Where To Find Additional ShopRite SUPER Coupons

(These are NOT the pictures of the actual Super Coupons for this week. This picture is here to show you what they generally look like.)

So we all know that the ShopRite flyer that gets mailed to our homes and that is an insert in newspapers usually contains something called Super Coupons. These are special coupons that are STORE coupons (which means they can be combined with manufacturer coupons) and they are only valid during that sales week.

This week, our sale inserts contained a few Super Coupons for shellfish and Wisk. What I found today made me a very happy couponer!

I get the Thursday edition of the Times Union mailed to my home only because I signed up for a promo deal to get them on Sundays also. Getting them on Thursday was like an added bonus when I signed up. With that said, I wouldn't normally sign up for the Thursday edition.

In today's paper, I received ADDITIONAL Super Coupons! There were more than in the normal sale insert so I was very excited. These were printed on the back of a regular ad so be sure to flip through ALL the pages!

There were a bunch but here are the three that I clipped!

Another Wisk 30oz laundry detergent coupon. This week ShopRite has them on sale for 4.99$ but with this coupon it makes them only 3.99$ and what is even better is that this week's RedPlum has a 2.00$ off coupon so when combined, this detergent only costs 1.99$

Furlani Garlic Toast for only .25cents and who doesn't love spaghetti night with garlic bread?!

2-Liter Coke, Sprite, Dr.Pepper, Fanta, or Coke Zero for only .25cents and we don't normally drink soda in our house but this will be great to bring for an Easter dinner with the family so others can enjoy!


Super Coupons rock!

ShopRite Matchups!

So the past couple of weeks have been so blahhh with the matchups. The only good deal for me was the Purex laundry detergent deal last week.

This week is MUCH better. :)

Here's your link to all the great matchups this week.

Matchups!

I LOVE the Fantastik, Land O Lakes, and Birds Eye deals!

Happy couponing

What To Do With Items In Your StockPile?

Okay, so with all this couponing you may have started to accumulate a small, nice looking stockpile. I have a small stockpile started with things that we USE ON A DAILY BASIS. I'm not talking this huge, take up the garage, crazy amount of can goods stockpile!

(I'll leave that to those crazy stay at home moms from Extreme Couponing LOL) Get it ladies, but with all do respect my family does not need 50 cans of pasta sauce and 100 Lysol cleaners. We will barely have enough room to squeeze baby #2 into the mix!

I'm not going to lie, Jaylen has a nice size diaper tower in his closet and a rapidly growing wipe tower as well. We also have  about 20 bottle of Purex Free and Clear detergent because I had an AMAZING deal on these. We have a couple big bags of toilet paper as well as paper towels and we have a lot of shampoos and deodorants. IT'S NOT HOARDING, I swear! We use ALL of these...everyday.

Someone asked me a question the other day that really stuck with me and I have a GREAT suggestion for all of you couponers. I got asked this annoying question..."Why do you feel the need to accumulate a large quantity of stuff when you can just get it like everyone else does?" It wasn't worded exactly like this but then they added, while watching my total go from about 30$ to 2.50$, "I don't think it's fair."

Ha! You don't think it's fair that I spend a little extra of MY time to provide for my family?

Besides keeping these things at home for our personal use, we also do donations to food pantry's. I'm actually looking into a local women's shelter to see what they will accept as well. If I get 4 papers every Sunday and a coupon happens to make 4 deodorants free that week, I'm going to get all 4. I spent money on that paper and even though I don't need 4 deodorants, someone else certainly does.

Another GREAT idea that I'm putting together right now are gift baskets. Holidays, birthdays, and baby showers are all great times to give someone a homemade and well thought out gift basket. I always get great deals on baby items that I don't use for Jaylen but that doesn't mean I'm going to pass up a great deal if I can give those to someone who will use them! I can always score Johnson and Johnson lotions, shampoos and washes for 1$ or under and these are great for any baby shower. Shampoos, toothpaste, laundry detergent and dish soaps are all great for making a "home care" basket when it's a holiday or just for any occasion.

Honestly, I love getting things that I would have to normally buy anyway because that means that I DON'T HAVE TO BUY THEM!

I love to give my baskets a theme like, laundry (and then instead of putting these in a traditional basket I put them in a laundry basket) and it makes it more fun!

I also like to include coupons in those baskets as well so I can spread that deal getting joy with all my friends and family!

So that's my little couponing rant for the night! Hope I've inspired you all to go above and beyond with your couponing!

222 PAMPERS Diapers For Only 29.99$

So I wanted to share this deal for those of you with little ones still in diapers. I'm also sharing this deal for those of you who know of anyone or who plan on getting any diapers for anyone in the future.

I was always familiar with Amazonmoms.com but never ordered anything through them. I was not, however, familiar with Diapers.com until I had 750 Pampers points that I used to get a 5$ off coupon. (If you are not familiar with the Pampers Gifts to Grow program just comment below and I'll break it down for you.) I used 450 points to get a 5$ coupon good off of ANY Pampers purchase from Diapers.com

I headed over to the website to check out their prices. What I saw TOTALLY excited me! They have a promotion going on until the end of this month which gives any NEW customer 10$ off their total purchase of 49.99$ or more. They also have a COMBINED promotion that gives you 5$ off of any big box of diapers. I believe you are allowed to do this 5$ deal 5 times or until the month is over.

Their XL box of Pampers is priced right at 49.99$ and the size 3 (which is what Jaylen is in) comes with a 222 count of diapers inside. Without any coupons this price values each diaper at .23 cents which is NOT a good STOCKUP price.

   49.99$
- 10.00$ for new customers
-   5.00$ for the 5$ Diapers.com promotion
-   5.00$ for the Pampers Gifts to Grow coupon
= 29.99$ and they do FREE shipping since the original price was 49.99$

This makes each diaper value at only .13cents a diaper! This is an INCREDIBLE stock up price on a brand name diaper.

Just in time because Bubbies diaper tower is getting dangerously low!

:)

ShopRite Matchups!

I know I'm a little late on this folks...sorry!
Here's your link to this weeks matchups

Matchups!

PUREX Laundry Detergent Deal!

Starting on Sunday, 3/11/12 there is going to be a Purex laundry detergent deal at ShopRite. The deal is this:

Buy 6 of these select products and receive a 5$ CAT. It has not been confirmed yet whether this Cat will roll or not but let's keep our finger crossed that it does!

