My sister is such a great blog follower. She read about the Grocery Game this morning and joined right away. *sniff* Beautiful.
Talking to her this morning, I realized there were a few points that I left out:
*Before you join the Grocery Game, you may want to buy a couple weeks worth of papers. It is disappointing to join the GG, see all the great deals, and not be able to buy anything yet! Although, the GG is free the first month, so you're not wasting any money.
*There is no limit to the number of manufacturer's coupons that you can use at Kroger. If, however, you save more than $200 with coupons, the manager has to come over and reset the system. If this happens, pat yourself on the back!
*If you are going to the store with a lot of coupons and your GG list, go alone (or without children), and go in the morning. There are a lot of GGers out there, and they all are buying the same stuff as you will be this week.
*Be very, very prepared before you leave for the store. Have your list ready and have your coupons ready. It is overwhelming, at least at first, so the more you can prepare yourself, the less overwhelming it will be.
*Expect to spend around two hours at the store. Again, this is not a quick project. Cutting the coupons takes time, organizing them takes time, shopping takes time. Hopefully, in the end, you will find that it is worth it!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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This couponing stuff is like having a part-time job. That's a good tip about getting papers ahead of time.
I know! In a typical week, Jon will spend five hours total doing the Grocery Game. Buying the papers, cutting the coupons, organizing them, making the weekly list, and then shopping. Initially it took him about ten hours a week.
My sister-in-law has been doing it for only two or three weeks and has it down to about five hours as well. I think she will get quicker at it, but I don't think Jon ever will:)
Because of that, we do not do any rebates or multiple stores or register rewards unless they are at Kroger. Too much of a good thing was just too much for us.
5 hours, are you serious??? Holy cow, no wonder I have never done it. I am going to give it my best effort though after attenidng the couponing class at church on March 13. We'll see, maybe I can put the kids to work. After all they are the ones that eat all of that food!
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