Comments on: Coupon organizing 101

By: Suzanne Rohring

Suzanne Rohring — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:01:09 +0000

I love my coupons! I don’t buy alot of junk food/prepackaged food but I get all of my shampoo, deod., tp, pasta, rice, fem hyg., body wash, soap, cleaners either free or almost free!

By: KMJ

KMJ — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:18:51 +0000

To the above skeptics:

The trick to couponing is matching up coupons with sales to get items for free or almost free. If you know what you’re doing, you can get the healthy foods you’re already buying at the store much cheaper. I mostly use coupons to buy health and beauty products, household products, and staples like canned and frozen vegetables, whole grain staples, fresh dairy, and lean meats. Not every coupon is for CheezWiz! Perhaps one day I will make enough money not to rely on coupons, but as it is my grocery budget is miniscule and couponing is the only way I can keep my husband and myself fed!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:55:31 +0000

I love using coupons. My mom most of the time, gives me the ones out of the paper. I print them online a lot also. But as with Leslie, I don’t use A LOT of them. My husband does more. He likes a certain type of cookies and will use the coupon if there is one. No coupon/discount no cookies. We get a discount at the grocery store buying the store brand, because he works there…so that is usually how we go. Albertson brand mushrooms are the same as Green Giant, but cheaper. If the kids want an extra treat/snack, I teach them to pick store brand with the sale sticker on the rack. They don’t mind either.

By: Marti

Marti — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:53:39 +0000

I’m with you, Leslie. I shop at WalMart and buy the SuperSaver brand, which is just as good as name brand and is 99 and 9/10 percent of the time cheaper. I rarely buy “junk” or packaged food, so don’t need many coupons. Since there is just two of us, couponing is mostly a waste of time for me, as well.

By: Shala

Shala — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:14:56 +0000

I love couponing…I save anywhere between 50% to 100% off my stuff it’s not just about buying food it’s everything I use in my house…and I am not a stay at home mom I work over 50 hours a week with 2 boys under 3…we go on a awesome vacation with all the money with save…I spend about $50.00 a month on everything I use and eat in my home. I don’t believe it is a waste of time.

By: Sara Noel

Sara Noel — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:05:31 +0000

That’s a good idea. A community member shared a similar tip but it was using money saved by her family’s effort of saving on the electric bill.
http://www.frugalvillage.com/2009/03/29/motivate-kids-to-save-energy/

By: Chica & Jo

Chica & Jo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:35:29 +0000

We found a great idea for getting coupons clipped and what to do with the money you save…use it to give your kids extra money! Have them clip and organize the coupons. Whatever you save on your purchases is how much they earn. The rule has to be that you would buy that item anyway. http://www.chicaandjo.com/2009/08/18/neat-idea-for-kids-allowances/

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:28:05 +0000

I used to coupon, but I haven’t found it to be helpful as I’ve gotten older. My tastes have changed. I use a lot of organic or fresh products, whole grains or I buy generics. It seems the coupons are mostly for junk food or brand name food, which if I buy the generic I can get just as cheaply without having to work around a coupon expiration date. Anyone else have this experience? I have an accordian file I like, but I find couponing mostly a waste of time and they expire before I ever use them.