Money Monday: Couponing

[Bluedaisy]

Happy Monday!  So ladies spill it: do you coupon?

1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales?

2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized?

3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning?

4. Any tips or tricks to share?



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[Widget123]

So ladies spill it: do you coupon? Food and other typical grocery store stuff no; clothes and other merchandise yes.


1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales?

We grocery shop at Walmart. It is the closest to us (other than a Hispanic grocery store) and their prices are better than a lot of the other local supermarkets anyway.

2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized?

MIL clips coupons and gives them to us, but I usually forget about them. We do not get a newspaper, nor do we go online looking for coupons.

3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning?

No. But I don't do meal planning either, so that is another story.

4. Any tips or tricks to share?

N/A

[jillywilly]

1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales? I go to Kroger every week, they're closest to my house and the prices are pretty reasonable. I'll go to Target and Sam's Club every few weeks for paper goods/cleaning supplies/other non-food household staples.

2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized? I don't clip coupons. Kroger is one of those annoying stores where you have to use a shopper's card, but since I use it, they'll mail me pretty good coupons for things I buy all the time, like $1.50 off chicken, or free veggies, so I'll save those and use them. There's not a lot to organize, I just keep them on my fridge next to the grocery list with a magnet when I get them.

3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning? I'll look online at what meat is on sale, and if it's something we like and a great deal, I'll generally work it into the meal plan.

4. Any tips or tricks to share? Not really, I try to do things like stock up on staples when I see they're on sale, but I also don't go crazy. If I want something, I'll buy it even if it's not on sale, and I'm also not buying something just because it's on sale/I have a coupon. The people on Extreme Couponing always amaze me when they have literally hundreds of boxes of Ramen or something - like, are you really going to eat all that in your lifetime? I know some of them wind up donating the food, but the show also makes it look like a lot of those people just keep hoarding food in their house because they can/it's cheap - that's crazy to me.

[baytosa2013]

Feb 8, 2016 8:48:26 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Happy Monday!  So ladies spill it: do you coupon?

1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales?

2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized?

3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning?

4. Any tips or tricks to share?



*** Bonus points if you can think of a topic for next week for me***

I "try" to coupon but all we ever get coupons for is shit we don't buy.

We only have one grocery store to shop at here..so weird.  It's HEB.  We do have whole paycheck and trader joe's but it's a PITA to get to so I rarely go.

I'll be following this though to get any good tips people share.

[beersandweirs]

1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales?
We have two stores we like to shop, and we will usually shop the sales at those stores.
2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized?
We don't really clip coupons, we get a few in the mail and my husband will look through them and if there is something we know we will buy, he will clip it. But mostly we forget to bring them to the store...
We do buy our meat in bulk when it is on sale and freeze it in serving size portions.
3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning?
Like I mentioned above, we buy our meat on sale (or from Costco) and then usually just add some sort of veggie, fresh if it is on sale, frozen if there is nothing good on sale.
4. Any tips or tricks to share?
Not that I can think of.

[Bluedaisy]

michyme123, yeah we definitely don't get as good of coupons as they do in the U.S. but I have found baby formula coupons are pretty good even if you can't double up and we still follow sales.

[erbear]

I coupon. I shop at a grocery store (Giant Eagle) that doubles coupons, Aldi, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and Target (ours has fresh groceries). I only shop GE when I need something Target or Aldi doesn't have or if they have a sale and I have coupons. TJ's is a bit out of the way so I go there once a month and WF can be pricey, so I go there if they have a sale.

I get my coupons from a Sunday paper (I subscribe) and online at coupons.com. Good blogs to follow with sale match ups for me are LadySavings and Hip2Save.



Eta: I keep mine in a small expanding file folder.

[billyhorrible]

1.Do you have one regular grocery store or do you shop sales? I try and do as much of my shopping at Trader Joe's first, then do the remaining at our local grocery store.

2. Do you clip coupons or buy bulk and if so how do you keep coupons organized? I used to, but I got too obsessive about it. I think at one point we had like 20 shampoos in the cabinet under the sink. I couldn't NOT buy if there was an expiring coupon. So I quit.

3.Do coupons/ sales affect your meal planning?To a small extent. I will pick up proteins (chicken, pork, steak, goose) on sales and place it in the freezer and try to use it the following week. It definitely affects the fruit I buy!

[beersandweirs]

Like billyhorrible sales definitely affect the fruit I buy, it's cheaper and in season, best of both worlds.