About a month and a half ago, I was reading the little local paper we get here and there was an article about this pair of Chicagoland moms who were saving a ton of money by "super couponing". We have all heard of these types ofwomen - $200 worth of groceries for $5, right? According to the article, they were teaching classes about their technique. Curious, I went to their web site and discovered that there was a class scheduled for our local library, so I signed up & went. It was very interesting.
To make a long story short, my shopping has totally changed. This is NOT your mother's couponing. It involves using different web sites to monitor the 12 week sales cycles and then using coupons to save money while stocking up on products at their rock-bottom lowest prices. I have been doing it now for 4 weeks and the above receipts shows my greatest success so far. The store was having a promotion that gave you $15 dollars to use the next time you shop if you bought $30 worth of certain items. The items you had to buy were on sale and were things like laundry detergent, cake mixes, cereals, etc. (things I could stock up on). Well, the finally tally was that I bought $77 worth of groceries and after my coupons and vouchers from a previous trip, the amount I had to pay was $39 PLUS I got $30 back to use on my next trip. That means I got $77 worth of groceries for $9! Woo-hoo! And yes, it was all stuff that we use. I have a new hobby!
