re: Amazon Prime Day - July 15

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you're going to end up making me decide this is worth keeping.

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Maybe I'm trying to rationalize my decision to use it too.

So, I went back through my order history to see how it's working out for me. Over the last 6 months, I have spent a total of $1705 on about 40 orders. $585 of that was subscribe & save items that I would have typically bought at the grocery store, and the other $1120 was other items that I would have either made trips to specialty stores for or bought online. The $1120 was 9 orders for a total of 12 items, for which I paid a total of $50 in shipping (6 months of prime). I happily pay $5 per order in shipping (2 days at that) to save a trip to a store. Saves time and gas.

As for the $585 in household items via subscribe and save... anyone can do that without prime. I saved 15% on all of that, and shipping is free. Could I have gotten that stuff cheaper still at the store? Probably. But $585 is roughly 4 trips to the store for my family. That's at least 4 hours of our time that we've saved, not to mention the gas and mileage on the vehicle, and it cuts way down on the wife's impulse buys ( ). That shite just shows up in a big box at my house every month. Can't beat it.