Can you do a brief post on couponing for those of us who on coupon challenged? Couponing for Dummies or something like that LOL.
It would take me HOURS to post what I have learned over the past few months. But the basic way to get stuff for FREE or next to nothing is a concept called "matchups." Basically you match your coupons up with stuff that is on sale at a big reduction. The best such price reduction is called BOGO or B1G1 (Buy One Get One Free). What many people don't know is that you can use coupons on BOTH items. The one being sold at the regular price and the free one. An example is the Fisher's Fusion trail mix on sale a few weeks ago. They were BOGO. Buy ONE bag of trail mix for $1.79 and get the other bag for FREE. Soooo... I had a bunch of dollar off coupons. I applied one coupon to each item which totaled $1.79. The coupons were a total of $2.00 (two one dollar coupons). Therefore I got two bags of trail mix for FREE and had an overage of 21 cents when I bought both. I stocked up bigtime. So when I bought 50 bags of trail mix, I had an overage of $5.25 which I could apply to other stuff. In my case I stocked up on Scotch Gift Wrapping tape which was on sale BOGO for $2.49. Since I had dollar off coupons for those, It only cost me 49 cents plus sales tax for two. Actually even less since my overage on the trail mix made it almost nothing for EVERYTHING. One of my best deals was buying 80 frozen buffalo wings PLUS a Porterhouse steak for about a half a buck TOTAL due to the big overage I had. That was my Porterhouse and Sam Adams beer week since I was buying those items plus the buffalo wings for only a few cents with the coupons and the overage.
And now you know why I am a coupon fanatic.
Your homework assignment is to research NeverPayRetailAgain.Net and HotCouponWorld.Com.
www.hotcouponworld.com is a good place to get started.
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