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J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly
May 7th, 2006 at 10:46 pm

You’re making this too difficult!

Don’t you get weekly mailers filled with coupons? We do. Just this week we received at least two mailers that we’ll use for sure. I know this because my wife has cut out the coupons and stuck them on the fridge. There’s a coupon for the local Ace Hardware where if we spend at least $15 on Ace-branded merchandise, we’ll get $5 off our total bill. We spend about $25/month at Ace, so that’s an easy five bucks. There’s also a buy-one, get-one-free coupon for a local burger hut, a place we eat at about once a month. That’s another $3 or $4.

Today we made a grocery trip. Our bill was $110. We didn’t buy anything unusual. After coupons, our total was about $80. We make a couple trips per month. (Sometimes three.) We get similar savings with each trip. If you’re shopping at Safeway, look for their “save $5 on $50 purchase” coupon or “save $10 on $100 purchase” coupon. These are like gold, and generally available in the weekly Safeway flyer.

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Nick
May 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am

We don’t get any useful coupons mailed to us. Most of them are for restaurants we’d never go to or windows we don’t need replaced.

The current Safeway promotion around here is a $10 coupon for spending $30 on various foods we don’t eat.

You’re probably right that there are others ways I could be going about this; and if this experiment works, I’ll be sure to look into those others ways.

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Brian
May 18th, 2006 at 7:01 am

My May 18th post provides a time-saving reference for coupon users. Go to homemakeover.blogspot.com and take a quick look at the five steps to save with coupons. The Interent reference I give should help minimize your time spent. I’d like to know what you think.

Thanks