Weekly Groceries

All-in : < $60

Meats, veggies, and carbs; CHECK
Tasty snacks: CHECK
A new spice: CHECK
Frozen Pizza" CHECK

I'm really good at frugal shopping.

Freezer Economics

My weekly paycheck is about $300, after taxes and payments for health benefits. That's all I have to work with, business-wise and personally.

This might be a source of encouragement to people who think that they don't have enough money to invest in their own businesses generally or Sports Cards specifically.

Anyway, for a sole proprietor like Myself, you have to be as proficient in "Home Economics" as you are in "Business Economics". I had wanted an upright freezer for a while, and I finally got one. It cost about $160. But, now that I have the extra space, I can take advantage of sales. These three blocks of steak were fresh but discounted. I saved $23.85, and they are sitting snuggly in My freezer. I've done stuff like that about four times, so I'm more than halfway to breaking even. After I do that, it'll be like money in my pocket until the freezer breaks, which shouldn't happen for at least five years.

I am having to wait to see my investment show fruit (or, steak and frozen pizzas). This is another lesson to prospective entrepreneurs living in a world which expects large and immediate returns: real enterprises take a lot of time, investments, and hard work to payoff.

Jack Fruit

This is the biggest and highest-priced piece of fruit I have ever seen. Apparently, it's called "Jack Fruit".

I bet it's epic. And, I'd like to see the tree which produced it.

Shrimp Pizza

Frozen, shelled shrimp grilled and placed on raw frozen Scremin' Sicilian cheeze pizza before oven-cooking!

Bacon, and Bean (!)

I love Saturdays. Who doesn't? I don't have standard weekends off, because of my job and sports cards project. But, I'm taking a break from both (and, by "break", I mean I don't have to go to the gas station for my wonderful part-time job and am merely working at sports cards at 55% of my full capacity which is stil at about 135% of most.

But, we got food, good weather, and good entertainment!