There Are Always Cheaper Ways To Do Things

Every Saturday, Renee and I would treat ourselves to a sausage roll and soft drink at our local bakery. A harmless treat to end the week we thought. Now this treat was costing us $10.90 total. We are not talking sheep stations.

However it struck me one day as I was buying the soft drink. A 600ml bottle was costing us $2.95 from the bakery. But we can buy whole 1.25 litre bottles of soft drink for a $1.50 in our shopping. OK this was a wake up call. Now we have started purchasing the 1.25 litre bottle from the supermarket and keeping it there until the Saturday, saving us a grand total of $4.40. And bringing down our weekend treat to $6.50.

OK we have found a way to get this snack cheaper but then something else hit me. Why don’t we also buy the sausage rolls frozen from the supermarket? The same sized sausage rolls at the supermarket cost us only $1.90 vs $2.50. Now we were saving a grand total of $5.60. This continued for a couple of weeks as I kicked myself for not coming up with it years ago.

But Renee then had a brainwave. How about if she purchased the ingredients to make our own sausage rolls during the week? She would freeze them and then we could have them on the weekend.

Now we have worked out a price to buy all the ingredients for the sausage rolls. It now only costs us per roll a total of $1.25. And our grand total savings per week compared to when we went to our bakery is $6.90. Or a total of 37 percent. Had we been doing this for the past three years we could have saved ourselves around $1076.

Finally for the good news; the homemade sausage rolls taste just as good as the bakery sausage rolls. So as good as you might be doing right now, there are always places to cut money from your spending.