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Welcome to Couponing Ideas!

I have created this coupon website to help others learn how to save money by using coupons in this tough economy.  You can coupon without going to the extreme!

Extreme couponing can help many people save money and be able to donate extra food to their favorite charity.  However, not everyone has time to do extreme couponing!  You can still save money on your groceries with coupons while also getting extra items to donate with out getting 100 of each item. 

I do not do extreme couponing to the point that I have 100 of each item.  I usually will only get 10 or less and I already have a small pile of items!  I do donate some of the items my family and I got for free by using coupons!  We got enough to last us a few month and also got a few extra of each thing to donate.

I will teach you how to save money with coupons regardless of if you are wanting to stock up on 1 to 2 months of supplies, or more.  The best thing is our training is FREE! 

You can also print free online manufacturer coupons from our website.

I will be updating it regularly with ideas on how to coupon and save money on your household budget.

TIP: Never use coupons on items they are not for!  Trying to match coupon bar codes to the wrong item's bar code can be a crime! 

Example:  If you have a coupon for $1.00 off Lucky Charms please do NOT try to use this coupon on a box of Raisin Bran! 

There are some coupons that might show a picture of 1 item but then says in small print other items made by that company you can use the coupon on.  Every coupon will say exactly what brands and sizes you can use the coupon on.  Please follow these rules!  Trying to use coupons on items the coupon is not meant for can get you into trouble and it will cause stores to change their coupon policies!  Most stores have their computers set to let the cashier know if a coupon is trying to be used on an item that the customer did not purchase.  However, there are still some people that try to get by with doing this.

You can save a lot of money with using coupons the RIGHT WAY!  Just remember to please use coupons honestly. 

I personally have only been couponing for a little while; yet the savings so far are amazing! I always check the coupon and the description on the coupon to make sure I am getting the exact item the coupon is for.  My store will double up to $0.50 cents.  This has allowed me to get many items either free or almost free when they are on sale.

The most common thing that people think, is that couponing is a waste of time. I once thought the exact same thing. Yet, when money got really tight and I was trying to figure out how to pay all of my bills and still buy groceries I started researching couponing and realized that if you do it right and don't go crazy; you can save money. Of course no one can tell you exactly how much money you will save. There are several factors that will determine this. 

·           How many coupons you have on hand. 

·           What items go on sale before the coupon expires. 

·           If your store doubles coupons and up to how much. 

TIP: Always look at your coupon and see if it says (excludes trial size)!  If it does not specify a certain size or say excludes trial size then you might be able to use your coupon on smaller items and save a lot!  Sometimes it might even be free.

As you can see from the list above there are several things that can factor in when trying to figure out your savings. I personally have saved a lot in just the past two weeks. Well, what I consider a lot anyways. 

6 boxes of cereal
2 Ziplock baggies' boxes.
8 Toothpaste's
2 mustard's
7 Marinade Sauce's
1 Brownie mix.

These items only cost me $16.96.  Without coupons or sales they would have been around $52.00 before tax at retail price.  Here is how I did it....  The mustard was on sale and I had a $0.30 coupon that tripled at my store to $0.90.  The ketchup was on sale for $1.99 (no coupon), The cereal was on sale and I had a $1.00 off 2 coupon ( I got 6 boxes). The Lawry's marinade sauce was on sale for $1.38 and I had 7 $1.00 off 1 coupons which made it only $0.38 each! The toothpaste was on sale for $0.88 and I had 6 $0.75 off 1 coupons and 2 $1.00 off 1 coupons.  This made my total cost for the tooth paste: $0.54 total / around $0.07 each. Duncan Hines was on sale for $1.29 and I had a $0.50 coupon that doubled = $0.29. The Ziploc baggies were on sale for 2 for $1.99 and I had a coupon for $1.00 off 2. This made the Ziploc bags only $0.50 each! I saved around $34.44 by combing sales with my coupons and shopping at 2 stores.

 See my newest drug store deal with combing coupons with drug store sales by clicking here.

This website will teach you exactly how I have managed to save over $122.00 at my grocery store and how I got several bottles of name brand body wash absolutely FREE! (I have the receipts and pictures to prove it.) I think my best so far has been the body wash and getting tooth paste and laundry soap for basically nothing. 

This was one of my most exciting savings!

All of this for only $4.85

I got 9 body/bath lotions 100% FREE! The fly strips and dental floss was also FREE. The deodorant was not free but I did get it at $0.97 each (50% OFF) with the use of coupons.

These will last us for awhile which means they are less items we have to purchase each month at the grocery store. Since we are on a very tight budget right now this was a great find and use of coupons.

Total cost for all of these items was $4.85 since the 5 deodorants were not free.

Prices without coupons would have been: 9 x $3.00, 5 x $1.97, 5 x $0.99, 1 x $0.88 = $42.68 before tax! Therefore; I got $42.68 worth of products we normally use for only $4.85. 

Please do not get me wrong!  I am not saying to go stock up on hundreds of items when they are on sale!  I do realize that some people do this to create a large inventory (stockpile) so they will not have to buy that item for awhile.  If that is what you choose to do, that is fine.

Personally I prefer not to do extreme couponing to the point that I have to put items all throughout my house.  Many people that do extreme couponing use their skills for the good by donating many of the items to charity and those in need.  I am glad to see that some of the extreme couponers do this with their stock-piles.  Yet some of them seem to keep hundreds and thousands of items on shelves in their home.  Of course each person has a right to do things their own way. Personally I cannot see how one family would need 500+ tubes of toothpaste stocked up, you would never use it all.  I feel that if you can get 10 to 20 really cheap then that should be sufficient for a family for awhile.  When you start running low then start looking for good deals again.

