Ok let’s get back to the topic.
(Hopefully Drunk, Methra and Frodo will ping off as they struggle to cope with buying anything AFTER wasting their dole hand out on their alcohol/drug addictions)
For those who may not know ... I’m essentially charting our monthly expenses so as to check out how much it costs to get a family consisting of mum n dad, 4 kids (2 older and 2 younger) as well as 2 pets (a canary and a golden retriever who are treated and respected as much loved members of our family) across the line wrt the typical stuff a family would buy at both Woolworths and Big W. I get that other families might prefer Coles and Target but I don’t. I guess my previous experiences as a professional shopper with the Woolworths brand has left me somewhat biased.
Note : I do grow a lot of vegetables and herbs and fruit and so do my neighbours. (Thanks to Covid19 lockdowns we developed a bond which has helped us relate to each other as much more than just neighbours so we share/exchange our organically grown produce. Some of us are better at producing certain veges compared to others so we exchange those types of veges. I’m the person who always has plenty of cherry tomatoes, chokos, passion fruit, red grapes, healthy grape leaves for making dolmades of course and leeks, onions, garlic and all herbs. Oh and amaranth (the fresh leaves are cooked up like spinach) oh and spinach, silver beet, potatoes and sweet potatoes too. Winter cos lettuce and beetroot are more easy to grow veges here. Essentially these veges which I’ve just listed JUST GROW with ease and I do believe it’s because of position wrt sun, the quality of the soil and the right amount of water. These are hand picked my me and the kids as they slowly ripen and we blend them into our weekly lunch/dinner menu.
Ok so with all this background info (for context of course) ...let’s jump into SPENDING AND SAVING! It’s possible to do both if you’re clever.
For me this involves :
• THINKING & PLANNING ahead ie medium to long term
• SMART SPENDING ie buying what you need and will definitely use when on sale/clearance.
• SAFELY STORING what you can wherever possible. This was my last Woolworths shopping spend (refer post 👇)
Today I’m going to finalise my Big W spend for the month.
Remember
THINKING & PLANNING?My Plan
1. Woolworths shopping - every fortnight.
2. Big W shopping - every month.
At this point I’m only PLANNING to do my very best at maximising my after tax dollar because inflation is still rising so it’s hard to stick to a definite budget right now. Very soon though I will get a fair idea of just how much money leaves our domestic budget each month just on Woolworths and Big W UNDER current inflation/stagflation conditions.
Lisa Jones wrote on Mar 6
th, 2023 at 10:00pm:
Hubby and I went shopping yesterday. Our Woolworths supermarket bill came in at approx $361 yesterday. (It was around $401 but I get a 10% discount because I hold 1 car insurance policy with Woolworths as I found I could get an awesome excess/premium deal with them).
Anyway ...that filled up 2 shopping trolleys with everything we would need for a fortnight. Groceries/fruit/veg/meat/pantry/cleaning products/bathroom products/laundry products .. everything.
* The rule we stuck by was this : anything we placed into our trolleys had to be something we definitely knew we needed and used PLUS it had to be on sale or the cheapest in its product category.
* Re meat - we stuck to the cheaper meats ie whole chooks were on sale so we grabbed a few to roast up plus some gourmet sausages plus some lamb loin chops were also on sale. So we bought up those sale items.
* Re milk and bread - we stuck to sliced bread on sale and 5 loaves are in the freezer. We buy long life milk to use up after our 3 litre full cream fresh milk has finished.
Now.... the challenge is this : Let’s see if we can stay away from Woolworths for 2 weeks.
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