I love our used goods stores. Because Norway is such a wealthy country, people donate brand new things they just don’t like, tags still on them. I am able to buy brand new jackets and brand named clothes for my kid for a fraction of the price and clothes for work that I don’t have to worry about if I get kids paint or markers on. Our community also has an annual flea market to raise funds for the community hall up-keep. I find beautiful crystal glasses still in their boxes, brand new shoes and this year there were more electrical appliances than I had ever seen. This year I found a new knife block and some small soy sauce dishes for when I serve sushi. I had been looking for ages in regular stores just never found anything I liked, then, tada! I found the most perfect ones at the flea market for almost nothing.
I never buy coffee out because I never like it the same as I make, so I always take some with in the morning. I don’t buy lunch at cafes, only at the grocery store and then I’ll sit somewhere quiet and eat it, which I prefer to noisy crowded cafes and the food here in cafes generally is pretty awful anyway. I cut and colour my own hair.
In our grocery stores, things have prices on them and then it also tells you how much per/kg that product costs, so you can easily comparison shop. I always pay attention to them because, oddly, buying the larger pack is more expensive in many cases. The refill packs for cleaning products, for example, cost MORE than just buying another spray bottle of the product.