Get Creative with Your Pantry

Part of thrifty shopping means grabbing deals when they are on sale and you have coupons.  That might mean buying multiples of your family favorites to use in future weeks.  Your meal planning can be as advanced as 4 months from now.  As we save more, we accumulate more discounted groceries that are shelf stable.  That means you need to find creative spaces for storing all your surplus goods.

1. Under the Beds. Use pull out boxes to push storage foods under the beds, or under large couches or chairs.

2. Use the backs of closets.  You may need in the front of your closet, but the back portion is rarely used.

3. Over the door organizers.  The back of the bedroom door is not seen by too many people and can easily hold supplies.

4. Under your table.  Yep, people place small drop down shelves under the kitchen table to hold a few things.  The center of the table can host a 8” shelf by 5” depth without interfering with knees or chairs.

5. Beneath the Stairs.  Stair drawers are becoming very popular for storage. 

6. Above Drop Ceilings.  I’m always hoping to find a stash of cash in the ceiling, but odds are more in favor of canned goods.

7. Look higher on the walls!  Can you add a cabinet closer to the ceiling?  Or a shelf that runs high in a pantry or closet?  If you do not need to get up there often, higher spaces are great for storage.

8. Inside furniture.   My family room couches have tons of space under the seats, and there is even a support beam already in place. 

9. In bags, suitcases and unused purses.  We all have bags in the closet, use them to store your extra goods.

10.  Under floorboard storage is fantastic for hidden storage.  You can also add bungee cords to basement floor boards and store goods overhead. 

11. In Smaller Packages.  So many products are half box! Can you unbox some goods and combine into one package?

12. Above the Refrigerator.  This is an excellent place for back up paper goods.  Plates, napkins, towels and even disposable baking pans.

13. In a Tidier Pantry. Take it all out and reorganize!  You will have extra space for a few nuggets.

14. Above the Cupboards.  I store cookie jars on top my cabinets, and in a pinch, a few canned goods.

15. In the Corners.  We all have a couple corners just sitting there.  Use 5 gallon food buckets or freebie deli buckets (my favorite since they are free).

16. On Bookshelves. Put some casters on the bottom of a bookshelf and you can place several thrift store book cases right up next to one another.  Any extra closet space, basement space or attic area can hold a lot of storage when you place them on casters.

17. In Space Bags. Put lightweight foods inside large comforter bags, or purchase Space bags. These are great for storing stocks of chips, or bagged products.

18. Under the Sink.  If you can add a shelf to your cabinet, you can double your storage capacity.  If you’re in a pinch and don’t have shelf organizers, a board on top of a couple boxes will do.

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All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!

Super Bowl Savings Can Be HUGE

There are particular weeks in our savings cycle that can give us huge savings.  One of those weeks is Super Bowl week.  Even if you are not a fan of football, you have to be a fan of all the snack deals.  You can find all kinds of salty snack, meat, beverage, and party essentials deeply discounted for the big day. Here are 4 places you need to search to stack up your savings:

1.  Sale Ad-Yes the Sale ad at County Market will be filled with Frito Lay, Pepsi, Nabisco, and Keebler deals.  Check here first to get a good idea of what your main stock up snacks will be for the coming weeks.  County Market is offering $5 back on any combination purchase of $25 in combined Frito Lay and Pepsi products. ALL PRODUCTS are on sale in addition to the buy and get offer.

2.  Look for immediate coupons and rebates attached to products.  I found Miller had a bottled water offer, Frito has a Free dip with chip purchase, and Pepsi had coupons attached to their products.  These coupons can be added to the "Buy and Get" offers mentioned in the sale ad. You can bring your own coupons from home, purchased online, or look for coupons in stores.

3.  Look for additional offers on apps.  Ibotta has $1.50 on Mountain Dew and Frito Lay combination.  Yes, it is an additional $1.50 to your pocket in addition to the above deals.  Fetch Rewards also has credit when you purchase providing points that will later be translated to dollars.

