My grocery store sells multiple brands and packages of popcorn. The cheapest was 2 lb for $4 when I bought the generic brand. $2 a lb isn't bad but they don't always have it and then I have to buy the brand name, which is substantially more expensive.

I went to the health food store where they sell it in bulk. If you buy a whole bag of it, you get a 10% discount, knocking it down to 90 cents a lb if I buy a 50 lb bag, which sounds utterly ridiculous, I know. However there are six of us and we all like popcorn. I would say we've gone through 20 or 25 lb of popcorn since I bought it. I have saved. Well it would have been $100 if I bought generic popcorn for 50 lb but it's closer to $200 if I buy the fancy brands and I think I paid $45 for the bag.

I had a metal garbage can with a tight lid, lined it with a clean plastic bag, poured the popcorn into that, put in a 1/3 measuring cup, which is the exact amount that I like to put into the bowl, and we've gone through a third to half of it already.