The best way to save money is to stock pile items when they are cheap. Become familiar with food and other household items prices and when you find items you use that are a great deal buy buy buy. For example if peanut butter is on sale for $1.00 buy as many as you can use before they expire and can afford to buy. Don’t go overboard be realistic you don’t want to be eating peanut butter for dinner every night for the next year or worse throwing it out. Now you have a stock pile of peanut butter you won’t have to run to the store when you run out of peanut butter and you can wait until the next sale to buy more so you won’t have to buy it at it’s normal price of $2-3+. While you may have bough 5 containers and spent $5 you would have spent $15 over time buying the peanut butter at full price. I know this is a hard concept especially if you are on a very tight budget so start small and stock up on a few things each time you find a great deal. As time goes on you will be spending less money on groceries because of your stockpile and couponing and you will have a little excess to spend on stocking your pile.
This doesn’t mean you should run out to Costco and buy their bulk Chicken, or cereal or so forth. This means buy it when it’s a good price per ounce, diaper, etc. Buying in bulk doesn’t guarantee the best price. I could go to Costco and buy a few of their large boxes of cereal and have a stockpile. However, I would be buying it in large bags and in many cases spending just as much per ounce of cereal as I would if I bought it at walmart. Sometimes I would be spending more per ounce. I would also have large bags of cereal that would start to go stale if I didn’t eat them. A better option would be to wait until it’s on sale for $1 a box or less. Even if it is a small 14oz boxes you are only spending about $.07 an ounce compared to the $.15 to $.20 an ounce you would spend buying it at Costco. On top of that you have multiple small boxes so your cereal is less likely to get stale if you don’t eat it right away. I am not saying Costco and Sams are useless I find a lot of great deals at Costco. There are certain items I know if I run out of before the next sale (heaven forbid) that Costco is the cheapest place to buy them. Just make sure the price per ounce, diaper, item etc is the best price you can get.
The best part about stockpiling is that once you have a descent size stockpile making dinner becomes a breeze. You have a ton of great options of things to make and you won't have that annoying stressful feeling that you need to run to the store before dinner and there are still a million things to get done. All you have to do is go to your "personal store" and get the ingredients.
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