Did We Really Save Money

As I laid in bed last night, I started thinking..(a rare thing for me) as the rain came down in buckets.
Yesterday when I was shopping at Hilander near our home, I passed th bargain table. I could of passed it up, but after all I am a REHFELDT! They had boxes of Cocovavia for $2.50 each (they usually run $4.99 a box) Now Cocoavia is a heart healthy snack..that's what it says on the box. Now lets figure, $2.50 x 6 equals $15.00. Plus I remembered I had coupons from Hilander - $2.00 off the purchase of 2 boxes, and I had two of these couponds. So now I have reduced my cost to $11.00. (You math major are you with me?) So let's see $4.99 x 6 equals $29.94. Now that's a saving of $18.94. Not bad! But they had a product for us OLD people (like me)to help reduce the wrinkles under our eyes (ye, I'm vain too!) They said the original cost was $18.00 and had reduced it to $9.00. So I purchaed it I was somewhat upset when I stopped at another Hilander to find they had the same product on sale too. However, they said it was original $12.00 and I could get it for $6.00..my lost of $3.00.
I say all of this because of something my sister, Jan said (one of my smarter sisters at least smarter than me...although we were playing a new game word she had taught my mother and I last week. It's a card game where each card has one or two letters on them. You start out with three cards and get to draw one when it your turn and then discard one. Once you have spelled a word in your hand you can lay those cards down. Now each new game you add another card...so instead of 3 cards you now get 4 cards to spell a word. Well, we finally got up to 8 cards. I don't remember my word, but I laid my word down first, forcing my sister and Mom to have one more turn .Jan had two words "fin" and "fin" (no I"m not kidding) and had to subtract the other 2 cards from her score) each care have points on them) Mom had two words like "go" and "say" hence she had to subtract points from her score. As Jan was writing the points down for all of us I noticed (I'm not very observance - you could wear the same outfit everyday and I probably wouldn't take note)her 2 discared cards with the letters "a" and "l" hummmm "fin" "fin" I said you know you could have spelled "final"! "Now you tell me." she replied. maybe somewhat brighter than me, but not a whole lot.)
Now where was I....Oh yes, SAVING MONEY. After our fun time at the Bent and Dent we were eating lunch at the Sand Burr in Brodhead. Jan said something to the effect " You know after all the money we spent on gas and food did we really save money in the long run?" ( She been hanging around her husband WAY too much. We REHFELDT's don't think like that!)
Perhaps ther is truth in what she said, but are we going to change? OF COURSE NOT, WE'RE REHFELDTS Any thoughts???? Like you REHFELDT need major help.