Early in the pandemic, if you remember back that far, toilet paper became a rarity on supermarket shelves as shoppers stockpiled essential staples amid curfews and lockdowns (attempting to stem the spread of COVID-19).

In Town:Wise Supermarket, Post Office, FedEx, UPS, 24 Hour Gas Station, Hardware Store, OIP Italian Restaurant, Dollar General, Wendy's, Shamokin High SchoolNearby Cities: Scranton, Harrisburg, Williamsport, Bloomsburg, Reading, Sunbury, Elysburg

Supermarkets and movie theaters have already announced plans to open up new business in the area in months to come.

It is like a supermarket.  

I use these... https://www.custommagnetsdirect.com/Business-Card-...I leave them on gas pumps, the super market deli case...

., the overall economics improves.The cheaper stores like Family Dollar, cheaper supermarkets and Corner Delis begin to disappear.

Try rubbing some paraffin wax (supermarket should have some in the canning section) on the window rails.

(and when Rhode Islanders say "south county" they really mean "Washington County" - see all of the RI counties)So I guess it's good if you guys are going to rent before you figure out where you want to put down roots - after you settle in and start to adopt the Rhode Island mentality (20 minutes away = TOO FAR), you might find Westerly starts to seem like a haul depending on where she gets work and you find properties.Anyway, welcome to Rhode Island.Oh and if it's cold and the sky is in any way cloudy, immediately go to the supermarket and stock up on bread and milk.

So what I do first is go to my area's largest chain supermarket, Giant Eagle, and buy a gift card for Giant Eagle Supermarkets.I pay for the Giant Eagle gift card with the Barclays Mastercard, accruing their travel miles in their frequent flyer program (American offers the most flights out of Pittsburgh).I also link the purchase to my Giant Eagle rewards account, which offers me cheaper prices on gasoline at the many GetGo gas stations Giant Eagle runs all over my area.The next step is to use the Giant Eagle gift card to buy a Home Depot gift card at another or the same Giant Eagle, which means that the same purchase eventually gives me double fuel rewards (you cannot use a Giant Eagle gift card to buy another Giant Eagle gift card or of course that's what I'd be doing, again and again, until they'd be paying me to pump gas at their stations).Finally, I use the Home Depot gift card at Home Depot to buy the stuff I need.Understand, you need iron financial discipline with credit cards to run these kinds of travel and rewards hacking schemes, or sooner or later, you're going to be spending with no sure way of paying them back ON TIME EVERY TIME.

My mom still tells the story of when my elementary school class was taken to the supermarket for a field trip (why we went there, who knows), and I was what the square footage was, LOL.