Cutting Your Grocery Bill

As a wife and a mom, I know these hard economic times make our jobs more harder. Let's face it, the bigger they get, the more kids eat, and I think it's safe to assume that ALL of our children are getting bigger every day!

If you're like me, you're trying hard to "trim the fat" in your budget wherever you can. Unfortunately rising grocery prices make that a challenging task, and "you gotta eat!" For me, I am making a choice to revisit an old tool that has helped me a lot in the past. I've never needed it more than now!

The Grocery Game is a wonderful tool to help you save money on your groceries. The concept behind it is simple, and they've taken most of the hard work out of the process. Everybody knows coupons are a good thing, but most of us don't have the time or are not willing to out in the effort to organize the process, but if you realized how much money you could save, you might revisit the possibility.

Coupons come weekly in the local newspaper, but the weekend they arrive is not necessarily the best time to use them. I don't know if you realize that stores often stock up on a hot coupon item the week the coupons are released. Let's say you have an item that's $2, and there is a 50¢ coupon in the paper that week. Great, you just saved 25% off that item. But did you realize that 3 weeks later when that stocked up item is now crowding the shelf, your grocery store is likely to reduce the price of that item. Let's say they drop the item to but $1.25 in order to clear the shelf. You have held on to your 50¢ coupon, you can but the item for 75¢! You've save 63%! And if you shop at a grocery store like mine that doubles coupons (up to $1.00) then YOU can buy that item for the wonderfully low price of just 25¢!! That's right, you will have saved 88% on your item! And savings like that are not, again, I repeat NOT atypical! You can save that kind of money consistently. I remember once when I was "playing the game" I bought $125 worth of groceries for less than $38. I saved 69% on my grocery bill! I almost always saved at least 40%, that's four out of every ten dollars!

"Clipping coupons is a lot of work," you say. But the Grocery Game takes a lot of the effort out for you! They write you a list of everything on special in your chosen store for the week. They also tell you exactly where to find the coupon, whether it's in the newspaper, the mailer or even available to be printed right there online at the Grocery Game itself!

For me the organization process is pretty simple, I bought a flex file (folder that opens with file partitions) and some post it notes. I simply pull out the coupons each week and stick a post it note with the date on the front. Two weeks later when GG tells me to play my coupon from the Procter & Gamble folder of coupons, I find the right date, find my coupon and move on to the next deal. The best way to grocery shop is to make a list before you go, it puts a stop to the impulse buys and frivolous spending. If you incorporate the grocery game into your list making, you're earning money in the process! Why wouldn't you want to do this?

Is there a cost you ask? Well, yes, but it's so reasonable. My current membership includes 1 store, which costs me just $10 every 8 weeks. But you can earn that money and more back in a single shopping trip. Currently I am considering adding an additional store to my membership to expand my options, each additional store costs just $5. I might even add 2 stores because I know I can easily save that $20 in just a single trip to the store when I am armed with my Grocery Game tips.

If you head over to the site now you will find the opportunity to try the game for just $1 for 4 weeks. How can you go wrong?

If you decide to join, please use my email address (GodKptHisPromise@aol.com) as your referral, for every 3 referrals I make I get 12 weeks free. So come on play the game! Then tell three of your friends and earn three weeks for yourself! This isn't just for those of you in Southern California either, you can play throughout the USA!

This was an unsolicited review.