I'm going to try to be one of the "Krazy Coupon Ladies." Want to join me?
There are a couple of great books to get you going, which I'm going to recommend in a moment, but first I want to share my recent big-coupon-savings moment with you. It was at CVS, which has recently installed a coupon center kiosk right in the front of the store.
That's important because it eliminates the "I forgot to bring my coupons with me" problem..you simply go right up to the kiosk when you walk into the store, and see which coupons it spits out at you!
So I walk up to the kiosk, and it gives me a $15 Extrabucks reward...nice! Add that to the 20% off coupon I already had, and I wound up paying about $7 for over $30 in items.
The basic idea of extreme couponing is to save *ALL* the coupons that come in the Sunday paper (some people even buy multiple copies of the Sunday paper), and then use your coupons in conjuction with big sales when they come along. (This means keeping an eye out for when items go on those "great sales").
There's more to it than that, but that's the basic tenet put forth in both coupon book bibles, The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half: The Strategic Shopping Method Proven to Slash Food and Drugstore Costs by Stephanie Nelson, and Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey by Joanie Demer and Heather Wheeler. (Links to buy both books on amazon are below..if you are going to buy them, I'd appreciate you buying them thru my amazon affiliate links, below -- and you will make *many* times your money back if you do if you simply put even some of the strategies in them into practice):
The Krazy Coupon Lady book, above, contains some info similar to the CouponMom, but with a sassier edge. It's a lot of fun, and their thing is to make it fun, not drudgery. And not to be ashamed but proud of getting those great savings. Their web site is at http://thekrazycouponlady.com/.
The CouponMom's book is also great, and like the Krazy Coupon ladies, she has a web site with los of great links to coupons and sale info, at http://www.couponmom.com/.
Want more couponing? Catch the TLC show, Extreme Couponing -- it's on tonight (if you're reading this today, April 6, 2011) at 8 and 9 pm ET, but checkTLC: http://tlc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=2.13700.56445.41059.0 for your local listing.
And share your krazy coupon stories with me as we try this together. I'm off to CVS -- wish me luck!
There are a couple of great books to get you going, which I'm going to recommend in a moment, but first I want to share my recent big-coupon-savings moment with you. It was at CVS, which has recently installed a coupon center kiosk right in the front of the store.
That's important because it eliminates the "I forgot to bring my coupons with me" problem..you simply go right up to the kiosk when you walk into the store, and see which coupons it spits out at you!
So I walk up to the kiosk, and it gives me a $15 Extrabucks reward...nice! Add that to the 20% off coupon I already had, and I wound up paying about $7 for over $30 in items.
The basic idea of extreme couponing is to save *ALL* the coupons that come in the Sunday paper (some people even buy multiple copies of the Sunday paper), and then use your coupons in conjuction with big sales when they come along. (This means keeping an eye out for when items go on those "great sales").
There's more to it than that, but that's the basic tenet put forth in both coupon book bibles, The Coupon Mom's Guide to Cutting Your Grocery Bills in Half: The Strategic Shopping Method Proven to Slash Food and Drugstore Costs by Stephanie Nelson, and Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey by Joanie Demer and Heather Wheeler. (Links to buy both books on amazon are below..if you are going to buy them, I'd appreciate you buying them thru my amazon affiliate links, below -- and you will make *many* times your money back if you do if you simply put even some of the strategies in them into practice):
The Krazy Coupon Lady book, above, contains some info similar to the CouponMom, but with a sassier edge. It's a lot of fun, and their thing is to make it fun, not drudgery. And not to be ashamed but proud of getting those great savings. Their web site is at http://thekrazycouponlady.com/.
The CouponMom's book is also great, and like the Krazy Coupon ladies, she has a web site with los of great links to coupons and sale info, at http://www.couponmom.com/.
Want more couponing? Catch the TLC show, Extreme Couponing -- it's on tonight (if you're reading this today, April 6, 2011) at 8 and 9 pm ET, but checkTLC: http://tlc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=2.13700.56445.41059.0 for your local listing.
And share your krazy coupon stories with me as we try this together. I'm off to CVS -- wish me luck!
Saving them is one thing. Organizing them is another.
ReplyDeleteAnd remembering to take them to the store is the biggest challengs.
That's right, IPLawguy! One thing you can do at a minimum is simply save every complete store coupon insert, as-is, in a stack, and only clip what you need when you need.
ReplyDeleteOthers store them in a binder. I'm using the "simple stack" method now but I may move to a binder later. :)
Oh yes and keep them in your car so they're always there when u shop. :) I know it's hard, tho.