Saving Money on Groceries and other Purchases

The holidays are approaching. That means more added expenses than a typical month and searching for ways to save even more money to be able to afford a little treat or two during the holidays.

Here are some articles geared toward saving money other than by clipping coupons. I found some good tips here! Hope you will too.

Save Big without Clipping Couponson Groceries

9 Smart Warehouse Club Shopping Strategies
       You might already know a lot of these strategies, but just in case. My favorite one is that BJ's accepts regular coupons on top of their own coupons they offer. You can get some good buys this way. The only stipulation is that the item has to be packaged individually. For example, a bulk box of granola bars or cereal has to have the same type of quantity packaging as the coupon within the bulk box. Say, two or more smaller boxes inside the bulk packaging. This can be a hit or miss kind of thing.

Find your Grocery Deals by State

Long list of ideas to save money on groceries (maybe there is new valuable nugget here for someone)

Here are few tips I have found very helpful recently.

Buy dried beans when you can - they are cheaper and more healthy than canned.

To make a meal with ground beef go farther, add kidney beans when it will blend with your recipe. We do this with chili and anything mexican. Even my pickiest eater loves them and they are healthier than eating all of that meat.

Walmart and other stores readily accept competitor coupons, as long as they are on a specific item. (sometimes if it is money off your entire purchase - it depends on the store and the wording on the coupon)

Some grocery stores mark down their meat items near the end of the day, so if you go shopping in the evening, you might grab some great deals in the meat section that earlier in the day were still full price. We keep a freezer to put these in.

Walmart has a day old bread rack in the back of the store that you can peruse in the afternoon/evening with items that are still fresh and can be eaten that night or the next day or frozen. These are marked down generally by 40%-50%.

I hope you have found these articles and tips helpful!

Free Treats and Big Discounts at Currclick's Trunk or Treat Harvest Event

Currclick is having their Big Trunk or Treat Harvest Event with 8 hidden curriculum items throughout their pages for your hunting pleasure and up to 75% off on tons of their Fall - themed curriculum items starting 11p.m EST October 17th through October 31st!

I even have my fall themed nature study on sale !

Click here to join in the fun festivities of the "hunt" and some great buys!

Everything You Need to Begin Notebooking Set Super Sale!

Here is a special 72 Hour offer from Cindy Rushton for her Everything You Need to Begin Notebooking Super Set!

Normally $100, now only $37 for the entire set! And, wow, is there a lot in that set! Also, included in this special offer as a bonus are the Notebooking Seminar and Language Arts the Easy Way Seminar sets for free!

Look at what you get for this price!

Notebooking! Yes! You CAN Be a Binder Queen Too! (regular retail $30.00) NEWLY REVISED!

Notebooking! Yes! You CAN Be a Binder Queen Too COMPANION CD! (with over 300 pages to print out to help get you started right away)

Make Your Own Alphabet Notebook

Make Your Own Discipleship Notebook

Make Your Own History Timeline Notebook

Make Your Own English From The Roots Up Notebook

Make Your Own Never-Ending Reading List

Make Your Own Recipe Notebook

Make Your Own Science Notebook

Make Your Own Brain-in-a-Binder Planning Printables (with over 260 pages to help you organize your own notebook of planning pages and calendars and more customized to your needs)

Cindy's best-selling book, Let’s Get Organized

Plus the Bonuses for your purchase:

• Cindy’s Complete Language Arts the Easy Study Set!
• Cindy’s Complete Notebooking Seminar Set!
• Cindy’s eWorkshop Let’s Try Notebooking!
• Cindy’s eWorkshop Notebooking! YES! You CAN BE a Binder Queen Too!
• Cindy’s eWorkshop Language Arts The Easy Way!

I have used Cindy's products for years and reuse them from year to year as my kids get older, you won't be disappointed!

Check out this special purchase now!

Private Currclick Homeschool Curriculum Sale!

Currclick is having a private sale now, October 7th through October 9th where you can receive 50% off on over 4,000 education resources. You can only receive the discount if you use this private coupon code "appreciate" at check-out.

This sale is NOT advertised on their website. Click here to begin purchasing your items for 50% off using the coupon code "appreciate."

Best Days to Purchase Items Online

This is a very informative article with lots of resources for saving money when purchasing items online. These particular articles feature Women's clothing, and another for Men's and Children's clothing.

http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/so-money/women-cheapest-days-to-shop-online/1302/?tag=yahoo-moneywatch

http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/so-money/men-kids-best-days-to-shop-online/1311/?tag=content;col1

Happy shopping! And saving!

What's on Sale in October?

Here's an article with some tips to find out what's on sale right now!

http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-113621-11235-1-whats-on-sale-in-october?hp=true?ywaad=ad0035&nc

We Are Up and Running!

We are finally up and running after a summer vacation delay! Starting the whole school routine and trying to juggle everything put us behind schedule in getting this site together, but it is coming together!

We will be adding much more as the days go on, but you can glance around now at the pages and see what the future holds. (Especially as the holidays approach!). Lots of sales in the future coming soon!

We have sales information, coupon sites and blog suggestions, store and online discount information especially for economical homeschoolers, and interesting articles about saving money. As I hear about homeschool curriculum sales I will post them on the site, as well as frugal recipes to save you money in making everything from your favorite meals to making household products you will want to use everyday.

So come back often and bookmark us in your favorites so you will always know where to find us!

Enjoy! And, let me hear from you if have anything you would like to see that we have not yet included!