It pays to shop around!

We've been looking at the "Replace Filter" light glowing at us everytime we open our refrigerator door.  Since we are currently renting, that is one of those things we're expected to maintain.  So it was with dread that we went to the local Sears parts place to see how much this would cost us.  The nice lady looked up our model # and led us to the filter.  $54.98 (+ tax of course).  Gulp!  I honestly had no clue what the price was, but was expecting between $30-$40.  While this isn't a huge chunk of change, I'm still without a job, so $58.55 (which is the filter with tax) for something like that (boring household necessity), was a little hard for me to swallow.  I knew I could find a better deal so we left the store empty handed and I came home to search the internet.  I found a couple of good sites that just sold refrigerator filters and watched the price come down with each new site.  My last search was Amazon, BINGO!!  They had the Whirlpool version of our filter for $31.47 with Free Shipping!!  That's right, $27 less than the Kenmore version at the Sears store!  And once again, this is a Whirlpool filter, not some no name item and I spent maybe 10 minutes on this search.   Too bad I can't land a job finding good deals, I'd be a superstar!