as a horny 22 year old I can’t say I really put that much thought into birth control.

when Mr. D and I got married we knew we didn’t really want kids showing up unannounced for a few years at least and didn’t really want to be bothered with condoms, so the pill seemed like a no-brainer.

I was always fascinated by couples who “left it up to God”, but figured God kinda set the natural process in motion, so a baby was a pretty natural result.

a little over a year and a half into marriage we started becoming interested in a more simple, natural lifestyle and began a long process of reevaluating many products and choices. one of those reevaluations included methods of birth control.

good-bye vile pills was the result.

so condoms it was.

if you’re like a lot of people, I doubt you really put that much thought into what condoms you use. I certainly can’t say that we did. the thought we put in was basically, how do we get the most bang for our buck? (sorry, couldn’t resist – these things practically write themselves)

after years of thoughtlessly just buying the best deal we could find at Walmart, and several orders from Alice.com (which came in a really cool tin until they stopped selling them) I realized one day while doing our finances the actual cost of having sex.

$0.50 certainly sounds miniscule all by itself, but even pennies add up to hundreds over time, and when you are working toward goals and dreams while purposing to maintain a debt free lifestyle, pennies matter.

while I actually place a very high value on sex, putting a real monetary visual in my head gave me pause. everything is certainly relative in the field of finance, but for our budget 2 quarters looks closer to $1 than feels comfortable.

I figured hey, there has GOT to be a way to buy these things cheaper; they’re not selling rocket science here.

and what isn’t a short google away?!
(we’re actually happily rewarded users of swagbucks – $155 and counting )

shoving away the inclination to feel like a prostitute, I typed in “buying condoms in bulk” or some such search. now I must note this disclaimer that we are avid supporters of AdblockPlus in our browsers and therefore are almost never accosted with advertising, particularly of the unsavory nature. I have no idea how your personal browsing experiences may function.

I guess another title for this post could have been “How I Saved 60% on Condoms” because after a bit of cost analysis, Discount Condom King ended up the winner at $0.20 each. not having to remember to buy them as often is a decent perk as well in my book.

in my searches I noticed a couple of oddities – when you search Alice for “condoms” the results include toothbrush cases?

if I am somehow naive in my understanding of how these are related, I am happy to stay that way.

what exactly is the point of a condom case? when it says “Love Box” on it do you really feel that much more discreet if it happens to fall out of your purse?
maybe you just feel higher class.

in any case, as people who don’t know if we’ll ever have more kids but don’t want to make a permanent decision for our future selves, we’re happy with this solution.

{this post proudly sponsored by Angela, mother to six excessively cute and precious children }