Starting The Grocery Game . . . Again
February 9, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under The-Grocery-Game, coupons, frugal living, saving money
I walked into the grocery store yesterday and a man from the newspaper had his little booth set up to give out Sunday papers and to promote the subscription. For 13 weeks, the price was about $32, but for signing up he gave me a $10 gift card to the grocery store.
Now, I can start back up with The Grocery Game.
Some of you already know this, but last year my husband and I worked and lived at a ministry for a while. Before moving there, we lived off our stockpile of groceries. There was no sense in buying more groceries, when I had a pantry full of things I got at awesome deals.
Now that we’ve moved away from the ministry, it has been difficult to start over again. I am not the kind of person that walks into the grocery store and only buys what I need for that week’s meals. I was not raised that way and it’s simply not thrifty! After all, why would I want to pay $4.99 for meat this week when I could have bought it last week for $1.99?
Shopping the sales with coupons is the best way to stockpile and to avoid paying full price for groceries. When using The Grocery Game (TGG), I can easily save 50% or more on my grocery bill each week and have a pantry full of items.
So, here I am . . . All ready to start looking at TGG list each week and clipping coupons. I’m ready to start saving again.
In case you’re wondering what the big deal is or how you can save 50% or more on your grocery bill, please check out these links:
How to Play The Grocery Game
10 Tips for Using Coupons
An Interview with Teri Gault, Founder of The Grocery Game
Time is Money and Money is Time
If you do decide to play The Grocery Game, please use me as your referral. knowhimwell at hotmail dot com. The introductory membership is $1 for the first month.
image: mine
Unfortunately, the most convenient (and usually, cheapest) grocery store to me is part of a tiny local family-run chain (maybe 4, 5 stores), and TGG doesn’t support them. Not that they should have to or anything, but every time I read about them, I think, “Man, I wish we could do that…”
I have always been intrigued by TGG… may have to look into actually doing it now. I have a good stockpile of coupons going on and just need to learn how to use them to their fullest!
I do the grocery game, mostly because it’s just easier than figuring it all out by myself. If you’re interested in learning how to optimize your coupon savings the $1 trial to TGG is a great starting point.
in our area we have “Savings Angel.” Very similar, but one flat rate for local stores. It is not available everywhere, but it sure is worth a look!