Jill,

This is such a great idea. I have seen many of the popular coupon website recommend keeping price books. I wish I had the time. It's like, I have the prices in my mind. Like you said above, I won't pay more than .50 for TP...even if it's on sale. It's the writing everything down part I need to work on.

My CVS just phased out the super inexpensive spices and changed them out with smaller bottles of more costly spices. Pay more, get less! Arg.

My local ALCO has dollar spices so i guess I will start picking them up there. I did prefer the 50 cent spice specials at CVS tho.

Maria, just write things down when you think of it. Or post them here. You don't have to do a big chunk at once. Just start where you are.

Anyone have any 'best prices' to share on staple foods and sundries?

last week Walgreens had a 50 cent each coupon for baking soda. Whenever i can get two for a dollar I call that a deal! Usually they are from .66 to .99 cents for each box. It's easy to stock up on baking soda and they have so many uses.

Since my wags was out of baking soda i got a raincheck. Works just as good as the coupon from their weekly circular.

I have found that if i go by sales, markdowns, coupons and specials, I can pretty much always find a nice bottle of wine for under $5. I try to stick to that.

I found the large generic canisters of oatmeal for $2.88 each at a superwalmart today. That's excellent. That's two for a bit more than $5.

I have recently been told you can get 25 pound bags of salt at Costco for $3. If anyone can verify that, it's an amazing deal.

Walgreens is having a sale this upcoming week on spices for 75 cents a jar. That's better than the usual dollar from the dollar stores. I'd stock up and get rainchecks if they are out of things.

Cornstarch at Super Walmart, 88 cents a package. That is more than half the cheapest i've seen elsewhere.

And I found a better price on oatmeal than walmart's - only $1.99 for the generic large canisters at Alco.