Man, a buck fifty is a buck fifty but is it really worth four minutes of your Friday? I get the principle of it, the tag says one thing so that's the price, but I have also seen people hold up a whole line over a dime and it makes everybody behind them nuts. Half the time the shelf tag is just old and it is not some big scam, it is just a store that does not pay anybody to update the stickers. You already did the smart thing and swapped for the cheaper pack, so you got your chili and nobody had to call corporate. I would have paid it and been annoyed in my car for ten minutes, then forgotten about it by dinner.

Wait, your brother tiled an entire bathroom without spacers and thought that was fine? That is wild to me because grout lines without spacers turn into a crooked mess, and he must have been fighting every single tile by hand. Two days of extra work just to prove a point is honestly impressive in a painful way (my dad is the exact same, he once patched a hole in the drywall with like six layers of spackle instead of just cutting a square and putting in a new piece). The leaf blower thing gets me too because I did the same with a push broom on my driveway for years, and the first time I borrowed my neighbor's blower I felt so dumb standing there while it took me ten minutes instead of an hour. Some lessons you just have to learn the hard way, I guess.