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I saw a woman go from about 140 to 75 dollars with coupons.

The local restaurants throw coupons about once per month in the free shopper that is delivered. I use those on occasion. Other than that, I don't bring coupons with me when shopping.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2013 12:49pm by TirithRR

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Newegg coupons and the like get used around here all the time. Most of the stuff that gets bought with them would have beeen bought eventually anyways. The occasional "really good" coupon can prompt a purchase faster than I would otherwise have made it. my best luck last year was actually on hard drive coupons. I ended up saving something around $300 on solid state drives and large rotational data drives, but i also buy more drives than your average individual probably does I would imagine.

The one local one I use the most, is a sandwich place. It costs about 11 dollars for an 18 inch sub, and they have "Buy one get one free" coupons.

Usually I'll trudge around looking for coupons for delivery places to offset the delivery charge.

I should add that IMO, it's always worth it to use online retail coupons where possible. You can save 10 dollars or more on even relatively cheap orders.

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If I'm purchasing online I'll make a quick attempt to see if I can find a coupon code for that retailer. At home I generally just use coupons on pizza or other delivered foods. Never went to the grocery store with my satchel filled with scraps of paper or anything.

My understanding is that both stores and manufacturers have become a lot more strict with coupons these days. It was cute when you had a small group of people working out the loopholes to get 10,000 rolls of paper towels for $10. It's less cute when it becomes a TV show and you have everyone coming out of the woodwork expecting to bleed you dry.

Whenever my parents do any kind of substantial shopping trip, they spend time to clip coupons first. Usually end up saving at least $40. I think my mother saved something like $67 yesterday.

They're especially useful when you can use them for the sorts of things that don't perish, so you don't need to worry about using it right away. Say for buying cans of tomatoes.

My parents tend to clip coupons whenever they see one that they might use, and just quickly file them by category. Then, whenever they're doing a big shopping trip, it's just a matter of looking through the circular and glancing in the relevant envelopes for coupons worth using.

Double coupon promotions are particularly nice.

It's not something I've ever really bothered with, but they raised a family of four and my dad has worked in sales the whole time. Saving $60 on non-perisheble groceries goes a long way.

I went from $118 down to $51 at Safeway on Friday.

60% is my goal (you can usually get 25%-35% by just going to the store and shopping semi-randomly really). Doesn't happen every time, some of the store brands will still be a better buy, and you have to check like price-per-oz kinds of things too. Stuff that keep a long time you can usually get really good deals on, like 25 cents on a bottle of shampoo or something. We'll buy like 10 and not worry about shampoo for a year. Have several shelves in the pantry set up for storing stuff like that.

Takes 5-ish hours a week to keep up with it. I'll buy a couple of papers on Sunday and clip coupons, new adds tend to come out on Thursday, and there's a couple of blogs that help keep track of local deals. Match up the deals and sales, and go out and buy what you need. I keep the coupons in my old baseball card album, semi-organized so I can find them, and quickly toss the ones I don't use when they expire.

The savings I get from couponing works about the same per hour as the second job I had for a while. If you aren't picky about what you eat or what soap you use, you can save a heck of a lot of money. I'll look for the discount meat when I'm there too, and produce usually has something on sale. There's some things we buy no matter what. Kids must have their favorite items of course, and we make sure they're getting some good food whether or not it's on sale. Overall though, I don't feel like I'm eating any less healthy than before we started.

Since we started couponing we probably have an extra $300-ish a month above what we used to have. Not incredible, but for 20hrs of work or so a month I'm not complaining.

I always find a coupon code when I make hotel reservations. Basically it gives you the corporate rate.

Grocery store coupons are too time consuming, too limited in their offerings and likely to cause me (and others) to buy more crap than may be needed or even wanted.

Unless I'm ungodly busy, I just plan my weak's meals when looking at the circular and considering what I have on hand. I won't generally take the time to actually figure out recipes, most of the time, but it's easy enough to glance at everything on sale and come up with a loose picture. I'm generally fully stocked on spices, so the only thing that matters is whether or not I need fresh herbs or citrus.

As a general rule, I don't spend more than $2 on meat. I don't each much of it, so it all ends up in the freezer anyway. And I don't eat much pork/beef, so that reduces things nicely. When there's a good sale, I buy as much as I can conveniently freeze. Of course, I do increase my costs a tiny amount by buying sandwich bags so I can freeze (trimmed) portions. Still works well, though.

I almost never buy produce that's not on sale unless it's something I really need or am really craving. Red peppers, for instance. I love them, but I won't pay an extra dollar a pound for them. Even worse with yellow/orange.

Only things I'll reliably buy for full price are onions/garlic (if I'm going to run out before the next week) and greens (kale, if nothing else is on sale).

All the rest of my produce is on sale. But I do generally buy sufficient fruit to last me through the week with at least one piece a day, preferably two. That goes to whatever is on sale (hate Bartlett pear weeks. Those bastards are never ripe...)

Fortunately, there are VERY few fruits and vegetables I don't love, and almost none that I can't tolerate. So it's not hard for me to be happy with whatever is on sale, as long as whatever is on sale is decently ripe (as in, I can use it within a week). Broccoli rabe is the only thing that comes to mind that I can't tolerate, and that's because I'm sensitive to whatever makes it bitter. One bite of it, even if it's been properly cooked, and all I can taste for at least an hour afterwards is bitters.

Pretty much the only thing I ever get coupons for is McDonalds and **** that.

I think just about all discounts and stuff here are in store, coupons aren't as big a thing over here.

I'll usually use a coupon or two if they are the ones that are handed to me with my receipt. They are usually tracking what I buy and those coupons are usually tailored to what I usually buy, anyway. The Safeway here has a pretty cool thing going on, you can go online and add coupons to your card so when you swipe your Safeway card, you automatically get all of those coupons instead of having to clip them. They even have a "Just For U" section where they show you what coupons you would probably be interested in based on your past purchases.

Food is so expensive here, we'll take what we can get usually. But I don't have the time to scour the Sunday papers looking for that golden ticket coupon. And they have instituted a "no bag" rule here now. If you don't bring in your own bag, they charge you 5 cents to bag your groceries in a paper sack. There are no more plastic bags in the big grocery stores here.