It is said that select regions will be getting a .50cents off ONE Purex laundry detergent in this weekend's paper. Let's hope our region does! However, I actually purchased these coupons in advance on Ebay since this will be such a good deal on this brand of detergent. I also purchased the 1.00/2 Purex laundry detergent and I'll tell you why below. If anyone has questions on purchasing off of ebay please comment me below!

 My stockpile on laundry detergent is getting dangerously low so I'm more than excited for this!

Here's the breakdown:

(REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN ONLY USE 4 LIKE COUPONS IN 1 TRANSACTION)

This is my particular combination since I don't need anything else that's listed in this deal. I only wish to purchase the laundry detergent. You can tailor this deal to suit your household needs however you wish.

6 Purex liquid laundry detergents at 1.99$ each
1.99$x6=11.94$ (This is what you would paying WITHOUT coupons or CATS...no way!)
11.94$x1.08=12.90$ (This is the price with added .08% sales tax)
12.90$-4 .50/1 coupons (which will double to 1$/1) = 8.90$ (YOU CAN ONLY USE  4 OF THESE COUPONS EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE BUYING 6 DETERGENTS)
8.90$-1 1$/2 = 7.90$ (Total AFTER coupons are deducted and oop price)
7.90$-5$ CAT received= 2.90$
2.90$/6= .48cents per detergent AFTER coupons and CAT were deducted

Hope you all are able to score some GREAT prices on detergent starting on 3/11!

*UPDATE*

The P&G Joy deal DOES work! Yippy! The 14oz bottle is priced at .99cents and you do get a 3$ Catalina that can be rolled.

ALSO the Fiber One Catalina rolls as well. I bought 4 boxes of the 90 cal brownies yesterday, priced at 2 for 5$ I had 4 1$ off coupons so I paid 6$ for 4 boxes and walked away with a 2$ CAT.

I did this same deal today, using the 2$ CAT and paid 4$ for 4 boxes. I received ANOTHER 2$ CAT!

REMEMBER that the Joy deal DOES NOT require any coupons so if you're a beginner, this is the perfect deal to do to get you started!

Happy couponing.

P.S. The Fiber One Brownies are so YUMMY and they're only 90cals!

Joy Dish Detergent For Pennys On The Dollar...You Don't Need ANY Coupons For This Deal!

So when it comes to dish detergent, I'm not really all that picky. Whatever gets my dishes cleaned is all that I need!

ShopRite is having a sale which prices select Joy dish detergents around .99cents, sounds like a deal, right? WRONG! I NEVER spend .99cents on a dish soap!

ShopRite is also having a catalina deal where if you buy SELECT P&G products, and Joy happens to be included, you get a Catalina! If you buy 2 you get a 1$ CAT and if you buy 4 or more you get get a 3$ CAT!

If you buy 4 Joy dish soaps at .99cents (or around that price, I haven't checked our ShopRite yet) You pay 3.96$ plus tax. Then you get back a 3$ CAT to be used on your next purchase. The cool thing about this deal is that I think it rolls...so I think you could buy 4 more in another transaction and use the 3$ CAT to pay for most of the total and then get back ANOTHER 3$ CAT.

I have to still confirm this and I plan to do this deal this morning and then go back after work to see if it rolls. I'll keep everyone updated!

ShopRite Matchups!

Here's your link to the matchups for this week! :D

I'm going to try to go shopping early on in the week so I can post what I've gotten and which coupons I've used so you can use it as a learning tool if you're still a little confused. You can also use it to copy my deals! I'm sorry if my shopping has to wait until the last minute though...I'll try my hardest!

Happy coupon shopping!

Matchups!

ShopRite Family...Earning Free Shopping Money!

Hello coupon lovelies! I wanted to share with you all something that makes shopping at ShopRite even more brilliant. We know how much I LOVE ShopRite, right? I can’t get enough of it! Well ShopRite has this little thing called ShopRite Family Rewards.

 Essentially, in a nutshell, it works like this:

When you buy participating brands, for example Kimberly Clarke and General Mills, your total BEFORE manufacturer coupons convert into points that are tracked using your Price Plus card. Let’s say I buy 30$ worth of General Mills cereal. There is NO WAY in heck I am going to buy 30$ worth of cereal and not use coupons to bring that total WAY down. So say I used 20$ worth of coupons and got that 30$ total down to 10$. ShopRite Family Rewards would track that purchase and make my total number of points 30 points, not 10. Get it? They are using the BEFORE manufacturer coupon price.

Now let’s say I have that 30$ total and use 20$ in manufacturer coupons and 5$ in ShopRite coupons. It is NOT going to count the ShopRite coupons because obviously it’s their store and their reward program. So now the program is going to track you as having 25 points.

So what can you get with these points? I’ll tell ya! You can get coupons that are dollar amounts off of your next purchase. For 100 points, which essentially equals 100$ spent at ShopRite BEFORE manufacturer coupons (so usually it’s not REALLY 100$ that I spent, more like 20$ or 30$) you can get a 2$ off coupon. For 200 points you can get 4$ off and so on and so on.

Once you’ve reached a certain amount of points all you do is go to the webpage (which I’ve linked below) and sign in. You click on “redeem points” and that coupon has now been loaded onto your Price Plus card. Easy, peasy, lemon-squeezey!

I like to remind people that I’m not shopping at ShopRite just to gain these points. This is an added bonus you get for being loyal to the store. Since my total before manufacturer coupons is usually around 70$ and I get it down to around 15$, I’m getting an even sweeter deal with these points!

Here’s the link to the Family Rewards website:

https://www.shoprite.com/family/FamilyHome.aspx

Let's Have A Party...A COUPON Party!

I wanted to create this post to all you aspiring couponers out there who may be a little skeptical or confused on just how I save money grocery shopping. I want to keep the understanding out there that I DO NOT buy stuff that we DON’T need just because it’s .45cents a box or 1.50$ a bottle. I buy things that I know our household will need and use. Once you are taught the logistics of how I do what I do, you can begin tailoring your shopping trips to just what it is YOUR family needs.

With that being said, I want to remind everyone that I do host couponing parties! As opposed to a “coupon class” (which sounds ridged and connotes images of me as a strict teacher thrusting coupons down your throat) I like to think of these little two hour sessions more as parties. I mean who doesn’t like getting together with a group of girlfriends and guy friends, eating cute little snacks, having some refreshing drinks and socializing while you learn how to cut your grocery bill in HALF? I’m sure many of you have been to parties where you were encouraged to BUY things right? Why not book a party where you learn how to SAVE on things you need so you can attend those other parties to buy the things you WANT!

