I just go to the dollar store to buy soaps and shampoo. Very cheap. As for coupons, of course, common sense applies.
Those items I have to be careful of, they break me out and make me itch. I have certain brands I use. If the $$ has them I’ll get them there. I use it for dishwasher soap and bleach. Ink pens or pencils paper plates etc.
Kids when they were growing up demanded Heinz ketchup, I bought 1 bottle, and kept refilling it from the local bulk store brand, they never knew the difference.
Left over veggies made good baby food after you rinsed the salt off.
These kids are spoiled with those disposable diapers that take like 500 yrs to decompose vs cloth diapers that 2 dozen could be used for several kids. Then turned into cleaning rags. Or passed on given their condition.
Reuse and Re-Purpose. Grow it yourself when ever possible.
My new blackberry plants are just coming in from Gurney’s. And we have more Yucky rain for the next 3 days forecast. Am adding a new variety of strawberries to the bed already in. Adding a few more blueberries different variety too.
Supposed to be getting a off the ground green bean planter area. We will see if it gets done. That can be double cropped.