I just recently heard about SavingsAngel.com (not to be confused with Angel Food Ministries – another way to save on groceries). Basically, they help make couponing simpler and faster. I have always been intrigued by those people who spend $100 to get $400 worth of groceries each month, but if you ask them, it takes a lot of work and time to save that much couponing.
From what I understand of SavingsAngel (I’ve only been a member for 5 minutes) they created a website that does a lot of this work for you – saving you time, energy, and money.
According to their website . . .
We help families cut their grocery bills at stores like Meijer, Jewell Osco, Publix, Walgreens, Super Target, Rite Aide, Walmart, Glen’s, Family Fare, etc with our powerful database and proprietary technology resulting in more deals, greater savings and better flexibility than other sites and services. Thousands of families now count on us each week to help them save money and time.
They charge $19.95/month for the service, but according to one testimonial I saw a woman saved $700 her first month using it. I am sure those results aren’t typical, but even if you only save $100 or $200 each month, you still are coming out ahead.
I am going to give SavingsAngel a run for the next month and see how it does for us for us. Maybe this would make for a good followup post with our results.
More about SavingsAngel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1DMVmT5f60&feature=related
If you are interested in trying them out, you can find out more info here.
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I look forward to hearing about how this works. I’m a couponer and save 50% on groceries at Publix and Kroger and at least 85% on toiletries and other items from CVS each week. I wonder Savings Angel has to offer for $19.95 a month that’s different from the coupon databases and tips that a lot of great bloggers offer for free.
Andrea,
I am not sure. From one of the videos I watched, I got the impression that all the info is available online for free, it’s just that their program consolidates it to save users time doing the digging and research. I am anxious to dig in a little deeper to see myself…
I work for SavingsAngel. Our members tell us the biggest benefit to their membership is how much time they save. Our proprietary technology allows you to make your personal list of the best deals each week in minutes. You can do some of this on your own – there is certainly lots of free info available – but you’ll never miss a good deal or combination of coupons for a particular sale item. More stores, more deals, personal help, cool technology. Thousands of families would never shop any other way.
It really depends on your shopping options. I doubt we’d make up the $19.95 a month as we do most of our shopping at a local “bump and dent” store. They don’t take coupons. The large grocery store near us tends to have higher prices, and the family one has better sales and meats. The best counsel is to keep a price book and look for monster discounts, then stock up.
I’ve been following other finance and savings blogs for a little while now and Jeff over at grocerycouponguide.com recently completed a challenge of eating well for 100 days on less than $1 a day. He ended up spending $76.11 on food with a retail value of $1473.94.
He doesn’t put too much work into clipping and organizing coupons (He calls is Lazy Couponing, for those who hate couponing), but his method takes a little while to get started whilst you save up multiple coupons from the Sunday paper and other places. Here’s his introductory article for the rest of us (Written after the completion of the challenge): http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/lazy-couponing-introduction-how-to-coupon-for-the-rest-of-us/
While Jeff’s recommendation is to base your meals around what’s on sale, savings angel’s goal is to let you make your own list and it’ll find the deals for you. Could be nice, but I think I’ll try comparing it to using the coupon database at http://savingadvice.com/tools/coupons/ for a while first.