Extreme Couponing - Page 2

I've never seen that happen. In fact, they'll tell you that if the coupon exceeds the amount of the product, you do NOT get any money back. I'm wondering if the cashier didn't know that, or if things are different in different states. To my knowledge I've never gotten cash back in excess of a purchase price. I think its a lot easier with the bar codes to keep that sorted out.

You can get meat and deli coupons on something called wine tags? I don't drink, but I've bought them (or paid for the time for people to find and clip the coupons ) on an online auction. They were pretty good, too, something like $3.00 the purchase of $10.00 worth of meat. I let them expire.

Being somewhat minimalist I do not like lots of bottles and boxes of products all over my home and filling my pantry full to the brim.
I do use coupons from time to time, but there are rarely coupons for the majority of things I buy like fresh fruits, vegetables, dry beans, wild caught fish, etc. We make a lot of things from scratch, so do not buy a lot of junk/snack items or convenience foods and avoid HFCS and excess salt/sugars/refined products.

Good News! Another board posted a Canadian coupon site. Has deals, coupons, freebies, store policies etc.

Enjoy
http://www.mrsjanuary.com/

It's not the coupon itself that makes it a great deal, but rather combining the coupon with a great sale.

For example, I had a few Similac coupons and manufacturer's checks for $5 off ANY Similac product. This weekend, Babies R Us has all small-boxes of formula nursettes on sale for $5 (the nursettes are the 2oz, read-to-feed bottles). I got my limit (3) for free and my mother also got her limit. They are normally $7/box. So by combining the coupons with a great deal, I got $42 of product for free. That savings purchased a bouncer for my daughter.

Most coupons in the U.S. have a cash value (in some states it's required by law), but usually it's very low like 1/100th of a cent. If no cash value is stated on the coupon, it's redeemable for the value of the item.

I don't use coupons because, like you said, they are never for fresh foods. I like Groupon a lot, though.

I've tried but couldn't get into the coupon thingy. Every Thursday there is a local paper delivered to our building and it's full of flyers for all the stores in our surrounding area to show what's on sale that week. When I see items that I use on a regular basis, I stock up that week, for instance, this week butter was $3.00 per pound at our local supermarket so I bought 4. About every 4 weeks there will be a sale on Haagen Daas ice cream (only one I eat) so I stock up. Last week it was on sale for $2.99 per container versus the usual $7.69 per container so I bought 6 of them.

But you are doing it!
WTG! Doesn't it feel good!

See, this I can believe. That reality TV show - not so much.

I'm the same way. However if I do shop from a store circular, what I notice is "more items in the bags for the same dollar amount spent" and it does feel somewhat good. I suppose if the coupon/specials thing is done often enough, it "adds up" as the saying goes. And that's part of the coupon queen's mantra.

My trip to Shoprite on 5/25
Kids spray sunscreen 2x
Kids sunscreen lotion
Brillo Estracell Sponge 2x
Fresh Express 1x
Reynolds non stick
Ball Park 4x
Solo plates 4x
breakstone cottage doubles
raisinettes
tidy cat 4x (10lbs)
Reach toothbrushes 4x
Half half
Coffeemate
Retail $78.97
Paid $17.52 after store and manufacturer coupons
Got back $15 in coupons for future trips
84% savings/$61.45

Today we bought:
Q Tips
V8Fusion tea 2x (48oz)
Friskies cat food cans 15x
Solo plates/bowls 4x
Raisinetes
Chinet plates 4x
Hefty trash bags 4x
Retail $59.80
Paid $1.93
Got back $6 in coupons for future trips.
97%/ $57.87

Now I used $11 in store coupons today. I could have gotten meat but I rather bring my $60 total to almost nothing for stockpiling then I will have cut my grocery bill for paper/plastic products for the next few months so I can afford meat/produce.

May 25th I used $10 in store coupons. There was a deal for a few weeks spend $ get $ in 4 coupons to use over a 4 week period. For the Nestle products I spent $11.07 after coupons and got $20 broken down in $5 over 4 weeks. I bought the raisenettes for $1 and used the overage for the rest of my groceries. I did the same for several other deals. The other half of my $10 was the Purina deal. We buy friskies there all the time. We paid $16.36 for 40 cans and got back $20. 15 cans today was $8.25 but I had the $5 coupon and the insert coupon for $1 off 15 cans making it $2.25 for 15 cans.

This is how most of the extreme couponers have been getting stuff for 99% savings. They buy items that cost less than what they will earn back. Then use that future coupon to purchase either more of the same or pay for their regular trip. The one lady did this with the bocca burgers.

Yup, do that 10 times and that's 500 big ones. I admire you guys. I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the same gene.