May. 27, 2008 - Pinching Your Pennies
I just wanted to make a quick entry about this. We've started collecting coupons and using this site and I'm pretty excited about it. Recently I got hooked when I got ten boxes of General Mills cereals for $2.95. Albertson's had it ten for ten and then with my coupons I was able to get some free, and some discounted more. I felt a little sore that I had to pay the whole dollar for the Cheerios.
Today I took some coupons over to Smith's and got $50 worth of stuff for $18. I thought that was pretty decent for a beginner like myself. My favorite was the nail polish - it was a two pack of Revlon colorstay polish and top coat which is normally about six or seven dollars. It was on sale for $2.99 and I had a coupon for $2 off. Good stuff for $.99! Too bad I hadn't started getting multiple coupons yet or I'd have gotten five different colors at that price. They had a promotion for five 12 packs of coke products and two free cheezits for $12 - which is already a good deal but I had coupons for the soda so I got it even cheaper!
Anyway, I won't bore you with all the details, but PYP does the shopping around for you and all you do is print the list gather the coupons (they tell you where to find them) and go save a disgusting amount of money. Every week there is something that ends up being free and plenty that is nearly so. With the price of groceries I highly recommend the effort of clipping the coupons. It's like a well paying part time job that the kids can help with. Carlos helped me keep track of the coupons at the store (except the ones he dropped and lost!) and soon I'll trust him enough to cut some out for me. It goes pretty quickly with a quilting mat and rotary blade.
Happy shopping!
Comments
May. 28, 2008 - coupons
Posted by Anonymous
I have a friend who is way into couponing and did a night for enrichment about it. She gave out a 3 page list of great ideas of how to do the things you are talking about. Maybe I'll see if she can email it to you. On PYP, can you print out all the coupons or do you have to take the paper?
-Laura
May. 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ChelC
You can find a lot of coupons online and print them, but most of them come in the paper. I have a subscription and get five papers on Sunday when the coupons come for about 18 bucks. You will save way more than that. I got the idea from the site to use a rotary cutter and mat and it makes the clipping go faster. You can just write the date on the coupon insert and file it because they tell you where to look, and then you don't have to cut any out that you don't use. I've been cutting them out and sorting them in a binder with baseball card sheets by section of the store (got the idea on the site). So far it's working well for me. I got some more great deals today including eyeshadow that I needed anyway for sixty cents. I'm going to try stocking up on things when I find a deal so I can save more down the road. I may end up spending the same or more at first to get a supply built up. Where will I put it???