When I see pictures of people that have 300+ boxes of cereal or pasta in stockpiled I ask myself "why don't they donate some of that food?".  Most items go on sale at their lowest price about every 12 weeks (3 months) which would allow them to stockpile a smaller amount and then donate extras that they are able to get. Again, this is my personal thoughts. I am not saying that the way other people do it is wrong.  I just feel we should share our blessings of being able to get food cheaper at times with others that may be less fortunate.

There are too many people in the USA that are struggling to put food on the table.

My goal is to get things at their lowest prices so I can stock up on a few months worth of items we use every week and save money while doing it.  I also plan to donate some of the products / food that I am able to get for FREE. As I mentioned above, I don't see any reason to have 100's of the same item stockpiled on a shelf unless it is something you use every single day and it hardly ever goes on sale. 

TIP: Most items will go on sale at their lowest rate about once every 3 months. 

I love Splenda in my coffee!  I got 11 boxes FREE with coupons!

I had 11 coupons for $3.00 off 1 Splenda that were about to expire when I saw that one of the drug stores near by had the Splenda on sale for $2.99!  I did wait till almost the end of the sale because I knew I was going to get 11 boxes if they had it and I wanted to give other people a chance to get the Splenda on sale.  Nothing is more irritating than to go get an item that is on sale and the shelves are empty because someone went and got 50 or 100 of that item!  I try to be thoughtful of others when using my coupons to save money.  Yes, I took a chance on them being out of stock but I knew if they were I could ask for a rain check at the current sale price.  Needless to say I got all 11 boxes for FREE!

We normally buy 2 or more of these boxes a month or a large bag of Splenda.  A large bag can cost up to $6.99 depending on where we purchased it at.  5 months of Splenda would normally cost me about $34.00 (estimated). 

The other thing I got was a great deal on laundry detergent and dryer sheets!  I have never used this brand before but I am willing to be flexible to save my family money!  The store had a "buy one get one free" (BOGO) sale on the laundry detergent and dryer sheets.  I also had coupons for these items.  I was able to use one coupon per item.  There were 4 laundry detergents; I got 2 free and was able to deduct each of my coupons off of all 4.  This resulted in getting the laundry detergent for around $1.29 a bottle.  The funny thing is that I also had a store coupon that had printed from the register on one of my prior visits that I could use.  This resulted in them owing me money!  Since they could not give me cash back they asked me to purchase something to make up for the difference.  So I got a candy bar and paid them a few cents for everything I got. 

I now have enough Splenda to last me 4 to 5 months and enough laundry detergent / dryer sheets to last several months as well.

The other things we purchased (at a different store) was 6 Degree deodorants.  They were on sale for $1.89 and I had a coupon for $1.00 off 1.  This resulted in getting deodorant for my husband at only $0.89 each.  So for $5.34 my husband got enough deodorant to last 5 to 6 months!  These are items we will not have to purchase for awhile that we either got FREE with coupons or only had to pay very little for!

I know these pictures do not look anything like those that have a huge stockpile of groceries and household items but I personally feel I should only get enough to last several months (not years).  Even if the item is FREE I try to only get 5 or 10 of the item.  The only thing I went over on was the Splenda; I got 11.

These groceries only cost me around $16.33, most were either FREE or almost free with combining sales with coupons!

There was not enough room to show everything we got so I have made a list below to show you how much we got for under $20!

The milk was on sale but I did not have a coupon for it. We also paid for the dog food as well.

The rest were either FREE or almost free! Without coupons and sale prices these items would have cost us around $74.00 (estimated). So we saved around $55.00 (estimate) by using coupons on items that were on sale.

So how did I accomplish to get so much for very little money?

I accomplished this by matching up my manufacturer coupons to items that were currently on sale in one or more of the stores I shop at. This did result in my husband and me going to a few drug stores but they were all within a mile from one another. And what are a few minutes of my time when I can save a lot of money on things I would normally have to buy anyway. You can also combine store coupons with manufacturer coupons to save even more.  Most stores will allow you to do this. Of course check with your store about their policies.

Example of combining in-store and manufacturer coupons:

Let's say you had a coupon for toilet paper that said it could only be used at store X for $2.00 off and you also have a manufacture coupon for that same toilet paper for $3.00 off. 

When looking in the store X sales ad you notice that this same brand of toilet paper was on sale that week for $5.99. 

If store X allows you to use both the in-store coupon and the manufacturer's coupon then you could save $5.00 OFF the toilet paper that is on sale for $5.99! 

This means you would only have to pay $0.99 for the package of toilet paper!  This type of situation would result in a huge savings.  If you had several in-store and manufacturer coupons you could get several packages at only $0.99 each; as long as the store (or coupons) does not have a limit on the number of items that can be purchased.

It is great to be able to get several of the same item; especially when it is free or almost free!  This is especially true if it is an item that you or your family uses a lot.  The one thing that I do not do and will not do is purchase things on sale or that I can get for FREE that I do not normally use. I don't see any reason for having a huge pile of items that I will never use; even if it is free!

My method focuses on only getting things that are normally purchased each week / month.  This way I can save money on these items by spending less than we normally do on groceries, household, and drug store items and have enough to last us a few months.

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