last. that's basically what you learn to do all over again. it makes you think, and it makes you plan ahead.
and when you do get a good buy, it makes you feel happy. hey, i got this good buy on this product or that produce. i saved that amount of money.
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