Jet.com and Living Social

If you haven't heard already Jet.com is a new online shopping site. I tried it out the other day and would have to say I am pretty impressed.

The premise of Jet is that the more your shop the more you save. Fairly simple. Whats cool is that there are certain items that are great to ship together etc that they will give you extra discounts to purchase with products that are already in your cart. You can see the extra savings pile up and you get free shipping on order $35 of more. 

BUT before you get started try it for FREE! Okay not totally free but pretty close. Here's what you need to do:

1. Follow this link to Living Social

2. Purchase the Jet.com $30 for $10 deal. 

3. Sign up for a new Jet.com account(only available on new accounts so if you have jet already, sorry!)

4. Go to Jet.com and spend only what you have to! I filled my cart to the amount that I need to get free shipping, $35.

5. Apply the Living Social Deal and Look At your Total! I ended up at $0.56.

6. AND how do you get it for free?????? (or almost free) Living Social gives you a link (hence why I'm asking you for follow mine above) that if three people buy the same deal from your link you get it FREE! 

Here is my receipt:

Price Subtotal                 $36.44

Extra Savings                  -$5.83

PROMO                        -$30.05

Shipping Fee                   FREE

Estimated Tax                  $0.00

Order Total         $0.56

I actually think this site will catch on a lot. It is very simple to use and I am finding that it is easier to find products I might now have purchased in store because of how overwhelming the grocery store can be these days. 

Try it out for yourself and see what you think. Please leave some comments about what you think. And thank you for those of you who followed my referral link!

-A.Nieman-

New Budget

This month I will trying out a new plan for my husband and my grocery budget. I have been trying to cut our grocery bill for a while and did great for a while on coupons but have found that I am lacking success lately. Or at least the success that I need to achieve to make my time cutting and organizing coupons worth it.

I was reading an article from my LearnVest email digest that showcased a couple different peoples' real budgets and one of them stuck with me. A young couple around the ages of my husband and myself spent around 100$ a week on groceries by planning out their menus each week. Right now I can spend up to $300-$400 a month on groceries, and our budget just cannot take it any more. So I am going to give this method a try.

Seeing as my grocery budget is the same as this couple, I am going to shoot for around $50 a week. I know its an ambitious cut, but I think it's manageable. Today is going to be my first trip and I plan on making sure I have what I need in my house for the next week of meals.

I think the most challenging part will be keeping my husband and myself to the meal plan we create at the beginning of the week. We have a tendency to do the impromptu dinner out.

I plan on keeping everyone posted as to how it goes. So wish us luck!

Secrets of a Coupon Queen: How to Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half LearnVest

I read this article/interview this morning. I think it is very inspirational to those thinking about getting into couponing. She holds a lot of the same ideals for couponing that I do. Hope you enjoy and get a little out of it!

Secrets of a Coupon Queen: How to Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half LearnVest

Best Saving's To Date

I have been couponing for awhile and I will be the first to admit that I am not a coupon queen. But I have been getting better and better at saving at the grocery store.

Lately I have been collecting all the coupons that I can and waiting for one big shopping trip in the month (usually surrounding my monthly commission check). The day of, I have been pulling up the Giant Eagle ad and making sure I grab all the coupons that have items on sale. Just these two simple things have helped me increase my savings.

My last greatest savings was around $50, but now I have surpassed that and am now at $73.41! It's not a free grocery bill but that s a huge savings for me and my fiance'. Since I bought quite a bit I probably wont have to go back to the grocery store to do a big shop till at least next month if not the month after that! Of course I will need to pick up the essentials every so often, like milk, eggs, and banana's.

This proves that you don't have to go crazy with coupons to save some money. I don't spend hours everyday organizing my coupons and calculating my savings, dumpster diving for coupons and other methods coupon queens use for their savings. I simple cut coupons, keep them in an organized binder by expiration date and pair them with weekly specials and last but not least save my food perks from Giant Eagle until I have a large % available.

I may not ever get to a free bill, but I'm saving money and that's what counts!