                Why not book a coupon party with Caite TODAY?!

                Jaylensmama01@gmail.com for interested couponers

ShopRite Matchups!

Here is the link for the matchups starting tomorrow, 2/26/2012

Dollar Days are still happening!

What are you excited for!?!


Matchups!

ShopRite Haul...I Was Actually Paid To Get All This!

Okay couponers! So tonight was the first night that I let Jaylen have a sleepover with my mom…I miss him so much! I decided to use my “night off” to go couponing at ShopRite since I’ve been procrastinating ALL week. Of course I decided to wait until the last minute to catch this week’s sales.  

            So I explained the whole “Dollar Day” thing to you guys in my previous post. I wasn’t really too excited for anything EXCEPT the Kleenex disposable hand towels and the Knorr pasta and rice sides. I literally just “LOL’ed” typing that because does being excited about hand towels and pasta sides make me a grandma?!

Here’s what I got!

My total (AFTER all the sale prices were deducted was 35.63$ and after all the coupons were deducted I paid 4.63$. You may be asking yourself how does that make it all free? What I got back was 8$ in Catalina coupons. Remember that these coupons are good for ANYTHING in the whole store. I also got back 2 coupons to receive 2 FREE reusable ShopRite bags that I’m very excited for!

Did you get any good deals this week? Did you go to ShopRite!? Comment below and TELL ME ABOUT IT!

Home Decor Shopping On A Budget.

With income tax season fully in swing, I'm taking the time to really get our house the way I've always wanted it. I love decorating and I never got the chance to do so with this apartment because of, well, LIFE!

We moved into our old apartment and of course everything we had was things that others had kindly given us and then we moved into our current apartment and life got crazy with a screaming 3 month old who is now a toddling 13 month old!

I can FINALLY decorate and organize to my hearts desire and with being five months pregnant now, I want to get this all done before new little baby arrives. (And because I know that my OCD nesting phase will shortly be arriving as well.)

So I just wanted to make a quick post on something that I really LOVE doing. I love thrift store shopping! I know what some of you are thinking...ew, gross. TOTALLY NOT GROSS. Let me tell you something about a little place called Goodwill...

Goodwill is great because they ALWAYS have things from Target and sometimes even Wal-Mart. The home decor from Target is usually always brand new and in boxes. I'm talking everything from coffee tables (which is where we got ours, 200$ in the store and I got ours for 30$ at Goodwill BRAND NEW in the box), dinnerware, linens, decorative pillows, TONS of lamps and shades, and odds and ends that will complete any and every home.

I just got Jaylen a canvas toy chest from there and I paid 14$. I went snooping around Target today and saw the SAME one for 35$! When I got is from Goodwill it was brand new and in the original packaging.

If you go on Sundays they usually have about 4 colored tickets that are marked at 50% off.

If you go to the Salvation Army (which is COMPLETELY different) Wednesdays are your 50% off day. Usually everything but 1 colored ticket is half off.

I like to hit up these places about once every week when I'm re-doing the house. You have a dig a little bit but usually you can find some great stuff!

ShopRite Matchups!

My favorite time of the week is now upon us! Here is your link to the awesome matchups for this week.

ShopRite is doing something called "DollarDays" this week so make sure to take ADVANTAGE of this! I'm excited for the Kleenex hand towel deal and the Knorr pasta and rice sides. If you want more information about DollarDays than COMMENT below and I'll be happy to explain how it works!

What awesome deals will you be doing?!

Matchups!

Frugal For Valentines Day!

                So I wanted to open my blog to posts that had to do with cheaper alternatives to things. I am a BIG fan of being frugal. This doesn’t mean that I’m “cheap” like Ayyub likes to call me sometimes! I just know where and when to cut corners. We both work hard for our money and I want to see it stretched as far as possible especially since we are about to have not one BUT two very young children.

                 Now I know that Valentine’s Day has already passed but I wanted to share with you guys what I did as far as gifts and what Ayyub and I are planning to do when we finally get the time to go away just the two of us

                So I wanted to do something special for Jaylen’s grandmas since they are such a big part of his life. I was thinking that flowers or chocolates are so expensive for being so temporary. Once you gobble up the chocolate and the flowers wilt, then those gifts are over. I wanted to get creative and I wanted to involve Jaylen. I bought those really cute Valentine’s Day heart candies. You know the ones with the sayings on them? I purchased these at The Dollar Tree and I got SIX boxes for 1$! I also purchased 2 picture frames from The Dollar Tree for 1$ apiece, finger paint and superglue. (I do not recommend buying the glue from here because it SUCKED but we ended up having some good glue at home so I just used that.) I then got crafty! I separated the candies by color and I glued them with the saying side NOT showing (because a lot of the sayings were crooked or really faint and just looked tacky). I color coordinated the frames and just super glued all the little candies on their. It was time consuming but they turned out GREAT! I took the finger paint and some old scrapbooking colored paper that matched each frame and painted J’s hand and had him stamp his handprint on the paper. Lying in my scrapbooking box I had those little paper letters and numbers so I just glued Jaylen on top and the letter 1 on the bottom. Now his grandmas have a cute keepsake of his handprint at 1 year old!

                I never was able to take pictures of how they turned out but I will show you a picture of where I got the idea from. I obviously tweaked it to suit my needs but these are so inexpensive and fun that you can do virtually anything with these. I also think that these little heart candies on the perimeter of a hand held mirror would be adorable as well for a little girl or even a teenager!

                I kept Ayyub’s gifts simple. I made him some homemade chocolates using a 6 pack of Hershey Chocolate that I got for about 3 dollars and little heart molds that we had from my mom’s wedding. These are REALLY inexpensive. They run around 2-3$ apiece and you usually get 2 molds that can make about 20 chocolates.  You can get them at Wal-Mart or Michaels. I just melted the chocolate and refrigerated overnight. They were so YUMMY!

                I also made him one of those “coupon books” that I plan to give him when we go away. These are personal coupons you make (I used construction paper and markers) and they say stuff like, “This coupon entitles you to one 15min massage”…stuff like that. These are so great to make because they come from the heart and you can personalize them to whatever your man likes! Since its Valentine’s Day you can get a little sexy with these as well.

