I grew up in a town with 1 grocery store, I now live in a town with 3 opitions: Smith's, Jubilee, and Wal-Mart. I do look at the sale ads for the other two stores, but I am pretty lazy and do 99% of my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart. Oh, the horror, right?! I do get my hamburger from the other two stores when it is on sale.
So yesterday I was shopping at Wal-Mart and got myself two pretty good deals. Well, maybe not deals, but for lack of a better word, deals. Here they are:
- I normally by an 18 pack of eggs. I noticed that the 1 dozen boxes were on sale for 96 cents and didn't think about it. Then I started thinking...the 18 packs are 2.06. I can get 2 dozen eggs for less than an 18 pack. I'll get the two cartons of 1 dozen and 6 more eggs for 14 cents less. Steal!! I was proud of myself for actually taking the time to notice the better deal. Pretty obvious to most, but I am so stuck in buying what I always buy that I don't usually take time to notice the price difference.
- Deal #2: I usually buy the "family size" of the cereal that Brent and I eat. Yesterday I went to grab one and noticed, once again, that the family size was 1.48 more than the normal size. So, I looked at the amounts. The regular size had 14 oz and the family had 17 oz. I decided that paying the extra 1.48 was not worth the 3 oz. So, I bought two regular sizes and paid 1.52 more for 11 more oz instead of just 3. I felt better about that.
Whose the bargain shopper, now?! Well, sadly, still not me. I was still happy with the two small bargains I found for myself yesterday. Baby steps, right?
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My sister, Holly, recently joined the world of coupon clipping, ad watching, etc. She showed me all the sites that she uses, and it completely overwhelmed me!! But, it can be a bit addicting when you pay almost nothing for something. She has even gotten money back before. I am slowly joining this club of mainly Mormon moms.
Walmart... oh the horror! :)
What I love is when they have the price per weight... then you can totally figure out if it's a steal or not. And no, I'm not judging about Walmart... :) I just don't like them personally and try to avoid it when I can... which isn't always but whenever possible.
Oooo... sounds like the beginnings of bargain shopping. Be careful, it's addictive!
All it takes to be a bargain shopper is to shop with your EYES WIDE OPEN.
And, I do most of my shopping at WM, too. They price match, so if you do find a deal at one of the other stores, just bring the ad to WM and they'll price match it for you. Oh the horror! :)
Hear I am belated blogger and Holy Cow congrats on the baby-o. I am with you get it done. How are you feeling? Just for the record I am not jumping on the band wagon for this one. Although Corbin is older than Katie and since Andy is slacking in the fix it dept. I guess nothing is certain! Well, I don't share Brent and Bridgers' enthusiasm for the snow but I DO always check my price per oz. at the grocery store. That is all the comparing I do. And I am with you on Walmart. One stop shopping. Why go anywhere else? I am not that into hauling my kids around. But in a perfect world it would be SuperTarget. But here we are in small town Co. not much choice. I can't wait to talk to you!
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