How I lost 700.00

I hang my head in shame.  The girl that buys nothing without price-shopping first, broke her own rules and BIG.  

Rarely do I lay awake at night pondering the price of drugs the way I spend sleepless hours reviewing the treasures I left behind at Ross, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods or Marshalls.  It would then make sense that I might walk into a pharmacy month after month and just plunk my money down.  I don't do it happily, but someone has to stimulate the economy.


Even healthy people take medications for life.  That's just how it goes.  Never did I dream that you could feel robbed at gunpoint just by taking your meds.  Well...it went like this:  there became a world-wide shortage of Armour Thyroid.  The last few doses on Planet Plano were at Target, so I transferred my prescription.  While at Target's pharmacy for the first time, I found their customer service to be that of something you'd see in a clip featuring June Cleaver stopping in at the local butcher shop.  I felt like a real, live customer!  No time was wasted in transferring all of my prescriptions at once!  Of course, Target happily did the work with one magic phone call.  By the way, the actual Pharmacist, herself, was doing it all.  Unheard of. 


In doing so, it was revealed that Target's price for one of my other medications would be $38.00 a month as compared to a whopping $150.00 a month from from my Tom Thumb (our local big box grocery chain) pharmacy.  I nearly required resuscitation from the buff pharmacy helper-dude that greets and assists while being oh, so cute.  I digress.


Mind you, these prices are real, left-my-wallet-cash prices.  We're among the growing population of people without prescription drug coverage.  Having taken the medication from Tom Thumb at 150.00 a month, for 6 months or more, our bank account is now missing 700.00 for no good reason.  It was all me.  It only takes a phone call to price-shop for Rx medications.  I sure can find my way to the phone to see if ten different Target locations have the clearance shoes I want.  Should have called 10 different pharmacies...$700.00 will buy a LOT of clearance shoes!


Be well, say no to drugs and feel like June Cleaver at your local Target pharmacy.

Target Pharmacy hit a home-run and landed on michelles LIST.  Tom Thumb Pharmacy earned a spot on my kick-it-to-the-curb LIST.


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