                When we do go out, we plan on using a gift card to dinner that we had received for Christmas. I always try to save these for special occasions like this so we can feel like we are having a little but more luxury than we are really paying for. I also love sites like Groupon.com and Livingsocial.com because they offer great services and nights out for over 50% off discounts!

                I hope you all liked this post and I hope you all had a GREAT Valentine’s Day! Let me know if you want me to do more frugal posts like this.

SWEET ShopRite Sobe And Lipton Deal!!!!

So there is a SUPER GREAT deal this week at ShopRite where if you buy 10 participating products you get a 10$ CATALINA coupon good off your next order. WELL, Sobe water and Lipton iced teas are 10 for 10$. LIGHTBULB! If you buy 10 of these drinks you pay 10$ BUT you get back a 10$ CAT coupon.

The sweet part about this deal is this...the CAT will roll into the next deal! So you can buy 10 more for 10$, pay with your 10$ CAT and get ANOTHER 10$ CAT!!

You can only do 1 per transaction, however. If you did 2 transactions everyday for a week you would have 100 FREE Sobes and Liptons! I'm not saying to do THIS crazy but these are so great for the kids lunches, for me to bring to work, for Ayyub to bring to work! Yay for free drinks!

Hope you go out and score this pretty SWEET deal! The best part about it is you don't even need any coupons...Happy Couponing!

My Favorite Time Of The Week! ShopRite Matchups For The Week Of 2-12-12

Okay couponers! Here it is....our magical list of matchups starting tomorrow 2-12-12.

I'm excited about the Kellogg's cereal deal. There is a 10$ gas card rebate when you buy 10 participating Kellogg's products.

I'm also excited about all the yogurt deals! Yummm!

What deals will you be doing this week?!

2-12-12 Matchups!

We All Know How Much I HATE Walmart...But Here's What I got!

Okay couponers! So it's no surprise that I hate Wal-Mart. I did, however, score some pretty great stuff recently for ZERO dollars!

So there was a pretty clever coupon in the 1-29-12 RedPlum insert. This coupon is for 1.00$ off ANY Vaseline product 3 oz. or larger. So when I flipped through the insert I saw this coupon and just kept on going. Then something MAGICAL happened. A few pages later, there was a whole page dedicated to Vaseline and how you can buy it at Wal-Mart…blah, blah. So I was just about to turn the page and then I saw something small written on the bottom. It talked about how the 3 oz. size of Vaseline was only 1.00$ at Wal-Mart. BINGO! The RedPlum insert is telling you to use the 1.00$ off coupon, buy the 3 oz. size at Wal-Mart and score some FREE Vaseline.

Some of you may think, “Whoa, she’s a little too hype about some Vaseline.” Okay, you people may be right. BUT I do use this product on a daily basis. It’s great when you have a baby and they have any sort of cut or scrape. It is a great alternative to Chap Stick. This is what I mainly use it for. It’s great when you have a boyfriend who is CONSTANTLY suffering from dry and itchy skin. Okay, the list for me is endless. If you have the coupon, you can only use 4 in one transaction, then go out and get this Vaseline!

On to my next deal! There was a 3.00$ off coupon on ANY size K.Y. product in the 1-8-12 Smart Source. Now this may be a no brainer for me, but who doesn’t need extra lube lying around? Haha! With that piece of personal information being said, there is a K.Y. bottle of lube that is priced at 2.00 and some change. I forget the exact price. If you put two and two together…this means FREE lube. Again, you can only use 4 coupons in one transaction. Go out and get this product so you can have FUN especially with Valentine’s Day coming up!

Sorry to disappoint you, but my final deal is not as exciting as my K.Y. deal. In the 1-29-12 Smart Source, there was a coupon for 1.00$ off ANY carpet fresh carpet freshener. You know what these are, right? These are the canisters of powder that you sprinkle on your rugs before vacuuming. I do not normally buy stuff like this unless I can get them for REALLY cheap. FREE is better than cheap! My Wal-Mart here in Hudson had them on clearance for .75 cents. So I got 4 of them for FREE.

Remember this when couponing at Wal-Mart…they give you overage if the coupon is over the amount that you are paying for on the product. So those carpet fresheners were only .75 cents. This means that for every one I bought, I got .25 cents credited towards my entire purchase. I made 1.00$ because I bought 4 of them. You need to have other things in your basket, however, for that money to go to. Wal-Mart will not just give you 1.00$ back. You can load it onto a gift card if you wanted to.

Go out and have fun getting these deals!

What Is Saving Star??

So when we go on our ShopRite matchup link that I provide for you all here, sometimes we see something that says "Saving Star ecoupon".
For example:
Yogurt is 10/20$
Use a 2$/10 coupon from the 1-29 SmartSource (SS)
AND use a 2$/10 Saving Star ecoupon

What the heck is this Saving Star stuff!?!
Let me explain...

Saving Star is like an online version of mail-in-rebates (aka MIR). When you set up an account with them (free), you input your loyalty store card numbers for the stores you frequent. Make sure to enter all of them (that are in the Saving Star system) because you never know where you will buy something from, but, the system will keep track of it for you.

You can then choose the products/offers you think you will use and you click on those offers to ‘activate’ them. Don’t wait to activate something until ‘later’ because some of the items have limits (just like printable coupons) and the offers might not be available for long. Once you activate it, though, you have until the expiration date to buy it/them even if the offer was withdrawn for others.
When you buy one of your activated offers it takes 2-3 days (on average) for that info to flow from the store to the SS system. They usually send you an email saying you have earned your rebate for that item. Next time you go into your online account, you will see the total amount earned in the upper right corner. Once you earn $5 worth of rebates, you then, online, tell them how you want to be paid. You can choose a check that is mailed to you, or, can have it transferred into your PayPal account, if you have one.You would have to check Saving Star to find out what those options are because that, I’m not familiar with.

All in all, I think it’s a great service because the Saving Star offers ‘stack’ (can be used on top of) with paper coupons and ecoupons, providing you with even more savings! Plus, of course, you don’t have to use a stamp!! Just remember that these savings do not get deducted off your receipt, the same way a coupon does. The amount just builds up in your account until you have at least the minimum ($5) for them to pay it out to you.


