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Couponing?

dave partington

dave partington

Crazy Dave
A friend of mine turned me on to couponing, that thing where I combine an in-store BOGO (Buy one, get one / free) with an online store coupon (at the store's website) plus using a couple of sites which make third-party/ manufacturers coupons available to be printed online. So sometimes I get triple savings. Best so far is cutting a $550. grocery bill down to $160. We've got ketchup, hotdogs, laundry detergent, pickles, and English muffins for a year or so stockpiled. Sad but true. Took 18 hours to get ready for that shopping excursion, but if you tally up the savings, how much was that trip worth per hour that I wasn't working?
So I started this thread.
If you know of sites that offer significant savings or tips or whatever on big sale items, but not amazon or ebay or stuff like that, please share links.
Mods, if you feel this thread is better somewhere else or not all, no mean to break the rulz, do whatcha gotta do.
Thanks for sharing.
dp.
 
If you have a favorite store for shopping at, or any store for that matter, find out the individual store's coupon POLICY before spending hours filling carts.
If you are stuck on specific brands you might not save as much as if not stuck on brand names.
Sometimes you might not own a dog or cat but discover if you buy a hundred of pet treats and use the triple savings method, then the store is giving you money back to take stuff out of the store, so then buy a prepaid visa card or something with the overage. Maybe a shelter in your area or friend has a poochiemuffin.
I tend to shop for groceries at Publix the most.
I signed up for their online coupons here (they've never sent me junk email)
http://www.publix.com/coupon/Home.do
I go in and check "select all" the coupons on their website, then at the register, tell the clerk my phone number, and those savings kick in.
I also check their weekly ad, here, for the buy one get ones.
http://weeklyad.publix.com/publix/default.aspx?action=entryflash
I also subscribe to coupons.com and http://thekrazycouponlady.com/
neither of which has sold my email address to a third party, so I have confidence.
Krazycouponlady sends me a spamogram one per day, with all of the stores in my area where I can use coupons that fit my interest. Got a couple free coffee makers within the last 30 days.
On many of the coupon sites when you print a coupon, you never see the coupon you are printing, so you cannot simply make a screen capture of it and print 12 more.
But if you do scan/copies of it and maybe bump up the toner a notch, the extra copies seem to spend just as well.
http://www.Groupon.com is swell too, for finding all sorts of savings on local and mail-order stuff (often with free shipping).
 
I kinda wish we had the same coupon policies up here...most of the stores up here have quite strict policies that state, no coupon stacking, no using coupons on discount days or items on sale, blah blah blah. In fact once the boys get bigger and start eating everything in sight it may make more sense for me to move South and coupon and use the money saved for medical expenses and give up my free medical care we have here:laugh01:
 
Can you bring a friend or 2 with you when you go shopping, to break down one transaction into 2 or 3 transactions? For example you go thru the checkout and get your order of goods, and then friends 1 & 2 go through the checkout with the exact same goods in their carts and your money and coupons? Then you repay their favors by helping them through the checkout lanes to break down transactions. Insulated boxes/Coolers with ice packs in the trunk might come in handy.
 
The stores here have yucky couponing rules. I do belong to a couple on-line coupon thingys and do specific brands. Say Betty Crocker then when store has those products on sale I buy. We also have buy 10 products (don't have to be the same thing) get $5.00 off at register. We stock up a lot so this works out for me, I have had up to 80% savings on my purchase. No free coffee makers yet, darn.
 
I like seeing the people buying like 50 cans of cat food, printing out the same coupon 50 times, then expecting to get it all free. When the clerk rings in the first coupon, the computer marks it as "used," so then they have to pay for the remaining 49 cans. They usually pitch a fit, then hold up the line, even though the coupon says "not to be duplicated; limit one per household."

This is why I've come to love self-checkout.
 
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