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Dollar Tree Online Grocery Clearance

What happens when you combine the following three things: a dollar discount store, bulk clearance and online shopping? You get the best deals. Did you know that you can buy in bulk from dollar and discount stores? This is a great way to stock up. You can do this in person, at the actual store of course, but often you won’t be able to get enough of the best bargains to make a decent stockpile. That is where this little secret comes in: you can actually shop the deals online and in bulk. For example, on the Dollar Tree website, … Continue reading →

Grocery Shopping to Save Money

One area of housekeeping that can cost lots of money is feeding your family. Especially if you don’t have a plan. I find that if I just have a general idea of what I’m going to make for the week I spend much more money at the store than if I have a plan. It’s a bit more work to make a plan but really the money you save makes it worthwhile. The first thing you need to do is check the sales. There are some great sites that will match coupons with the sales for you to help you … Continue reading →

A Better Grocery Shopping Experience

Grocery shopping is not my strong suit, I’m never organized. I usually stop at the store on the way home from work and pick up a few things. When I do decide that I need to go grocery shopping I usually wander up and down every aisle, picking up whatever catches my fancy, no method to my madness. Once I get it home, unpacked and put away I realize that although I’ve spent my entire grocery budget for the month, I don’t have everything I need to make meals. Maybe I have the stuff to make Alfredo sauce but no … Continue reading →

New Grocery Shopping Techniques (2)

I have definitely changed the way I do my grocery shopping. The rise in food and gas prices and the frequent changes of the prices of everything has made the old grocery shopping habits to save money just not work anymore. In the previous article I shared some of my new strategies. Here are the rest. (If you missed the first part of this article, click here: New Grocery Shopping Techniques. I skip the coupons. The newspaper recently raised their cost to $1.75 for the Sunday edition, and the coupons in it have been pretty skimpy. Because I am not … Continue reading →

The Grocery Report

After being absent from the grocery store for about three weeks, we had a grocery shopping trip today. Although I know that food prices are rising, I was still shocked by how much some things cost. Other items stayed close to their previous prices, although the amount of the product shrunk. Here is a comparison of price changes on items that I found in one store in the span of those three weeks. The pricing may shock you. The first place I examine prices was in the baking aisle. I was in there anyway, picking up some cornstarch and baking … Continue reading →

Extra Grocery Rewards: Get Them with A Bonus Card

The other day, I was waiting in line at the grocery store, coupons in hand. One of the items in my cart was some Ragu pasta sauce. It was on sale for buy one get one free. I was combing that offer with a coupon for a free jar (click here to learn how to get one) and essentially getting two free jars of sauce. The woman in front of me in the line also had a jar of Ragu pasta sauce in her cart, along with what looked like the makings of one meal (pasta, the sauce, a bagged … Continue reading →

Grocery Store Carts with Televisions!

I happened upon a newspaper article in the Sunday, September 17th edition of the Daily Herald that I found very interesting. Written by Greg Bluestein of the Associated Press, it tells how a grocery store in Alpharetta, Georgia, has installed small television screens in some of their shopping carts so children can watch while their parents get the marketing done. I say, get some of those brought over here to Utah! I don’t believe in letting my children turn into little zombies in front of the TV. But let’s be totally honest, shall we – aren’t there times when you … Continue reading →

Free Holiday Gifts (and some under $5)

How many people can you knock off of your Christmas giving list without spending any more than $5 a piece? One, two, none? You might be surprised. With a little investment of a few hours, you might be able to get a gift for everyone on your list for free or for less than $5. Here are some ideas. Homemade Knitting Knitting a sweater or a scarf is an age-old way to give someone a nice personal gift, but yarn, especially that made out of wool can get expensive. Instead, buy a nice sweater or sweaters second hand and then … Continue reading →

Food Auctions

Food auctions aren’t just for Honey Boo Boo. You might have seen the family of the reality show visit a food auction during one of their episodes. They placed bids on various products, won some and took their bounty home. Food auctions are gaining in popularity and becoming more and more available throughout the United States. As traditional auctions, ones that feature antiques drop off, auctioneers and auction houses are all too happy to switch over to auctioning food, something that has wide appeal to consumers in this economy. Winning bidders can save as much as 50 percent off of … Continue reading →

What Do Kids Do At Home Based Preschool?

One thing that is often on the mind of parents of toddlers is preschool. After all, once a toddler is no longer a toddler, he becomes part of the “preschoolers” age group whether or not he actually attends preschool. I am not sure why that is, and this morning when I was talking with my husband about it he agreed that it seems a bit odd to define an entire age group by something that not every child does. Perhaps the reason that it seems odd to us is that our soon – to – be preschooler is unlikely to … Continue reading →