Why I haven’t bought any strawbery?

It’s a fact known in my family that I am a strawberry sucker. People eat strawberries in term of numbers that is countable. I eat strawberries by the pounds that can render a person unconscious. Every summer, Costco, one of the largest wholesales in America, made quite a huge sum of profit from my family as we buy boxes after boxes.

So, last month I walked around an open market in in Thessaloniki, a city in Greece, and could not believe seeing big fresh strawberries for only 1.5euro per kg. It was beyond the wildest dream in the search for strawberries. I bought a euro worth of strawberries; I would have bought much more if I was not on a bus trip. Fruits are good for health, but too much will make you do unpleasant things during the trip.

I got back to Sarajevo and passed the open market every morning on my way to work. Big strawberries were every where, only that it was 3 euros per kilo. Having possess an important source of strawberry knowledge, I passed strand after stand, telling myself to wait for few day for the prices to go down, if it would ever at all, and contemplating all the possible factors that caused the higher prices in Sarajevo compared to Greece. Well, prices did went down to 2.5 euros a week later, and then 2, and then 2.25, and then 1.75, and then finally a few days ago 1.5. However, the strawberries were tiny and not as fresh compared to those I saw in Thessaloniky, and I determined to wait for a few days more. Guess what! I walked through the open market this morning and spot big fresh red strawberries for only 1.5 euros.

As | walked on, I just realized that I am my mother’s daughter.

Applied psychology
I was not always this carefully with money before as I bought in the spur of the moment. Perhaps:

1. It’s biological, “like mother, like daughter.”
2. It’s the fact that my earning follows the standard of a poor European country.
3. It’s the fact that people do change to adapt better to the new situation.
4. Or it’s just because I am dirt cheap.