On Aug 27, 9:25*pm, Gloria P > wrote:
> Kajikit wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:02:04 -0400, Metspitzer >
> > wrote:
>
> >> Kathy Spencer of Boxford, Mass., seeks out coupons, browses circulars
> >> and spends up to four hours a week at grocery stores. But she says she
> >> spends an average of $4 a week on groceries for a family that includes
> >> her husband, four kids, one dog, two cats and a rabbit. On a recent
> >> shopping trip, Spencer bought $279 worth of groceries for 39 cents.
>
> >>http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dpgo...a_week_lwf_082....
>
> > A few hours?! If she's doing that much it's a full time job. And
> > they're probably eating a really crappy diet because meat and fresh
> > produce are almost never couponable, only prepared and processed
> > stuff.
>
> That's my thought exactly every time this topic is posted.
>
> With most grocery store items now topping $3 each and most
> coupons still around 25 cents, it doesn't make sense.
> I saw a 5 lb. bag of sugar on SALE today for $3.39.
>
> They usually talk about double and triple coupons, no limit.
> Most stores have a $1 limit. *They talk about buying something specific
> and getting meat free as a bonus. *It's never happened wherever I have
> lived and shopped.

I am as good at the game as anyone I've ever met, and I don't come
close to those results. Yesterday I bought 3 pkgs of Keebler Toast &
PB crackers for $1.67 each (which my son loves for snacks), and added
30 bottles* of SuperChill diet soda @$.67/2 liter, which brought me to
$25.21. I got a $10 off Catalina coupon (next purchase of anything)
for buying $25 of those specific products. I also used a coupon that
got me a free 24.9oz (huge) box of breakfast cereal for junior when I
bought a 12oz, Starbuck's ground Sumatra for $7.69. I paid using a
gift card that I'd bought with a discount coupon from one of the 2009
Entertainment books that I bought on clearance for $10 (the book had 5-
$5 off a $50 gift card coupons).

When I get really good fast food coupons in the mail, sometimes I go
to my old neighborhood where recycling containers are not individual,
but public, and get extra sheets of coupons. I not only use
Entertainment, but restaurant.com as well.

The $10 a week lady is full of shit, and I'm glad I'm not in her
family.

* Now that I don't drink beer anymore, 30-2 liter bottles is not an
absurd quantity.
>
> gloria p

--Bryan