I have always been envious (I hate to admit it) when I see those stories about how people can get $200 worth of groceries for mere dollars. It always made me feel like I wasn't doing something right. But, I've also discovered that different locales have different coupons and even different amounts on coupons. My husband buys the Chicago Trib which has coupons and the coupon inserts from it are far often better than the ones in our local paper. I belong to a couple of coupon trains and we share coupons and I see coupons from different areas that we don't get here in Illinois. I only use a coupon if it's for something I normally would buy. I don't save hundreds, but feel like if I save a few dollars that's a few more than I would have had.
Now to vent -- why can't the coupon manufacturers be reasonable? Saving $1.00 on four boxes of this or that often keeps me from buying it. Either having to purchase 4 boxes is out of my budget, or I don't have room to store all 4 boxes. I don't mind using a coupon for 25 cents for one! I had an old coupon for peanut butter that was for 15 cents and no expiration date. The cashier had quite a chuckle over it, but hey, that's 15 cents more than I had when I started and I was going to buy the peanut butter anyway!
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