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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Grocery Shopping This Week: Printable Shopping Lists Are Up!


Grocery Smarts' printable shopping lists are up! If you're going to do only one thing to help slash your grocery budget, this is it. Just by using these lists and buying only 4 and 5 star items, you'll save 50%!

Never used Grocery Smarts' printable shopping lists? Here's how:
  • To view the printable shopping lists, go here.
  • On the right hand side it says "Enter a PASSPORT." Enter g84rcm and click "submit".
  • Then select your store in the drop down menu on the center of your screen.
  • Now you should see a list of the current sales at your store, already matched up with coupons! The coupons are listed in the column titled "Coupon Index."
  • To read the coupons listed, the coupon is described by what product it is for, the value of the coupon and how many you have to buy. The date in parentheses is the date the coupon expires. Following that, there is a description such as SS-3/28, which means it came from the March 28 Smart Source insert in the Sunday Paper. RP stands for Red Plum, and PG stands for Proctor & Gamble. Note: Our RedPlum comes on Tuesday, but it is still dated for the following Sunday.
  • If a coupon is printable, there will be a link to where you need to go to print it.
  • Notice the red or black stars on the left hand side of the table? Four or five red stars mean that's a great price, and if your family uses that item, you should stock up!
  • You can shrink these printable lists to include only 4 and 5 star items by clicking on the "start" button at the top right of the screen. Then click the single red star on top right hand corner of the table. Now click "shrink" on the top right of the screen again. Now you have just the items that are really good prices this week. You can print your list from here, if you'd like.
  • Or, before you shrink your list, you can also highlight just the items you need to get that week. The click "shrink" and you'll have just the items you need.
Pretty easy! However, this list doesn't include EVERY coupon out there, either regular coupons or printable coupons. It only includes newspaper insert coupons and coupons from the Grocery Smarts coupon database. So you still want to know what other coupons you have so you can compare them with the sale prices, and have a price point in mind of what you're willing to spend on certain items.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Coupon Class!


I'm teaching my first couponing class in Logan tomorrow! I'll also be giving away a bunch of stuff during the class (that I was able to get for FREE using coupons!), so if you're available tomorrow evening, come! Let me know if you're interested and leave me your email address, and I'll email you the location and time.

I'm so excited!

If you're interested in learning about couponing, I'd be happy to teach a FREE class for you, too! Get a group of 5 or more friends together (or any organized group, such as a church group), and let me know when a good day is for you. Email me at cashincache@gmail.com.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Great Blogs to Visit

So I have a potential partner for the blog! We'll see how it works out. I still doubt we'll be posting EVERY deal and EVERY coupon like I've been doing. Like I said, it's already out there, and I don't feel it's important for me to duplicate other blogs. The only added benefit I was providing was allowing you to just come to one place, so you didn't have to search all these other blogs.

So where should you go to find the deals? Here are my 4 favorite blogs:

Hip2Save - This is my all time favorite. The blogger, Collin, is my hero. She's in North Carolina, so the deals vary slightly from what is available to us. I read this blog several times a day.

Utah Deal Diva - IMO, this is the go-to blog for Utah. She posts great deals about Smiths and other events going on.

Utah Shopping Secrets/Pinching Your Pennies - I love their printable shopping lists. VERY easy to use, and great for a beginning couponer.

The Krazy Coupon Lady - The bloggers are 2 ladies from Idaho and California, but they do get a few things the other 3 blogs miss. I really like their catalina section.

If you're really into finding deals, you can also checkout Buxr for nation-wide deals. Two website for local deals are SumSay (just launched!) and City Deals (search by your zip code).

Happy shopping, and stay tuned to see what else I come up with to make this blog unique to Saving Cash in Cache Valley!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Other Ways to Save Money

Utah Shopping Secrets often provides many great ways to save money on their blog. Here are two recent that I really like:

Food Co-ops (like Bountiful Baskets and a few others I hadn't heard about!)

Making your own fabric softener & dryer sheets

Utah Deal Diva also has a good post about making your own cleaners.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

31 Ideas for Saving Money


Here's a great link from All You Magazine that has an idea a day for a month worth of tips to save money! Check it out here!

All You also has great coupons that you don't get in the Sunday paper! You can get 2 free issues to try the magazine here!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Pinching Your Pennies & Grocery Smarts


PinchingYourPennies and GrocerySmarts are two great, local resources for finding good deals in Utah. GrocerySmarts also has printable grocery lists, and matches them to many printable coupons and coupons found in newspapers, although I've noticed they do miss a few that Hip2Save and KrazyCouponLady find. To view the printable grocery lists in Grocery Smarts, use this link.