Stretching Your Dollars When You Go Grocery Shopping

Cutting coupons can seem like a real chore to most people, but the payoff of taking a few minutes each week to sit down and snip out store savings is well worth the small effort.

With the money you save and go grocery shopping wisely, you can get that new outfit you've been dying to have or you can save your money up for something really nice. You'll feel good knowing that you've managed to save plenty of money just by changing a few of your habits and all you'll have to spend is a few minutes on your new strategies.

Lots of people are becoming aware that generic doesn't mean low-quality. What generic products really are is the same as what's in that brand-name package. The product has the same ingredients, is made the same way, looks the same - and is the same!

The only difference is that brand-name manufacturers sell their products to other companies who repackage the product under their own label and offer it to consumers at a lower cost when you go grocery shopping . This is the perfect case of paying more for a name than for the actual quality of the product itself.

Lots of people avoid dollar stores for their shopping because they think the products are old or stale, but the truth is that what's inside the bottle or bag at the dollar store is probably the same product as what's in the new-look packaging on grocery shelves.

Often, when manufacturers change their packaging (but not the contents!), they'll sell the "old" product to dollar stores in bulk, which means huge savings for you. You'll buy the same product at the dollar store as you would when you go grocery shopping, but at a fraction of the price.

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