Okay so I'm going to admit something to you new couponers. When I first started out with using coupons, I had no idea what this Saving Star was. I thought it was something COMPLETELY different where the money was deducted off your balance at the store. I didn't have anyone telling me how to "coupon" so I was in the dark on a lot of things. I finally understood what was happening with this Saving Star stuff and now I am able to take full advantage of it. This post is designed to clear up any miscommunication so YOU can take full advantage of it as well!

Here is a link to the actual SavingStar website...check it out and start using your savings right away!

https://savingstar.com/

ShopRite Matchups For 2-5-2012

Here's your link to ShopRite's matchups for this week. Hope you can find some great deals! I'm really excited about the butter and the eggs. Happy couponing!

Matchups!

Here Is What 10$ Got Me At CVS!

Okay couponers, if you haven't gone to CVS yet this week...PLEASE DO! I got a whole bunch of things and only spent 10$ and some change. How did I do it?! I used coupons and ECB's sillys!

Here's what I got:

6 Lady Speed Sticks (That you saw in an earlier post)
4 Irish Spring body washes for Ayyub
6 jars of Ragu pasta sauce
and 1 Cadbury Creme Egg (Because they are so YUMMY!)

The Speed Sticks are running a ECB deal where you buy 12$ worth of product and you receive a 6$ ECB.
They were on sale for 1.99$ each
Use 3 B1G1 Free coupons from the 1-29 SS (SmartSource)
Pay 6$ + tax and receive a 6$ ECB making them esentially FREE!

The Irish Springs were running the same deal. Buy 12$ worth of product and receive a 6$ ECB.
They were on sale for 3$ each
Use 4 1$/1 coupons from the 1-29 SS
Pay 8$ and receive a 6$ ECB

I rolled my ECB from the first purchase into the second so my OOP (out of pocket) total was 2$ + tax

The Ragu pasta sauces were running a ECB deal where you buy 10$ worth of product you receive a
3$ ECB
They were on sale for 1.66$ each or 3/5$
Use 3 1$/2 coupons from the 1-29 RP (RedPlum)
Pay 7$ + tax and receive a 3$ ECB

I rolled my ECB from the second purchase into my third so my OOP total was 1+ tax

I also bought a Cadbury creme egg in this transaction because they have a ECB deal where you buy 1 at .87cents and you receive a .87cents ECB

My total oop for ALL of this was 10$ + tax and I still have 3.87$ worth of ECB's left. REALLY I only paid about 6$ + tax for all of this stuff!

Head over to CVS and get these deals!
Happy couponing!

FREE Lady Speed Stick at CVS!

Okay couponers so here's a deal that I want you all to do this week at CVS. I want you to buy 6 Lady Speed Sticks or regular Speed Sticks (you can mix and match) and I want you to get them all for FREE.

Speed Stick is on sale this week for 1.99$. If you buy 12.00$ worth of Speed Stick products you get back 6.00$ in ECB's (Extra Care Bucks). WELL, we had a great coupon in this Sunday's SS that was a Buy One Get One Free Speed Stick. Use 3 of these coupons and you'll end up paying 6.98$ BUT you'll recieve a 6.00$ ECB so you'll only end up paying .98cents which is the sales tax making these FREE. The limit on this ECB is 2 per card so you could do this deal twice if you had 6 coupons...you would just have to do them in 2 different transactions. Also, you wouldn't be able to roll your ECB...If you did, another one WOULD NOT print.

This is one of those items that you'll never have to pay for again! I literally have about 20 of these in my stockpile!

Happy couponing!

Reader Response...How Do You Organize Your Coupons?

Okay, so I want to EVENTUALLY want to make a post on how I organize my coupons with uploaded pics. I have a specific way that I keep everything neat and tidy only right now...not so neat and tidy! I will upload some pics once I get everything under control. I have A LOT of coupons and this overhaul could take some serious time.

So I want to ask all of you how you organize your coupons. Are you a fan of the coupon binder? Do you use binders or any other sort of filing system? Maybe you like using envelopes or a coupon tote bag. Also, are you full of "organized clutter" or do you keep everything meticulous and organized neatly?

Even more ShopRite matchups!

Okay guys so here's a new link to an even extended list of matchups. Matchups!

Register Star VS. Times Union....Times Union!!

Yay! So okay, I used to just buy the Register Star every week and I was so disappointed because they only ever had ONE SS…no RP or no P&G. This led me to purchase some inserts from eBay. This worked but it was time consuming. Now I know I’m not the first person to discover this but if you buy the Times Union, you get all THREE inserts!!!!! I do not know ANYTHING about papers and I am totally clueless so I thought that our little area of Columbia County only had the Register Star. I am so happy! I learned something new today and I am very excited. What makes it even better is that its .25cents cheaper and you get so much more. This week there is over 287$ worth of coupons! So go out and buy your Times Union NOT Register Star. Be sure to buy AT LEAST two. I buy 4 because you want to have multiples of the same coupon. I will be posting a good deal at CVS this week that gets you 6 FREE deodorants and the coupon is in THIS week SS. Make sure you stock up couponers!

It's My Favorite Time Of The Week...ShopRite Ad Matchups!

Here is a link to the ShopRite ad matchups this week courtesy of www.livingrichwithcoupons.com

Here are the deals I will be doing this week:

Bananas

Grapes

Barilla Pasta

Fiber One cereal

Chi-Chi’s tortillas

Chi-Chi’s salsa

Old El Paso taco seasoning

Ken’s Marinade

General Mills milk and cereal bars

Friendship sour cream

Pillsbury Grand Biscuits

Digiorno Pizza

Farm Rich snacks

Gorton’s Seafood 50% off

Totino’s Pizza Rolls

And also remember that Perdue poultry is 40% off this week

Does anyone see a trend with the Hispanic food this week?! LOVE IT! This is what I mean when I posted my blog about planning your meals for the week. Taco night and quesadilla night! Oh, and pizza night too!

I will post any ADDITIONAL deals I find right here in this post throughout the week so make sure to tune in and check back with me throughout the week.

I also wanted to remind everyone that if you ever have a COMMENT, QUESTION, or a REQUEST please feel free to say so below.

Walgreens Makeup Haul

So this morning I went to Walgreens (Wags) because I had to pick up some more face makeup. I had run out of my liquid foundation as well as my powder foundation. I use Maybelline NY foundation and it can get pretty pricey! I also had to pick up some hairspray because I had run out of that as well. Well as you can guess, I do not pay full price for my makeup. This is a luxury and because it’s a WANT not a NEED I only buy it when I can get it for a ridiculously low price. Let me tell you how I got 22$ worth of product for only 4.67$.

