Keeping a grocery price book

[lisaashby]

Hi all,
I've been couponing for over a year but am starting to get pretty serious about it (started my stockpile and am focusing on getting deals at rock-bottom prices). I'm curious - with all the coupon matchup sites out there, do you all still keep a grocery price book or do you rely on these sites to tell you when to stockpile items?

[Merczilla]

Maybe I'm just old, but I "know" my prices. I know just by looking at the sale ads if it's good price or not, or that Store A has that cheaper all the time at regular shelf price. I pretty much know what coupons I have or don't have. I don't use any other site but here...frequentlly there's deals I don't know about and someone here will post about it.

I just stock up on things I need or use when the price is good for me. I don't get the screaming deals the Lower 48 does, no doubling, etc. so i just do the best I can.

[Luv Savings]

(started my stockpile and am focusing on getting deals at rock-bottom prices). I'm curious - with all the coupon matchup sites out there, do you all still keep a grocery price book or do you rely on these sites to tell you when to stockpile items?

I am trying to start a grocery price book the last couple of days trying to figure out the best way to do this. Thought it would be a good start . (couponing 102 lol )

Does anyone else do this?

[brittandan]

I tried doing one, but it is very time consuming and like pp said, after a while you know the prices and it all really depends on what you're really willing to spend at that time for that item. I'd been tracking prices for almost a year on my ipod, but after I started couponing it seemed to get pretty crazy. Maybe I was just trying to be too thorough? I would check the sites that tell you a % off regular price after coupon. Then I know if something is really as good a deal as I thought, but rarely do that now. HTH

Kelly

[lisaashby]

Thanks everyone! I started a Google Doc that is not really a price book but more of a shopping list for each week. Since I'm pulling info from a number of sites, that seems to work better for me. It has the price per unit that I paid there so it may work as a price book of sorts in the future. At least until I get the hang of it, it'll help me have a better idea of what to buy when.