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[kork13]

We can find a lot of the Japanese variants here at Asian markets and other specialty stores, though I'm sure they are cheaper in Japan.

Eh, maybe. They're actually kinda expensive here... ~$3 for a bag with 10 mini packs of 2.5inch double-sticks. Not absurd, but not cheap either.

To LAL's point, yes they're made by Nestle over here. Personally that's a plus, because Hershey's always puts an ingredient in their chocolate that makes it taste needlessly bitter/almost sulfurous. Hershey's is also just generally a lower quality chocolate IMO.... But I'm discerning about my chocolate.

[disneysteve]

Send me your address and any amount of money & I'll send a sampling of all the various Japanese KitKat flavors that are available out here -- the variety is extensive .... at least a dozen+ that readily come to mind. Regular, dark chocolate, strawberry, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate-orange, white chocolate, lemon, green tea, strawberry molten lava cake (yes), chocolate-caramel, other flavors that rotate seasonally. If you love KitKat, Japan is your place.

We can find a lot of the Japanese variants here at Asian markets and other specialty stores, though I'm sure they are cheaper in Japan.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Is it also made by nestle instead of hershey so the chocolate is different? It's different in canada too.

[kork13]

All - posting another frugal win.

I went into my local Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) and checked the discount rack. I was able to pick up these five large chocolate bars for about $1.05 each. This is a total win because most of the time these bars for for like $2.99.

In any case I love KitKat, so its a huge win for me.

Send me your address and any amount of money & I'll send a sampling of all the various Japanese KitKat flavors that are available out here -- the variety is extensive .... at least a dozen+ that readily come to mind. Regular, dark chocolate, strawberry, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate-orange, white chocolate, lemon, green tea, strawberry molten lava cake (yes), chocolate-caramel, other flavors that rotate seasonally. If you love KitKat, Japan is your place.

[james.hendrickson]

All - posting another frugal win.

I went into my local Fred Meyer (owned by Kroger) and checked the discount rack. I was able to pick up these five large chocolate bars for about $1.05 each. This is a total win because most of the time these bars for for like $2.99.

In any case I love KitKat, so its a huge win for me.

[james.hendrickson]

Guys - this isn't a finance win, but I've been able to do push up every day for 90 days - nice to have a bit more upper body strength. Can't wait to see where I'm at after a year.

[Fishindude77]

Took the grandkids out this morning and picked a nice mess of wild black raspberries.
Making a couple pies to enjoy later after supper this evening.

[Fishindude77]

Got our big pumpkin patch planted June 10th which should have them ready just ahead of Halloween assuming we get favorable growing conditions and I can keep the varmints and bugs at bay. 250 Hills of standard Jacko lantern type, 20 hills of Atlantic giants, 40 hills of small ornamentals. Had some extra space available and tilled so planted about 40-50 more hills of cantaloupe from seed a buddy gave me.

Have never tried planting a bunch of cantaloupe before, will be interesting to see how they turn out. Might have to sell a few.

[james.hendrickson]

I got a pretty good shopping win.

This Starbucks coffee was on sale for $7.99 (regular $8.99). I used Ibotta and got $5 cashback, which means I got a pound of coffee for $3. That's pretty good considering that a small coffee at Starbucks costs $2.90. So I'll drink coffee for two weeks for the price of a single cup.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Everyone wins this week with free SirusXM radio free till June 2. Y’all can thank me later.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Yikes, I would have quit & found a place to stay the night, or at least wait for a few hours while traffic died down. I'd lose my mind in 9hrs of stop-and-go traffic .... Though of course, you're from the LA area & probably used to that kind of madness....

Going to Las I first saw the traffic in the LA bound cars in the Cahon pass in the San Bernadino mountains. Next in Victorville the LA bound cars were practically stopped in a parking lot. In Barstow (1/2 way) the LA bound cars were crawling. In Baker which is quarter of the way for those LA bound cars maybe they were lucky to be hitting 20 mph. And at the Cal-Neva stateline the LA bound cars were crawling through the USDA agricultural inspection facility. This is the home stretch for the LA to Las Vegas cars where a lot of drivers hit 100 mph speeding to get to Las Vegas. NHP had speed traps and were catching a lot of those speeders. Must be like taking candy away from a baby for NHP.

[QuarterMillionMan]

My overall loss in Las Vegas was $200 so I consider that a win in that I had budgeted to be able to lose up to $500. Swam in the pool, worked out in the gym, and ate good food. Now back to reality. Las Vegas IMHO is a fantasy land with all the win $10,000 or $1 million neon signs with bells and beautiful cocktail waitresses serving free drinks in air-conditioned artificial environments in the middle of the desert. Made use of my 2 free nights for May, next month June will use my next 2 free nights.

[kork13]

Another win for me was the traffic from LA to Las Vegas was smooth sailing. The traffic from Las Vegas to LA was a lose on Memorial day which was stop and go the entire way which I estimate took 9 hours when a normal day would take 4 or 5 hours.

Yikes, I would have quit & found a place to stay the night, or at least wait for a few hours while traffic died down. I'd lose my mind in 9hrs of stop-and-go traffic .... Though of course, you're from the LA area & probably used to that kind of madness....

[QuarterMillionMan]

Another win for me was the traffic from LA to Las Vegas was smooth sailing. The traffic from Las Vegas to LA was a lose on Memorial day which was stop and go the entire way which I estimate took 9 hours when a normal day would take 4 or 5 hours.

[james.hendrickson]

Guys,

No specific win here - but a while back I set the goal of having $100,000 in investable assets in my stock accounts. And I'm well on the way to meeting the goal - last time I checked I was 63% of the way there.

What's working is:

1) Hustling side money. - taking surveys, selling my personal data, signing up for class action lawsuits and regularly making contributions from my salary.

2) Putting any family money I get into the markets. I'm fortunate to get some family support and I bank as much of it as I can.

3) Consistently investing. For the past three or four years, I've been steadily putting money into the markets - some months more, some months less. Sometimes as little as $5.

4) Investing in quality. By and large I've stopped messing around with high risk plays and am focusing mostly on blue chip stocks, index funds and mutual funds. No pennies.

In any case, the progress is good to see.