Comments on: Clipping coupons

By: smilinglight

smilinglight — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:16:36 +0000

I like to clip coupons too. But i always find that i get coupons only i don’t use!

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:35:42 +0000

I think I’m like most of the others. I mean to use them. I clip them and then leave them laying on my counter when I go to the store. I also have a lot of my groceries delivered so I can’t use them with that company.

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:51:54 +0000

You know Jen, I’d forgotten about those kinds of coupons. I use those all the time. I shop so much more online that I do in actual stores but totally forgot about those.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:56 +0000

I tend not to use store coupons…for most of the reasons that others mentioned above. I always forget to bring them along, they’re usually for products I don’t normally buy, and I tend to read the newspaper online so I don’t get the coupon inserts much anymore.

I will use diaper coupons and other coupons for products that I buy all the time.

I more often use discount coupons for clothing stores etc. The Children’s Place, JCPenney, etc frequently offer coupons for 10%, 20% off your order, and sometimes they can be used online.

And I always, always, always, when shopping online hunt for a coupon code to enter in the discount box before submitting my order. Just this week I saved $40 ordering new curtains from JCPenney that way.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:15 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Joan. I will ask her and write another post since so many people are curious. My youngest son said she probably did her shopping for a month. She also has three teenagers so she probably buys a lot of snacks and lunch products now with school not is session. In other words, she buys things I wouldn’t.

I’ll be back with an update.

By: joanharvest

joanharvest — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:35:52 +0000

I should clip coupons though I don’t use a lot of packaged food. I mostly buy vegetables,fruit and meat. But I do buy condiments , yogurt and bread and a few weight watcher snacks. My problem is forgetting to use them once I clip them. I just bought all new canvas bags last week for grocery shopping and haven’t used them once because I keep forgetting. I even had one on the front seat today and didn’t use it. I do go from store to store to get meat on sale. I have saved a lot of money on meat. If it’s on a good sale I buy a lot of it and freeze it. I don’t even get the newspaper anymore because I read it online. I guess I could go to websites and look for on line coupons. Let us know how your Sister-in-law did it. I would be curious.

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:43:48 +0000

Thanks for stopping by CordieB. Please do so again. I will let you know when I find out all the coupons she cut out to save that. It’s a lot to save.

By: cordieb

cordieb — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:20:45 +0000

“My time is to valuable and all that jazz” I feel ya sister! I used to clip when I was younger and my children were small; but as I get older, I find there are lot’s of things I don’t do anymore, which to me waste too much of my valuable time. I’m glad to have stopped to smell and enjoy the roses, instead of always planting them; never enjoying the harvest. After 40, I finally realized life is just too short to be clipping darn coupons on a beautiful Sunday morning. Sheesh . . . $175.00 is a lot of loot though. Just how many coupons do I need to cut out to save $175.00? Will I have to buy expensive items that I normally do not buy; like gourmet TV dinners or Grape Nut cereal? Please let me know – I’m just dying to find out if I perhaps can start saving for the Bahamas next summer by cutting out coupons (lol, but I’m serious). Blessing to you and yours. . . CordieB.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:36:16 +0000

I’d like to use more coupons but I just don’t have access to them. I get a weekly newspaper but I have no grocery store in my town. I only shop once a month or so. I also really only buy staples since I raise my own meat and grow my own veggies and can them as well as fruit. I may go online to see if any are available to me once I get my computer lined up with the new satellite dish and will be online more. For now, I just don’t have time to seek them out. I do know people who do this. I am not a frivolous buyer or shopper and wouldn’t ever buy anything just because I have a coupon. But, there again, I do know people who think anything on sale is a good deal even if they aren’t going to use it.

By: nikki

nikki — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:51 +0000

I see them in the paper and always say, wow what a great deal and I may even cut them out. But they never make it to the store. The only coupon I really use is for my Olay face wash and that’s because it’s very expensive.

By: Smilf

Smilf — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:50:50 +0000

I don’t clip coupons normally. Mainly the coupons that I use are for restaurants or stores like Limited Too or whatever store stepdaugher is into at the time. I am not a fan of clipping to go to the store though because it seems like then I buy things i wouldn’t normally buy which defeats the purpose. That is just me though. : )

By: Just a Mom

Just a Mom — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:48:58 +0000

I clip coupons. The only reason I buy the Sunday paper is for the coupons, ok and the comics! I usually save about $50 per shopping trip with coupons. But I don’t buy something just because I have a coupon for it. I only buy it if I need it.
I get my habit from my mom who always clipped and used coupons. When she passed away back in 1997 I kept her coupon collection. Back then the coupons never expired and I am still using some of them even today!

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:05:48 +0000

$48 is a lot to save though Shane.

By: shane

shane — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:22:44 +0000

I do know. A few weeks ago I saved $48 at cup foods. Then I get gas coupons from cub and use them at Holiday when I fill up. Never used to but you can save a lot of money!!!

By: Tosha

Tosha — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:16:31 +0000

rarely use coupons. If I see a good deal i’ll use one.. if not.. i’m not going to bother.. I refuse to waste gas running from store to store.. and i’m not hauling hte kids from store to store..

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:14:39 +0000

I don’t clip coupons either. I have coupons and get them in the mail, but I always forget them at home or forget to use them at the store! I like that a lot of places have gone to the specials of the week so you don’t have to have the coupon to save the money. Someday when I really want to save $$$ I will clip…

By: SKL

SKL — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:12:41 +0000

I rarely bother with coupons. If I happen to see one for an item I would have bought anyway, I will clip it. That’s about it.

I have a friend who is a maniac for coupons and sales. The problem is, she ends up buying all kinds of stuff she never would have bought, just because “it was a good price.” She has like 30 times as much stuff as I have because she thinks she is finding all these great deals. And a lot of the food she buys goes in the garbage.

I am very cheap, and that’s why I do NOT clip coupons. I don’t want to be tempted to buy something I don’t need or really want.

The downside of this is that there are times when I do buy stuff “on impulse” where I could have saved a few cents or a few bucks if I’d brought a coupon with. But, I still feel I save more money by not clipping coupons and sticking (mostly) to my regular purchases.