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Extreme Couponing
Did you catch the show on TLC? Those people are crazy! I'm stoked if I get 30% savings at Kroger.
Anyways, I was thinking I want to start a spreadsheet to just give general comparison prices of things that I always buy, especially the brand name stuff like Charmin, Tide, Pampers, etc. that compares the stores I frequent at. It might just help me get a better grip on the circulars and ads that I can combine with coupons I have.
Does anyone know of one that already exists? I can make my own, but I'm sure someone has come up with it before me. Any other tips would be great.
PS---I am totally lame for posting this on NYE 
Re: Extreme Couponing
I think those people have OCD. I understand saving money and couponing, but to buy a bazillion of one item just because you get it for .25 each is silly. Before Giant Eagle changed their coupon policy, I'd see people there with two cartloads full of stuff like ketchup and barbeque sauce because they got it for next to nothing with all their coupons. And then people like me, who were looking to buy maybe 2 of the item, didn't get any because the coupon crazies would go in and wipe it all out.
I mean, ketchup and barbeque sauce expires. I know that we probably buy ketchup at the most 3 times a year. If I bought 100 bottles I'd have ketchup for the next 30 years, at least, and trust me, it wouldn't be good that long!
But, my mom goes to this garage sale every year in Sylvania and their daughter is an extreme couponer and she buys tons and tons of health and beauty products and then they sell them.
And I totally didn't answer your question, but I just wanted to put my 2 cents in about extreme couponers.
That's ok Jill, I was wondering what people thought about those people too.
I mean to basically have a fallout shelter full of salad dressing is nuts. I wish they would donate it, and I only saw one person doing that, but he still had way too much for his own use. You're right about that stuff expiring too. I mean who needs enough toothpaste until 2040??
Try:
www.couponmom.com
It is totally free and she lists the sales each week in your area based on the circulars and coupons that have been out in the previous weeks or that week. I used to use it.
I can e-mail you our spreadsheet - I've already sent it to a ton of girls on MM, lol. My H made it (it has the stores we use on it) and all you do is type in your products and their regular prices, once you go check them at the store. We keep an eye on the "stock up" prices when they're super low... (like, around here, when pasta is on sale for $0.50/box, we stock up). It's tough to get all of the prices at first, because you have to walk around all of the stores and look/write them down, but once you get them and remember them, you really won't need the spreadsheet anymore. We've pretty much memorized what we typically buy and what the good prices are.
That would be awesome Rock! I saw a couple of other posts you had commented on the other boards too. Thanks!
Email is allobosc@hotmail.com
No problem - YGM!
I would love to really save like that. Well to a certain extent. A's aunt is like that. In fact we just went "shopping" at her house b/c she had SOOO much stuff, an entire room full. We left with 3 boxes FULL of stuff. She had tons of stuff still and we were like the 7th or 8th family to walk through. Think 15 tubes of tooth paste STILL left. Clorox wipes ( I took 4 there were still 8 left, noodles, pasta, can goods, tape, cleaning supplies, 409 cleaner (took 2 there were probably 6 left) It was crazy!
SHe always comes to family functions with a trunk full of stuff and we all pick thing out. It's crazy, but I don't mind
Sent!
I went through a period where H and I were traveling to Perrysburg (from south Toledo) just to get a few things because they were free after the doubling and whatnot... I realized after a while that it's just way too much work. I now just go to the blogs each week to check things out and see if there's anything specific that we could use/need and go from there. Otherwise, it's really not worth it for us. Plus, we've started shopping mainly at places like Monnette's and House of Meats and just buying a few things here or there from Kroger.
We just recently ran out of deodorants and toothpastes for like the first time in about a year! lol