Being frugal sometimes means that you need to make a choice between brands or figure out the costs per ounce, pound or piece of a particular item. I went to buy some yarn for a charity project that I was working on. I had a choice between two brands that were on sale. Both were of comparable quality. One was two 16 skeins for $9 or two seven ounce skeins for $4. When I calculated the price of the yarns the difference was negligible. The 32 ounces for $9 equaled 28.1 cents while the 14 ounces for $4 equaled 28.5 cents per ounce. Four tenths of a cent is really not a big deal considering that I was only going to save about two cents. I did purchase the larger skeins because of the colors offered.

While I was there I saw an even greater deal… one pound skeins on clearance for $3.97. No I did not intend to go to buy the clearance yarn but I know that I will use it for a project in the future and if I purchased yarn even at the sale price it would not be a great deal like this 24.8 cents per ounce. The colors were not ones that I could use in my current project but being the forward thinking frugal person I am… I bought several skeins because I knew out that I would use the colors later and the price was not one I could pass up. There weren’t a lot of skeins left so I jumped on the bargain.

It’s only a bargain if you are going to use the item. I definitely will.