I had a RegisterReward (RR) that I had gotten a while back. A RR is sort of like “Walgreens money”. You get these when you buy participating products that run the special that week. RR do expire so make sure you check the expiration date! I knew I was planning on using it for makeup so I checked the expiration date and today was my last day to use it. I also had a 5$ Walgreens coupon that I received for buying a certain amount of makeup the week before. This printed because that as well was a part of the special. So I knew I had 9$ in Walgreens money to use for my foundations. Maybelline often runs a special of BUY 1 GET 1 50% OFF. My liquid foundation was priced at 10.99$ (YIKES!) and my powder foundation was priced at 9.49$ (UGH!). I looked in my stash of coupons and I found two 2$ off any Maybelline face product from the 12-4-12 RP so I was excited because that was another 4$ off. Altogether I had 13$ in coupons. Yay! I found some really nice hairspray on CLEARANCE for only 1$ so I grabbed that and headed to the counter. My transaction looks like this:

Hairspray- 1.00$

Maybelline liquid foundation- 10.99$

Maybelline powder foundation- 9.49$-50%=4.75$

Total= 16.74$ (SO not what I wanted to be paying)

Here comes the fun part!

Take off 13$ and add the sales tax.

Total out of pocket (oop) = 4.67$

I saved a grand total of 18.74$


Also, buy purchasing 2 Maybelline face products I recieved a coupon for a free clutch! I just entered the confirmation code as well as my address and they will be sending my FREE pink clutch in 2-4 weeks.

The Sale Cycles...

Okay guys! So I talk a lot about “shopping the sales” but here is a list to show you what USUALLY goes on sale for every month. The thing about sale cycles is that they rotate about every three months. This means you want to be stocked up on something for about 3 months at a time. Now this list I got from www.thekrazycouponlady.com and I suggest that you print it and keep it with all of your couponing things.

Happy couponing!

 January:

National Oatmeal Month: Quaker

Diet Foods including: Healthy Choice, South Beach, Lean Cuisine, Special K, Kashi, Smart Start, 100 Calorie Packs

Super Bowl Sunday:  Pepsi, Coke, chips, dips, cheese, sandwich items, crackers, snacks, wings

Seasonal Produce: oranges, pears, grapefruits, tangerines, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, collards, kale, kiwis, avocados, cabbage, spinach

Clearance:  Christmas decorations, toys, wrapping papers                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Winter Health:  cold medicines and vitamins

 February:

National Canned Food Month:  canned fruits and vegetables; meats:  tuna, chicken, salmon; pie fillings

National Hot Breakfast Month:  Malt O Meal, oatmeal, Eggo Waffles, syrup

Valentines:  chocolate, Hershey’s, KY Lubricant, etc

Chinese New Year: soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, noodles

Seasonal Produce:  artichokes, asparagus, raspberries, potatoes, strawberries, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, collards, kale, kiwis, avocados, spinach

March:

Frozen Food Month: frozen meals, TGI Fridays, Contessa, Foster Farms chicken, Eggo, Sara Lee, Healthy Choice, DiGiorno, Freschetta, Breyers, Dreyers, Marie Callendars

Seasonal Produce: artichokes, asparagus, avocados, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, collards, fennel, kale, leeks, lemons, limes, mushrooms, onions, oranges, peas, radishes, rhubarb, spinach, strawberries, tangerines

 April:

Easter:  ham; eggs; some baking supplies:  sugar, spices, baking mixes, chocolate chips

Earth Day: organic foods, Energy Saver

Seasonal Produce: artichokes, asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, grapefruits, avocados, mushrooms, onions, peas, rhubarb

Clearance:  after Easter sales are the time to stock up on decorating, baskets, etc for the next year.

May:

Memorial Day: BBQ sauce, ketchup, condiments, charcoal, salad dressing, potato chips, dips

Paper Products:  plates, utensils

Cinco de Mayo:  salsa, tortillas

Seasonal Produce: artichokes; asparagus; avocados; green beans; beets; blackberries; carrots; sweet Vidalia onions; peas: edible-podded peas,  English Shelling peas; new potatoes; raspberries; strawberries

Outdoor: insect repellant, sunscreen

June:

National Dairy Month:  eggs, milk (free milk Catalina, wyb cereal), ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt, Cool Whip, in-store dairy coupons or booklets

End of June is Fourth of July Sales: hot dogs, hamburgers, BBQ sauce, ketchup, condiments, charcoal, salad dressing, potato chips, dips

Seasonal Produce: apricots, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cherries, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, grapes, honeydews, nectarines, peaches, potatoes, raspberries, red onions, summer squash, strawberries, sweet Vidalia onions, tomatoes, watermelons

July:

National Ice Cream Month

More 4th of July BBQ Sales:  hot dogs, hamburgers, BBQ sauce, ketchup, condiments, charcoal, salad dressing, potato chips, dips

End of July, Back to School Sales begin:  crayons, pencils, folders, binders

Seasonal Produce: Asian pears, Bartlett pears, green beans, blueberries, corn, cucumbers, eggplants, figs, garlic, grapes, nectarines, red onions, Valencia oranges, peaches, sweet bell peppers, plums, potatoes, summer squash, tomatoes, watermelon

August:

Back to school supplies: erasers, pens, crayons, paper, binders, backpacks, notebooks, markers, note cards

School lunch items: pudding cups, lunch meat, single serve juices, lunchables

Disinfectants:  Clorox and Lysol wipes & sprays

Seasonal Produce: Avocados, beans, berries, cherries, corn on the cob, cucumbers, eggplants, figs, seedless grapes, melons, onions, peaches, pears (Bartlett), peppers (sweet bell), plums, summer squash, tomatillos, and tomatoes

Clearance:  insect repellent, sunscreen, charcoal, swim suits, gardening supplies and seeds, fans, camping gear

September:

Back to School Sales through Labor Day:  pens, pencils, paper (filler & printing), backpacks, erasers, folders, binders, dividers

Labor Day Sales: restaurants deals, movie theater perks (free popcorn, soda, concession candy), shoe & apparel store weekend passes

Diabetes awareness:  glucose meters, Glucerna cereal, diabetic care– socks, test strips, sugar free products, vitamins, weight scales

