Actually its a $5 off $30 purchase and the only time and effort I put into getting them is a simple button click on eBay.
p.s. Keep in mind that is $30 BEFORE coupons so if your coupons add up to $25 you get the entire bundle for FREE after you hand over the $5 off $30 coupon.
I sort of have this thing down to a sort of automatic mental process that many local couponers consult me on the latest deals. For example, I got 3 calls today from couponers asking my advice on the new Publix Green Sheet deals coming out this weekend.
I don’t e-bay. And $5 is meaningless money to me. I tip $5 on a $15 bar bill.
Only time I ever got $25 of coupons on one purchase was dumb luck, there’d been a bunch of durable goods I’d been thinking about replacing soonish, got a mailer with a bunch of coupon for durable good, most of which were on my “one of these days I gotta” list. Went to Target, got all that stuff, it was like $25 or so off close to $100. Don’t even know how I got the mailer, would have bought the stuff soon anyway.
I used to coupon a lot. But I moved on. The effort level stopped being worth it. I no longer need to pinch pennies, hell I no longer need to pinch Jacksons, I can even chuck around Benjamins without too much concern. I’ve just plain got better things to do with my time than chase $5 coupons all over the internet.