Get your groceries! Get your free groceries! That’s what we all like to hear but unfortunately most of us will never hear those exact words. However reading between the lines, that’s exactly what grocery stores are telling us when then offer coupons.
Coupon shopping can be a great way to save money on your monthly food bill. Most people how passionately coupon shop save several hundred dollars a month on food. The argument that I hear all the time is, well these people spend so much time cutting coupons and looking for deals and traveling to different stores that it’s just not worth it in the end. Their cost outweighs their gain and therefore they might as well have not even wasted their time with coupons. That’s a valid argument but it all boils down to the worth of your time. Let’s look at an average family who coupon shops.
Assume that $200 can be saved during the month with coupon shopping. If it takes 3 hours to hunt down and print all the coupons that will be used and driving to different stores adds another 2 hours onto your journey, then your average savings per hour is $40 per hour. Is this worth your time? Only you will be able to determine that.
Anyway you slice it, if you save $200 on your bill, you are getting free groceries. Like I mentioned before, you will have to decide if this is worth your time or not. I would be willing to bet that for most of us, who do our own shopping, earning $40 an hour is definitely worth it. Now that sounds great.