My wife has a good couponing method that has saved us a ton of money in the grocery store and has helped us put together nearly a years supply of food. She’s so organized about it that it doesn’t hold up the checkout line either. On a good shopping trip we’ve paid pennies on the dollar for everything and most times the cashier has to call over a manager to approve everything because the savings were so drastic. She’s now trying to get even more organized by scanning the barcodes on the coupons with her android phone and trying to match them up with the reported sales at area stores and to also have a quick inventory of all her coupons. She wants me to find or to create an app for that (I’m just learning how to create apps with Google AppInventor.)
“Extreme” couponing can actually be kind of fun if you know what you’re doing and have a good system.
I appreciate the work that is involved in saving money with coupons, but please, you contradict yourself in the two sentences above. For the average shopper running into the Shop-Rite on the way home to grab some milk and eggs and a steak for dinner, the sight of someone ahead in the 20 or fewer lane with a fistfull of coupons is like seeing brake lights on the Turnpike.