On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 09:51:56 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Hi Julie,
>
>Hopefully you will see this. You mentioned online shopping at
>Amazon.com for some food items and standard household items. I got
>curious and checked to see if I can save a few dimes.
>
>While most of it didnt save me anything, with careful selections and
>the automated setups, I now have a few things arriving monthly (some
>every 2 months, some every 3 etc.) that are less expensive than I was
>paying at local stores.
>
>The big savers here we
>Scott toilet paper, 1,000 sheets per roll (27 pack)
>Pill Pockets for my dog's tramadol (she has arthritis really bad)
>Pistacios
>Garlic flavored instant potato packets
>Cat food in a wheat free Rachael Ray kibble (cat has wheat allery)
>
>I added some other reasonable priced things we already get (and same
>price) to hit the 15% additional off and free shipping. That means even
>the few things that were the same price locally, are now getting 15%
>off.
>
>I am looking at a brown gravy mix in a larger container and thinking to
>get one to try out then if it works, see how ofen we will need a
>refill. Because we are low meat eaters, we do not generate much gravy
>making material here for scratch cooking but often want to make a curry
>gravy (I can doctor it to a curry gravy easily which I do all the time
>from packets).
>
>The one off item is the instant potato packets but the best price here
>is 10/10$ and these are .89 each. Lets face it, none of us ALWAYS
>scratch cooks and these are fast and easy for a late night noshe and
>provide some variety in my frozen home made 'TV dinners' Charlotte and
>I use for lunches at work/school.
>
>Anyways, thank you.
>
>I'm saving about 15$ a month now plus there's some things that we could
>have run out of that would have cost me gas to go get.
>
> Carol

If you're using Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" feature you should have
saved a lot more than $15 on all those items.