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I love using coupons, but you rarely find what you want when you want it. I found my self with a lot of free stuff I never wanted anyway, and nothing I did want.

While free stuff is great- it is not free if it takes 4 hours of your time each week (at my pay rate thats a more than than any coupon savings)

I found the best way is to stock up on sales of items you DOD use.

For example, when laundry detergent is buy-one-get-one-free you get a whole case (50% savings over a year) You probably wont see it on sale like that again until you run out.

By the end of a year I have a good couple of cases stocked up of a bunch of things I use all the time, at 50% off (or more)

I have about 12 whole pork loins in my freezer (a foot and a half long each) that I got buy-1-get-1 and thats about my whole years needs for pork.

I found myself needing to shop about once a month (except for quick run-in for fresh veggies and meat)

Brilliant way to use coupons!

I somehow don’t think the captains of industry worry much about coupons. It is the mom, housewife/husband(PC) who is most likely to use them along with retirees and students.

This is JUST the group who we need to make pay their fair share right???

Sounds like you were doing some undisciplined couponing. You don’t have to waste your time going out to grab everything that’s ‘free’.

I’m spending a few hours every week in my off hours, but I’m finding that I now pay NOTHING for most household items. I pay nothing for paper products, soap, cat food, cleaning products, junky snack crap that my wife eats, and all toiletries. All that through couponing combined with sales. To work deals, you often have to end up with products you don’t want, but you only do that because it’s part of a larger deal to get you the things that you DO want.

Last month, a deal that I did caused me to end up with a whole lot of sticks of Dove deodorant, which we don’t use. However, that deal got me several month’s worth of cat food, a year’s supply of deodorant and toothpaste that are the brands we like, a bunch of free light bulbs, some cold medicine that my wife uses, several cases of Diet Coke, 16 rolls of paper towels, and a whole lot of laundry detergent.

I’ve got a similar deal going on now and a few more in March.