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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Buying Coupons=Saving Money!
For the past two months now we have been buying our coupons and I have to say it is definitely paying off for us. Since October, we have only been purchasing our groceries from the grocery store and everything else we need for our household or ourselves we purchase from Melaleuca. In our monthly order we only buy what we need for that month. So, in switching stores to Melaleuca our grocery bill monthly has been cut drastically and we weren't cutting or using at least half of the coupons in the newspaper (which is a waste since we were only buying the newspaper for the coupons). After doing some research I found a couple of web sites that sell coupons. They post national coupons, just not coupons for the Indy area so there is definitely a lot more variety. While still getting the newspaper, we decided to buy our coupons for a couple of weeks to see if it was worth it and it most definitely is!
The perks to buying your coupons is that in coupon/grocery shopping you are shopping like you do with Melaleuca. You only buy the coupons that you need and you only buy the groceries that you need. You aren't having to clip unneeded coupons, clip any coupons (since they already come pre-clipped), or even clip coupons for those products that 'I may need' (and let's face it, if it's in the 'I may need' category we buy it and don't use it).
With that, we have really stuck with our, if it's not on sale and we don't have a coupon it isn't bought. The only exception to that is bread (we buy that at the bread store), milk, eggs, and produce. While milk, eggs, and produce may be on sale, it is very rarely if at all there are coupons for them.
Tonight I only spent $3 on coupons and that was on 40 coupons that I will most definitely use and know those products are on sale. (Make sure you really look through your ad and notice patterns of how specific items go on sale; I promise, there is a pattern). Sometimes a product may go on sale every 2 weeks where another item may be on sale monthly, etc. For us, we stock up on the Mega Sales that Marsh & Kroger have every month and then on the 'off' months where the sales aren't that great we either aren't going grocery shopping or we are just buying those couple of things we need: milk, bread, etc.
Today, at Target, I bought 20 boxes of Jell-O for $.07! Only $1.40!!! Which is awesome for Jell-O that was originally .67 a box.
For anyone with kids, shopping for registeries, etc. Buy Buy Baby informed me this week that they accept any stores coupons that sells baby/kid products (Macys, Meijers, Target, Kohls, Baby Depot, Babies R Us, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and any other store I have forgotten). As long as they sell baby/child products and the coupon is NOT expired, they will accept it. They will also accept electronic coupons as well.
Beware, most restaurants do not accept any electronic coupons (meaning, coupons on your phone). Most stores will accept them but the restaurants are more stingy on accepting them.
Happy weekend! Happy Savings!
Hugs!
The perks to buying your coupons is that in coupon/grocery shopping you are shopping like you do with Melaleuca. You only buy the coupons that you need and you only buy the groceries that you need. You aren't having to clip unneeded coupons, clip any coupons (since they already come pre-clipped), or even clip coupons for those products that 'I may need' (and let's face it, if it's in the 'I may need' category we buy it and don't use it).
With that, we have really stuck with our, if it's not on sale and we don't have a coupon it isn't bought. The only exception to that is bread (we buy that at the bread store), milk, eggs, and produce. While milk, eggs, and produce may be on sale, it is very rarely if at all there are coupons for them.
Tonight I only spent $3 on coupons and that was on 40 coupons that I will most definitely use and know those products are on sale. (Make sure you really look through your ad and notice patterns of how specific items go on sale; I promise, there is a pattern). Sometimes a product may go on sale every 2 weeks where another item may be on sale monthly, etc. For us, we stock up on the Mega Sales that Marsh & Kroger have every month and then on the 'off' months where the sales aren't that great we either aren't going grocery shopping or we are just buying those couple of things we need: milk, bread, etc.
Today, at Target, I bought 20 boxes of Jell-O for $.07! Only $1.40!!! Which is awesome for Jell-O that was originally .67 a box.
For anyone with kids, shopping for registeries, etc. Buy Buy Baby informed me this week that they accept any stores coupons that sells baby/kid products (Macys, Meijers, Target, Kohls, Baby Depot, Babies R Us, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and any other store I have forgotten). As long as they sell baby/child products and the coupon is NOT expired, they will accept it. They will also accept electronic coupons as well.
Beware, most restaurants do not accept any electronic coupons (meaning, coupons on your phone). Most stores will accept them but the restaurants are more stingy on accepting them.
Happy weekend! Happy Savings!
Hugs!
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