Why is it that it is so hard for me to resist a great sale at the grocery store?
Our Albertson's has a sale going on this week on Quaker Cereal products. You can mix or match, but the best buy is on the 42 oz container of oatmeal. You can get ten for $10.00. Last week's newspaper had coupons for Quaker products too!
We frequently eat oatmeal for breakfast, and I make oatmeal bread every week.
I was all set to run to the store and stock up, when I looked in the freezer, and I have a lot of containers of oatmeal from the last sale!
I am not going to go buy more, but a part of my brain is telling me that when what I have is gone I will be paying between three and four dollars for one 42 oz container, and that is the problem!
I need to keep telling myself that not every bargain is something I need to rush out to purchase!
I read a timely article, this morning, about when saving money can be costly, and it mentioned stocking up on more food than you can eat in a year. Been there! Done that! I have tossed food that was way beyond the expiration date.
It is finally sinking in, I think.
Resisting a Sale
January 12th, 2007 at 07:52 pm
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The only other twists I would use are:
1. if your Albertson's did rainchecks, see if the oatmeal was sold out. If it is and they do, then yippee! Stockpile the raincheck instead. The slip of paper's got to be easier to store and less of a waste than the oatmeal.
2. Where a price book comes in handy - sales often repeat. If you learn and are confident that oatmeal goes on sale every 12 weeks or so then you can run out at about the right time.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:58 am 1169639904