[marjorie]

The most outlandish frugal thing I ever did was buy Wisk detergents in a puck-like form. I forget now what they called them, but sample size detergents sold for around $.50, but contained a coupon for $1 off. Eventually I found a drugstore with a manager who REALLY wanted to get rid of them. He not only "let" me use the coupons, he actually had 2 employees behind counters waiting for customers to open the small sample boxes, take out the coupons and ring up a sale for the detergent disks. After some time he decided to make it really easy, and loaded the entire stand up display into my car. It was a great deal for me... $.50 bought enough detergent to use for a then family of 6 for 11/2 years. Love to do something like that again! The only other cost was sales tax.