Seasonal Produce: apples, artichokes, beans, cucumbers, eggplant, grapes, onions, pears (Asian & Bartlett), peppers (bell and chili), squash, tomatillo, tomatoes

Clearance: camping gear, gardening supplies, bug spray, fans & air conditioners, BBQ supplies– grills, charcoal, lighters

October:

Halloween: candy, costumes & accessories

Baking sales (mid-October to late December): canned pumpkin, evaporated milk, baking chips, pie crust (mix and ready-made frozen)

National Seafood Month: fish, shrimp, lobster, crab

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: promotions & deals featuring participating “pink” products

Adopt a Shelter-Dog Month: wet & dry dog food, dog toys & chews

Seasonal Produce: apples, artichokes, arugula, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, chard, cranberries, parsnip, pears, pomegranates, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, winter squash, turnips, yams

November:

Baking goods: nuts, chocolate chips, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, cake & brownie mixes, Chex cereal (for homemade Chex mix)

Canned foods: soup, broth, vegetables & fruits, spaghetti sauce

Holiday staples: turkey, canned pureed pumpkin, stuffing mix, boxed potatoes, gravy mixes, ready-to-bake rolls, frozen pies, cranberry sauce, gelatin, marshmallows

Seasonal Produce: apples, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, celery, cranberries, kiwis, lemons, oranges, pears (Anjou & Comice), potatoes, pumpkin, squash, yams

Halloween Clearance: The best time to stock up on things for the next year: door decorations, spider webs, candy bowls, yard & outdoor props, plates, cups, napkins & tablecloths, window clings, pumpkin carving kits, streamers, confetti, string lights, Halloween candy-alternatives to stretch next year’s candy bowl supply. Also party favors like: spider rings, erasers, plastic fangs, pencils, bookmarks, stickers, and bouncy balls.

Costumes: Generic items like witch hats, gloves, tiaras/ crowns, play swords, pet costumes, capes & cloaks, fangs, and fairy wings are best, especially when you have children whose preferences change year to year.

Black Friday/ Cyber Monday: Deep savings on doorbusters and advertised items ranging from clothing and toys to electronics and appliances. Research sales, make a list, and stick to it for the best results.

 Seasonal clearance: rakes, outdoor furniture, bikes

December:

Holiday Dinner:  egg nog, deli platters, instant potatoes, gravy mixes, Rhodes rolls, frozen pies, cranberry sauce, Jello, marshmallows

Baking: flour, sugar, butter, cream, cake mixes, brownie mixes, muffin mixes, breads, pie crusts, marshmallows, whipped cream

Canned foods: soup, broth, condensed milk, vegetables, fruits, spaghetti sauce

Clearance:  Buy all your Thanksgiving decorations, extra table settings, and turkey carving products now once they’re at least 50% off.

Planning Your Meals For The Week.

Shopping the sales is a no brainer. Doing this will save you TONS at the grocery store. Shopping the sales is simply this; every week when the new sale circular comes out, (the large newspaper looking thing with pictures and sale prices on it) you plan your grocery list around what is on sale. This means a couple of things, however…

When really get into couponing you have to let go of any BRAND LOYALTY you might have. We never got to have any brand loyalty because before we started couponing we were limited to only buying what was generic because at that point, it was cheaper. Welcome to the world of NEVER having to buy anything generic ever again! If you were like me, letting go of any brand loyalty was easy. For some people, this may prove a little more difficult. If you are in love with a particular brand of yogurt that you eat all the time it may be hard to try other things. Let me put it in perspective, however. If you are a family with a tight budget who NEEDS to coupon than letting go of brand loyalty might be tricky but it is well worth it in the end. If your brand of yogurt is relatively expensive then we have a problem. Why are you compromising your food budget for yogurt? Don’t break the bank! Shop the sales! If Chobani yogurt is on sale for 1.00$ this week and you have a .40cent off coupon that will double to .80cents off, that means yogurt cups for .20cents. I bet that .20cents is a lot cheaper than the yogurt cups you USED to get every week that are priced over .60cents a cup.

I am NOT saying that you need to ditch your brands. I am simply asking you to step outside the box. One week, your brand might go on sale and then you can stock up to your heart’s desire. Now if your brand is something that never produces any coupon, then we have a little problem. My philosophy is this simple. I am not going to break my budget, even a few dollars for MY brand of yogurt. Now this is just how I coupon and sometimes it means that I have to get a little daring and try other things. Usually the results are fantastic! I usually love new things that I try and guess what; I am buying them for next to nothing so it feels really good switching over.

Something that I really wanted to go over for you readers is how to utilize shopping the sales to plan your dinners for the week. This sounds simple but honestly it’s something that many people forget or do not know how to do. This is going to save you so much more time and money. No more running to the supermarket after work to buy what you need for that night’s dinner because you’ll get everything you need in only 1 trip! What I like to do is sit down with my sale circular and go over the match ups for that week to plan our dinners for the next week. If I see that Tyson chicken is going to be 50% off that week making it around 1.99LB then we are having chicken for that week! Usually you will see a trend. If pastas are on sale then usually sauce, garlic bread and Italian cheese are on sale as well. This means that many Italian dishes can be prepared. Next week at ShopRite, tortillas as well as taco seasoning and salsa are going to be on sale. That means that I will plan on having a quesadilla night, a nacho night and a taco night! I’m excited about that!

Couponing...The Basics.

So there are 3 different coupon inserts that you can find in your local Sunday paper:

                SmartSource (SS)

                RedPlum (RP)

                P&G (Proctor and Gamble)

You will not necessarily get all 3 in the paper every week. Also, these inserts are regional so inserts that one city’s paper might have, another might not have. You can go to www.sundaycouponpreview.com to see what inserts will be in the paper for that week. If you live in a region like me, you usually never get the RP and the P&G. I will tell you that the P&G is a VERY good insert to have. For these, I usually purchase them from eBay. I just type in P&G as well that week’s date and choose the free shipping option. You can purchase 5 inserts for around 5 dollars.

