bless-my-budget.com » shopping lists http://bless-my-budget.com turning chump change into GOLD! Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 make a shopping list and checking it twice http://bless-my-budget.com/2009/05/make-a-shopping-list-and-checking-it-twice/ http://bless-my-budget.com/2009/05/make-a-shopping-list-and-checking-it-twice/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 14:54:19 +0000 Penny http://bless-my-budget.com/2009/05/make-a-shopping-list-and-checking-it-twice/ Shopping without a list is one of the biggest money wasters. We live 15 miles from Walmart, Now that isn’t a million miles away but it seems like it, especially when gas prices are high and you drive a big van and you have several children. So I plan shopping trips and plan them well. I get my shopping lists and all of the Sunday Paper ads and make myself a list of all my stops and a list for each stop. If I have ads for things I note that next to the item on the list. I make my master list in order of my stops and they are in order of a well planned route.

My master list would look something like an outline. Here is an example.

  1. post office – check P.O. Box
  2. bank – deposit
  3. Walmart
    • cheese (3/$5 Kroger ad)
    • sour cream
    • tortillas
    • bananas (39 cents Piggly Wiggly ad)

and so on….

next up, how to assemble and use a pricebook

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