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Kaleva

(36,235 posts)
5. They work best when combined with in store sales and print out coupons
Thu Jun 7, 2012, 10:06 AM
Jun 2012

This takes alot of time but my ex-wife and I actually enjoyed planning a shopping trip.

For instance, my ex got a bunch of coupons that when one bought 4 boxes of General Mills cereal, one got a gallon of milk. I printed out coupons for a dollar off two boxes of General Mills cereal. The local store had a sale on Cheerios. 4 for $10.00. So we got 4 boxes of Cheerios and a gallon of milk for $8.00 (plus the cost of the coupons bought on e-bay).

We only used the coupons on products that were on sale at the time.

We often were able to walk out of the store and see on the receipt that we had saved more with the coupons and in store sales then what we spent. Roughly reducing our shopping cost by 40% when one factors in the cost of the coupons bought on e-bay.

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