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The upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend, signals the beginning of some great summer deals. Between this week and next week, plan on adding the following items to your shopping list:
Barbecue sauce
Frozen veggies
Baked beans
Condiments
Meat for grilling (ribs, hot dogs, and ground beef)
Some final Spring cleaning deals
Sodas & Bottled Water
Raid/Off bug repellents
Sunscreen
Linens and Towels
Products for your car
Home Maintenance products
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This Mother’s Day, you can give twice the gift if you’ll use some shopping savvy. In 2012, there are more ways to save while giving a great Mom’s Day gifts than ever before. Web retailers and daily deal sites are leading the charge. There are many half-priced hotel stays, spa treatments, cosmetics, jewelry deals, restaurant deals, and clothing deals. Also, don’t forget the flowers. Use these tips for flower buying! More
This week, we BUST these common grocery savings myths:
Myth: In the grocery store, you’ll always find great deals on the “End cap”
Myth: Store brands (generic) are always a better value
Myth: Buy the bigger box to save money
Myth: If I buy something for 50% off, I’m saving money.
Myth: Warehouse clubs are the most economical.
Myth: “Always Low prices” stores or little discount stores are the most economical. More
Eating breakfast is expensive! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. In particular, if you regularly eat breakfast at a restaurant, I’m about to share some numbers that are staggering. You may never eat breakfast out again once you know what you’ve been losing. With some angelic coupon-sale combinations, you can save big money from your breakfast food budget. More
Part of being a Savings Angel shopper is making smart choices for your family. While it’s entirely possible to use a coupon and buy junk food for 60-80% off, my philosophy is to find the best deals on the healthiest foods for my family. Additionally, from the money I save on other areas of my grocery bill, such as buying cleaning supplies, hygiene products, and paper products for 60-80% off, I’ve been able to afford more food from the produce section. This has had a very positive effect on my family’s health. Three years ago, I lost over 50 pounds in one year’s time – and I have coupons to thank for my weight loss.
If you’d like to succeed in getting your family into healthy eating the Savings Angel way, here are five of my biggest tips! More
A vast majority of prices you’ll see at your local retailer end in odd numbers – usually nine. According to a 1997 study, approximately 60% of prices in advertising material ended in the digit 9, 30% ended in the digit 5. Why do retailers do this? Simply put, it works. More
As a SavingsAngel shopper, everything may be going perfectly according to plan in the aisles and you’re ready to complete a 50% to 60% off shopping trip. You can still get tripped up at the register and lose some of your planned savings if something doesn’t scan right – or a cashier may not understand a coupon redemption policy. Most seasoned couponers have seen about everything and have learned by experience some of the helpful tips I’m going to share with you to make your checkout process as smooth as possible. More
How do you get the best prices on cleaning supplies? In my experience, the drug store chains are your best bet. Often, you can apply your coupons from your Sunday paper (or printed from the Internet) to some fantastic sales – or deals that involve getting money back at the register. At Walgreens, you’ll get Register Rewards. At CVS it’s Extra Care Bucks. At Rite Aid, it’s +Up Rewards. Each of these can generally be used on your very next purchase.
If you’d like to fill a shelf or two at home with your favorite cleaning supplies, you can stock up over the next few weeks and pay a fraction of what you’d spend over the course of a year. Buying cleaning supplies only when you need them is the most expensive way to go. Here are some examples of deals we saw last year to give you an idea of what to expect in the weeks ahead. These deals were pulled from our online database at SavingsAngel.com. Note that this was only one week – and doesn’t come close to revealing all the deals you’ll find over the next four to five weeks. More
One of my favorite parts of my work is sitting down and talking with women and men who are shopping for their families. I visit with families that shop the sales and seldom buy a product unless it’s on sale. I think that’s great they do this. I also visit with families who use coupons on the products they regularly buy. I think using coupons is great. However, savings “˜magic’ truly comes from applying your very high value coupons on top of your great local sales while taking advantage of all the other savings opportunities that exist. These savings combinations are how we calculate most of the 60%-80% off products each week.
One of the most surprising things people learn when they start shopping with SavingsAngel is that they can apply more than one coupon or discount on a single product. Although this concept is a bit confusing at first, it helps to understand the different categories of discounts:
1. Store Sales
2. Manufacturer Coupons
3. Store Coupons
4. Register Rewards / Extra Care Bucks / Catalinas
5. Manufacturer Rebates
6. Store Rebates
7. Other promotions / incentives
How to “˜stack’ discounts. More
Spring break is around the corner for many of us and summer vacations are not too far away. It’s great to get away, but if you’ve got kids in tow, it’s easy to “˜eat up’ your vacation budget when you’ve got mouths to feed. A simple breakfast at a local sit-down restaurant could set you back $40. Lunch can cost about the same while dinner is at least as much. All told, you could be blowing through $120-$140 a day just in food. More
One of the greatest financial tragedies I regularly hear are good, hard-working men and women who refuse to even consider using coupons. They have some belief that strategically using coupons will never work with their lifestyle and that it would be a waste of their time. More
You can mark me as an animal lover. Like many Americans, I’ve always had cats or dogs. Our dear family friend of 13 years, Meeka, (a Border Collie / Spaniel mixed breed) passed two months ago and my whole family has been heart broken. More
