Botswana Price

You would expect that when there is a “special price” sign on the shelf it is the best deal going on, and that is cheaper to buy in bulk.

Shop management use all manner of deceptions to capture our attention and extract more of our money from us, some of which are prohibited in places where consumer protection is taken seriously.

A simple one to start off with, 2 for slightly more than the price of 1:

Single lemons for P4.95, two in a pack for P12.40
Multiplication matters.

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Flowetry Food Farm – pop up things

Every once in a while there comes a Saturday when I am not traveling or doing something ridiculously arduous, this weekend was one of them.  Since it was school holidays I had a house full of offspring we had to find something to do, and one of them had heard about The Food Farm, an event organised by Flowetry Media House.

Flowetry Food Farm event at Three Dikgosi
Flowetry Food Farm event at Three Dikgosi

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Rebooting Life

Some time ago I commented in a post about trying to post more as a way of getting variety in my life.  A noble intention, but life has kept getting in the way, and I found I was tending towards angry, ranty posts due to the frustrations all around.

Suffice to say things came to a head in the last couple of months and I actually booked myself a counseling session with a psychologist.

Self Help bookshelf
Not sure what message the book shop staff are sending with this.

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