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I love couponing! I print a lot of my coupons and subscribe to the sunday paper and then I use a website (coupon mom is a good one) to help me make my grocery list (and link my coupons to sale items to help me save the most money!) Last week I was able to score Huggies wipes for free!

@Rubies-most stores will double coupons up to 50 cents, so a 40 cent off coupon is actually good for 80 cents off...my preference is the smaller amount coupons...they are generally for cheaper items (like yogurt, soups, etc) and they double, so you end up paying very little (and sometimes you can get them free) for items that, at least for me, i tend to use more often.

I do but I right now use coupons about once every three months. Its time consuming to look at the grocery store ads and match them up to coupons. In the past I've save 56% off my grocery bill. I'm hoping to start up couponing now that I plan my meals out for the month.

Yessiree bob! I get them from the Sunday paper (if there's a good one for something we use often, like pasta, I'll order them from coupon clipping services too) and our neighbor will give us their inserts as well. I only clip coupons for products we use, and I only use them if there is a sale as well. This works well for CVS-- sale + extrabucks + coupon = free stuff, or sometimes overages!

Even with only clipping and filing coupons that I know I could use (Yes, I have a binder) it still takes me a good couple of hours each week. Then of course the trips to the stores take time. My best % savings so far has been around 65%. Those crazy people from the TV shows are definitely extreme-- I could never get close to 100% unless I buy like 2000 packages of gum or whatever, like they do.

I also only keep a small stockpile of health and beauty items. We don't have the space for other stuff!!

Yep - my mil is borderline coupon queen... and she buys in bulk like the tv show too.

MIL's friend gets her stacks of weekly coupons and she gives us some. We don't hoard like MIL does though.... MIL has an entire emergency basement full of non-perishables..."in case of rainy day" she says... not my style though...

I'm all for a good deal, but if you're buying things you don't NEED. In my mind, that's wasted money!

I use coupons at Safeway. Most of the times I save at least 30%, usually through paper coupons, just-for-you online coupons, and the club cards. A few weeks ago we went to a new Safeway and got $148 worth of groceries for $71, plus we had gas rewards so that the gas went from $3.69 to $3.09. It was a very successful shopping day.

Not to the extent of KCL but yes I do. We clip coupons every Sunday morning. I print ones I use online. I always google for coupons before online shopping. I always shop through Ebates to get additional % back.
I am known as coupon queen!!! hahaha.

We don't coupon. The grocery stores around us don't double or triple coupons and it's usually just cheaper to buy the generic store brand even with a coupon. Plus we don't eat all the boxed/processed junk that the people on extreme couponing buy.

I'll keep my eyes open for Bjs coupons for diapers once LO is here, but other than that coupons are not very useful to us. Shampoo/conditioner does go bad, so I wouldn't want to buy 100 bottles of that stuff either.

I've never seen an episode but I live couponing and knowing how much I saved at the end of the week. I wrote a great post about saving money. (in my financial series on my blog)

@MaisyMay: We do Safeway online too.
I 'speed coupon' a few minutes a week. I read the ads as we go in the store and from the Midweek newspaper. Plus I get the Living Social/Hot Buys/2 for 1 daily emails. But that's it. I like to just 'not shop' as my way of saving money. I hope that's not my denial mechanism.

I've watched that show several times and I'm amazed. I'd love to coupon but I'm afraid it would take up too much time.