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Skriven 2011-02-28 22:44:31 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 7729 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
Ärende: couponing
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Hi Nancy,

 DS> figure might be even a little high.  Gail does the scanning and
 DS> clipping, but my guess would be that she clips less than 5% of what is
 DS> there.  She looks for things that we will buy anyhow, and only
 DS> occasionally will clip coupons for something new.

 NB> That's how I do it.  Grab coupons for what I'd buy anyway, and once in
 NB> a while for something new that looks interesting.  And since we also
 NB> shop for two other households, I'll grab coupons for what they
 NB> generally get also...

We get the newspaper anyway so I go thru and clip coupons I'm most apt
to use. Then the fliers go to a friend at church. I don't use as many
now that I'm not commissary shopping tho. I'd have the military stores
only coupons to use there also.

 DS> Perhaps so -- all of the stores will double coupons up to $0.50, many
 DS> stores will double coupons that are less than $1.00.
 DS> Doubling of $1.00 (or more) coupons is only done as a special
 DS> promotion.

 NB> Around here, for a while, there was talk of dropping coupon doubling
 NB> altogether, but it didn't happen... For a while before that, it was
 NB> tripling coupons up to $0.50; now it's pretty generally doubling

We see the occaisional doubling and tripling, usually at Harris Teeter,
usually on the weeks we don't need anything.

 NB> anything less than $1.00, and every so often one of the other stores
 NB> has special coupons in their flyer to double the $1.00 coupons.  At
 NB> one
 NB> point, Wegmans would honor those in their stores, too, but that hasn't
 NB> been happening lately.  Places like BJ's don't double, but they do
 NB> accept coupons, and one can use a BJ's coupon with a manufacturer's to
 NB> maximize savings... :)

 HN> Do you usually realize much of a
 HN> savings from using coupons?

 DS> Very much so.  By using coupons and shopping for things on sale, the
 DS> grocery tab usually reports "savings" of 33% to 50%.  That is really a
 DS> bogus number though since there are many things that we never buy at
 DS> full price, but wait for a sale and then stock up.

I'm pretty much a stickler for certain things; become a good label
reader over the years so I don't get some ingredient I don't want. I
used to save several dollars each month but now it's more like about $3.
or so.


 NB> I don't generally get that much, but then, I tend to buy more like
 NB> Hap, with not too many things that would get couponed...   But we do
 NB> also
 NB> tend to stock up on things regularly used when they go on sale, and
 NB> often don't need them again until they go on sale again... ;)

I'll stock up on what I can and what we can store but room is rather
tight. Some things are bought usually every month unless I've not done
much cooking in the month.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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