Money Saving Techniques

Saving Money- what items are you saving for?

Posted by on June 25, 2007 in Money Saving Techniques

Someone commented recently that I should be spending more time attempting to save money on big-tickets items, such as house-hold appliances or a car, than on smaller items such as groceries (this comment was made as part of the supermarket experiment). I believe that saving money on the small items many times over will save [...]

Saving Money at the Supermarket- Week 3

Posted by on June 22, 2007 in Money Saving Techniques

Here are week 3 results of my little experiment at the supermarket. The rules are stated here and week 1 and 2 results here and here respectively. As a weekly experiment there hasn’t been too many changes from week to week. I did hit my first sales item in tissue but it doesn’t seemed to [...]

Saving Money at the Supermarket- Week 2 Results

Posted by on June 14, 2007 in Money Saving Techniques

This is week 2 in an on-going experiment to see whether I can save money at the supermarket by using product location to my advantage. The rules are stated here and week 1 results are here. Given that I am checking every week, prices do not fluctuate too much but we are beginning to see [...]

Saving Money at the supermarket- Week 1 results

Posted by on June 8, 2007 in Money Saving Techniques

As you may recall, last week I decided to start an experiment to see if I could save money at the supermarket by attempting to out-think the industry and to work counter-intuitively to how the supermarket wants us to buy; in other words, I would compare prices on products located at eye level with those [...]

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