You want to make sure that you have more than 1 insert. Let’s say Apple and Eve juice goes on sale for 1.99$ that week from a grocery store that will double any coupon up to .99cents. You have a coupon from the 1-22-12 SS that is .75cents off of any 1 Apple and Eve product. If you take that coupon to a grocery store that will DOUBLE any coupon up to .99cents (that means that they will double any value coupon up to .99cents. If you have a .50cent coupon it will double to 1.00$. If you have a .75cent coupon it will double to 1.50$. If you have 1.00$ coupon it will STAY 1.00$) then that coupon now becomes 1.50$ off making the juice .49cents a piece. Great deal right! Well if you only have one of those coupons than you’re not really maximizing your full savings potential. If you have 4 of those coupons (and I use the number 4 because most stores will only allow you to use 4 LIKE coupons in 1 transaction) then you would be getting 4 bottles of juice for .49cents a piece. I’m not saying that you need to hurry up and drink 4 bottles of juice because you just scored them for a ridiculously low price. Buying more than 1 of something helps you to create something called a STOCKPILE. A stockpile is simply a stock of things that you need that you keep on hand for weeks where those things will not be on sale. If juice is going on sale one week than the chance of it going on sale the next week or even the week after is slim. You just got juice at a rock bottom price but once you run out what do you do?! You turn to your STOCKPILE where you have about 4-8 bottles so you don’t have to pay full price. Doesn’t this sound nice?

There are also coupons called IP’s or Internet Printouts. These are coupons that you print from the internet. Places like www.SmartSource.com  as well as www.Coupons.com have a large selection of coupons to choose from. I only print the IP’s that I know I will use because just printing random coupons is going to waste your ink and that is going to waste your money. This kind of defeats the purpose. When I check the MATCH UPS for a particular week (match ups are just matching what’s on sale with coupons so you can get maximize savings) I print only the coupons that are matched up with something on sale. I go to www.livingrichwithcoupons.com for my ShopRite match ups because I LOVE LOVE LOVE ShopRite! I will be posting my match ups here on my blog every week for you guys so you have even easier access to them. Something to remember about IP’s is that they usually can only be printed TWICE. If you print from www.SmartSource.com then they usually can only be printed ONCE. This is per computer not printer. So if you only have one computer in your house then you can only print around one or two. If you have two computers in your house, lucky you, than you can print around 2 or 4.

You can also find STORE coupons. These are obviously coupons that the STORE, not the MANUFACTURER, puts out. (All of the coupons above have been MANUFACTURER coupons.) These are usually found in coupon booklets at the front of the store or in the weekly circulars. Walgreens, for example, puts out a coupon booklet every month and they are located right in the front of store by the carts and baskets. ShopRite, for example, sometimes has these things called super coupons that are located in their circular. These are the circulars that you receive in your paper, not the ones that you can find at the front of the store. Sometimes they both have the coupons in them but usually just the circular that you receive in the paper that you buy. The cool thing about store coupons is that you can COMBINE them with a manufacturer coupon. Combine coupons for maximum savings!! Let’s say you have a manufacturer coupon for .50cents off of Crest toothpaste. Normally the store sells these for 1.99$ but you have a store coupon that makes them only 1.00$. The store is going to scan your store coupon to drop the price of the toothpaste then they are going to scan your manufacturer coupon that will double to 1.00$ off making this item FREE. Pretty cool, huh?

Remember that not all coupons double. Coupons have bar codes at the bottom. If you look at the bar code all the way to your left and it starts with a 5 then it doubles. If it starts with a 9 then it doesn’t. Usually the coupons that start with a 9 have a DO NOT DOUBLE printed at the top. They may also have a DND9 (do not double 9) at the top. Sometimes (newer coupons are printing like this) you have no left hand barcode and no 5 or 9. As long as it does not say DO NOT DOUBLE or DND9 then it should double. Now I say SHOULD, not WILL. I say this because sometimes coupons have glitches. Make sure that when you are using coupons you are watching the cashier very carefully as they scan them.

My Step By Step Process Before I Hit The Store!

This is MY personal step by step process that I use when I coupon. Please remember that this is my way and feel free to adapt this to fit your couponing needs. One you get the hang of this you may find a better system. Go for it! There is no right or wrong when it comes to couponing. Everyone’s a winner when you save $$$!

1.       SHOP THE SALES

Please, please, PLEASE do not spend another day aimlessly wandering the grocery aisles at Wal-Mart with a list that you haphazardly threw together 5 minutes before leaving the house. Pick a favorite grocery store, mine is ShopRite, and get you a sale circular for that week. The sale cycle with most grocery stores is Sunday- Saturday. Use these, love these, these are going to become your BESTFRIENDS! Sometimes we even get COUPONS in these sale circulars! FREE COUPONS, can you believe it! Plan your weekly meals around what is on sale for that week. I usually jot down certain things that catch my eye for the week. These things usually include any sales on juices, deli meat, produce, crackers, and diapers. These are things that are STAPLES in our household. Once I know what is on sale, I start to do a little homework….

2.       COMBINE THE SALE PRICE WITH A COUPON FOR MAXIMUM SAVINGS

Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t! Once I have a rough list of things that catch my eye from the circular, I start to do a little research. I always go to the same two sites. Livingrichwithcoupons.com and Thekrazycouponlady.com these are MY go to sites, you may have completely different ones that you like better and that’s great!

Once on Livingrichwithcoupons.com I go to their ShopRite weekly matchup’s page. Something magical then happens….THEY DO ALL THE WORK FOR ME! I just scroll down their list and all the sale items that have a coupon are listed for me. They even put a little green check mark next to the items that are rock bottom prices. If the coupon is from an insert, they give you the name and date of the insert. If the coupon is an IP or internet printout coupon they give you the direct link so you can print it right out. Simple! Easy! Fast! It’s like couponing by numbers. No work needed!

3.       I PROCEED TO CLIP, PRINT AND ORGANIZE MY COUPONS

This is the fun part! I look through my inserts and find the coupons that I want to use. I print out all of the coupons from the internet I want to use. I make a list and I double check my coupons before leaving the house. Usually I just paperclip them along with my list and hit the store! Next thing I know I am saving lots of money. I try to aim for a 50-75% savings every time. This is MY personal goal. Even saving 5 bucks is a good start!

This One's For You...

Hey guys, this one's for you! This blog has been created to help all you "coupon clueless" (and I mean this in a nice way) learn just what it takes to start saving some serious money at the grocery store. For any of you who do coupon, I hope you find this blog informative as well. It will provide you with easy match ups as well as some new and exciting tips and tricks. I hope you love this blog and you share it with all of your friends. If there is anything in particular that you would like me to blog about just leave me a comment below. I look forward to teaching you all how to save $$$! Couponing has seriously changed my life and I hope that I can help you to change yours as well.