 whether you love them or hate them, there's always things worth buying at Walmart. Let's see what five things we have to talk about this month. Hey there, NJ, root22.com here with another product company business vlog. And this vlog is about Walmart. And we know that there's a whole discussion going on about whether people should shop at Walmart and how it's destroying small businesses. But the fact of the matter is it's here today and it sells things that are a lot cheaper than other places. So for people looking to save their money or make their dollar go further, Walmart is not a bad option. There's not enough people ganged up against Walmart to make a dent at this point. So keep shopping at Walmart and save your money. Anyway, so I want to talk about a few things that I buy at Walmart regularly. And the first item is organic tea. Technically flavored teas is one of our favorite beverages, non-sweetened. It's just usually nice herbs and spices that go a long way at replacing sugary beverages or any other kind of juices that are high in carbs. Our favorite at the moment, it's under $3 a box, like $2.90 a box. Our favorite at the moment is the ginger turmeric flavor. I can't really find a turmeric tea, like yogi doesn't seem to make when they make a ginger lemon, which I like, but it's usually closer to $4 a box. So we enjoy these teas in between drinking sessions, alcohol. Another thing that we used to buy routinely at Walmart was heavy cream. We're not a snob about the, you know, the thickeners or anything like that, whether it's carrageenan or whatever that stuff is called. And for the longest time, it was $1.62 a pint or around $3.12 a quart. Cheap, shop-right brand heavy cream is usually closer to $6 a quart and you're looking at $7 or $8 a quart. Sometimes it's like almost $10 or $11 a quart depending on whether you buy organic or not. So this is, but they recently raised their price 20% to $1.94 a pint, which I don't understand if there's some sort of dairy shortage or not, but the heavy cream is normally very expensive at other supermarkets and Walmart has it pretty cheap. Normally also, we also buy it at Aldi and Lidl, where it's also at $1.60 something a pint. And it's just as good. I mean, we use it for everything. We even make our own ice cream. We'll explain one day that it's a little phase we're going through now, but we're not going to stick with it forever. And another thing I've been buying a lot, you might have noticed in a blog post a week or so ago, is the Technew Poison Ivy Scrub. It's this tube of exfoliating scrub that you put on your body after you've been landscaping or in the bushes or gardening or whatever the hell you're doing. And if you became exposed to poison ivy, it dissolves the oils and pretty much prevents you getting a poison ivy outbreak. It's important though, and I never knew this, but it takes eight hours or up to eight hours for the poison ivy to get absorbed into your skin and create that awful, God awful rash. So the sooner you can take a shower and rub this stuff on and dissolve the oils, the better. They say use cold water, but I mean, I just hose off and air cool off and then put the stuff on. But it's around 12 bucks a tube at Walmart and it's usually 15, 16 bucks or higher elsewhere. So you save a few dollars there. And they also have the actual treatment for poison ivy if you do happen to get an outbreak. And another thing we enjoy buying at Walmart, and this isn't our first option, but they have a pretty decent selection of arts and crafts, not just for kids, but for everybody, but they have a lot of kiddie arts and crafts. And if you don't feel like schlepping out the hobby lobby or Michaels, and you're in the need of for something for your for your kids or for your own little artwork project, they have surprisingly decent selection of arts and crafts. And, you know, obviously it's not a whole store of arts and crafts. But if you if you need to, and I'm sure a lot of people don't even know that this section even exists, just got to walk around Walmart and see what they sell. And lastly here for our top five this month is cooking oils. We don't use a lot of cooking oil anymore. We normally prefer butter and bacon fat. If we had beef tallow, we'd use it, we sometimes use lard. Those are the best cooking oils to use. But if you ever, you know, want to make a salad or something, we don't eat salad anymore. But our family does avocado oil, as well as coconut oil are the two top preferred non animal based cooking oils that we like to use. And they have the large size usually like 16 or 32 ounce containers of these preferred cooking oils and they have them very cheap usually half the price of other supermarkets. So I highly recommend you find your avocado and coconut oils at Walmart. And there's a couple other things I want to mention. It's not on my list. But we discovered last week that Walmart has these packages of fresh muts. I mean, it's not it's not hand water muts that you can get, you know, at the Italian delis. And it's a different kind of muts, it's a more of a melting muts that you would use on a burger, or you could shred it and put it on your pizzas if you still eat bread. And it melts really nicely. And I was thinking for $1.43, that's insane, because the prices at shop right normally are anywhere from like nearly $4 a pound or higher, even five, six, seven dollars a pound for this, you know, shelf stable vacuum sealed, these pounds of muts. And I was thinking that this stuff would taste fake and processed. But believe it or not, it shredded just like regular muts, it melted quite well. And it actually had a really, really good flavor. I was surprised. I mean, I actually love it. I don't know if they put any kind of addictive chemicals in there that make me like it unnaturally. But I'm going to buy this until I find out otherwise. It's cheaper than even the supermarkets on sale, like substantially cheaper. So Walmart's going to be our go to place for these blocks of muts. Also, I used to, people can say very easily, oh, don't buy technology at Walmart. It's really a shoddy low end stuff. And in the past, that was a real major league tech snob. I always had to have the best. And that's a psychological condition that humans have to always want better than something else, you know, like I have to upgrade my car, add options, do this and do that. But in 2019, technology is so disposable. It's not like if you spend $5,000 on a television set, it's it's future proof and it's never going to wear out or break down. Most likely, you're going to have to replace your your technology just as fast, whether you buy a $300 or $200 TV or a $1,500 or $2,500 TV. The difference today is so undistinguishable. I mean, I suppose if you're watching 4k, which is really not taking off yet, except online, I wouldn't even recommend wasting my money on the high end stuff. And I also bought a 55 inch TV. I don't forget how much I paid for a couple hundred bucks. We never watched TV in this house. But when we turn it on, it looks great. And high depth 1080p looks looks perfect. I mean, I guess you could adjust the color balance. And if you don't watch TV, it doesn't really matter. And same goes for their laptops. I remember spending them nearly like three or $4,000 on some custom PC, maybe 10 years ago, with a auto paint finish, I paid an extra $200 for it was really nice. It was a really heavy duty computer, but it became outdated just as fast as any other thing. So I would just mean, there's a couple bare minimums you want to get. You want to get a certain amount of RAM and you want to have a what do you call it, a solid state hard drive. And if you're into any kind of graphics processing or gaming, you probably want to get a dedicated video processor. That's why I like using desktop computers. But we have a laptop, a couple laptops that running around the house here. And I just use it for surfing the web, or doing banking, or I mean, there's really no reason to get a high-end computer. I wouldn't recommend a Chromebook or any one of those cloud based computing solutions. But for also, by the way, you can go on Amazon used and best box, I mean, best buy open box. They always have computers cheap. I think I scored a Lenovo touchscreen for 90 bucks. And it works great. I couldn't really run Windows on it. I had to format the hard drive and install Linux, which it runs like great. I mean, I can run the 50 tabs on my browser and run the close circuit TV for the house. And even though it only has two gigs of RAM, it works great. And that's about it. We'll be back in a month or two with some other things that we think are worth buying at Walmart in order to save money. Have a nice rest of your week.