Is extreme couponing a crock of shhh aving cream?

in homesteading •  7 years ago 

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I’m not sure it’s worth it. For one thing it is a lot of hard work keeping your coupons organized. Then you have to coordinate all the sales at supermarkets and other stores (drugstores, big box, etc).

We have always shopped the edges of the stores. You know, Produce, Meat, and Dairy. Only venturing into the center of the store for paper products or cereal. Seems the extreme couponing is geared towards saving on the products in the center.

If anyone has knowledge, I would like to know. We are trying to be more frugal so we can save money.

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You know, I have watched those reality shows and thought.. how in the world?! Yeah... I have attempted to save as much as I can... but when watching the shows, unless you live off Ramen noodles, canned goods and frozen dinners, I see NO possible way to save much with coupons like that.

I download coupons from websites (Kroger, etc) of stores that I frequent. The biggest percentage I have EVER saved was 58. Hubby likes to see the receipts cause he'll watch the show with me.

I just don't see how I can get 101% savings... sad but true.

It does seem like a lot of work to zero the bill out, or even get cash back. I tend to mostly shop at a local store with their shoppers card that accumulates money off gas purchases at Sunoco. That’s about as intense I get.

a YouTuber: RB50 seems to do pretty good at it. She shows her successes and some of how she did it. But she doesn't line it all out on the YouTube video. Maybe she spells it out more on a facebook page or something. Not sure.

For our family, it has never been worth it. Most things I see people get in these SAVINGS HAULS are things WE don't need and would never normally buy. SO, why buy stuff we don't need just because it is cheap or even free???
Better off spending your time with a skilled hobby or part time repairing lawnmowers for resale or something. My 2c

I will have to check out her channel. But it seems to me the system tends toward things I wouldn’t buy. You know, like hamburger helper. One of my future posts will be how we tried to keep meat purchases low cost while we saved money to buy a used car when ours died.

Ugh... had that happen too last year! Last year was not my year for used cars!