4.  File a rebate!  There are more beer rebates for Super Bowl than another time of the year.  Look for Heineken, Corona, Budweiser, and Miller.  They have good rebates on many groceries. Keep in mind states like Missouri are no beer purchase required to redeem the rebate.  Yes, again, this is additional money paid by mailing your receipt after purchase.

If you combine all these offers, you will pay less than 40% for your purchase. Think about $10 instead of $25!  That's a huge savings on top name brand items.




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All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!

Can YOU save $1000 this year on groceries?

How much money do you think the average coupon shopper saves in a year?  Would it surprise you that it's more than $1000?  Most coupon shoppers slowly build up a surplus of shelf stable groceries, and splurge on prime choice vegetables and meats.  Coupon shoppers always have full cabinets and fridge drawers of top name brand foods.  Coupons, spend less than average shoppers at the grocery store.  The question, then becomes, could YOU become a coupon shopper and save over $1000?


This is the first and most important step.  A coupon shopper never pays full price.  They will wait until the items they want are on sale.  They buy produce when it's in season, and stop cabinets up with multiple when there is a sale. This allows for extra room in every weekly budget to buy the fresh items that are often viewed as high dollar groceries.  Always looking at the sale list and using coupons is the only thing you must do to save $1000.

Couponers collect coupons from any sources. This process is referred to as building your coupon stash.  You can get newspaper coupons from workplaces who do not use Sunday papers, or from neighbors or friends.  You can also buy Sunday inserts from coupon suppliers online.  You can pick up tear pad coupons and hang tag coupon in stores.  It's easy and free!  This allows you to have many savings options at your fingertips when each new sale ad comes out weekly.

You can also save a lot of money by utilizing digital coupons through your home computer or phone app.  These deals are offered by manufacturers through the County Market website and app. You can save a lot of money each and every week.  You can also earn small amounts through apps like Ibotta, Honey, Shopkick, Fetch Rewards, and more.  Many have you scan your receipt after you checkout for points. These points are then added until you reach a redemption level.

As you learn to coupon shop, you can connect with other savers through County Market Coupon News Facebook page.  You'll get weekly updates on Coupon match ups, tips, and unadvertised deals. Most like minded savers like to share their experiences with others for encouragement.  Join us, and save MORE than $1000 this year.



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All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!

2 Best Apps Online for Saving Money

Are you clicking?  You should be.  This program is changing shopping.  It's easy, no scissors necessary.  Once you have the My County Market App rolling, add Ibotta to your shopping clicks.  It's a nationwide rebate program when you can clip even more offers that you paid on Paypal.  It also works with your max card so no hassles for you.  Just see their offers, click and get money. 

 This past weekend I was looking for deals on my phone and found the best deals on My County Market App.  I picked up several dollars with just a simple click.  Prairie Farms butter Quarters, Ragu spaghetti sauce, and Little Debbie donuts.  You get the idea.  It's a simple app to use.  You get offers on products you normally buy, and several items you can consider buying.  Click the ones you want and they are automatically applied to your max card. To get rolling with extra app coupons follow these steps:

1.  Download the My County Market App onto your phone. 

2.  It will ask you to confirm your email and Max card.  You can just snap a pic of your max card when it asks you for it.  Be sure these are correct!  It's how they ties to your max card shopping.
3.  Click some offers and have them in your virtual wallet.
4.  Shop at the store and pick up the items in your virtual shopping list.
5.  Get money!  As you buy things, then scan your max card it automatically will post to your account.  Next time you shop, you'll have $dollars off your order to redeem from your phone.

It's really easy to do.  I love the fact that I can pick up name brand coupons that are not available on coupons.com or smartsource, like Pepsi, Frito Lay, Campbells, and County Market store brand staples.


Special Hack:  Yes, you can double up on Digital offers and printed coupons.  If you have a newspaper or at home printed coupon, most will scan in addition to the digital coupon.  You can definitely double dip on the Ibotta rebates and paper coupons.

