I guess I\’m not so tightwaddish as I would like to be. I still love (and buy) my little luxuries.

This morning I made another trip to the salvage store, taking along my set of panniers and the trunk. As always, I was eager to see what the store would have.

The make-your-own-grab-bag bins were piled high; something I don\’t remember seeing before. I didn\’t see any candy bars there, but I found a lot of things that would be better as snacks than candy; or that I could use as ride food.

Those grab bags really are a bargain: I was able to fit 56 items (mostly small cereal bars) into a large bag.  After I got home I did the math, and determined that each item cost not quite nine cents.

I was thrilled to find Progresso® Lentil Soup for 99¢ a can. That\’s a bargain, too. So is a 42 oz canister of Quaker Old Fashioned Rolled Oats® for $2.72. I still had plenty of oatmeal, but — same old song — \”just in case\”.

Enough now about things that I do need. If I want to become a genuine, card-carrying tightwad I\’ll have to work harder to resist non-essentials. Olives, for one. I love garlic-stuffed green olives; and plain green olives; and ripe olives. Pimiento-stuffed olives are OK, too.

Olives, however, aren\’t really a need. They\’re a want, which is something very different. The same goes for poppy-seed filling, which I occasionally find at the salvage store. It\’s good on bread, or as a substitute for jelly in a peanut-butter sandwich. Or just to eat by itself. But as a salvage-store purchase it\’s rather expensive. Not so tightwaddish, right?