Four cent-a-litres

February 10th, 2005 - 6:33pm

I wonder why I keep saving — and using — those “Save four cents a litre” coupons from our local supermarket. Four cents sounds like quite a lot at first, especially when going from say 93.9 cents a litre to 89.9, but in reality it doesn’t mean much in the end.

I filled my car pretty much from empty this evening. Being a fuel-guzzling Falcon, the tank’s relatively large. Even so, I only fill up on average once a fortnight.

I managed to pump around 67 litres into my car. “Wow, sixty-seven litres times four cents a litre! I’ll be saving heaps!” is the sort of un-intelligent though that goes through my head each and every time I use one of these coupons. It feels like you’re getting a great deal.

In the end, I saved less than $2.70. Big deal. Even $2.70 doesn’t seem too bad, until you think that it’d take ten fill-ups, or twenty weeks (five months!) at the rate I fill up to get a decent amount of saving. In a year, I might save sixty-five bucks total. That’s maybe one full tank of petrol, all for scrimping and saving those damn coupons. Pfft.

Tags: cars, discount, money