I have started using coupons and stockpiling and it has paid off big time. If you use to use coupons and then just stopped because you just didn't think it made a big enough difference...then you might want think again.
You can save a lot of money if you know how to do it! Oh, I know you think it's a lot of trouble or time consuming. Well, it can be if you do it alone. So in my recent quest to save money I have found a site called
SavingsAngel.comThis is a wonderful site that will walk you through everything you need to know. It has fabulous tutorials and videos to teach you what you need to know when it comes to saving money on food and other things your family needs and uses everyday. Once you see how easy it is you'll wonder why you hadn't found out about this sooner.
What if all you had to do was buy a Sunday paper for each person in your household....for me that's 4 papers with 4 sets of coupons inserts. Then all I have to do is go to my SavingsAngel.com and plug in the stores I shop at to see what's on sale and what I need and it tells me what Sunday paper insert a corresponding coupon is in for that sale item and I just go to my handy file and look for say Sunday 2/20/11 (RP, SS, P&G, GM, Unilever) that's RP (RedPlum) SS (SmartSource) P&G (Proctor&Gamble) GM (General Mills) and so forth and then cut out the coupons. Yep, I don't cut coupons until I am ready to make my list and go shopping. But that's not the only source for coupons. There are plenty of good online sources for printing off internet coupons to use at the grocery or pharmacy type stores and yes they will take them.
To get the most bang for your buck is when you use a manufacturer coupon with a store coupon and the item is on sale. Or manf. coupon, store coupon, sale item and with stores like
Walgreens,
CVS,
RiteAid and a few other they have rewards on top of all everything else. And with the money you save you can use that for things like your produce, meat or dairy items that may not have coupons available.
My last trip was to Target recently. My total bill before coupons or anything else was $119.72 but I only paid $84.00 that's a savings of $35.72. I don't know about you but for a savings of $35.72 I will continue to use coupons. I have had other trips that were better but not all trips will save you like they show on TLC extreme couponing where a the person walks out only paying 1.02 for hundreds of dollars worth of groceries. Don't get me wrong it can be done but it's not an everyday occurrence but makes for good TV.
Always be sure and check out all the benefits a store may have to offer because you might miss out on something great like Kroger's .10 cents off a gallon promo or Target with their extra 5% off all purchases using their Target credit card or Target debit card. For that last trip to Target using my Target debit card good only at Target I get an extra $4.40 off my bill. I was excited about that and my trip before that to Kroger netted me the .10 cents off a gallon on my gas my bill was $305.10 and I only paid out of pocket $152.61 and I had two shopping carts for their big Dayton 500 sale and boy it was a good one!
So rethink the using of coupons and start saving money and yes stockpile a bit you don't have to go over board but with tough times it's time to saving cause honey the rainy days are here!
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