There are many areas in life where the proper approach to business and spending your money is to bargain hunt each and every time you have need of a particular good or service.

Take Tires, for instance.

If you own a vehicle, sooner or later, you’re gonna need new tires.  Of course, you want quality tires.  No one is going to take a chance on something so vital to their personal or familial safety.  But, thanks to Industry Standards and some justifiable degree of Regulatory Oversight, just about any tire is going to get the job done, discounting some impact on performance and longevity.  In light of that, when the tread starts to wear thin, there’s a good deal of Prudence in the practice of scanning through the paper to find out who’s having a sale.  Let’s face it…Even cheap Tires are expensive. And it doesn’t really benefit you much to grant loyalty to a particular tire distributor, independent of getting the brand and model you may prefer.  But, in this case, when it’s all said and done, you can afford to jump from source to source because Price drives tires.

But nobody plays Hopscotch with their Dentist.
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