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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 148677" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Great thread! We used to order pizza (difficult child's favorite) once a week "for our treat". Cost: $30 a week. We now wait until the good quality frozen ones come on sale 2 for $4.97 and we add extra veggies from fridge etc when we bake them. WHen they are on sale I stock up on the freezer. The kids could care less about delivery vs frozen as long as it's a good quality frozen. </p><p>difficult child is a major addict to one brand of pop (soda). It is regular price $7.97 here for 24 cans. I wait until it's on sale for 18 cans for $3.97 and stalk up. I will NOT replace them until the next store sale sooooo difficult child has learned to pay attention to when the sale is coming again and making sure his pop stash lasts him. Before I was buying soooo many cases at full price to keep him "supplied". </p><p>I am still a fan of certain brand name things, especially regarding groceries. Kraft PB is a must, so when the huge jars are on a great sale I buy 2 or 3 and usually pay for those what I'd have paid for one at regular price. </p><p>I have found online sites for coupons where you can pick up to 20 coupons every so many weeks from a huge inventory of coupons. They arrive free by mail within a few days. So for example I may have a coupon for $2.00 off a 24 pack of a specific brand name toilet paper. I will hold the coupons until a store has a sale at half price for that brand. So normal price would be 24 rolls for $8.99 and go on sale for 24 rolls for $4.99 and after my $2.00 off I pay $2.99, saving $6.00. I never thought I'd care enough to put so much effort into my shopping. </p><p>But now that I have been paying attention and sale shopping and using the coupons and being careful of what is too high priced to bother with, we are saving a TON of money in this house. There were things we were doing without, like wearing jeans longer than we would like, they would be getting worn but we'd hold off replacing them. With my smarter shopping I'm able to keep up with the kids growth spurts and the wearing out of clothes much easier without noticing it in my budget or having to sacrifice for it.</p><p>We don't rent videos anymore. I have friends who download constantly so will give them a spindle of DVD's and ask them to burn me a copy of everything they burn. Once all 25 on the spindle are full I pick them up and we have a stash of movies just waiting for whenever we want to watch something, PLUS we get to keep them. A spindle of 25 disks is about the cost of renting 2-3 movies at Blockbuster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 148677, member: 4264"] Great thread! We used to order pizza (difficult child's favorite) once a week "for our treat". Cost: $30 a week. We now wait until the good quality frozen ones come on sale 2 for $4.97 and we add extra veggies from fridge etc when we bake them. WHen they are on sale I stock up on the freezer. The kids could care less about delivery vs frozen as long as it's a good quality frozen. difficult child is a major addict to one brand of pop (soda). It is regular price $7.97 here for 24 cans. I wait until it's on sale for 18 cans for $3.97 and stalk up. I will NOT replace them until the next store sale sooooo difficult child has learned to pay attention to when the sale is coming again and making sure his pop stash lasts him. Before I was buying soooo many cases at full price to keep him "supplied". I am still a fan of certain brand name things, especially regarding groceries. Kraft PB is a must, so when the huge jars are on a great sale I buy 2 or 3 and usually pay for those what I'd have paid for one at regular price. I have found online sites for coupons where you can pick up to 20 coupons every so many weeks from a huge inventory of coupons. They arrive free by mail within a few days. So for example I may have a coupon for $2.00 off a 24 pack of a specific brand name toilet paper. I will hold the coupons until a store has a sale at half price for that brand. So normal price would be 24 rolls for $8.99 and go on sale for 24 rolls for $4.99 and after my $2.00 off I pay $2.99, saving $6.00. I never thought I'd care enough to put so much effort into my shopping. But now that I have been paying attention and sale shopping and using the coupons and being careful of what is too high priced to bother with, we are saving a TON of money in this house. There were things we were doing without, like wearing jeans longer than we would like, they would be getting worn but we'd hold off replacing them. With my smarter shopping I'm able to keep up with the kids growth spurts and the wearing out of clothes much easier without noticing it in my budget or having to sacrifice for it. We don't rent videos anymore. I have friends who download constantly so will give them a spindle of DVD's and ask them to burn me a copy of everything they burn. Once all 25 on the spindle are full I pick them up and we have a stash of movies just waiting for whenever we want to watch something, PLUS we get to keep them. A spindle of 25 disks is about the cost of renting 2-3 movies at Blockbuster. [/QUOTE]
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