Comments on: Use Your Grocery Receipt as a Cue to Save http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/ personal finance that makes cents Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:06:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Josh Smith http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-82201 Josh Smith Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:28:17 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-82201 We do the same just replace Jar with Savings Account and Full with $50 increments transferred to HSBC online. Last night the person in front of me saved $20 just in coupons...I can only aspire to that. We do the same just replace Jar with Savings Account and Full with $50 increments transferred to HSBC online.

Last night the person in front of me saved $20 just in coupons…I can only aspire to that.

]]> By: Kevin M http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81152 Kevin M Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:55:54 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81152 /sarcasm/ So I should spend $10,000 at the grocery store tonight so my "You Saved:" at the bottom of the receipt is in the hundreds or thousands? Sorry, not a productive comment, but first thing that came to my head. There -are- limits... ;) /sarcasm/ So I should spend $10,000 at the grocery store tonight so my “You Saved:” at the bottom of the receipt is in the hundreds or thousands?

Sorry, not a productive comment, but first thing that came to my head. There -are- limits… ;)

]]> By: Will Tomkinson http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81050 Will Tomkinson Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:29:31 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81050 After a long and exciting road cleaning up our personal finances, my wife an I startes using a lot of the skills we had learned here, other PF blogs and else where and applied it to our grocery bill. We had noticed big increases in grocery expenses when we stopped eating out at restaurants and started bringing lunches to work. Using coupons, sales and flyers it si easy to save approximately 10%-12.5% on EVERY grocery bill. This weekend, we did a shop and saved 34.2% on the total! Gasp. It was worth having to snip or print coupons and scour the flyers. After a long and exciting road cleaning up our personal finances, my wife an I startes using a lot of the skills we had learned here, other PF blogs and else where and applied it to our grocery bill. We had noticed big increases in grocery expenses when we stopped eating out at restaurants and started bringing lunches to work.

Using coupons, sales and flyers it si easy to save approximately 10%-12.5% on EVERY grocery bill. This weekend, we did a shop and saved 34.2% on the total! Gasp. It was worth having to snip or print coupons and scour the flyers.

]]> By: Gwyn http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81044 Gwyn Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:41:25 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81044 What we do is to keep an accurate budget (using PearBudget) each month of what we spend and receive. At the end of the month, we work out the excess (receipts - expenses) and that amount goes into the savings. It's usually a pretty good amount of about 500 a month. What we do is to keep an accurate budget (using PearBudget) each month of what we spend and receive. At the end of the month, we work out the excess (receipts - expenses) and that amount goes into the savings. It’s usually a pretty good amount of about 500 a month.

]]> By: Keith T. http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81042 Keith T. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:22:06 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/03/12/use-your-grocery-receipt-as-a-cue-to-save/#comment-81042 Some banks have formed programs which do exactly this -- add up the remainder of cents from your debit/credit transactions over the course of the day, and transfer that sum into your savings account. Wells Fargo and Bank of America have this -- at BOA it's called "Keep The Change". Avid card users can find anywhere from $1 to $5 or so a day or weekend (I've had one drop of over $10) siphoned into their savings accounts this way. Some banks have formed programs which do exactly this — add up the remainder of cents from your debit/credit transactions over the course of the day, and transfer that sum into your savings account. Wells Fargo and Bank of America have this — at BOA it’s called “Keep The Change”. Avid card users can find anywhere from $1 to $5 or so a day or weekend (I’ve had one drop of over $10) siphoned into their savings accounts this way.

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