Price Per Unit

Do you know someone who basically lives their life by this mantra? Always being the sucker for buying something at the lowest cost per ounce? Well, meet the worlds biggest PPU fanatic, ME! I get it from my Grandpa Briscoe, although he may be a little worse (or better? depends on your perspective) at it than me.

I can still remember the first time Darik discovered this about me. We're in broke college students driving down for grocery shopping in Idaho Falls to their grocery warehouse for the best deals every month. I don't use salsa very much but I wanted to get some for a new recipe. I go down the aisle, and after about three minutes Darik sees me emerge with about a GALLON of salsa. His eyes pop out of his head and he says, "you planning on eating a lot of nachos?" I only needed a cup or two for my recipe, but the smallest glass jars there had a price per ounce of about 20 cents. This huge tub of salsa was for about 4 cents per ounce. Logically in my head I could not justify paying that much per ounce when I could get a much better deal. So $2.50 for a small bottle or $5.50 for a gallon -- that's no contest in my mind, but I soon discovered not everyone thinks this way. (Everyone, i.e. Darik).

Anyway, so next month I'm in charge of a Young Women's Personal Progress SuperActivity for the whole stake. For each of the seven young women's values (faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, and integrity) we are going to have a table and an activity for each value. For Integrity we decided to use brown kraft paper (the stuff that looks like brown paper bags) to have the girls make their own Titles of Liberty, just like Moroni did. So I start looking on Ebay to see if I can find a good deal on some kraft paper. Usually at the store you can get a roll of about 100 sf for around $4. On ebay I found this baby:
Thirty pounds of kraft paper on an industrial roll -- I could get that including delivery for about, oh . . , $30. So I start thinking about how I could use a new roll of "kraft-paper-for-life." Ellie could use it to scribble, do all of her little kid krafts, I could use it scrapbooking and cardmaking, etc. I start to convince myself I need forty pounds of kraft paper. Cooler heads prevailed and Darik was able to talk me out of it. I told him I don't know how I'm going to be able to bring myself to buy a $4 small roll at such a markup when I know I can be getting a better deal.