On of the easiest ways to save money is to buy in bulk.

When you next go shopping, compare the price of items that are the same brand but of different quantities. The best way to do this is to break the size down into a common figure, grams, milliliters, units. Say we are looking at a 100g tin of coffee compared to a 1000g tin(1kg) . Now if we divide the larger quantity by the smaller we know that there is 10 times the amount. So then if we divide the price of the 1000g tin by 10 and compare it to the price of the smaller we can compare in real terms.

You will nearly always find the larger quantity to be of better value. One of the reasons for this is the packaging, it is about the same for both size tins, but as a percentage of the total price it makes the larger quantity item better value.

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