In this blog, I chose to talk about my coupons. I know it can be boring to others, but coupons are a part of my life. I am not extreme like the show, but I'm close to it. I love to use coupons for everything, and hate it when I don't have a coupon for something. I do this to save my family of 5 money. My husband and I have 3 boys, and they are very expensive!
Sunday is my absolute favorite day of the week. I get my papers and cut and organize my coupons, if time allows. The dollar tree in Carthage, has the Kansas City Star for only a $1, where it is usually $2 everywhere else. I usually get 4-10 papers depending on the coupons. My husband thinks I'm a nut, but of course brags about me anywhere we go and how much money I save. I generally save about 50-75% of our total grocery bill, and save about 90% of personal needs items.
My favorite store to use my coupons at is Walgreens. I never used to go to Walgreens until I started coupons. My store is very coupon friendly and loves to help. Walgreens has a program called register rewards, where if you buy a certain item or multiple of it, you can get a register reward back to use on another purchase. Last week, they had Diapers on sale for $8.49 and then I had $3 coupon, which made them $5.49. After paying that amount, I got a $2 register reward to use for my next purchase, so it was like paying $3.49 for diapers, which is awesome! They also had Hot Pockets on sale, 2/$3. My family loves them, but I don't buy them often. Walgreens also let's you use one manufacture's coupon and one walgreens coupon on the same item. So with their coupon, and my coupon I was able to get them for $0.66 a box. I definitely stocked up on those.
Coupons has made my families life a lot easier as we are now a 1 income household since I'm back in school. I'm very grateful for my coupons, and love to teach other people how to use them.
I think it is amazing how much money you save using coupons. My husband would love me forever if I could do that. Well, I hope he loves me forever anyway but you know what I'm saying.
ReplyDeleteI tried to do the whole coupon thing a couple of different times but I always found that I could save more by using the "off brand" than by using the name brand with coupons. With that being said, I also know a lot of people that save tons of money couponing so I really don't think I got the right technique down or allowed enough time for myself to learn properly.
Good for you! I hope it continues to work well for you!!!
I have NEVER been able to use coupons! Even when I happen to save one to use I never remember to use it. I had a $5 off coupon for refills for my daughters electric toothbrush and totally forgot to use it just last week.
ReplyDeleteI have met people who have had a lot of success with coupons so I know it can be done. I look forward to you educating us!
Where do you get all these coupons? I'm not a big coupon person but you got me interested. My husband is the only one working as well so I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I have two kids that are still in diapers and I know how expensive daipers can get and you got a great deal!
ReplyDelete