Most are not worth the time, effort and clutter. Just lower the prices!!!

Good poll idea!

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Hate them. I don't even use them occasionally. Heck, it's hard for me t remember to use discount cards and gift certificates!

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"Poor people work for their money. Rich people make their money work for them."

I love them. I don't understand how people can say they save more money buying store brands. Do they give you the store brand items for free? I get so many thing for free each week. The other day I spent $8 and saved $108. The next day I spent $3.96 and saved $46.10. I routinely save at least 75%. Yesterday at CVS, I spent $2.75 and will receive $17.97 back in extra care bucks. I think that this definitely worth my time. My husband's job takes us all over the country, but I have still been able to save wherever we have lived.

I used to use them, you have to research when items will go on sale and use the coupons when they are one sale, if you dont then i found that my bill was bigger when i used coupons then when i didnt. It wasnt worth the time and effort. Generics tend to be cheaper and the quality is getting better and better.

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We buy things we dont need,
with money we dont have,
in order to impress people
we dont like?
(Ramsey, D)

I love them. I usually go through my coupons while I make my menu and grocery list though and pull out the ones I'll use, and that makes it much easier. I agree that no brand food is cheaper, but if you can get brand name food for the same price after a coupon - why not?

I love them!! I get so many good deals with them, our regular store doubles them and every so often they do triple coupons. On average I save about 40% - 50% on our total. My goal is try and save even more, I know it can be done. It's definietly worth the time for me.

I find when I used them I spend more because you almost always have to buy more than one of a product and it costs more to stock up than to just buy what you need. If I happen to run accross one for an item I was going to buy anyway, I'll use it.

I too agree with this. It takes me a half hour, at most, each week to get my coupons. I sit down with the week's sale ads and compare the sales with the on-site coupons (I use Coupon Clippers) available. Sure with the cpn clipping svc a lot of times you have to buy 5 coupons, but I get deals on stuff that I can stock up on - pasta sauce, boxed goods, frozen stuff, personal hygiene. There are some things I can't buy generic for, so I get coupons for them and save money, bringing it down to equivalent of generic prices, or sometimes lower (or free!). Why pay $1 for a can of generic crescent rolls when I can pay $1 for coupons and get 20 Pillsbury ones for free? One click on my computer just saved me $19. I shop the normal sales too, but the stockups I get from using my coupons has saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Just this week, I spent $30 and saved $180. I don't even think you can get $180 worth of groceries from Aldi's for $30.

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I wouldn't say I "love" them, but I enjoy the challenge of using them to get great deals.

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Ditto.

There is rarely a time when I have to buy something asap. The only regular items on my list are fresh items like dairy, fruit, veggies & bread. (I don't even pay full price for meat. I try to only buy on sale & then freeze it.) Otherewise I only buy items that are on sale and alot of times I am lucky enough to have acoupon for them as well.

A good example is Pillsbury. I almost always have coupons for refrigerated dough and the frozen bread. I wait till they go on sale and then use my coupons!

I get a high from watching the savings side of my bill raise! My goal is to have the savings side between 50% & 100%+ of my total everytime I grocery shop. The other day my savings was greater than my total!!

Now, I am a sahm & I set aside nap times on Sunday(DH works) and do coupons & sales then. I make my lists & pull my coupons. I keep an envelope for each store & put the list & coupons in the envelopes. I keep my coupn holder($ store kind) in my car incase I find an instore special that I have a coupon for. (Publix is always having instore sales that I didn't know about!)