Extreme Couponing

Today I tried my version of the extreme couponing thing. The best I have ever done before is clip a coupon and hope I remember to use it, so this time I wanted to take it a step further and shop the ads and print online coupons. I wanted to give this couponing thing a real good effort. Well here is how my one stop couponing shop went.

My grocery store had a special where I could buy 3 boxes of cereal and get 3 free, then I stacked on two manufacturers $1 off coupons (printed from the internet). So, my 6 boxes of cereal cost $9.28. Not bad considering I got three different kinds.

I used a store coupon I had for some beans, an internet coupon for fruit snacks, and really studied the weekly ad to make sure I was buying the right things at the right price.

I did find one surprising coupon online. It was from KC Masterpiece. They had a coupon for $2 off pork ribs when you bought one bottle of their BBQ sauce. That sounded like something I might enjoy for dinner tonight, so I printed the coupon and hoped it would work on the pork ribs. I had no idea you could use coupons on meat, but low and behold my pork ribs ended up being $2 less. When I asked an associate where the BBQ sauce was, she said I had just missed a buy one get two free on KC masterpiece products. That would have been an awesome thing considering there is also a KC Masterpiece coupon in the sunday stuffer (I was just too lazy to go looking for the paper). So if I had bought that stuff 2 days ago I could have gotten 3 bottles of BBQ sauce for around $1.69 and have still gotten my $2 off the pork ribs. Can you see how this could be addicting?

All in all, I spent 63.08, and thanks to coupons and buying store specials I saved $42.75. That is 41%! Not bad for my first time. Downside, I spent the WHOLE morning looking at the weekly ads and scouring the internet. Not sure if it is worth it, but I will definitely try it again. Today I am happy I saved a little money on things we buy anyway. Just saying and praying!