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Originally Posted by eric eckman
That's a great link, thank you. I've recently been reading a lot more about couponing and would like to get started with it, but there is so much information that it's hard for someone just getting started to figure the whole process out. This looks like a good instructional site for newbies.
Does anyone have experience with the How to Shop for Free forum? People there claim to be shopping for entire families for under $10 a week. Seems really hard to believe that the average person with average time commitments would be able to get the budget down this small, but it's definitely worth the time investment if you can figure out how to work it.
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The key to getting the great deals has more to do with location than skill. Where I live it is impossible for me to feed my family for 10 a week. I spend that in ground turkey and chicken alone. Rarely do I get to use a Rebate, I live in Illinois and my state doesn't qualify for a lot of the good ones. I won't even mess with one for less than $5. Think about it, buy the time I buy the envelopes, the stamps and "find" the rebate I would lose money with the $2 ones. When I lived in NC it was so great!!! the stores, the rebates, the savings
..... ahhh but I digress. the stores that do double coupons here only double to 50 cents. I do coupon and save an average of $10 to $20 a trip to the store. I don't buy prepackaged dinners, canned pasta's, or anything like that anymore. We buy a lot of produce, chicken and ground turkey, fresh potatoes, things like that. I primarily use coupons for cereal, shampoo, personal hygiene stuff. I did recently come up on some $2 off milk when you buy 2 kelloggs cereal. really good for me! so remember that you can do your best but don't try to keep up with the "amazing" stories, Usually those are a one time deal or they live in a great place for couponing.
12-09-2009, 09:38 PM
Couponing with groceryfreak.com
