Starting Fresh

In looking over my previous posts, I felt it was time for a new beginning.  My perspective has changed since I started couponing and I have learned a lot.  Also I recognize that there are already a lot of great instructional sites already available to the couponer better illustrated and more detailed than mine.  Some great ones to vist for learning how to coupon are www.SouthernSavers.com or www.Couponing101.com.  Visit any of these to get great ideas and the basics of couponing.

Visit one or both of these sites to get the basics.  Then come back here to see deal listings for the Desoto County, MS area.  Also if you have any great deals you’ve come across, feel free to share them.  The most important thing I have learned about grocery shopping is that sale prices are cyclical and will come back every 6 to 10 weeks. So if you came across this great deal 3 weeks ago, post it and I’ll start looking for it in another 3 weeks.  In addition, coupons seem to follow the sale prices.  You can usually get the coupon you need for an upcoming sale shortly before or slightly after the sale starts.  AND sale prices can last across 2 to 4 weeks.    So look at the date at the bottom of the sale tag on the shelf to see when the sale price ends.  You may have plenty of time to order those coupons and get them in and use them.

Target and Walgreens will take a store coupon AND a manufacturer coupon on a single item. It is called stacking. But they do not double these coupons. 

It is important to go to the store every week.  The sale paper does not list everything that is on sale so you need to go and see what is on sale vs. what coupons you have available.  Also if you go at the beginning of the sale you may have time to order multiples of those coupons to use if you find items you can get for free or less than70% off its regular price.

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