mom2lillian
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I have been doing couponing for just over a year now and to a fairly high degree. You CAN save a ton of money if you shop whats on sale, when its on sale, combine the sales with coupons, and stock up when things are on sale as opposed to just buying what you need when you need it. I have zero experience with on line deliveries being in rural MI and I think combining shopping online with coupons would be very difficult--they cant figure out how to accept them sometiems IRL .
I have blogged extensively about not just my couponing but other money saving ideas, tips trick and the reason I got into couponing. I have used my couponing to cut our household expenses (everything not just food) down to $110/week.
Here are examples from the past two weeks for me on little stuff. Yesterday there werent any good coupon/sale match ups for me at the grocery store but there were some good sales on produce which we eat alot of and dairy. I used two coupons. One was bread normally $3 was on sale for 1.69 and there was a $1 coupon on it so I got two loaves of it 0.69/each (these were store coupons so I could have done 2/trip multiple times but its first time trying this bread so I decided just 2 was fine as we dont eat alot bread), the other was some 'fancy' granola bars that I wanted to try so they were normally 3.69/box on sale 2.50 box and I had $1 coupon (for me >1/box is expensive but I decided I wanted to try them) but by making my menu around the on sale veggies and stocking up on cheap cheese etc my total savings was $38 and total paid was $55 for items that I dont get alot coupons for (produce and dairy) that is really good.
I went to walgreens on friday and they had the almonds I like B1G1 free, they also had chapstick, toothbrush, hair ties, fiber pills that were all on sale for X$ and then when you buy it you get a coupon for x$. I got three of those items, paid for them, got the coupons for $ off next order and then my next order was the almonds I wanted which I used the coupons to pay for because my cashier lets me do this (not all do). I also got lucky because I live in MI and get 'bounty' when a price rings up wrong so I got a $5 bounty for a price error so all in all my 3 things almonds, hair ties, fiber pills, gum, chapstick cost me a whopping $2 which is less than one can of nuts normally!
Here is information on my couponing etc
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">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...apfree-groceries.html
</a>
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-savers.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-savers.html
</a>
Here is why we started saving money
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/dave-ramsey-weirdo.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...ve-ramsey-weirdo.html
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">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...-ramsey-step-one.html
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I have blogged extensively about not just my couponing but other money saving ideas, tips trick and the reason I got into couponing. I have used my couponing to cut our household expenses (everything not just food) down to $110/week.
Here are examples from the past two weeks for me on little stuff. Yesterday there werent any good coupon/sale match ups for me at the grocery store but there were some good sales on produce which we eat alot of and dairy. I used two coupons. One was bread normally $3 was on sale for 1.69 and there was a $1 coupon on it so I got two loaves of it 0.69/each (these were store coupons so I could have done 2/trip multiple times but its first time trying this bread so I decided just 2 was fine as we dont eat alot bread), the other was some 'fancy' granola bars that I wanted to try so they were normally 3.69/box on sale 2.50 box and I had $1 coupon (for me >1/box is expensive but I decided I wanted to try them) but by making my menu around the on sale veggies and stocking up on cheap cheese etc my total savings was $38 and total paid was $55 for items that I dont get alot coupons for (produce and dairy) that is really good.
I went to walgreens on friday and they had the almonds I like B1G1 free, they also had chapstick, toothbrush, hair ties, fiber pills that were all on sale for X$ and then when you buy it you get a coupon for x$. I got three of those items, paid for them, got the coupons for $ off next order and then my next order was the almonds I wanted which I used the coupons to pay for because my cashier lets me do this (not all do). I also got lucky because I live in MI and get 'bounty' when a price rings up wrong so I got a $5 bounty for a price error so all in all my 3 things almonds, hair ties, fiber pills, gum, chapstick cost me a whopping $2 which is less than one can of nuts normally!
Here is information on my couponing etc
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/saving-debt-free-cheapfree-groceries.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...apfree-groceries.html
</a>
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-savers.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-savers.html
</a>
Here is why we started saving money
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/dave-ramsey-weirdo.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...ve-ramsey-weirdo.html
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/dave-ramsey-step-one.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...-ramsey-step-one.html
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/dave-ramsey-weirdo-2.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...-ramsey-weirdo-2.html
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-out-of-debt.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...ting-out-of-debt.html
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/getting-out-of-debtcontinued.html
">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...of-debtcontinued.html
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008/12/debt-reduction-update.html">http://cftoo.blogspot.com/2008...-reduction-update.html</a>