#COUPONING STOCKPILE FULL#
While you may find great deals and get them, the next time you go shopping, you will still be paying full price for that item, when you could have just grabbed one from your pantry. You really can’t save money on your groceries and household items until you start having some sort of stockpile. That is a savings of 73% with the sale price AND coupon! That is a savings of 54% with just the sale price SALE PRICE WITH COUPON: 16 cans at $0.40 each = $6.40 Add to that a probable coupon, and you have it made! Here is an example of how much you would save by stockpiling:ĪT REGULAR PRICE: 16 cans at $1.50 each = $24
If you find them for say, $0.70 – and they are normally $1.50 each, then that is already a great deal. If you use 4 cans of soup a month, then you will want to stockpile 12-16 cans of soup when you find them for a good price. The reason is because you stocked up on it when it was really cheap, and so you have a bunch in storage that you can pick from when you run out – preventing you from making a trip to the store to buy another one AT FULL PRICE, as well as other things you might not have needed (impulse buying). You will find that if you are buying enough of an item to last you 3-4 months at a time, you will hardly ever pay full price for that item again.
With that being said, you will want to see how much you use of an item over say a month’s time, then you will times that by 3 or 4 (depends on how often you can find the sale). Stores tend to rotate their sale cycles about every 3-4 months. (granted there are people who take it from hoarding to stockpiling…) BUT in order to start saving money you have to be able to shop from your own “store”. There is a reason you will see people with their carts full of the great sale items at the stores. If you have menu planners, or even shopping lists, you will see a pattern of what you use the most and what you need to keep stockpiled. In reality, it doesn’t take much to figure out how much you use and of what.
#COUPONING STOCKPILE HOW TO#
When you learn how to start couponing, figuring out how much you need to stockpile could seem like a big chore. I shop alone so its a lot to bag, make sure they scan each coupon, etc… so this way you know what you expect to pay and if its radically off you can review before you leave the store.How to Start Couponing – Figuring out how much you need to stockpile and why This way I can keep track of about what I expect the bill to be. For those math challenged like myself, I have it set up so it totals each column and then subtracts coupons and gives me the final price. I also have a slot for the sale price/current price at time of the shopping trip and then amt of Qs I’ll be using and a slot for quantity of the item. That shiny sale flyer can sometimes trick you …. I have put in the “regular prices” so I have the base/regular price. So this way I already know the “staples” I’m buying each week and then add on the sale items or specialty items needed. I just started a “shopping list” of the stuff I normally have to buy each shopping trip (produce/meat/dairy/drinks) and then the “other” stuff… that I have now a stock pile of such as pop tarts/cereal/condiments/soup etc…
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