Here is your August Savings Guide! This guide will show you what to buy, what’s on clearance and what’s in season for the month of August. This guide is intended to help you understand how the monthly grocery and other promotional sales cycle. Always planning ahead is one of the best tips to use when trying to save!! I hope you find this helpful. Thanks to Family Frugal Fun for sharing this awesome guide!

 

Items you’ll find on clearance in August:

• Gardening  supplies
• Seeds for planting (they’ll last about 2 yrs)
•  Summer apparel and summer toys & outdoor furnishing start to go on sale towards months end

 

• A good time to buy in August:
  • School supplies ( on sale)
  • Office supplies (on sale)
  • Juice boxes & pouches, lunch items like sandwich meats, lunch snacks, cereals bars, pudding cups, granola bars, fruit snacks, canned fruit, sandwich cheese slices
  • Breakfast foods like cereals, oatmeal etc
  • Tissues, disinfectants, hand sanitizers, sanitizing wipes
  • Ice cream, popsicles

• Here’s a list of what’s in season in August:
  • watermelon, plums
  • strawberries, kiwi, plum
  • blueberries,  apricots
  • raspberries, radish
  • cantaloupe, apples
  • asparagus, avocados
  • basil, beets, cabbage
  • carrots, peppers, okra
  • lemons,   grapefruits
  • oranges, collards, pears
  • grapes, kale, onion
  • nectarines, passion fruit
  • peaches, potatoes
  • cucumbers, tomatoes squash
  • corn, beans eggplant, lettuce, figs

  Consider “pick your own” farms to stock up on inexpensive fruit and vegetables for summer canning & freezing

 

• • Sign up for newsletters & emails from your favorite restaurants and businesses using a separate new email address you create just for deals & savings
  • Keep coupons for dining out in your purse or wallet.
  • Build up a 6 month stockpile;
  • Buy enough  food & toiletries when on sale at their rock bottom sale price for each person in your family  so you don’t run out (when you “need” a product you’ll be wiling to pay full price – don’t let that happen)
  • •Many states offer a tax free holiday for back to school shopping  – check with your local Dept of taxation for your state
  • •Close blinds during direct sun hours to conserve on cooling costs
  • •Shop  with a specific grocery list based on sales & start meal planning for a busy back to school schedule (quick meals for busy nights, easy breakfast foods etc)

 

Family Fun Month

• • National Catfish Month
  • National Eye Exam Month
  • National Golf Month
  • Peach Month
  • Romance Awareness Month
  • Water Quality Month
  • National Picnic Month

  Weekly Events in the month of August:

  • Week 1 National Simplify your Life Week
  • Week 2 National Smile Week
  • Week 3 Friendship Week
  • Week 4 Be Kind to Humankind Week

  Special Day in August

  • August 4 Friendship Day – First Sunday in August
  • August 10 National S’mores Day
  • August 14 National Creamsicle Day
  • August 18th – Maggie’s Birthday! Lol
  • August 30 Toasted Marshmallow Day
  • August 31 National Trail Mix Day

 

• • Museums on Us Bank of America
  • Saturdays at  Lakeshore FREE workshop for kids
  • Pottery Barn Tuesday Story Times
  • Saturdays Michaels FREE workshops (Scrap In small fee)
  • Saturdays  Lowes Build and Grow workshop for kids
  • Wednesday Sept 18th (plan ahead there is no free night in August)  FREE Entrance into the Philadelphia Franklin Institute (Science center)
  • Weekends in August FREE workshops with Home Depots
  • National Night Out (August 6th)
  • The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC)  FREE shows every day at 6pm
  • Kids Skate FREE