Have you ever noticed that the things you buy every week at the grocery and hardware stores go up a few cents between shopping trips not by much just by a little each week but they continue to creep up and up.
All it takes for the price to jump up by a lot is a little hiccup in the world wide market, note the price of gasoline as it relates to world affairs.
There is a way that we can keep these price increases from impacting our personal finances so much and that is by buying in quantity and finding the best possible prices for the things we use and will continue to use everyday things that will keep just as well on the shelves in our homes as it does on the shelves at the grocery store or hardware store.
For instance dog food and cat food costs about 10 percent less when bought by the case than it does when bought at the single can price and if you wait for close out prices you save a lot more than that.
Set aside some space in your home and make a list of things that you use regularly which will not spoil. Any grain or grain products will need to be stored in airtight containers that rats cannot get into so keep that in mind.
Then set out to find the best prices you can get on quantity purchases of such things as bathroom items, dry and canned food.
You will be surprised at how much you can save by buying a twenty pound bag of rice as opposed to a one pound bag but do not forget that it must be kept in a rat proof container.
You can buy some clothing items such as men socks and underwear because those styles do not change, avoid buying children and women clothing those styles change and sizes change too drastically.
Try to acquire and keep a two year supply of these items and you can save hundreds of dollars.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself he is very careful how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else he is still very careful about how much he spends but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys but does not care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else money on someone else, he does not care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that is government for you.
