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Sssh! Don’t Tell Anyone Where I Buy My Underwear

So in the name of honesty and full disclosure, I have a confession to make.

I LOVE WalMart.

WalMart is my second home. I frequent WalMart at least three times a week. I even go there for fun. If I get a rare hour all to myself, I’ll go and just browse, drinking in the rows and rows of cheap, plastic, Made-in-China stuff that we Americans can not live with out.

As I sit here, everything I’m wearing today, even my underwear, came from WalMart.

See I’ve been fairly quiet about this until now, because it seems that out there in the blog-o-sphere Target is where all the cool kids shop. I do go to Target. And I love them too. They certainly have the hippest clothing and home decor of any of the big discount stores.

But the truth is WalMart usually has lower prices. And when it comes to stretching our single-income budget, the money goes farther at WalMart. (No WalMart is not paying me to write this for them.)

I don’t like to clip coupons. That whole CVS program just seems like it takes way too much analytical thinking to figure out. ALDI’s annoys me because they don’t have bags, and I never have a quarter with me for the cart. I don’t have anywhere to store a year’s supply of toilet paper from Sam’s.

It also happens that I live with in 20 minutes of not one, but two Super WalMarts. Most of the other stores are farther away. Something to consider when a gallon of gas costs you your first born.

And if I go to Super WalMart, I can buy shampoo, dog food, a new TV and lunch meat all in one easy circle around the store. Another important consideration when there’s a cranky three-year-old in tow. Making stops at Walgreens, Petsmart, Best Buy and the local grocery would take me hours. By the time we got to Best Buy, David would be so ornery they’d call in the Geek Squad to escort us out of the store.

I’ve heard horror stores about WalMart. People say that they are dirty and sell rotten produce and meat that will kill you if you eat it. But our WalMarts are clean and shiny. I’ve never seen any rotting tomatoes or lettuce, and I’ve survived the ground round more than once without even the slightest touch of E. Coli.

I’m I the only closet WalMart shopper out there?

Anybody else need to confess?

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