Containers

Spend to Save

One of the most important ways of saving is to understand what you are paying for. For many food items what you paying for the packaging is a large portion of the product price. Sometimes even a larger portion of the price than the item itself. This one reason that some store brands use plain white boxes with just one other color. The multicolor boxes that are used for most products are enormously expensive. But even more expensive are the zip lock features in many bags. For example today the store brand popcorn was $1.29 for 32 ounces of the Ralph's brand product and $2.49 for the Jolly Time product in ziplock bag. The products are of identical quality. Even for nice looking glass container you will break even after less then 10 purchases of the popcorn after then every time you purchase popcorn you are realizing $1.20 in savings. Another example is sugar. For a long time now I have been buying sugar in cardboard boxes with a pour spout. Then I smartened up and bought a glass container that could hold 5 pounds of sugar and have realized incredible savings.