Earlier in the day on Saturday......
Clear out expired coupons. Such a shame.....I would send them to a military base overseas if I knew how. Someone enlighten me. Look at all that waste.
7:00pm - dishes
Clean sink. Not as shiny as FlyLady would want, but I will take what I can get. The dishes are done (and we don't have a dishwasher!!)
7:15 - start the couponing process
See...I have a TON of unsorted coupons (including a big pack that Mom sent me). If I am going to go grocery shopping, I need to sort them.
Lay out my rudimentary system (I am in the process of changing this over to a binder system, but I am not there yet).
Start sorting.
Look, the pile is getting a little smaller.
8:00pm - Ok, now we are up to the coupons that still need to be clipped.
Wee people are in bed, and I am trying to rewatch season 5 of Lost before the season premier on Tuesday. So I sit at my computer and watch it on Hulu.com and clip clip clip. I jump up during the "commercial" of 30 seconds and continue to sort.
9:30pm. I am bored with this.
Got most of it sorted. Pack it up and call it a day.
I am happy to report that my savings at the grocery store was about 37% (about $90) with coupons and store card. We had nothing, so it was one of those "have to buy everything" shopping trips. Oh well. I tried. You hard core coupon people are my heroes.
I happily cut coupons yesterday evening, and I'm going to do more tonight. I am impressed with all of those folks who can buy $300 worth of groceries for 12 cents. I am thinking about turning my spare bedroom into a walk in closet/pantry, and if I do that, I think I might get a little more mileage out of my coupons. As it is, though, when I go to CVS thinking I can pick something up that is on sale, the folks playing the CVS game have usually cleared the store out by the time I get there. When does bargain-hunting become hoarding?
ReplyDeleteI so want to learn to coupon...they have a website couponing 101. I totally need to read it from beginning to end.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by my blog! As to sending coupons to the overseas military families, try this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ocpnet.org/
It has a lot of good info!