So I'm sure many of you have seen this show on TLC and it just baffles me how these people do it. I would love to save that much money and not have to go to the store as much as I do. After watching many, many episodes I knew the only way to get started was to actually get a Sunday paper and start looking through the coupons.
This morning Wyatt and I headed out to Dyer's to get the Topeka Capital Journal and all the great coupons that it had. Upon our arrival I clearly underestimated the price of the paper, $2.50!! Holy cow!! I scrounged up enough change and was able to purchase the paper. Sidenote: I've always had a phobia of newspaper machines because of several instances growing up when I had to get the paper and something would happen and the machine wouldn't open and I couldn't get the paper for my parents and it kept their change as well. This wasn't just 50-cents this was $2.50 and I was nervous. It all worked out, go me! I made sure to open the first paper and see if the ads were there before taking it. As I was looking through to make sure the ads were there, a lady came out of the store and was wanting a paper. So I went ahead and grabbed it and left. When Wyatt and I got home we opened it up to bask in our glory of getting our first Sunday's worth of coupons only to discover there was NONE!! I don't know if someone took the coupons out of the top paper or what but there wasn't any! I am so mad!!
So the goal for next Sunday is to get another paper that has coupons in it!! I won't be afraid to stand there and look through the paper and make sure my coupons are there, since I'm paying for it.
Oh and if you have coupons that you don't use from the Sunday paper or any time feel free to mail them to me and I will do the same for you!
Good luck! You might call the newspaper and see about having it delivered. Some times it's cheaper to have them deliver like the thursday through Sunday papers because you pay for the paper Thurs-Sat and Sunday is free. Or at least that is how it is here. Works out to about 2 bucks a week. Oh and I know how you feel and I haven't the slightest idea how they do it!
ReplyDeleteUnless you need 100 gatorades and 68 bags of croutons, you may not get the grandious savings they do. And their 'stock piles'! Just because it's food doesn't mean it's hoarding!!!
ReplyDeleteI wish you luck though, let me know how it goes. I really would like to know some tips on saving moolah on groceries, they have gotten SO expensive!
-Kelsey
kelsey-i'm hoping to just take their tips and scale them down to real-life not hoarders: grocery store edition!! :) there are certain items that i would like to have stock-piled because we use them a lot. i think to be an extreme couponer you definitely have to be open to any brand and not be exclusive; which i am to certain things. we'll see how it goes! this sunday is the first paper that i will get with coupons. fingers crossed their good!
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