Write down which items are in which aisle numbers in your grocery store. (Some stores have a map - just ask at the desk!). Then order your shopping list accordingly and you won't find yourself re-tracing your steps a million times. Saves money, but mostly, TIME. Which, for me, equals money anyway.
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My mom taught me this and my husband used to laugh but it avoids us going down aisles that we don't need where we are likely to impulse buy. It's the biggest money saving tip for grocery shopping.
I have been doing this for years! My brother-in-law laughed at me when I mentioned this and said that "I don't have enough to do". He thought it silly to spend all that time on my grocery list. (Which it is not time consuming at all). Good grief, he must have a lot of time to wander the isles with his wife while looking for something while shopping. Thanks for submitting this tip!
I 'map' my grocery store aisles and my military commissary aisles for my purchases. Also, in Sept. and Oct. I try to use up items in my upright freezer in the garage. It is an incentive to defrost the freezer at that time. By the middle of November, I have completed purchasing my 'long winter supply' of staples (paper products, health and beauty items, canned and packaged food items, laundry products, etc.) for the household to last until the end of March of the next year. I try to calculate what I will need for those 4 or 5 months so that I do not have to make major shopping excursions during the cold (or snowy and icy) months of the year.
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