Grocery Smarts

Who wants to know how cool I am?

I knew it. You're all dying to know HOW cool I am.

Have you heard of Grocery Smarts? Have you?

I just went to Albertsons and bought this...Full Price: $37.78
Sale Price: $18.08
I Paid: $10.68

That's a savings of 78%.

"How, Marie? How did you do it?" you ask.
And I say, "Grocery Smarts, my friend, Grocery Smarts".

Grocery Smarts tells you whats on sale, when, and where to find the manufacturers coupon so that you can combine the store's sale price with the manufacturer coupon.

This is almost as exhilarating as buying a fabulous dresser at the DI for $15...

such as this one...
I was so stoked when I went through the check out line at Albertson's I gave the checker a high five. He said he couldn't be happier about my success.

DISCLAIMERS (this may be long. Stop if you're winded or uninterested):

• Grocery Smarts is an off-shoot of Pinching Your Pennies which I've been told about before but their website is SO CONFUSING I could not figure it out and I just gave up.
• When you go to the website you need a passport to get the local grocery stores' sales. The passport for St. George is g84ctb.
  
• Grocery Smarts has representatives who do tiny little seminars. When you go to it you're wondering what the heck you're going to have to buy or what the catch is. The catch is that the representative gets a little commission from all the newspaper subscriptions they sell. In other words... I subscribe to 4 Sunday newspapers so I can get 4 of every coupon that comes each Sunday. You can only use one coupon per item so I needed 4 coupons to get my 4 boxes of Duncan Hines for .65 cents each. Get my drift? The newspapers cost me about $15/month. Coupon savings this last trip?... $7.40... and I only bought 11 items. I'm just getting started.
• The whole Grocery smarts system takes awhile to get used to. AKA there's a learning curve... just warning ya. I've been chewing my nails for 3 weeks now trying to get it down but I think I've got it and I'm REALLY excited.
  
• You buy what's on sale. In other words... you make your grocery list based on what's on sale NOT based on what you want to cook that week. AKA you basically just fill your pantry with things that you'll know you'll use eventually sometime. I pretty much don't NEED bathroom cleaner right now but when I do I'll just go to my bomb shelter and get my fabulous new bottle of Lysol that I bought for .75 cents instead of going to the store and buying it for full price ($2.99).
  
• SOME people save hundreds a month, others just spend the same amount they always did but buy a lot more food. I'm guessing I'll be somewhere in between. I'll let ya know. And you know I will since I CANNOT resist blogging about something so cool.

IN case you wanted to know every detail of my last transaction...
Kelloggs Cereal:
Regularly $4.99.
On sale for $2.29.
Used a $1.50 off coupon.
Got it for .79 cents.

Lysol Bathroom Cleaner:
Regularly $2.99.
On sale 50% off for $1.50.
Used a .75 cents off coupon.
Got it for .75 cents.

Duncan Hines Cake Mix:
Regularly $2.29.
On sale for $1.
Used a .35 cents off coupon.
Got it for .65 cents.

THIS is the woman who taught my seminar. She was fabulous AND she didn't get any commission for it. She just did it for free as a favor. How nice is that?