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I watched a show yesterday on extreme coupon clippers.  These folks spend countless hours a week scouring local papers and the internet for coupon deals.  They then in turn use the coupons with sales they spend hours on scouting beforehand at multiple grocery stores.  One woman LITERALLY bought $1000 + of groceries for $60 after coupons!  Its funny too because these folks have a stockpile of rations in their house that would make the armed forces jealous.  

Though I would never be that extreme, I do tend to use coupons wherever applicable.  Knocking $20 off a grocery bill is well worth the effort.  

So how about you, do you coupon shop? If so to what degree?

I only occasionally shop outside of Albertson's.  If there is a coupon on some hardware or something I'll need to shop elsewhere for I'll use it.  Otherwise I just get groceries on the way home from work at Albertson's, and they very seldom have coupons in their ads.  I'll just get what's on for the "Club Card" price, or whatever the membership card is called, I can't remember.  Those prices are pretty cheap; I also check the discontinued bins.

Rarely but on occasion. Of course in Canada most coupons are limited to one per customer...

I usually only go big time grocery shopping once every other month. Living by myself i dont see the point in shopping every week

If we happen to find a coupon for somethign we were going to buy anyway, then we'll use one.  Otherwise we don't pay too much attention to them.

Must not be awake yet...read the thread title as:

"Do You Use Condoms When You Shop?"

Quote from: ulthar on January 17, 2011, 08:30:12 AM
Must not be awake yet...read the thread title as:

"Do You Use Condoms When You Shop?"

:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

You know I WANT to use coupons, but have no knack at all.  I even have gone so far as to have sorted coupons, and an itemized list.  Then I go shopping pay for everything and find both list and coupons in my pocket some hours later.
-Ed

Quote from: ulthar on January 17, 2011, 08:30:12 AM
Must not be awake yet...read the thread title as:

"Do You Use Condoms When You Shop?"

Great idea!  If the janitor's door is ajar, and a pretty customer walks by and has a spare moment or two for you.. a quickie would indeed be very tempting.  :hot:

Quote from: ulthar on January 17, 2011, 08:30:12 AM
Must not be awake yet...read the thread title as:

"Do You Use Condoms When You Shop?"

Now THAT depends on location and staff members.

Quote from: The DarkSider on January 16, 2011, 08:19:34 AM
I watched a show yesterday on extreme coupon clippers.  These folks spend countless hours a week scouring local papers and the internet for coupon deals.  They then in turn use the coupons with sales they spend hours on scouting beforehand at multiple grocery stores.  One woman LITERALLY bought $1000 + of groceries for $60 after coupons!  Its funny too because these folks have a stockpile of rations in their house that would make the armed forces jealous.  

Wow, that is extreme.  Haven't heard of that one.  I HAVE heard of people who stockpile lots of coupons for various high demand products and sell them cheap to other people.  I dunno if this still happens much, though. 

Quote from: The DarkSider on January 16, 2011, 08:19:34 AM
So how about you, do you coupon shop? If so to what degree?

To be honest, very rarely.  In fact, I don't see in some ways how one can save money looking at coupons because whenever I look at a huge sheet of coupons I find myself tempted to buy crap I don't normally buy just through the power suggestion.  I mean, I might be looking and I see, "Oooh... but two and get a $1.00 off on a bag of such and such candyl!  You know, I don't normally buy that, but now that I see the picture...."

I guess you need a stronger will than mine to truly SAVE money with those.

Although I do use Hardees coupons a LOT, and coupons to the local Casey's convenience store.  (They sell pizza there.)

And also, for those online "clip and save" coupons, I don't have a printer at home, so I can't use them. 

Really depends on the coupon and the item.  If I usually buy it yes but don't go out of my way to find them. 

If an item has a coupon stating that a specific amount can be saved on this item on presentation of the coupon, then I will buy it.

I have never used coupons when shopping. Never looked for any either.
We do get Burger King coupons in the mailbox about twice a year. We always split them amongst family and friends. No idea who puts them there but we suspect some local BK employee, because the Burger King is only 4 minutes drive away.

Quote from: The DarkSider on January 17, 2011, 05:50:33 PM
Now THAT depends on location and staff members.

Staff members in general or specifically male staff and their members?  :wink:

I'll admit it, my wife has made me a coupon user, although she usually does the clipping. I get the value of it. We cut quite a bit from out trips to the grocer by using them. Before her, however, I was a typical guy, I bought what I wanted and needed for specific uses and didn't pay much attention of if it was on sale or had a coupon.

I prefer to have a coupon on hand when I shop at Micheal's for art supplies. It's strange...it's rare for a person to make enough money to live off their art, yet quality art supplies (and once you've used quality, cheap just doesn't cut it anymore) are freaking expensive.

So, yeah, when that particular store has something in stock that the cheaper mom-and-pop art store doesn't, I'll print off a coupon and go buy it there (40% off one item there actually brings it down to something closer to the standard pricing for it; they love to have HUGE mark-ups on everything, and then have a "sale" that brings the price down to normal.)

Quote from: The Gravekeeper on January 22, 2011, 02:09:29 AM
I prefer to have a coupon on hand when I shop at Micheal's for art supplies. It's strange...it's rare for a person to make enough money to live off their art, yet quality art supplies (and once you've used quality, cheap just doesn't cut it anymore) are freaking expensive.

So, yeah, when that particular store has something in stock that the cheaper mom-and-pop art store doesn't, I'll print off a coupon and go buy it there (40% off one item there actually brings it down to something closer to the standard pricing for it; they love to have HUGE mark-ups on everything, and then have a "sale" that brings the price down to normal.)

Well, I understand a bit of it.  Especially quality paints.  More and better dye substances are used and it definitely shows in the end product.  The colors are much more vibrant and have a certain effect that I can't describe.  I was surprised by the same effect with high quality color pencils over crayola.