i'm getting about 350 coupons from ebay soon...i'll go through them and see which ones i wont use and we can compare/contrast

9/27/2007 10:54:21 AM

I am amazed my thread has made it to 3 pages.

9/27/2007 3:23:15 PM

^ Are you just getting most of your coupons from newspapers, etc or are you finding them online? I got a bunch off that grocerygame.com site, but I wanted to know if you had other good sites with coupons that you recommend.

9/27/2007 4:02:47 PM

You arent going to get many good coupons from the online sites. The best coupons are going to come from the news paper. Two companies put out newspaper inserts, Valassis and Smartsource. Once a month, proctor and gamble does it, too. Here is the rest of the years' schedule. You can probably hit a local recycling place and get a ton of inserts with no money:

September 30 Both

October 7 Both
October 14 Both
October 21 Both
October 28 Just 1 S

November 4 Both
November 11 1 S and 2V
November 18 Just 1 S
November 25 Nothing

December 2 BOTH
December 9 BOTH
December 16 Just 1 S
December 23 Nothing

[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 4:13 PM. Reason : .]

9/27/2007 4:12:58 PM

^ Cool thanks. All I get right now is the Sunday paper. I wonder if you can sign up at those companies websites to have the coupons mailed to your home?

Shit I just googled smart source and it gives the same coupons as the grocery game website.




[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Reason : xc]

9/27/2007 4:28:46 PM

going through my coupons now...saw a few that end 9/30 that i can double and its shit i need!

fuckwads hit me up i already got a pile of stuff i know i wont use

9/27/2007 7:55:15 PM

bttt...anyone see the coupons that came out today? i'm about to get a paper...i have 233 extra coupons i am not using so far

9/30/2007 11:25:35 AM

FYI

Lowes will have triple coupons Oct. 10-12.

9/30/2007 8:40:16 PM

^sweet

^^the paper I got only had the P&G insert
PM me your address and I'll send you a shit ton of coupons

9/30/2007 9:47:00 PM

Thanks for the info on Lowes!!

10/1/2007 9:17:15 AM

my paper only had smart source. I think I may switch to a larger paper.

10/1/2007 10:38:28 AM

i had 3 different coupon inserts in the news and observer...proctor and gamble, smart souce and some valissis(or something with a v)

^^^u want mine? pm sent

10/2/2007 7:30:14 AM

spent 37.87 and saved 22.78

10/2/2007 10:28:51 PM

triple coupons @ lowes today, thursday and friday

i went this morning and had $30 of stuff in my cart and w/ sales and triples, it cost me $5

10/10/2007 7:57:08 AM

First trip, I got $36.33 in groceries for $.89. Second trip, I got $51.64 in groceries for $8.85!

For the entire day, I had a total savings of 89%!!!!!

10/10/2007 6:21:02 PM

The one on Tryon Road only doubled my coupons, it didn't triple them. Cost me 9 dollars!!!!

10/10/2007 8:02:50 PM

^that sucks

id take back the receipt

[Edited on October 10, 2007 at 8:04 PM. Reason : f]

10/10/2007 8:04:01 PM

if i took back a receipt for that i'd feel like a jew

10/10/2007 9:37:40 PM

The cashier at the Lowes I went to also 'forgot'. But I am pretty conscious of this stuff, and I reminded him to triple them. It would have cost me $10.

Take the receipt back and they will fix it. I am sure the manager will give you cash. You shouldnt have to check everything their cashiers do.

I spent $29 and saved $45. I ended up purchasing things like paper towels (8 packs) that even heavily discounted still cost a lot of money. Was dissapointed I didnt do better on this trip, but I spent $30 and saved $50 at Harris Teeter earlier in the week (just coupon doubles), so I have still done well for the week.

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 11:18 AM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 11:16:17 AM

So just to clarify....what are the exact details on coupon doubling. Harris Teeter and Lowes seem to do it everyday, but only up to a certain amount. What about Food Lion?

10/14/2007 3:54:51 PM

food lion does not double coupons

lowes and harris teeter double manufacturer's coupons everyday up to $0.99

10/14/2007 5:12:28 PM

so does ACME grocery if you live in the north.

10/14/2007 7:05:14 PM

I didn't read all of this - but companies with the buyer card programs, specifically Kroger will send you coupons based on what you buy. So you can get $10 off a bill over $100 or something like that, or money off at the meat counter or something like that. It definitely adds up!

10/15/2007 12:18:30 PM

Lowes is pretty good with their greenpoints, but Lowes also REALLY pisses me off.

