Comments on: Baby Steps To Saving on Groceries: Creating a Price Book

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:32:34 +0000

Greetings from one of the three Palm users. Are you familiar with Handy Shopper? It’s freeware and I love it for grocery shopping. You create a master list of items, click the ones you want, and they appear in a “needed” view. Then click them off as you buy them, checkout, and you’re done. It’s pretty much infinitely expandable–list as many different stores as you want, with their aisle numbers and prices. I have one for the “best prices,” so I can check what the rock bottom price is as I’m shopping. You can also set up different databases, say for drugstores and grocery stores. It’s available for both Palm and Windows Mobile. I am dreading the day Palm finally quits supporting organizers, I don’t know if I can live without this program!

By: Hadias

Hadias — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:23:59 +0000

I started with a price book (handwritten) then graduated to a program on my Palm and now most of the numbers are in my head. New or never purchased items I do write down until I become familiar with it’s full and sale price.

Another great post.

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By: Kendra@ShoppingforTwo

Kendra@ShoppingforTwo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:53:10 +0000

I used one for a while about two years ago and it was very helpful. I only tracked about 25 different things because I'm horrible about remembering numbers and I never could remember if Safeway, Luckys or Costco was the best bet for certain things. Now that I've got a pretty good handle on where to buy certain things, I haven't kept up lately. It might be a good idea to do it again to make sure I have the good deals down. Kendra@ShoppingforTwos last blog post..A Little Lark T-Shirts

By: Jen Mc

Jen Mc — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:34:58 +0000

Great idea! I’m going to try this.

By: Darla

Darla — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:28:45 +0000

I first used a price book 13 years ago. I got so I didn’t need it much once I could remember the prices. There were a few years in there that I didn’t keep up on the pricebook changes (WHEN did the price of hamburger become “a good deal” at 1.69 a pound? Anyone? Anyone?). Now I have one again, mostly because my husband has started to do a lot of the grocery shopping and needed a guide so he stopped buying hamburger at $2.09 a pound. {faints}

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:54:12 +0000

Ooops. Now I have the right link to my price list post.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:50:52 +0000

I keep my price book as an excel spreadsheet. Your post finally prompted me to write about and post my spreadsheet. THanks.