Is it worth buying in bulk?

Today I headed out to my local Costco for some groceries. I didn't have a list just went in and knew what I needed at the top of my head. Fruits..check...milk...check...tortillas...check...check, check and check. You're probably wondering well, what about the prices of these things you're getting? You're not going to compare? Costco brand vs name brand? Well would I when I come here all the time? The prices are all the same! WRONG! For some reason, today Costco had raised the prices of a few things I normally get there on any given day. For example, milk. A few weeks ago we had bought the 2 gallon box of milk for around $4.00 and some change. Today, it was $6.49 for the same 2 gallons. Say what!!!!!!! Yeah. That's expensive. That's about $3.25 a gallon. I needed it so I took it. I browsed around just to see what eles was expensive or what eles I knew I could get cheaper with coupons. Coffeemate! Yup. They had the coffeemate creamer, 3-pk for around $6.00+some change almost $7.00. Dang. This week at Walgreens, there was a deal on the coffeemate creamer, I grabbed 2 creamers along with 3 other items for $0.22 cents each with all my coupons and store savings. Yeah huge difference. Now if you think about it, $0.22 cents for the same product found at Costco for $6.00 bucks is something to think about. My point is, when buying in bulk, you want to double check what you're buying. You may think ok well $2.00 each for this 3-pack of coffeemate creamer isnt bad. Yes it is. If you can snatch the same item for less then skip the darn creamer and pay $0.22 cents! Another thing is that sometimes you may be lucky and snag a great deal at your local wholsale store. Like the flour tortillas I bought today. $2.79 for a 40-count. Whereas at your local grocery store a 40-count would probably cost you around $4-$5 dollars. Snag that deal off the shelf. Toilet paper is very popular. I would say Costco prices are about the same as any other store. Fruit and veggies are another most common bought. I bought a huuuggee watermelon for $5.99. Pick your size pick your color anyone you want for $5.99. Now thats a good deal. At my local grocery, the cheapest I've seen was 8lbs for 0.99. BUT what are the chances of grabbing a watermelon this big....

So the answer to this question is plain and simple, sometimes it is worth buying in bulk. If you take the time to really think about your stores prices then you can really get a deal. We cant use manufacture coupons at my Costco only the coupons they send out especially for Costco only. Compare prices, take your local grocery competitor ad and compare. That's how you'll see if its really worth buying in bulk.

Are Fresh & Easy mailer coupons worth it?

Many of us here in Southern California are very familiar with a grocery store called, Fresh & Easy. A better way to shop organic, healthy and brand products that have no artificial colors or flavors in them. Fresh & Easy rarely sends out high value mailer coupons. I usually get their coupons in their ads which are mailed out to every resident every Tuesday along with other store ads. Common coupon will be $3.00 off a $30.00 purchase. Not a very convincing way to get a customer to shop right? I think so. Why? Well because that can't even motivate me to go knowing theres a Fresh & Easy 3 lights down the street. BUT they do however send out high value coupon mailers about ehhh once in a big while, once every 4 to 5 months. For those of you who aren't familiar this is how the mailer looks like

$15.00 in coupons.

BUT when you spend a certain amount of groceries. Which isnt bad but I would still like to see the value go a little bit higher. Why? Well first off, they dont accept manufacture coupons. So how is anyone even saving at this store? That's where I get disappointed. $3.00 off a $30.00 purchase is not my ideal savings at all. Many of us are on the extream to save more than what we want to spend. We want to pay using coupons right? Not cash. We want to pay pennies now and days. Ok so I'm exaggerating lol but its true. Head out to your local Kroger store, get $50.00 worth of groceries and you pay $3.00 for everything with coupons. Now that's what I'm talking about. But when it comes down to F&E its so much harder for anyone to save. They have the $5.00 off $25.00 and $10.00 off $50.00. That's JCPenny discount right there. Macy's discount. Come on, change the 5 to a 10, the 10 to a 20. Then you'll get more attention. So the question here is, are F&E mailer coupons worth it? My answer is no and yes. Should be yes and no, but it's a no and yes for me. I put no in front of yes because I want to save more than $5.00. If you can't use manufacture coupons I want to see the value go up a bit at least. And yes because sometims when you run into F&E and you know you have that extra cash to use the $10.00 off $50.00 it becomes a worth while at the moment. And sometimes you can even find really good marked down items but if you wake up early enough to get them.

Scentsy 9 out of 10

I've had the chance to experience a product which I am sure many of you have heard called, Scentsy. The first time I heard about this product was last year in July when I had gone up North to visit my family. My mom had one in her living room, which I didn't notice, until I smelled this irresistible scent as I walked in through the door. I have to admit it made me happy to smell it. After observing the Scentsy in my moms living room, I wanted one too. I asked my mom how much it was and lets just say I kind of change my mind. If I can remember correctly the warmer was $30.00 plus $6.00 for each little case of candle wax. Ehem, is there a coupon to go along with this? Too bad there wasnt. But thanks to my mom whom bought this product for me a few months ago, I finally got my own Scentsy. I've had it in my living room for about a few months now. So it gave me enough time to observe the pros and cons of this product. I was given the option by my mom to either pick the zebra design or the plain black warmer, I chose the zebra. Typical me. She also asked me what scents I wanted but not having done my research about what scents they carried, I let her chose them for me.

This is how my zebra scentsy looks like. Cute huh? So basically how this works is plain and simple. It's only a two piece the top black plate and the bottom. There's a light bulb which warms up the plate on top and slowly melts the scented wax to create the scent and arouse the room. I told you, its that simple. And best of all you can also use this as a night light during the night time. I usually leave mine on running all day. I unplug the scentsy once in a big while when I feel it needs a break.

These are the wax scents. Here I have the Autumn Sunset to your left and Paradise Punch to your right. At the moment, I have the Autumn Sunset and let me tell you, this is by far my favorite one. It scents up my living room in less than 2 minutes. Its like this cinnamon scent more like for fall season but perfect for the summer. I havent tried the other one just yet.
So those are the positives about this product. There arent very many negative things about the scentsy except for one. After a while of having the same wax melting in the plate, for some reason the scent goes away. I recently experienced this issue and didn't know why it had happend. So I texted my mom and she told me I needed to toss out the old wax and put in new wax. Really? Dislike very much. But I guess there's always a tiny negative to every product right? But luckily that's the only thing I dislike about the scentsy. Overall out of 10 I rate this product a 9. If you would like to order your own Scentsy you can go HERE and order yours. Right now and everyday in August you can save up to 10% on select Scentsy products. There are over 20 different warmer designs starting at $30.00 and alot of different scents aswell.