Dollar Days - Dollar value

The store that I shop at for my big shopping trip every month does a 10/$10 sale fairly often. You can get some pretty good deals when they do. They usually have close to 100 things that are $1 each. I really like going there when they are doing that.

Wow, Linda, you did really well with your Dollar Day shopping. $11, here in England, is approximately £5.50 and unless I really hunt around for bargains, there is no way I would come home with all that food! Of course, we have to take into consideration that your food and general shopping is so much cheaper than ours anyway, about half price in Oregon, I'd say, but that's just a national trend. We do have "No Frills" goods here though, in Tesco, and other large chain stores, which are much cheaper than the fancy packaged range, and we have two European Supermarkets, Aldi's and Lidl's. Lidl's is by far the cheaper of the two, but even so, they both undercut the main chains by far. As I already said though, it takes time to look the bargains out. I would imagine you were happy to trudge through the snow, with three bags of shopping, which had cost you so little, and really, for the amount you managed to purchase, I would think $11 out of your next week's budget would matter little, as you have plenty of food to keep you going, and healthy eating too. Well done!!! Brightest Blessings.

No we dont have dollar days in our grocery stores but we do have lots of discount schemes not as lucky as you guys because i stay in india ...and here rupee is the currency nd 44 rupee is one dollar so you can imagine but i hope some day we have 10 rupee days here also....

WE sure do and I try not to miss one LOL SOmetimes they have things that I don't really use a a rule, so I make sure I don't get so much into the fact that it's only $1 that I buy things I don't need. But often they do have things I regularly buy:) Hey so we shop at the same store or something? I got pretty much the same things you did. It was on the flyer from last week. I also got a case of bottled water - 24 bottles. Which reminds me of how much they make when they sell it per bottle - if they can even only sometimes sell 24 bottles for one dollar and sell 1 bottle for one dollar as well, that should tell us something :)

Great purchases, and very budget wise. I am wondering where in Canada, you have these stores? It must be the East Coast. I have lived on the West Coast all my life and do not remembering seeing any of these. Thank you.

You did GREAT! We don't have anything like that where things are all $1, but we do have good sales sometimes (but you'll pay higher price for other items, so its a wash). Like someone else mentioned, we have Aldi's here too, and I just stopped in this morning. It is no frills, but the food you get is great for the price, and I could care less that I have to re-use a grocery bag if it means I'm saving money. I just paid .39 a can for vegetables there, and I would probably have paid .79 or more at a full sized grocery chain. Cat food is .23 a can and its the fancy stuff wearing a different label. I'll take those savings any day!

I am in quebec we don't have no frills, actually I never heard of it before.

We also have a no frills type of grocery store called Aldi's here in the States. You did really well on your discounts. I am not sure that I would do that well here. Don't you just LOVE sales?

Not here in Minnesota. We have buy one get one free. Or good coupons but you sound like you really scored! Good for you!!!

We have a discount store for groceries called Aldi. Similar you have to bring your own bags or buy them there etc. However I dont think they have dollar days. Not that ive heard of anyways. It would be cool it they did.