Comments on: Why I Don’t Buy More to Save More

By: Kristia @Family Balance Sheet

Kristia @Family Balance Sheet — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:19:55 +0000

I was surprised by the 49 cents a pound. The last two years, Weis has had turkeys on sale at .29 cents a pound if you spent $25 or more. Although maybe that is coming next week right before thanksgiving.

I shop at weis occasionally for their loss leader sales, but not enough to get a discount. I do a lot of my shopping at Giant of Pa and they have a free turkey promotion at this time of year. You have to spend $300 within a time frame to do so and it is about a month. I end up donating the turkey though.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:20:44 +0000

I am the same way. Good post.

By: Ruth Burge

Ruth Burge — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:51 +0000

The 49 cents per pound turkey was a good deal though! We just cooked ours last night. Makes you wonder about the poor turkey farmer.

By: Frugal Liz

Frugal Liz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:52:54 +0000

What I find cool is that the turkey at weis is only $.49 a pound!

By: mamafitz

mamafitz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:04:11 +0000

they run a program here at the local grocery store that has you earn “premiums”. it used to be you earned a premium for every $50 in an order, but for the latest one, they’ve lowered it to $35. anyway, you earn premiums within a certain time frame (something like 6-8 weeks) and then when you turn in your premiums, you get a gift card for a certain amount, depending on how many premiums. then you have a certain amount of time to use it. i usually never get enough to get anything.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:31:15 +0000

Well, in all honesty, I woke up this morning around 5:30. But, that is a lot better than 4:40, and even though I woke up at 5:30, I didn’t actually get up out of bed until a while after that.

Usually I blog in the early morning hours, so my lounging in bed this morning precluded blogging. lol

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:26:44 +0000

These promotions make sense if one, that’s how much you spend anyway or two, you can shift spending from later to now. Otherwise you’re just letting the stores sucker you.

My extended family shares a B&N rewards program account, so it works for us. Since all you need to do is give a phone number, any group of persons could share an account. FYI, Border’s account is free but you have to give an email addy.

You made me laugh when you said you weren’t insane enough to wake up at 4.40am if you didn’t have to. For the past couple of weeks I can’t sleep later than 5 am. What does that make me?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:08:26 +0000

Oh, wow! That’s pretty bad, especially considering that there are so many cheap/free ways to get books (half.com, ebay, paperbackswap, etc).

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:02:24 +0000

I could not agree more. I used to work for Barnes and Noble, home of the $25-a-year Rewards Program. The idea is, you pay an annual fee for this card that gets you a 10% discount. The thing is, you have to spend $250 in the store over the course of a year JUST to break even. THEN you start saving money.

And what’s a considerable savings? $25? $50? $100? Even if you consider $25 to be a considerable savings, you’d have to spend a total of $500 at Barnes and Noble over the course of a year to get that. If you’re doing that anyway, great, but frankly, if you’re spending that much money at a bookstore anyway, I’m guessing that a $25 savings isn’t going to be that big a deal for you anyway.