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Ask HN: How are you adjusting your spending habits with Covid-19?

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I’m curious how everyone has adjusted their spending habits with COVID-19.

Do you realize some purchases you thought were important really aren’t?

Are common supplies or tools costing more with panic buying and you’re making trade offs at the stores?

From an earlier thread do you have to keep paying for services that you can’t use? Daycare? Massage/salon or similar subscriptions?

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I go shopping more because the store won't let me buy enough food in one trip.

That’s painful. I have been shopping less but spending around the same amount of money. We’re only limited on bread, eggs, milk, meat and toilet paper.

Publix is also limiting cheese. They let me have two half-pound packages, but I wanted about ten packages because I have a dozen kids. The limit for milk was 2 gallons, but I wanted 6. I got 4 by putting them on the check-out counter in pairs, separated by lots of other stuff so that the extra milk would be hard to notice. I don't know about any limit on meat, but I was able to buy a pair of large whole turkeys. Bread was limited, but I didn't want much so that was OK.

Since then, my wife discovered that Gordon Food Service Store has a limit of 8 gallons. Today she got 8 gallons. That should last 3 to 5 days. I think she got 60 or 90 eggs, in the big flat packages that hold 30. She got a couple cubic feet of clam strips.

Wow that’s tough. Can you and your wife check out separately to split the order?

That would work. She sometimes puts a large cooler with ice in the van, then uses it to hold food so that she can go back inside for more. I could also give cash to 5 or more kids, then have each one go to a separate checkout lane.

All of that causes more person-hours of exposure in the store.

BTW, hackernews is saying the previous comment is 3 days old, and I have used 7 gallons of milk. If I stuck to a limit of 2 gallons, I'd have to shop every day.

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