An easy way to save a lot of money on your grocery budget is by using sale flyers. Gone are the days of having to look in a newspaper for sale flyers, or not seeing them until you get to the store. The internet means you can check sale flyers whenever you want, making them easy to use.
Save Money with Sale Flyers
- When meal planning look at what items are on sale and make as many meals with the sale items as possible. Get creative.
- When buying extras, like snacks, try to stick to only the sale items.
- Check to see if the store has a double ad and/or coupon day. Sprouts, for example, has double ad days on Wednesday. This means on Wednesdays you can get savings from two weeks worth of ads! This can lead to big savings.
- Stock up on things while they are on sale. Now this can get you in trouble if you aren’t careful! Make sure the items you stock up on are things you really will use and you will use before they expire.
- Don’t buy things just because they are on sale. “Oh that’s a great deal” doesn’t mean you need it. If you won’t use it, you are wasting money no matter how great of a deal it seems to be.
- If the store as an app be sure to download it. Store apps often have the sale flyers, that way you can keep it with you incase you need to check a price.
- Ask for rain checks. If a store is out of an item that is on sale they will often give you rain checks to get the item later at the same price.
- Match sales with coupons. Stores often also have coupons or you can find them on company’s websites. Coupons on top of sales can save you a lot of money!
Do you have any other tips for using sale flyers? Do you check out sale flyers before shopping?
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Jaime
March 30, 2015 at 3:03 pmAwesome tips! Wal Mart price matches most things from their ad, so that’s a great way to save money if you have a Wal Mart closer to you than another grocery store! You just have to make sure you have the other store’s ad.
Lisa Sharp
April 1, 2015 at 4:02 pmA few stores do that, it’s always good to ask. 🙂
Natalie
March 30, 2015 at 4:15 pmThese are excellent ideas. I always forget to ask for rain checks. Thanks for sharing!
Lisa Sharp
April 1, 2015 at 4:02 pmMe too! I meant to get one the other day at Sprouts. Oops!
diane
March 30, 2015 at 7:15 pmI love shopping at sprouts but never seem to make it there on wednesday!
Lisa Sharp
April 1, 2015 at 4:01 pmI rarely make it there on Wednesdays but it’s exciting when I do!
Samantha&Bev@reinspireddecor.com
March 30, 2015 at 11:48 pmGreat tips! I also love finding new things to try when they are on sale.
Lisa Sharp
April 1, 2015 at 4:01 pmIt’s the best way to try new stuff for sure!
Jessica Cangiano
March 31, 2015 at 5:32 pmGood tips, Lisa! Couponing is not the mega “industry”, if you will, in Canada that it is in the States (there are significantly fewer coupons produced for use here and we can usually one use at a time on a given item or sometimes for a whole transaction even, it depends on the store and/or any sales happening then), so watching flyers becomes all the more important, especially if you’re on a tight budget. I check them out online most weeks, as we don’t get the newspaper, and try to shop according, especially for meat, which has massively gone up in prices here in the last couple of years (like, it’s ridiculously expensive most of the time now).
? Jessica
Lisa Sharp
April 1, 2015 at 4:00 pmMeat has gone up here as well. I get most of my meat locally and we have had a bad drought so beef costs have gone up and sometimes it’s a bit hard to find the cuts I want. Thanks for stopping by again!