i usually have to drive all the way to the other side of atlanta to buy my lye and then i pay bout $5 for a pound of it. (i don't buy it in bulk...yet) so anyways i am shopping at this little rinky dink grocery store just to pick up some milk and my DS spots a whole shelf of lye and it is $2.49! it is the exact same stuff i was buying all the way across town and it is less than a mile from my house!! i am so super excited!!