Case in point:

Lowes in-store coupons that are readily available all over the store are required to get the discounts that Harris Teeter will offer with just the VIC card. So if you forget to hand them their own coupon that is printed on the wall, then your paper towels, instead of being 4.99 are 7.99, and your progresso soup is $1 a can instead of 30 cents a can. And they have invalidated 2 new sets of Lowes cards for some unknown reason (manager cant figure it out). They also must be incapable of typing in any of the information supplied on the Lowes card sign-up sheet, because lookup by telephone number never works (if I forget the card). anyway, Harris Teeter FTW. I shop Lowes only when I have to. Not to mention I have the hardest time finding anything at Lowes. It all seems to make sense at the teeter.


[Edited on October 15, 2007 at 3:36 PM. Reason : /]

10/15/2007 3:33:15 PM

i shop at teeter or grub cub.

10/15/2007 3:39:28 PM

I've got to start using coupons.

I paid $106 for $150 of groceries today, between misc sales and clearances, and could have done better if I hadn't had to buy some stuff at full price.

...A barely acceptable acceptable bill is half retail. An okay bill is a third (general purposes)

As I go hunt coupons, organize them, figure out sale schedules, and whathaveyou, I'll do my best to make damn helpful posts in here.

Today's: kroger has a shitton of stuff on sale. They have rotating 10/$10 sales, all store brand. Sometimes it'll be baking products on sale (usually between thanksgiving and christmas, FYI. I buy all my cocoa powder, flour, sugar, chocolate chips, vanilla, and some spices during this sale), sometimes it's frozen veggies (this time...IIRC, the bags of frozen chopped carrots are $1.29/ea normally - $1 til Saturday. I got them for when I don't have time to do carrots from the raw for roast). Coupled with these sales are usually 5/$10 on things like shredded cheese and some sandwich meats, as well as ice cream products. This week's circular (gotta enter your zip)

Now I'm gonna go read the parts of the thread I haven't yet

10/22/2007 6:35:11 PM

Harris Teeter is having triple coupons Nov. 8th-10th!

11/3/2007 1:12:47 PM

11/3/2007 1:25:02 PM

They need something. Lowes and Harris Teeters sales over the past month have been SHIT.

11/3/2007 2:54:29 PM

Harris Teeter has a turkey sale ending today. Spend $25 in the store and get a turkey for 19 cents a pound. I got a big frozen turkey for ~$4.

I'm sure a lot of stores have similar deals, though.

11/4/2007 7:53:09 AM

yeah foodlion has a similar program in which you spend like 50 bucks for 6 straight weeks and you get a free turkey dinner

^^agreed...foodlions have been fairly suck too...only thing worth a damn this week is the 12 dollar bags of chicken buy one get one free and hamburger helper buy one get one free

[Edited on November 4, 2007 at 8:03 AM. Reason : .]

11/4/2007 8:02:11 AM

been confirmed...triples thursday/friday/saturday


[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 4:07 PM. Reason : d]

11/6/2007 4:06:23 PM

anybody go to HT today?


im planning on going in about an hour...only time i can go...busy as hell tomorrow and saturday. hopefully they have stuff left

11/8/2007 7:47:14 PM

I went today.

Total Before Coupons: $157.59

Total After Coupons: $12.22

Savings: 92.25%

11/8/2007 8:16:34 PM

Spent - 17.05
Saved - 40.92

11/8/2007 8:33:42 PM

saved $38.35

spent $99.24

11/9/2007 3:13:51 PM

^^^ Did you use different VIC cards or something? They'll supposedly only triple 20 coupons at a time, so I don't know how you could save that much in one go.

11/9/2007 3:24:42 PM

yeah really

how's that possible

11/9/2007 3:28:16 PM

Damn you guys are lucky to have grocery stores that double and triple coupons. I live in Kansas and we basically have Wal Mart, a store called Dillons that is now owned by Kroger, and then a bunch of smaller stores that I think suck like Aldi.

Anyway only Dillons offers any kind of double coupon thing and it is only up to $1 off. For example if I have a $0.75 coupon, they will "double" it up with an additional $0.25 so I get $1 off. If I have a 25 cent coupon, I get 50 cent off. It's better than nothing, but my wife and I can never make out spending less than we save.

11/9/2007 3:37:32 PM

yeah, the person who saved 92%, i'm interested in the quality of what you bought and how many trips you went in and out of the grocery store.

11/9/2007 10:19:57 PM

i bet its mostly fattening foods and not really that good

i buy the same 10 things per week

11/9/2007 10:24:27 PM

Since you all are interested in what I purchased I will make you a list. No, I did not buy it all in one purchase. I shopped 4 times. I live in Winston Salem and they allow multiple shops per day. The number in () is the quantity I purchased.

