On a different note, the last few days of purchases of some things I needed, I was able to save about 75% off my bill after I average everything out. One store in particular I saved 88%! However, I've made some mistakes too. Not reading coupons right, or missing a sale price, etc that cost me a good amount of savings. I think my worst so far has been only saving 65% off my grocery bill. So I'm not doing FABULOUS but I still think I'm doing pretty good. I can't stand those grumpy checkout ladies though that put a magnifying glass up and question every coupon I have. Just scan it and it'll tell you if its good. I had to demand a raincheck on one product today because the manager didn't feel like getting me one from the back. I said, "Well, it's on sale and I have a coupon. If I wait till after midnight, it's no longer on sale." His reply? "Oh well, you can get it a different day." Riiiiiight. But you see, if I come back with no raincheck then I don't get the sale price. I went round and round for a minute until he finally wrote me the darn raincheck. Sheesh.
Retail price at store for a 6 pack: $8.99
On sale at store: $5.50
Manufacturers coupon: $4 off
Cost after savings $1.50
That's an 83% savings
So yeah, I needed that raincheck, dude.
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| I took my son with me to "work" today collecting coupons and to the store to learn how to save. |
Highlight of my day: Walking from door to door with my son collecting my neighbor's packet of Redplum coupons they didn't want. Did you know I met neighbors for the first time? Yee haw! Now I have a reason to wave as I pass by without them thinking I'm gonna rob them.
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Amazing savings! I should really start couponing...of course that would require me to switch stores since mine doesn't accept internet coupons (to much fraud). Anyway, my sister works for a grocery store and I was asking her about coupons...she said some will scan even if they are for the wrong size product so they need to check them all... I was asking her about them because I was wondering if the cost of processing more coupons (due to more people using them/availability on the internet etc.) would increase costs (I know grocery stores have a very slim margin) causing me (a non-couponer) to pay more.
Reading your posts is helping me to START thinking about couponing. Can you give me an idea of how much time you spend organizing all this? I have 2 jobs, an online business and a family to care for, which I know is probably not as much as you have to do. I am so intimidated by being overwhelmed that I'm not motivated to start. Any advice on how to get started... maybe slowly?
What is Redplum?
I've spent a good amount of time on it until I signed up for Coupon Sense. It does all the hard work for me because tells me what coupons to use and who has the great sales. Also, I use the same booklets they use on the show Extreme Couponing. I use a folder that holds inserts. The pockets of them were made to display baseball cards but instead it shows coupons. That way I don't have to shuffle through stacks of coupons and can easily see them.
I'm just starting out so it's taken me a lot of time but as I'm getting used to it, the time is really cut down.
Redplum and Smartsource is a packet of coupons that come in the mail a couple times a week and are in the Sunday paper.
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