Following Your Supermarket 12 week Sale Cycle

So how much is enough to have on hand of certain products? 

Well, the “rule of thumb” is enough to last you three months (of course and exception would be a really really good deal on something you use all the time, thus the stock pile.) 

This means that every 12 weeks, products hit their highest price point and their lowest. This is true at supermarket stores across the nation.  Each product and each store is on its own 12 week cycle, so you must watch the sales each week. A good idea for "Coupon Virgins" is to keep your weekly flyers so you can become familiar with product prices, sales, ect. 

The idea is to stock up on products when they hit that low point and start building your stockpile.
For example, one week you go to your supermarket, and you see that a jar of Ragu is $2. So you buy a jar because you’re making spaghetti this week.
Then next week you go to the store and it’s on sale for $1.50. 
The next week it’s 99 cents.
Just think if you’d waited to buy that jar this week! You’d have saved $1. If you use that $1/2 coupon that was in the paper a few weeks ago, you could have gotten 2 jars for just $1 instead of $4!
Following sales each week, and saving your coupons for when products are at their lowest price point, can save you even more money at supermarkets than you would at Super center stores which tend to have “every day low prices.”