2022 Fall Home and Garden

Page 10 2022 Fall Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 23, 2022 The best case scenario, leave the kiddos at home with the spouse, or drop them off for a play date or some spoiling from the grandparents and let the spouse stay home for some quality ‘Me’ time. Here is a DO but DON’T DO try less expensive store brands, but DON’T tell the family. Buying a name brand product is a physiological and a behavioral experience. We have been trained through product marketing that a certain name brand is better or even the best. But that is not necessarily true. If the kids know that the bread they are eating is not some well marketed wonderful white bread, they are conditioned to believe it won’t be good. But, chances are, if you take it out of the wrapper and put it on the table, they will eat it without knowing the difference. DO check labels on those store brand products You will be surprised if you’ve never done this before. Two boxes of cereal are on the shelf, one is a popular name brand, one is the store brand. The boxes appear similar and you could easily confuse one for the other. Pick up both boxes and find the where each was manufactured. You may be surprised to find the two boxes share the same factory address. They are made in the same place, with the same ingredients, and with the same quality control standards. So why then is the name brand higher? Marketing. You are paying for the commercial you see that entices you to CONTINUED u