Getting the best bang for your buck with BOGO sales takes a little effort on your part, but it is well worth the savings you will reap. Learn the techniques of experienced BOGO savers and you will reduce your family's shopping expenses down to a fraction of what they once were. After all, BOGOs are one of the single best types of sales that stores offer. You should take advantage of them.
- Scour the sales weekly for the best BOGOS and for the ones that you actually use. If you don’t typically use a certain brand or item, don’t buy it just because it is on sale. This is not a good technique to save money. If you do so, you will find that those items sit on your shelves at home for a long time until finally they are given away.
- Check blogs for the latest in matchups. Many bloggers specialize in money saving blogs and will match weekly sales, especially BOGOs with coupons that are available to be used with them for maximum savings. These bloggers provide links to printable coupons. They also tell which newspaper inserts or magazines had coupons for the items on sale, to make it easier for you to find them. Be sure to remember to always use two coupons when you purchase BOGO items for the maximum savings possible. Never shop without your coupons.
- Have weekly BOGOs emailed to you for local providers. Find a free service that does all the work for you and sends you a list of local retailers and their deals for the week.
- Use BOGOs to stockpile items you use regularly. If you can get an item essentially at half price or less, stock up on enough to last until the next time it goes on special, typically in about 8 weeks or more. This will prevent you from having to run out to the store when you are out of a particular item and pay full price for it. Planning in advance like this makes for a good money saving strategy.
- Know the prices of the things you buy regularly so that you can tell if a BOGO really is a good deal.
- Make sure you know about every store in your area that offers BOGOs and check their flyers regularly. The email method above is great. Sometimes you can get great BOGO deals on food items from drugstores or impressive BOGO specials on over the counter medications from local grocery stores. Think outside the box for your BOGO sales to get the best deal possible.
- When you shop the sales, stick to the BOGO items and other products that are on special. By doing so, you may need to make several stops to get all your groceries and household items but you will have saved a lot of money in the process.
You can get the best bang for your buck with BOGO savings for household products, beauty items and groceries. Do a little research and some pre-planning and you will have a strategy ready to help you save tons of money each month.
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