That’s the answer. Not more, sometimes less. In the 4 years I’ve been couponing, I haven’t found a reason to buy more, even though our family went from 3 to 5 members in those 4 years.
The TLC Extreme Couponing show made you believe:
- You must dumpster dive to get coupons.
- Go door to door bothering your neighbors on Sunday morning for their inserts.
- Or stealing, sorry, going to every stand that has the FREE Spanish paper (filled with inserts) and take ALL of them..ALL OF THE TIME.
UPPER CRUST PIZZA
1 $10 off $20 (eversave)
MC DONALDS
2 B1G1 bakery item ($3.58)
STARBUCKS
$10 Gift Card from Disney Movie Rewards
STORE
CVS
$7 ECB
RITE AID
$36 +UP
$3 off 2 Huggies RA Load 2 Card
MANUFACTURER
$2 off 2 Rold Gold Chocolate Pretzels (peelie on package)
(5) $1 off 1 Viva paper towel from HouseParty
(2) $.50 off 2 Kleenex from Houseparty
(2) $2.50 off 1 Pull-Ups from 3/18 SS
(2) $2 off 1 Huggies Slip-Ons from 3/18 SS
(2) $1 off 2 Mars Easter seasonal candy from 3/18 RP
(1) $1 off 3 Hellman’s Mayonnaise 3/25 RP
(1) FREE Gorton’s Fisherman ($12.99) *I will be giving away 6 of them soon!*
(2) $.75 off 1 Skippy Peanut Butter (doubled) from HERE
(4) $.75 off 1 Land O Lakes Butter (doubled) from HERE
(1) $1 off 1 Bailey’s Coffee Creamer from tear pad in front of product
(2) $1 off 1 Velveeta Mac’n Cheese from peelie
(1) $1 off 2 Nutella from tearpad
(1) B3G1 FREE Stovetop stuffing $1.50 from tearpad (my secret meatloaf ingredient!)
(1) $1 off 1 International Delights Iced Coffee from 3/18 SS
(2) FREE Pop Secret Popcorns $5.58 from Disney Movie Rewards
(1) FREE Duncan Hines Yellow Cake Mix $1.79 from affiliate
(2)$1.25 I Cant Believe Its Not Butter from HERE
(1) $1 off 1 Country Crock from April All You Magazine
(2) $.70 off 1 Keebler Club Crackers from HERE
(1) B1G1 FREE ocean Spray Cranberry Juice $2.68 from HERE
TOTAL SAVED FROM COUPONS: $133.02
CURRENT TAB SINCE 01/01/12: $1027.93
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— Isra H (@thefrugalette) April 2, 2012
Hi! I'm Isra, aka The Frugalette. I took my family from fancy to frugal in 3 years, with 3 kids and 1 income, oh and found the meaning of life too! To read more about my fancy life gone frugal, 
I rarely buy the paper for coupons, my Mom, MIL and neighbor all save theirs for me!
I usually cannot use all of the coupons they send me, so I share my good luck and send coupons to friends and readers of my blog.
I get the couponing bug every now and then but I'm definitely NOT good at it. I've bought 3 newspapers before when I knew there were good coupons in them. Our local paper only has Redplum and it seems like I never want or need anything they have to offer.
At one time I was buying 10 Sunday papers each week and sharing the coupons with my daughter and granddaughter. Now I'm down to 2 papers each Sunday. I was cutting way too many coupons and sending them through the mail was costing me more then I felt I wanted to spend.I'm not very good at couponing.
But I'm happy at saving money when ever I can. I enjoy reading your blog and I'm earning a lot from you.
Mary
Our newspaper has really bad coupons, so I rarely buy extras. We get the Sunday paper here at home and I'm happy if there are some Red Plums or something like that, but normally I just use what I print off.
It's hard to beat printables these days, they are great value and good products.
I am like you, I generally buy 4 or less….however, once in a blue moon around the 1st of the month, there might be like 6 mega good inserts. Then (and only then) I might buy 10 papers.
It has to be worth it, though. Or you really aren't saving, in the end.
Dawn
I agree about the first of the month! Although, P&G coupons have gone down in value it almost makes me not want to buy it anymore.