27 Grocery Shopping Tricks to Keep More Cash in Your Pocket

Every dollar you don’t spend on food is a dollar you get to keep for something else.
27 Grocery Shopping Tricks to Keep More Cash in Your Pocket
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Next to your rent or mortgage payment, food is probably your biggest expense. Don’t believe me? For the next 30 days, track every nickel you spend to feed your face, then tell me it doesn’t add up to one boatload of cash-ola.

Every dollar you don’t spend on food is a dollar you get to keep for something else—such as knocking down that student loan or padding your savings account. That dollar has already been taxed, and you don’t have to wait for it to appear in some future paycheck. It’s yours, right here, right now.

Mary Hunt
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