That's right...time is money. The question is how much time is worth the amount of money you save? Today I had to do my weekly grocery shopping. I started going during the week for two reasons. 1- Everything hasn't been picked over on the day the sales start, and 2- I don't have to worry about getting out on the weekend if I am busy or have things going on. So today I got off work at 4:30 and got home about 6:18 so almost two hours worth of shopping. I had to go to Target, Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods and stop to fill my car up with gas. So I didn't think the timing was bad :)
I often hear people say they don't have time to coupon or hop from store to store, and I can understand that!!! If nothing else it is a hassle and a pain in the rear sometimes. However, today with the stops I made at each store I ended up spending $62.08, and saved $77.66 or 56 percent. An extra hour of time is worth 77 bucks to me, the last time I checked I don't make that in an hour!!!! I actually probably saved way more than that by making several stops, because I went for certain items on sale at each place so the savings would include the sale price. If I had only went to one place I would have spent A LOT more money. So after adding the prices at my store of choice I would have paid 128.37 (not including tax) and that includes all my coupon savings. In other words I would have paid an additional $66.29 if I bought all my items at one grocery store. So basically by going to 3 different stores I ended up with a total savings of $143.95, yeah not too shabby when you think of it that way.
What did I buy for $66.08 today?
~4 Palermo frozen pizza's
~6 Bags of Kraft Shredded cheese
~1 16 oz Sour Cream
~1 32 oz Kraft Mayo
~1 A-1 Steak sauce
~4 lbs of bananas
~7 lbs of Red Grapes
~3 lbs of baking potato's
~4 packages of Hillshire Farm lunch meat
~4 dozen large eggs
~2 gallons of milk
~4 Jars of Hormel Real Bacon bits
~1 jar of 25 Beef bouillon cubes
~10 Yoplait yogurts
~2 8oz liqiud coffee creams
~1 Natures Own loaf of bread
~3 packs of Budding Honey Ham
I think the price was pretty good being that I got produce which is out of this world price wise. Yay for me!!!!!!!!!!
*******************************Milk Jug Update***************************************
Yes the milk jug is still on the counter....can you believe it? It is driving me crazy, but I am not budging on this one :) Milk Jug was unable to go on an adventure today since I went grocery shopping, maybe tomorrow!
I often hear people say they don't have time to coupon or hop from store to store, and I can understand that!!! If nothing else it is a hassle and a pain in the rear sometimes. However, today with the stops I made at each store I ended up spending $62.08, and saved $77.66 or 56 percent. An extra hour of time is worth 77 bucks to me, the last time I checked I don't make that in an hour!!!! I actually probably saved way more than that by making several stops, because I went for certain items on sale at each place so the savings would include the sale price. If I had only went to one place I would have spent A LOT more money. So after adding the prices at my store of choice I would have paid 128.37 (not including tax) and that includes all my coupon savings. In other words I would have paid an additional $66.29 if I bought all my items at one grocery store. So basically by going to 3 different stores I ended up with a total savings of $143.95, yeah not too shabby when you think of it that way.
What did I buy for $66.08 today?
~4 Palermo frozen pizza's
~6 Bags of Kraft Shredded cheese
~1 16 oz Sour Cream
~1 32 oz Kraft Mayo
~1 A-1 Steak sauce
~4 lbs of bananas
~7 lbs of Red Grapes
~3 lbs of baking potato's
~4 packages of Hillshire Farm lunch meat
~4 dozen large eggs
~2 gallons of milk
~4 Jars of Hormel Real Bacon bits
~1 jar of 25 Beef bouillon cubes
~10 Yoplait yogurts
~2 8oz liqiud coffee creams
~1 Natures Own loaf of bread
~3 packs of Budding Honey Ham
I think the price was pretty good being that I got produce which is out of this world price wise. Yay for me!!!!!!!!!!
*******************************Milk Jug Update***************************************
Yes the milk jug is still on the counter....can you believe it? It is driving me crazy, but I am not budging on this one :) Milk Jug was unable to go on an adventure today since I went grocery shopping, maybe tomorrow!
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