Coupons, You Gotta USE em
I have turned a corner in my living with less mindset. Granted, I still got a little tinge of jealousy when I recently toured one my Doctor friends new homes. It’s HUGE, the kind I will never have as long as I’m not willing to work 18 hour days to get it, but the funny thing is I was even more jealous this weekend of the guy paying in front of me at Walgreens.
This guy had a young child in his hand, a cart load of stuff, and I saw a fist full of coupons. My thought, this ought to be interesting, was an understatement. Five bags later and staring at a 52 dollar tab, he handed over those coupons and brought the total down to 24 dollars. Green Eyed Anita said, “Wow you did good.”
The guy laughed and said, “My wife is the coupon queen.” I thought no she’s a coupon genius not only did she cut the bill in half, she sent the husband out to do the shopping.
So anyway, as I’m just getting all into my coupon cutting world, and finding that there is free money out there, if you’re willing to ask for it. Now I cut coupons, I go online and load them on to my Dillon’s card, I even google for them when I’m looking for specific stuff and you know what? While it’s not keeping us out of the poor farm, it’s stretching our dollars and it’s fun. Granted if I was working like a dog, I’d have no time to search for coupons so I can see how for some people it wouldn’t really work, it certainly didn’t for me in my old life. But breaking news folks, I’m broke, and right now, coupons are cool! I’m Anita Cochran, you’re listening to KKRDonline.
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: anitacochran | Filed under: Breaking News - "I'm Broke!", Within The Sound Of My Voice | Tags: coupons, Dillons, KKRDonline.com, Walgreens | 3 Comments »
Great tip! I love the savings you can get from coupons. Hate the clipping and organizing part, hunting for them when I get there. I’m working on getting my six-year-old granddaughter to help me with the cutting part!
But I want to know how to load them onto my Dillon’s card. Gotta go check that out now…
Anita, not sure what part of town you live in, but we live in Park City. Leeker’s does DOUBLE $1 COUPONS about once every 4 or 5 weeks. It feels wonderful to spend $132 at the grocery store and after coupons have your total be $65! LOVE IT! Also, I work full time and have 3 kids (okay, an empty nest come August 1 when the twins head to K-State with their older brother), but still, I will continue to use coupons!!!! It’s definitely worth it…
ljoplin: Gonna have to find out the Leeker’s Double Dollar days….wowzer. Empty nest, totally can’t wait to hear how that feels. I’m thinking really great and really quiet all at the same time.