I picked up $10 just for signing up with Ibotta on my phone.  Boom!  Direct to my paypal account. Did you know that sometimes the Ibotta offers match Penny Pinchers?  This week, Little Debbie has a donuts offer that matches the Penny Pincher.  It's a double win. 

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18 Must Visit Links for 2019

When you are wanting to save money, you need a full coupon stash.  Here are the top 18 sites where you can print out good quality coupons.  These sites may have 1000 coupons available on Monday, but by Thursday, all have been redeemed.  These sites should be kept on your computer in an easy to find location so you can frequently and regularly hit them for savings.  I like to keep a monthly reminder near the 1st of each month to print coupons.  

Lysol coupons

Campbell's Printable coupon

Prairie Farms Printable coupon

Pillsbury coupons

 PG  printables 

Coupons.com 

Arm and Hammer Printable coupon

Betty Crocker coupons

Mambo Sprouts

Kellogg's Printable coupon

Kimberly Clark's Pick Up The Values

Apps you can use to save money (Yes, I have used these personally, and they work).  These four apps I use regularly to earn cash to my PayPal account or for Amazon gift cards.  They don't make up a  ton of money, but every once in a while it's nice to get $10 gift card.  in 2018, I redeemed just under $100 from these apps, with no additional purchases.  I just scanned receipts after I decided to buy.  On Honey, I use it to price compare.  On Black Friday alone, I saved $300 as it showed me where the items I was buying were on sale for less money.  I was very pleased with this app. 

Ibotta app for rebates

My County Market App

Fetch Rewards

ShopKick

Honey


As always, there are pages that are designed to help you stay on target with your grocery goals.  Please take a minute to visit each of these pages, and LIKE the pages on facebook.  You'll get Coupon hacks all year long that can save hundreds. 

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Vision for Savings

It’s time again this year to reflect and make some plans!  I’m ready to make my 2019 vision board.  Technically, I make a vision book.  I like getting artistic and crafty with my planning. I usually take an old discarded book and alter it to make it my vision book for the new year. 

The idea of vision boards or books is not new.  A vision board project allows you to take some time to sit down and look at your life.  Family, Finance, Employment, Religion, Health, or any other focus you may have for yourself.  You then visualize where you want to be with each in the coming year. 

My vision book is impacted by my choices at the grocery store in two categories!  Financial goals, how I budget the household, and health and wellness.   If I wanted to push it, my family time generally revolves around gatherings and food, so maybe three!  It seems like every year, as I start look at vision for the next year, I always start with those financial things I can cut, or keep low, in order to budget for additional things I want.  Most people look at their disposable income in this way.  It’s the expenses that you have control over that lead you to having money for the things you want.

Other disposable income items other than groceries include, memberships, dining, entertainment, gasoline, utilities, and donations.  Many of these categories can go up or down depending on how closely you follow your actuals through the year.  I admit, every summer my spending goes up without planning.  I just spend more doing things with the kids than I ever plan.  Maybe a last-minute trip or buying sports items or supplies for my daughter’s art projects.  Whatever the case, I now plan to overspend in the summer months. 

Groceries in general, are the category that people try to immediately cut.  In my experience, I can take more weekend trips, and big vacations in the summer if I plan to spend MORE at the grocery store, and less dining out.  My biggest budget enemy is lunches while working, and convenience stops when the kids are with me in the car.  It’s a lot!  I can spend $35 buying fast food for our family, or I can buy groceries and put them in convenience packages for an entire week for $35.  Take a look at your grocery budget, then honestly look at what you are paying for work lunches, or dinners out, and even what you are paying for “Being late and tired.”  That amount far exceeds what picking up an extra $20 in premade chicken salad for quick sandwiches, or a box of crackers and cheese slices would run for these lunches or snacks.

