Friday, January 28, 2011

Coupon-ing


While I was in line at Smith's Marketplace today, I couldn't help but watch the lady in front of me hand the cashier a HUGE stack of coupons. Originally her total was $37.50, not that bad, but after all the coupons went through it came out to $6.27!

Wow!

That's a savings of $31.23!!!

I really need to start getting into this coupon thing. Although, I'm kinda nervous. Anybody have any good suggestions for websites or ways to keep it all organized?

6 comments:

  1. Check out www.thekrazycouponlady.com. She has great advice for beginners on organizing and learning the lingo.

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  2. I have tried and I failed!!! Ha! If you get tips, send them my way! I even get coupons from the krazy coupon lady. But I don't understand them. Ha!

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  3. Ask Larissa about how to get in touch with Karlee. Debbie says she's a really good coupon shopper, and she could probably tell you about things right here in Logan.

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  4. I use grocery smarts. what I like about it is I can get coupons for produce and fresh things that we most often used. A lot of my friends are crazy couners, but they buy a lot of frozen and boxed things and we just don't eat like that. We also found that you can go on the store website for example, Smiths has a coupon link for store coupons you don't see in the store, if you can combine it with a sale or manufacturers coupon it can save you a ton, plus they offer coupons on things like dairy, produce and the good food.

    When I was in the RS presidency in West Jordan, we planned an activity with the grocery guru and I hated his method, because if you look at his menus, they are a lot of preservative laden, junky food. I know a lot of people love him, and he teaches you how to buy cheap groceries, but it wasn't worth it to us. I think you can use some of his kinds of methods with a few of the grocery smarts methods and still feed your family healthy home cooked meals, which for us is the only way it could work. I don't save as much as some of my insane friends, but I hope we're healthier for it. That's my two cents. Good luck, I hope you find a way that works for you!

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  5. Thanks ladies! And Mindy, I totally agree with you in my coupon philosophy, I don't need all those preservatives and unhealthy boxed foods. Thanks for the lead to grocerysmarts, we love healthy produce!

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