Yes and several of you mentioned getting free items... how do you go about doing that? Thanks so much!

Either match up coupons to weekly specials, (my store doubles up to 20 coupons per trip up to 99 cents face value) or do catalina deals. Sometimes I do rebates as well.

Does it take you much time to match coupons w/ sales? Do you use any kind of a service? I decided to try the Grocery Game recently because they do it for you. Is there anyway to know what catalina offers are out there? I'm also wondering how you organize your coupons--do you do a binder method?

I recently got a source of A LOT of inserts every week (20-40...sometimes more) so I just put most of them in a database. It takes me about 25 minutes every week to enter them including the date, insert name, and expiration date as well as the coupon information. I do use a binder when I clip free coupons and items I know I usually see as unadvertised store specials as well as meat coupons since I usually buy the marked down meat instead of the weekly meat specials. I have to actually have the coupons with me at the store. Then I rubberband the stack of inserts and only clip the coupons on an as needed basis. My stockpile is pretty well established so I usually only end up buying 2-5 items a week...just multiples of the same item. I go to my grocery store ads online every Wed. morning and compare sales with coupons in my database to decide what I need to buy. I would estimate it takes me 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours every week to do all the legwork including entering into the database. This does not include actual shopping time.

Ok, spill! What is your source?

I'm interested as well. I usually buy the store brand but for free is way better than that!

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Do you have to purchase the coupons? Can you pick what you want? Sorry, I just had some questions about the coupons

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