I am horrified when I imagine how much I would save on products.
I studied the approaches of Svetlana, who saves 50 thousand on groceries, Viktor, who and his wife spend 10 thousand a month on groceries, and Lena, who lived on 5000 R, and highlighted general recommendations.
Experiment: I ate free for a week
Make a shopping list. Remember, all the marketers in the world are powerless against the shopping list guy. The list will help you not to miss anything and avoid unplanned expenses. For example, I don’t use my shopping list, so I often overload.
It is necessary to draw up a shopping list not before going to the store, but at the moment when there is a need for a product. And make it up not on a piece of paper, but on the phone, which is always at hand. We took the last tea bag out of the box and wrote it down in notes: “Tea”.
Cook at home. When I buy tea in a cafe, I pay not only for the bag, sugar and water, but also for the work of the employees and the rent of the premises. If I make tea at home, I only pay for the tea. The same happens with everything else: cutlets, salads, soup or dumplings.
Don’t go shopping hungry. When I come to the store hungry, I buy what I want to eat now, but I don’t think too much about the benefits and price of food. Remember: a well-fed person is a reasonable person.
Don’t buy a lot of perishable food. It’s simple: you may not have time to cook them. For example, if you buy 25 bunches of green onions at a discount, but then throw away some of them, it’s like overpaying.
Stop eating fatty meats. Two arguments: fatty meat is more expensive and harmful to health.
Don’t buy energy drinks. I got off the energy drink because I learned that the main substance in the energy that invigorates is caffeine. There is nothing more wonderful about them. I also figured that one energy drink contains about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. But coffee is more beneficial energy and more pleasant, especially grain coffee.
Make coffee at home. A cappuccino in a coffee shop costs 100-300 rubles. The price includes the salary of the barista, the cost of renting a place and equipment. I worked as a barista for a long time and I think that the same coffee at home can be made for 10 rubles.
How much does it cost to make delicious coffee at home
In addition to these general principles, there are special ways to save on products. Good savings are obtained if you purposefully hunt for discounts in stores. Such people are called cherry pickers.
Another separate method is to buy products from wholesalers and advertisements. Another way to save money is to knock down the price. Read up on how to bargain properly.