Frugal Friday tip
Here's my tip for this week's Frugal Friday post over at Crystal's blog!
I have been considering buying reusable shopping bags to take with me when grocery shopping. I have seen them around and I do like to do my part to help keep our earth clean. I have been looking around for some to buy that are cheap and that will last a while, preferably with flat bottoms to make it easier to bag the groceries.
While at Kroger this week, I found an idea that, for me at least, is even more economical than buying reusable bags, and saves me money on my groceries as well!
There was a rack by the U-Scan machines with reusable bags for sale, and while I was looking at them, the cashier overlooking the U-Scans started a conversation. She told me that Kroger pays you $0.05 off of your grocery order for every bag you bring in and reuse. This includes the regular plastic grocery bags! So from now on, I plan to always keep at least 15 clean used plastic grocery bags, put inside each other, in the trunk of my car, so I always have them when I need to stop at Kroger. I typically use at least 8 bags, which would be $0.40 each trip, and I shop once a week. Bringing in my own bags could potentially save me $20 a year on my groceries. Hey, every little bit counts, right?
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Hurry, though, the offer ends April 15th!
I have been considering buying reusable shopping bags to take with me when grocery shopping. I have seen them around and I do like to do my part to help keep our earth clean. I have been looking around for some to buy that are cheap and that will last a while, preferably with flat bottoms to make it easier to bag the groceries.While at Kroger this week, I found an idea that, for me at least, is even more economical than buying reusable bags, and saves me money on my groceries as well!
There was a rack by the U-Scan machines with reusable bags for sale, and while I was looking at them, the cashier overlooking the U-Scans started a conversation. She told me that Kroger pays you $0.05 off of your grocery order for every bag you bring in and reuse. This includes the regular plastic grocery bags! So from now on, I plan to always keep at least 15 clean used plastic grocery bags, put inside each other, in the trunk of my car, so I always have them when I need to stop at Kroger. I typically use at least 8 bags, which would be $0.40 each trip, and I shop once a week. Bringing in my own bags could potentially save me $20 a year on my groceries. Hey, every little bit counts, right?
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*If you want to make a quick, free $60, and you haven't yet signed up for a free account at Revolution Money Exchange (a new site like paypal that allows you to send and receive money), do it now! They'll put $25 into your account, no strings attached! If you have more than one adult in your family, go to the site using your referral link and sign them up as well, they'll get $25 and you'll get $10 for referring them! That's $60 for less than 10 minutes work... if you can call that work! And you don't have to add your bank account to your account to cash out your money. There is an option to have it sent to you by mail!
Hurry, though, the offer ends April 15th!
The one store that I shop at Cashwise has boxes you can buy and reuse. They also give you a discount of $.05 of your groceries when you shop.
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