I only ask because I went to Home Depot today to get a nut.
That’s right, a nut. The nut on the front right tire/wheel thingy on my lawnmower came off, so the bolt holding the thing to the thing (former/latter) dislodged itself from the body.
So I get to Home Depot looking for a suitable nut and I find one after a few minutes of looking.
12 cents.
Yeah, that’s right, 12 cents (13 with tax). And if I hadn’t remembered that I had spare change in my car, I woulda been paying for it with a $5. Luckily my brother was able to run off and get a nickel and a dime.
So what’s the least you ever spent in a store?[sub]I wonder how many “I was bored, so I went to The Dollar Store” replies I’m gonna get:D[/sub]
Yeah I’ve done the 5c lolly in my childhood but recently I went to the servo and put $1.60 of petrol in (it was all the money I could find at the time!).
I’ve also bought a small amount of gas. It was the middle of the night, and I just needed enough to get me home, which was about 2 miles away. I was hoping and praying I wouldn’t run out, but I knew I was very close, and I didn’t want to get stuck somewhere. I finally decided to put in 32 cents worth, despite the embarrassment factor. A quick search of the car when I got to the pump turned up about 60 more cents. I’ll never forget the look I got from the cashier when I paid in mostly nickles and pennies. Ah, well. It was an experience.
I made many penny candy purchases in my callow youth. Those little strawberry bonbon things in the wrappers printed to look like shiny strawberries were the best!
I went to Office Depot to buy a wall calendar last year. It was priced at like $3.99 but since it was July they were discounted… heavily. This wasn’t mentioned anywhere, so I got to the checkout and whipped out my credit card while the cashier scanned the thing, and the cashier gives me this look.
Then she says, “that’ll be 1 cent.” I paid cash instead. Still have the receipt! In case I have to return it.
Nuts! I thought my 5¢ peanut butter cup would be tied for #1. But it’s the best I could do, I never saw penny candy, though I have heard of it.
Quick story. When I was 8 the store at the corner had 14¢ lick-a-sticks. Now the sales tax was 4%. So 1 stick cost 14¢ whereas 2 cost 29¢. So knowing cheaper was better I’d buy one, then immediately buy a second one for a total of 28¢. Boy the shop owner hated that.
hazel-rah, I was hoping I’d win, but it looks like I’ll have to settle for a tie for first.
I went into Home Depot for a few things. The only thing they had was a 20 cent or so nut I needed. So I go to checkout, and it turns out they are on sale, or clearance or something (who puts nuts and bolts on SALE?) so it was only 1 cent. Naturally I had no change, so paid for it with a $1 bill. I’ve still got the receipt. I must admit, I almost expected the cashier to just GIVE the thing to me, I mean, her time, wear and tear on the register, paper and ink for the receipt, and the cost of the plastic bag must have been more than 1 cent.
Since Australia has phased out 1¢ and 2¢ coins, stores have to round up or down to the nearest 5¢. SOME stores always round down.
Which is where I went to buy one red chili for cooking. It cost 4¢, rounded down to zero. So it was free.
This is the chain that also goves you the first one free if the scanned price is more than the shelf price. I was buying a doll for a Christmas gift giveaway, and that’s what happened. So good old Woolies contributed for some poor orphan’s Christmas as well!
Another one who fondly remembers the penny candy counters of my youth.
One small piece of copper getting warmer in my hand while I tried to make a decision between a stick of licorice, a mary jane, a pixie stix or a jawbreaker.
It’s hard to believe now that a proprietor of a store would spend several minutes each with a series of young customers spending only a penny.
Sometimes we’d have a bonanza and find a deposit bottle which we returned for the 2 cents. This windfall just made the decision that much more complicated taking more of the proprietor’s time.
