So last night I drug (willingly drug, mind you) the husband to Wal-Mart for our weekly purchases. It was one of those trips that you seem to be out of ALL of your toiletries...D.O. for the B.O., wash for the bodies, and special scrub to ward off the wrinkles that are creeping upon me. I have to admit that the husband has been really pretty good about my coup routine...maybe it's just because the first trip we went I saved $20 and I used my powers of "man speak" and equated it to a saving enough money to buy a roll of Copenhagen...regardless, he's very much in support of me being the (not so) crazy coupon lady. Our trip Monday night we spent $119 before coups and subtotaled $101 after she scanned them all. Luckily, we had a VERY nice checker who knew how to work the coups...which made our life easier. Where do I get my coups you may ask (just prentend like you did if you didn't)? Most of mine are either online that I print off and I usually check out the inserts in the Sunday paper to see if they are any good. I don't usually buy things I normally wouldn't just to use a coupon, because I think that defeats the purpose. If the Wal-Mart or United brand of something is cheaper than the name brand with a coup, then I buy the off brand. My goal is to save money, not spend more money so I can "pretend" to be saving it. Does it hurt my heart to let a good coup go to waste?? Absolutely!! So I pass along the savings to my coupon proteges and let them bask in the glory. I figure if I can save $15-20 dollars a week, that's at least $50 a month which isn't a lot, but I'd much rather spend that money on something more fun (Hobby Lobby, anyone?) than Swiffers and face wash. Could I buy $600 dollars worth of stuff for $6.98?? Probably...if we had a grocery store that did double coupons and savers cards and I bought trial sizes of everything and kept a 5 year supply of tampons and tuna fish. But since we don't, and I don't care for tuna all that much, I will stick to the not so crazy method.
For those of you who want to try your hand at coups, here are some good websites:
coupons.com
redplum.com
smartsource.com
couponmom.com
Just be prepared...the people behind you in line will probably hate you. =)
I am one of those coup proteges and I am one of those that are basking in the glory of the Kuriyama Coup Cast-Offs!! Thanks for the coups and for not being that crazy woman with a 5 year supply of tampons and tuna!
ReplyDeleteAs the "fabulous" husband, I'm also stoked that you don't stock the tuna and tampons, or the tun-pons as I call them. But more importantly, I just printed us a $10 coup for Lowe's - can I get a gold star on my chore chart?!
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