Couponing and Bargain Shopping

The couponing discussion was so good, we decided to do it again!  This week with talked about couponing best practices.  Did you know that if you load coupons onto your Kroger card through websites like http://www.shortcuts.com/ that you can layer them with your paper coupons?  For instance, if you loaded a $.50 coupon for yogurt onto your Kroger card and you had a $.50 paper coupon, you could use both coupons...and Kroger will double your paper coupons up to $.50!!!  This would result in a savings of $1.50 off of your yogurt.

Here's another tip:  If you have a coupon for buy one get one free for a certain item, these are very valuable.  If a store runs a sale for buy one get one free for the item, you can use your coupon to get two items absolutely free!  Your coupon "purchases" the first item and the store covers the cost of the second item.

If you are new to couponing, I am attaching a link to a website that explains some couponing terminology and best practices:  http://www.couponing101.com/getting-started  This is a great place to start and there is no time like the present to begin!

If you don't use coupons or are new to couponing, I challenge you to try it and watch the savings add up.  Next week, we are going to begin our discussion on cleaning and organizing.  Our first topic with be cleaning with kids!!!