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Originally Posted by ajrsmom I really agree with this statement! I have looked into making a price book before but it seems like a lot of work and quite frankly something that I wouldnt keep up with. Im going to look up the book that's mentioned here too. ( Im going to have a big list of books to get at the library if I keep reading all of these threads!!  ) |
That's what I was afraid of too Tami. Not keeping up with it. What I have startede doing is I created an excel spreadsheet that will calculate these things for me. I have the following columns:
Store name
Brand/product
Size
unit (oz, lbs, etc)
retail price
best sale price
best unit price
I have the column for best unit price set to automatically calculate by taking the "best sale price" column and dividing it by the "size" column.
I have entered my receipts for the last two trips to the store and will just keep doing that. I think I will just override the last best price if I find another best price, instead of duplicating. I think that's the basic idea behind this concept.
As for the books, Miserly Moms mentioned above is really good, and the
Tightwad Gazette is definitely an oldie but a goodie!