No I do not;I buy my food and other grocery store items at low price stores like Aldi and I do have one of those Kroger cards.They must wonder how I live on the few items logged by the card.
Nor will I wait in line for 20 minutes at one gas station because their price is 5 cents a gallon less.I will pay the extra 50cents or one dollar for my fill-up and save the time.Now if there was no significant wait ,I would certainly buy the best price gas.
Incandescent bulbs can often be bought for 25 cents each during sales.They simply work well enough. I have bought a couple dozen of the CFL and been less than pleased by the light ,the radio buzzing,and the short life of those from several years ago. I do note the prices are now about a fourth of the money I wasted.
Not many people are really good at calculating total system lifetime costs and benefits.For instance,I saw a company hire a "high-powered" executive to put it back on track.....his first act was to eliminate hundreds of ordinary workers jobs,Interestingly,if you took the average workers salary,doubled it to allow for benefits and pensions,multiplied the number of workers,why the total was a close match to the new "super" executive's salary.So where was the savings?And keep in mind the employees of this company(retail) tended to spend a lot of their wages right back at the company stores.Pretty good guess the one exec didn't spend much there.So how did that benefit the store,the company,the community?
I am like you. I don't wait in line. You have to wait a ~1000 hours before you see the profit from CFL use, but you aren't actually standing in line.