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Does your family clip coupons? How do you manage your family's grocery bill? I am trying to do away with bad habits I've developed over the years from working full-time, being a single mother and racing to feed my son. However, it's expensive to eat healthy. Buying organic, keeping stocked with fresh produce, among other things can add up quickly. I used to think I had no time to clip coupons and that I didn't buy enough groceries to even bother. However, last year, I began participating in The Grocery Game, and have saved a lot of money. The Grocery Game is a subscription service that gives you a list of stores in your area, the weekly specials, and what current coupons apply to give you the biggest savings. You can even start a 4-week trial membership for $1, which gives you access to all the lists in your local grocery stores.The lists are very detailed, listing the items that are on sale, along with matching them up with the coupons from the past month and then breaks down the savings. The lists are even coded so that you know what is the rock bottom price and breaks down the good deals and the "buy it now and don't miss this whatever you do" deals. By comparing weekly sale prices with their database, they are able to mark the best savings for that week.
Nicole at Mugglemom has become the local expert in my area on clipping coupons and saving money, and I am in awe at her savings. I am proud of getting 3 bottles of shampoo free, or having a laundry room full of $1 bottles of Tide. However, she posts about her savings on her blog, and there are times when she will buy over $200 of groceries for less than $20!
So how about you? Do you have ways of managing coupons for your family's grocery bills? I'm looking for every way possible to have a pantry full of inexpensive and free groceries!
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1-10-2008 @ 2:10PM
caitlin said...I love it because I'm a min/maxer and it's kind of like a game to me. The hardest part is keeping my husband from tossing the circulars when it's his day to check mail. I wrote an app that I use to track products that interest me. It's basically just an improved version of my grocery notebook. It syncs up with my Treo, so I can update at the store or check trends for a product. If I have any free time, I'm going to see if it's feasible to add a barcode scanning module, because keeping track of which coupons go with what product and the date they go out is annoying.
I usually get about $30-60 worth of coupons and another $30 or so in shopper's club specials each trip, depending what I needed to buy. Interesting site, but unfortunately, they have all the grocery stores that I don't shop and not the two that I actually do. Neat idea though, may have to check back in a few months to see if they update it.
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1-10-2008 @ 2:10PM
caitlin said...I love it because I'm a min/maxer and it's kind of like a game to me. The hardest part is keeping my husband from tossing the circulars when it's his day to check mail. I wrote an app that I use to track products that interest me. It's basically just an improved version of my grocery notebook. It syncs up with my Treo, so I can update at the store or check trends for a product. If I have any free time, I'm going to see if it's feasible to add a barcode scanning module, because keeping track of which coupons go with what product and the date they go out is annoying.
I usually get about $30-60 worth of coupons and another $30 or so in shopper's club specials each trip, depending what I needed to buy. Interesting site, but unfortunately, they have all the grocery stores that I don't shop and not the two that I actually do. Neat idea though, may have to check back in a few months to see if they update it.
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1-10-2008 @ 7:20PM
Lee said...I put together a webpage of coupon sites I found useful as a new mom.
http://www.nsccards.com/tomoms/moms_coupons.html
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1-10-2008 @ 8:35PM
Jill said...I think I save more by buying store brands than I could by using coupons-- with much less hassle.
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1-10-2008 @ 10:35PM
Amy said...Recently I started using coupons again. The way I do it is : 1st. I do my major shopping trip once a month. Then I just have to go back to get fresh produce or say bread,milk,etc.
2nd. About 3 days before I am going to go shopping I go to my local store and I grab some of every coupon they have through out the store (in store coupons) I also grab their sales papers.
3rd. I go home and go through the coupons to see what I can use. Most of them are "buy this get this free" If one of the items is something I don't use then I give it to our local food bank.
Sometimes I will actually make out a menu for the month, but sometimes I just wing it.
The first time I did this I saved over $55.00 ,the second time I saved over $64.00.
Also the coupons that I don't use I exchange with my friends who may have coupons I need and vice versa.
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1-10-2008 @ 11:00PM
Elizabeth said...www.hotcouponworld.com is a great resource for couponing--even better than the Grocery Game. Plus, its free! The gripe about the GG is that they don't have all of the stores local to me included, but HCW does and then some!
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