Sushi Money

Do you read the newspaper?  The Sunday paper?  I think I’ll start a new weekly tradition on the blog… and call it “Sunday Paper”.  I was paging through the weekend paper this morning, chuckling at myself (for digital shame!) that we’ve actually subscribed to our metro newspaper!  I wouldn’t have thought about it, but we came across a booth at a major league baseball game the other day offering a special deal.  Not just any deal mind you, but an amazing deal.  Previously we only bought a newspaper once a week… on Sundays.  I like the business and sports sections, and the rest of the family likes the lifestyle, funnies and coupons.  We would pick up a Sunday paper at the grocery store for about $1.50 a week… averaging $6.00 a month.  So here’s this booth at the game… they offer us a year of the newspaper, everyday and weekends, for the grand total of $107!  And delivered to our house!  Wow… my mind quickly does the math… that comes to about .30 cents a day, for a year!   That’s not much more than the $78 we would spend in a year buying the paper just on Sundays. Now I don’t read the paper everyday… just don’t find the time and I’d rather read the news on the internet.  The paper always seems behind with news.  But the deal offered more as an incentive… they threw in a nice big sports umbrella and a good-sized baseball teddy bear.  How could we resist?  Our son would love the teddy bear.  But we had one more rationalization to seal the deal.  We have a nice garden in the yard every year, and to help with landscaping, we put down mulch.  But if you throw mulch right on everything, soon the weeds grow right up through it.  What helps? Newspapers!  We’re always looking for extra newspapers to lay on the ground to prevent weeds, and put the mulch on top.  Since the newspaper ink is soy-based, it doesn’t hurt anything, and decomposes quite well over time.  It really keeps the weeds down for a season.  So that was it… we are now getting the paper everyday at a pretty good price.  It may only last a year, but maybe we can renegotiate next year for a similar deal.  Do they offer deals like this where you live? Seems like a losing proposition for the newspaper company.  We’ll see how it goes!

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