Finding nickels at your grocery store
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As inflation rises and more focus on going green, I uncovered some more ways to save at the grocery store. Living in one of the states that requires a bottle deposit on certain bottled water brands and beer bottles, this 0.05 is a hidden charge every time I buy a case of my favorite brew. This $1.20 (24 times 0.05) is something that I usually don’t recover since I just throw my empty bottles in the weekly recycling bin. I started to realize that I should stop being lazy and bring these bottles back so that I can re-claim my $1.20 deposit.
Also, I am not sure if every supermarket chain has adopted this, but the majority of the grocery stores in Massachucetts gives you 0.05 for every personal bag that you bring in to minimize the use of plastic/paper bags. The stores are encouraging you to help save the planet by going green along with improving their bottom line margins. Most stores will sell you a branded store bag for 0.99, resulting in a payback after 20 uses.
In the last trip to the store, I was able to scratch up 0.45 in savings using the options listed above.
2 uses of a recycled Bags @ 0.05 each; 0.10
7 Bottle Deposits totaling 0.35
I know this doesn’t seem like much but my path to millionaire status starts with every nickel I can find, which I will deposit into my savings account. Just in case you are wondering, I am not deducting 0.99 for the cost of the bag because I received it for free.
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