How annoying is it when you go to the supermarket to nab a bargain you spotted in the junk mail only to find the sale sticker beneath an empty space on the shelf?
Today I found out that just because other shoppers got up earlier and cleared the shelf before you could get your half price toothpaste/nappies/washing detergent/that other expensive item you need in your home, doesn't mean you miss out on the savings.
In fact, it could mean you score even more savings. If the product advertised isn't available, you can get a rain check from the store that allows you to redeem the sale price on the item another day.
Apparently these rain check thingies are valid for 12 months so there's nothing to stop you from going to another store that day to get the bargain then squirrel the rain check away in a drawer somewhere to use later in the year when you've run out again.
So it seems the early bird gets only one worm while the bird that slept in or had something better to do that buy shampoo can actually get more than one worm :-)
A very thrifty stay-at-home-Mum also taught me today that when things are on sale you can take evidence of it to Big W for a price match, then lay buy a bunch of them for continued savings. Say nappies were on sale at Woolies for $25 rather than $33 a box. You could get Big W to price match their boxes for $25 and put 20 boxes on lay by at $25 each to save yourself $160.
As a new Mum, I've come to realise just how many nappies babies actually go through in a week and how much you can end up forking out for them over the months so this is definitely something worth considering. Assuming you can bring yourself to claim the price match from the pimply faced Big W customer service assistant before wheeling half a dozen trolleys full of nappies to the lay by counter.
Definitely not!
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