Health and Wellness is my next category.  Yes, like everyone else I’d like to lose weight.  I realize I don’t want to exercise, so it probably won’t happen.  I can however make myself and family a bit healthier.  Junk food is our nemesis.  I love salty snacks and I cannot lie!  So, for me, it’s finding substitutions at the grocery store.  I have found that I enjoy Nabisco’s rice based Good Thins over crackers.  Less wheat and gluten, and I love having a bean-based dip or even a taco type dip instead of chips.  This is the type of thing I look to add to my grocery buys and sub out the less healthy items. We do not run to the doctor’s office a lot.  As a matter of fact, no one in our family went last year.  Healthy eating is a big part of overall health.  Stress reduction is also something that will keep the family healthy.  Not stressing over money, helps.

Once you take a look at your true grocery budget (with some funds shifted away from restaurants, and high dollar convenience foods). It’s time to get serious with your 52-week shopping list.  It’s okay to put on the list “Go Foods” So that you remember to pick them up when you’re in the store.  Easy things like, Chicken breast fillets that can be grilled and tossed in the freezer make up quick salads, or sandwiches without having to run in the door and fix a full meal.  Sting cheese, applesauce cups, Jell-O cups, baggies for crackers or cuts of meat are great things to have on hand before you leave home. 

Next, gather coupons.  Get the My County Market phone app on your phone.  Print coupons from all the major online sites and set a monthly alarm on either your phone or computer.  Use other coupon apps to earn gift cards off everything you buy by scanning receipts. 

If you have never sat down and made a vision for your future year, this may take longer than a day.  That’s okay!  Review and revise your vision as you go.  There is not a wrong way to do this.  Just thinking it through will get you to your goals.  To have ongoing help, follow us on Facebook at County Market Coupon News, we are all savers who look to save money, and allow our families to have more health and comfort all year long.

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All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!

It Starts with Coupons, Ends with Big Screen TV's

Couponing is a way of life. It usually starts with the one expense we can control weekly, our groceries, and ends with large purchases like big screen TV's and cars. Once you get the hang of saving money, you start to apply those practices to all aspects of your life.  There are some coupon lessons that easily transfer to all expenditures.

1.  If you can catch a sale, grab it!  Why buy something when it is not deeply discounted?  Coupon users are sales followers.  We see a savings in many forms. It can be a coupon, loyalty card, or good old fashioned sale.  Sales are the starter for any purchase.  If you buy at full price, you are giving in to instant gratification.  It may not seem like a lot hone you really want to eat your favorite $4.99 cereal, but it adds up to a lot when it's every single week for years.  This works the same for jeans shopping, or even buying Kate Spade purses.  It may be $600 in June, and $400 in October.  Waiting for a sale can save a lot of money.

2.  Did you know that 40% of coupon users said that they feel smarter when they save money with coupons?  It's good for our emotional state to feel better about ourselves.  When you apply coupons to groceries, and then expand to gasoline sales, clothing, household goods, furniture, and then jump to mortgage shopping, automobiles and vacations, you can really add up your savings.

3.  Snowball savings applies to your pantry stockpile AND to your household savings account.  Dave Ramsay is an icon for saving money, and continually talks about your debt snowball.  It's where you take one payment, pay a little extra until it paid off.  Then you take that amount of money and add it to your next payment until you are able to pay off all your debts.  This snowball effect works the same in stocking your pantry and freezer with budget friendly foods.  You can build a nest of savings with your consumables just like you can eliminate debts.

4.  Every American has access to over 1000 coupons on average per year.  Once you figure out how to be above average, you can redeem more than 1000 digital app coupons, just at County Market. Then you can add other digital coupons or rebates from sources like Ibotta, or Fetch.  All of a sudden you are getting email coupon, mailbox coupons and exclusive deals from top retailers.  Coupon users save thousands on the same items that non couponers pay full price.

Every lesson we teach about saving money at County Market can be applied to every single expenditure you have this year.  To learn more, visit our blog for additional lessons!


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All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!