Budget tip of the day

Here are three quick tips for you when you go grocery shopping.

1. Make and bring a list. Sounds simple but a lot of people don't take lists to the store and end up getting many things they hadn't intended to purchase or even forgetting the very thing they actually went to buy.
2. Eat before you go. If you go to the store hungry you'll be more likely to make impulse purchases because you are hungry.
3. Leave the kids at home. They are often distracting at the store, throwing off your concentration. Another problem is them asking you to buy them things or having to buy something as a bribe, it can really make a dent in the budget.