My microeconomics text book cost me about 253 burritos from Taco Bell

I found this weeks discussion on relative prices both interesting and releaving. I found it interesting because I actually view the price of a prospective purchase in the form of hw much of something else I could buy with the same money. I was releaved to learn about relative prices, because for a while I sort of thought that I was the only one who viewed the price of a new TV in terms of cheeseburgers and tacos. As far as I can tell, the theory surronding relative prices seems to be pretty sound, that is if the price of one good goes down people buy more valuable things. A point that we touched on in class that didn't occur to me before for some reason, is that if you're budget consits of $1 tacos and $2 comic books and the price of tacos goes down enough so that you end up with $2 extra then normal, you might be inclined to spend it on antother comic book. I had always been confined to the thinking of spending a set amount of money on one particular good regardless of price, so that if the price on tacos went down, I'd simply end up with a bunch of tacos. I think I will deffinitly use this concept more consciencly and efficiently now that Ive learned a bit more about it. So the next time prices drop on something I was planning on buying multiples of, I'll stop and check my other options before I simply just buy more of the *discounted* good then what I had originaly intended.