Check Your Local Grocery Ads
This will not be any new advice, but it bears repeating. Each week when your grocery store flyers appear in your mailbox or on your driveway, sit down, pull out a black marker, and go through the ad circling the items that are on sale. Be careful, and know your prices, as the stores are good at fooling you into thinking it’s a good deal when it’s not. Just because it is in big, bold numbers or in a flashy circle doesn’t mean that item is really a good price.
However, when something is on sale, buy a few extra of that item and store it in your fridge, freezer or pantry. Here’s an example.
This week Boston Butt pork roasts were on sale for $.98/lb. I haven’t seen pork roasts this inexpensive for years; usually they run about $1.28/lb. So I purchased 3 of them, for future use. They averaged about seven pounds each, so on each roast I saved about $2.10 plus $.13 tax, for a total of $2.23 on each roast, coming to a savings of roughly $6.69 on just that item. Again, if you saved that much each week for an entire year, you would have an extra $347.88 at the end of the year. That is significant savings to think about!
Remember, every dime saved is a dime you don’t have to earn.
3:20 pm July 18, 2009 | Category: Time Saving Tips | Leave a Comment
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