Mahatma Rice(3)
Crunch Stixx (3)
Warm Delights Single Servings (1)
Yeast (2)
Saran Wrap (2)
Jolly Time Popcorn (1)
Baker's Joy Cooking Spray (1)
Dawn Liquid (1)
Caress Soap (1)
Jiff Peanut Butter (1)
Jiff Peanut Butter to go (1)
Jet Dry Turbo (1)
Vlasic Relish (2)
Mt. Olive Relish(1)
Dean's French Onion Dip (1)
Hungry Jack's Pancake Mix (1)
Bistro Deluxe (1)
Hummus (1)
Campbell’s Soup (2)
Frosting (9) - I make a cake for each person at work....good thing to stock up on!
Parmesan Cheese (1)
Grape Jelly (1)
Smart Balance Butter Spread (1)
Canned Chunk Chicken (2)
Ivory Soap (1)
Colgate Toothpaste (1)
Smoked Sausage (3)
Parkerhouse Frozen Rolls (1)
Minute Rice Single Servings(3)
Success Rice Single Servings(3)
Mustard(1)
Ziploc Containers(2)
Mr. Clean Eraser(1)
Duracell AA 4 Count Batteries(1)
Duracell AAA 4 Count Batteries(1)
Ziploc Easy Zip Bags(3)
Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners(3)
Cutrite Wax Paper(1)
French Onion Strings(1)
Lipton Tea Bags(2)
Cookie Mix(1)

11/10/2007 7:23:02 AM

gg on spending only 12 something on that

dawn
caress(not the kind i normally use)
jiff peanut butter(not the kind i normally use)
jet dry turbo(not the kind i normally use)
hungry jack pancake mix(not the kind i normally use)
campbells soup
colgate toothpaste
ivory soap(not the kind i normally use)
minute rice(not the kind i normally use
success rice(not the kind i normally use)
duracell batteries(usually go to family dollar for batteries)

thats what i woulda bought off that list if i had coupons and woulda known it would have cost like 4 dollars

11/10/2007 8:22:10 AM

I went back to HT this morning

Got:
Cutrite Wax (1)
Fleishman Yeast (3)
Dawn Direct Foam (1)
Eletrasol (1)
Jif To Go (1)
No Yolks (1)
Gum toothbrush (2)
Sunsilk shampoo (really good deal. On sale for 3/9.99. I bought one and it was $3.33 and I had a $2 coupon)

Paid $4.99

11/10/2007 9:17:25 AM

50% off coupon code is THANKS at Restaurant.com

I just got $100 in local restaurant gift certificates (actual restaurants that I will eat at, too... like Ophelia's World Cafe and Zambra Tapas Bar) for $17.50

the $10 gift cards that typically cost $3 at Restaurant.com came out at $1.50
those are some Christmas gifts right there

11/10/2007 10:39:20 AM

^ I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who reads Coupon mom

A few weeks ago, they had 60 percent off, plus Restaurant.com was having a special where you got a free $10 certificate for each order. I should have bought more than 2.

[Edited on November 10, 2007 at 1:16 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2007 1:12:42 PM

this morning:

$146.14 total, $81.65 spent.

(that's with $27 worth of produce, deli meats, chicken breasts, and butcher sausages... so no coupons/discounts there)

not bad

11/11/2007 12:00:00 PM

^Keep an eye out because you can find in-store coupons for deli items and meat.

We generally get them in the store about once a month (I work at a Food Lion). When lunch meat is on sale buy one pound get one free, I walk out of there with lunch for the week for about $1.

[Edited on November 11, 2007 at 1:30 PM. Reason : more info]

11/11/2007 1:28:21 PM

yeah last weekend my grocer had buy 1lb+ get equal weight free for my normal weekday sammich meat. (which accounts for ~$8/week)

11/11/2007 1:31:49 PM

I signed up on The Grocery Game and had my first go at it today at Lowes Foods. Should start doing better than this as I build up a collection of coupons.

Total Bill: $132.15
Spent: $73.39
Saved: $58.76

$43.36 saved on Reward Savings products.
$9.95 regular coupon savings
$5.45 double coupon savings

List:
Doritos (2)
Reynolds Wrap - 3 different kinds (6)
Bag of Carrots (2)
Bag of Red Potatoes
Videlia Onion
Sub Rolls
Contesa Shrimp (2)
Salad Greens Mix
Pillsbury Cookie Dough Sugar (2)
Pillsbury Brownie Mix (2)
Pillsbury Breakfast Cinnamon Rolls (2)
Pork Tenderloin (2)
Zesta Saltine Crackers (2)
Garlic (3)
Buffalo Wing Sauce
Sparkle Paper Towel 8 Pack
Whole Grain Bread
Jimmy Dean Ground Sausage (2)
Sunny D

11/11/2007 4:41:46 PM