Saving You Time & Money
If you have a question you’d like to see answered you can e-mail me or leave a comment here. (I’ll e-mail you a response fairly quickly even if I don’t post it quickly) This week’s question comes from Tara. She asks, “How many coupon inserts should you get?” My recommendation is to get one set of inserts for each equivalent of an adult consumer in your household. Meaning, If you have 2 adults and 2 elementary age kids that each {Read More}
If you’re not familiar with shopping at Walgreens, you’ll want to read this tutorial before reading this post on how to write your own scenarios. I’ve had many readers ask me how I write scenarios. The honest answer is it’s just a puzzle to me- a mathematical game. But there is some logic to the process so I’ll start with this pic of how I usually write out the deals I want to put in my scenario. Mind you that {Read More}
Reader Gail asks “Why don’t you think the gas card promotion at CVS is a good deal? It’s $10 of free gas!” First, I calculate the value of an item in a multi-purchase deal. Let’s use some items from next week’s ad: Digiorno, Kellogg’s and Doritos The Digiorno are on sale 2/$11. I would need to buy 6 to push me over the $30 mark. 6×5.5= $33 $33-$10 gas card = $23 $23/6 = $3.83 each The Kellogg’s Cereals are {Read More}
Jayme says: I really want “to get my couponing together along with my meal plan. I use yours. How are you making these meals for under 5.00?“ First, my $5 is an average. You’ll see that several meals will be over $5, even up to $10 for something like Dairy Queen, Salmon or Shrimp, or higher for a sit down meal at a restaurant. When I have a more expensive meal for the week I try to balance this with {Read More}