If you’re wondering how you’re supposed to know what to buy in March, When to buy, What’s on clearance well I have the answer. The guide to the grocery store cycles will be produced each month and it’ll help you live a frugal life and save BIG! You’ll even see what’s FREE in the month of March too! Check back each month for your month to month guide to frugal living.
Planning ahead is the best way to save BIG! Read my guide to March savings. Be sure to pin it to PINTEREST! (direct link to pinterest for this pin http://pinterest.com/pin/286189751293066903/)
Items you’ll find on clearance:
- winter clothes
- shoes
- coats
- linens
- blankets
- hats
- gloves
- scarves
- snow play apparel
- March 18th – St. Pat’s Day (T-Shirts, shot glasses, decorations etc) If you’re big into this holiday buy on clearance 3/18 for next year
- Broth-Soups
- Winter clearance boots and shoes on deep discount, linens, coats, blankets (use as needed or tuck away for next year)
- Fish & seafood on sale (from Lenten season)
- Ham for Easter (purchase 1 extra & freeze for April)
- Frozen Foods (National Frozen foods month make room in freezer)
- Wood or pellet stoves for heating (due to end of winter clearing out)
- Corned beef buy extra on sale to make in April and May (week of St. Pat’s day) My “buy” price is 99¢lb to $2.19lb
- Cabbage, carrots, eggs (buy several dozen eggs & make creative recipes – eggs last for several weeks just check expiration dates)
- Seeds to garden
- Canned foods
- asparagus
- avocado artichokes
- broccoli cauliflower
- brussels sprouts
- cabbages
- chard
- celery
- leeks
- collard/mustard greens
- fava beans
- chicories-radicchio
- sunchokes
- spring garlic spring onion
- lemon
- blood oranges
- red grapefruit
- tangerines navel orange
- kiwi
- d’anjou pear
- strawberries
- Re-evaluate vacation fund savings & increase or decrease as needed for summer vacations, write to National Park Service (for campers) or Chamber of Commerce or Visitors centers for brochures and ideas for free things to see and do on your summer vacation
- Discuss plans to start a garden next month (even if its just a patio or window garden)
- Shop 2 grocery stores twice a month – 1 for the main bulk of your shopping & the other to run in for deeply discounted sale items only
- Remember to snag your FREE Rita’s Italian Ice® (1st day of spring March 20th) Check your local Rita’s to find out the times they’re offering the freebies
- When you find hams on sale (for Easter) purchase the largest ham you can find and plan at least 3 meals with the leftovers then freeze one of the meals to pull out on a busy night when you have no time to cook. (remember left overs doesn’t mean eating the same thing the next night. See a great leftover ham recipe here, think of scrambled eggs & ham or freezing a ham quiche)
- Sign up for freecycle.org to get or give good used items in your community
- National Frozen Foods Month
- March 10th Daylight Savings Time Begins
- March 17th St. Patrick’s Day
- March 20th 1st Day of Spring, FREE Rita’s Italian Ice
- March 24th Palm Sunday
- March 26th Passover Begins
- March 29th good Friday
- March 31st Easter
- March 2nd Home Depot FREE Kids Workshops – Build a Racecar
- March 9th Lowes Build & Grow FREE Workshops – Monster Jam Truck
- March 23rd Lowes Build and Grow FREE Workshops – The Croods: Piranhakeet Chomper
- March 20th – 1st Day of Spring FREE Italian Ice day at Rita’s
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