Josh Elledge - Chief Executive Angel
When it comes to shopping smart at the grocery store, there are two times of year when I see people falling off the wagon big time: Summer and the weeks leading up to Christmas. As someone who is deeply concerned about spending money wisely, I wish people would stay on track and not throw caution to the wind because it's a special time of year. When families take their eye off the ball during these periods of celebration, they end up spending several months in financial repentance.
In my family, I have three kids who are not in school during the summer. We have summer vacations and other things we want to do when the kids have free time. I'll be perfectly honest with you, it can take some real discipline to invest the extra time to shop wisely each week during the summer months. While I can't say I've done a perfect job this summer, I'm thankful for 21st Century technology that makes the old-fashioned coupon-clipping system a thing of the past. I admire the couponing pros who spend 8 to 10 hours a week clipping every single coupon and matching up their collection with stores' weekly ads. I couldn't realistically do that.
If you're looking to save yourself some time these last few weeks while gearing up for the start of school, take a peek at SavingsAngel.com and we'll match up the best coupons from your Sunday Newspaper with the best local sales. For the first time ever, for 2011, we've also been indexing the best back to school deals at all the biggest chain stores and at the three major office chains: Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples. Yes. Your Sunday coupons will work just fine at office stores.
We're finishing the home-stretch of summer and we're in the thick of the back-to-school shopping season. If you've taken some time off from using your Sunday coupons, I'll let you in on a secret: the next 30-60 days are going to be some of the most exciting times for those who refocus on Enlightened Shopping. In this Sunday's Newspaper, there were four coupon inserts filled with amazing savings potential. This week is generally not the best time to use new coupons. Instead, you'll likely want to time your redemption for the biggest sales on those items sometime in the next couple months.
Finally, Let me dispel a huge myth: Back-to-school season is more than just cheap school supplies and kid-size jeans. You'll have an opportunity to fully stock your pantry with food as well as your home office and your kids' backpacks at bargain prices if you take advantage of all the coupon and sale combinations. In particular, nearly ANYTHING that you could imagine going into a school lunchbox will be on sale – and chances are, there's a coupon for that.
The deals I share in this column are among the 200-plus products you can get at local stores for 50 percent off or better each week. Log in to our site for more information on these deals. In the meantime, it's time to re-hitch your wagon for some great money-saving shopping!
The easiest way to cut your grocery bill in half is through using manufacturers coupons combined with the best sales at local stores. Normally, this takes a lot of work to create a winning shopping list for your family. Each week, SavingsAngel.com combines over 2,000 products on sale at local grocery and drug stores with their enormous database of manufacturer coupons ““ which are found in your Sunday paper and throughout the Internet. This combination results in access to over 300 products each week for 50% off or better. Here are a few examples of deals that are available until Saturday at midnight. Please look in Tuesday's Grand Rapids Press each week for tips on how you can easily start cutting your grocery bill!
Josh Elledge is the Chief Executive “Angel” of SavingsAngel, Inc. ““ launched from his Holland, Michigan home in January 2007. A husband and father of three, he now appears each week on Fox 35 Orlando, in the Grand Rapids Press, and a number of radio stations across the country teaching families how to cut their grocery bill in half using the Internet. Elledge created the technology found on SavingsAngel.com through the need to save his own family's money. Successfully able to cut his own grocery bill from $600 a month to less than $300 a month, his message has reached hundreds of thousands of families. SavingsAngel.com is now growing rapidly throughout the country. You can watch a short video at SavingsAngel.com that will explain more information about how to cut your own grocery bill in half with the help of SavingsAngel.com.
