Amazing Coupon Savings

For all those moms out there trying juggle their family’s budget, make more time with their children, and fill their pantry with food….have you discovered couponsense.com yet?

When my kids were little (Elizabeth was just a newborn) I took classes on how to use grocery coupons – how to get more bang for my buck. It was a great class, but I thought the whole thing took a lot of work and I HATED clipping, sorting and saving all those coupons. (I have a junk mail phobia…and while coupons are not junk mail…they somewhat resemble it).

We moved to the small mountain village of Wrightwood when Elizabeth was just a baby, and Wrightwood only had one grocery store – family owned – at the time. Therefore utilizing the coupons to their fullest would be difficult. When it snowed the week we moved in, and my box of coupons got wet, I threw them away, and it gave me the excuse to give up.

But it is a quarter of a century later, and couponing has changed drastically…in that we now have the internet and programs like couponsense.com that make the process easy, fun, and a great way to save money.

I joined a couple of months ago and LOVE it! The savings are amazing.

The basic premise is this:
Do not shop for your weekly menu, shop to fill your pantry

Plan your weekly menu by what is in the pantry

Combine coupons with weekly sales to get the best deals

Buy in bulk, in that you purchase the maximum number of items that you can using the coupon and sale

Do not CLIP your coupons when you get them, you file the insert according to the week, and pull the coupons you need, when you need them. (This is one way couponsense helps)

Now, the big difference is couponsense.com. It does a lot of things, and I can’t explain them all now, but my favorite thing it does, is that it monitors the sales of all the local grocery stores. It then tells me where to find coupons to go with the sale.

For example, the first week I started I had 5 coupons for Colgate, at 75 cents off. A local pharmacy was offering Colgate on sale for 88 cents. So, I bought the maximum allowed (which happened to be 5). I spent 13 cents for each tube of Colgate toothpaste.

Since I’ve started I never pay more than $1.50 for a box of cereal. And I have been consistently paying $1.50 for a gallon of milk, because I can quickly find out which store is offering the best price for milk that week.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. If they offer the service in your area, you can purchase a one month trial for $4. After that it is $15 a month, and well worth it.

I have a referral number, so if you give it a try I would appreciate it if you would use it. But, I am not posting this for the referral, I really..really…think it is a great way to shop.

Referral number: 1714074
http://couponsense.com/