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[getaway_machine]

About a year or so ago, my dad was getting ready to retire, worrying about money, and decided to get into couponing to help save himself some money at the grocery store. It took him a few months to really get into the swing of it, but ever since then he's been badgering me to start couponing as well. For a long time I kind of made fun of him,

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[hope_guides_me]

I have been meaning to message you about this! I've been crazy busy the last two weeks.

I read it all. :D I'm going to see what I can do to help my family out. You know we could use the money. It would be even cooler if I could do it at the commissary because their prices are already around half price of Wal-Mart or Kroger. Their meat prices, anyway. If I could buy my meat from there and everything else with coupons, that would save a LOT.

[getaway_machine]

Meat is something there is basically never coupons for, so if you can get good meat for cheap somewhere, that's going to be better than the grocery store! We buy our hamburger from a local meat market near James' work, because it's the cheapest I have ever seen, and most of our other meat from Sam's Club, which is same-as or cheaper-than the best sales the grocery stores ever have.

I'm by no means an expert, but if you have questions I'm more than happy to answer them! I actually linked the Kroger site thinking of you, because I think they're near you? The woman who runs the sites lives in GA. But just reading the blog every day helps a lot, she usually does a Q&A once a week or so, too. ♥!

[hope_guides_me]

I need to check the local meat markets... see what their prices are like. I doubt they'll beat the commissary. They can sell the meat so cheap because the government has their own meat packing plants.

Thank you! Yes! We have a Kroger. I'll definitely be following that blog.

[theemdash]

My mom was never what I would describe as a couponer, but she always had coupons from the Sunday paper or flyers and would pay attention to when things were on sale so I picked up a little of that, but I tend to not apply it well. I am rather aware of the patterns for a few items (for a long time Publix and Target alternated which store had coke on sale each week, so I'd just go to the one that did) and I always check the get-one-free bins at Publix because sometimes they might have something I've been meaning to get or would be willing to try another brand. BUT I rarely coupon, know where to get coupons aside from the Sunday paper (which I don't get), and always feel like I don't have the time to hunt for them. Hopefully some of your new good habits will rub off on me. ;)

[getaway_machine]

I was never aware of patterns until recently, so that's a head start you have on me :P I'm still learning the patterns, since I haven't been doing it for that long yet. My dad always complains about coke because there's almost never coupons for it, but there were a bunch of peelie coupons for $1 off 2 on the 12-packs in my Publix a couple days ago.

The Sunday paper is nice for extras and the occasional thing that is paper-only, but a lot of the coupons in the paper are also available to print somewhere online. That's why the site is so ridiculously helpful to me, because she links to all of the available coupons for every product that's on sale in the ad... so 95% of your research time is done for you.

[theemdash]

Yeah, I will probably start paying attention to that site, then. Getting coupons thwarts me the most.

Orange juice is 2 for $6 at Publix nearly every week but they rotate through the brands. Two of the brands I like, and I go through a little less than 2 jugs a week, so I can generally always arrange it so that I never have to buy oj at full price. Also, ketchup is always buy-one-get-one before the big summer holidays (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day), so I buy a TON of ketchup then, knowing it can last me all year if I just stock up. So I do fairly well on a few items! ;)

[getaway_machine]

See, total head start on me! Ketchup is something I've been waiting for a good deal on, I didn't even think about the summer holidays and such for it. Guess I'll have to wait a little longer haha

[barbed_whispers]

did you write this to boost your word count? FINISH THE FIC. #jerk

[getaway_machine]

I didn't even include this in my word count BUT MAYBE I SHOULD

[barbed_whispers]

I TAKE IT BACK.

[getaway_machine]

I didn't even include this in my word count BUT MAYBE I SHOULD