Entry FeedYears ago, long before children, when husband and I still had some time to ourselves, he used to prepare monthly expense statements for me, along with quarterly net worth statements.
He made these beautiful pie charts of all of our expenses, so that I could understand exactly where my meager advertising paycheck was going. In order for him to do this, we had a receipt jar into which I would empty my wallet at least weekly. He would individually enter these receipts using excel, and prepare the reports. Really, he had a lot of free time on his hands.
The first month he asked about the receipts from Shoppers Drug Mart. I advised him to put them in miscellaneous. By month three he had broken them out. Shoppers Drug Mart was one of the largest expenses on my report.
"What do you keep buying at Shoppers Drug Mart?" he asked.
You see, I never wore make-up back then, and I purchases my hair products at the salon (another crazy expense).
"Um. Hmm. I don't know. Nothing really. I needed some Benadryl last week."
Hundreds of dollars a month went to "nothing" at Shoppers Drug Mart. It was really baffling. Yesterday I went to Shoppers to buy Valentine's Day chocolate and cards. $80!
When we first good married we had a broker recommend we buy Shoppers' IPO at $35. But we couldn't; we didn't have any extra cash.
If you are a Shoppers Drug Mart Junkie then you should know all the ins and outs of shopping there. I have a few tips so you can maximize your Optimum Points. Always buy a gift certificate first and then pay with that same gift certificate...that's called double dipping. I try to shop there only on 20X the points and redeem only on special redemption days. I would say that you save almost 50% by doing this. I hope that helps justify your love of shopping there.