Teaching Your Kids How To Grocery Shop And Save Money
Topics: Teach Children, Teach Kids, Kids Learn, Kids Shopping, Kids Spending, Kids Money, Kids Grocery
We learn most of life’s lessons from our parents. How to dress, how to be safe, and how to shop are just a few things we learned by the age of 5. It’s not a class offered in schools, and there are just as many bad habits and good habits when it comes to shopping.
My mother often shopped out of necessity. When we were out of milk and bread, we went to the store. There was not a planned time to shop, let alone a special day. We never meal planned, or followed the weekly sales circulars. It’s no wonder we spent more money than other families on the basic grocery needs. We were good at looking at shelf prices. My mom taught me to always look at each brand on the shelf and compare it to the other brands. If there was a less expensive alternative it made it safely into the cart.
As I’ve taken a look at other lessons my friends and co workers have implemented into their grocery shopping I have adapted my shopping plan to include other ways to shop. For example, one of my friends only buys generic brands foods. When I asked her about this, she told me that her mother had always insisted that generics were the least expensive in the store, therefore the best bargain. She also only purchased items when the store ran a sale. Could this be right? Was I misled my entire life by reading shelf labels when I could just go for the less decorated box? I decided to find out for myself.
Another friend said her mom always taught,
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