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[quote=Anonymous]You need to build to. it, and find systems that work for you. I used to. coupon regularly and averaged saving 20% of my grocery bill. That's not too shabby. And all I did was get the Sunday paper and clip coupons from there. I kept them organized in categories. Then I read the ads, and. shopped accordingly. If something was on sale, that's when I used the coupon. I tracked which of the stores near me had double coupons and shopped there when they did. My mom is more into couponing and she would bring coupons to the library - the library had a coupon exchange, where you. would leave coupons and you could sort what they had and take coupons. More stores where she is do double coupons and special days and special promotions. I think the DC area does not have as many options - Harris Teeter is the best for coupons I've found in DC. proper. It would take me about 40 minutes or so a week to clip and sort coupons, then my grocery trips also took about 50% longer, as I would stand in the aisle and check to see If I had a coupon when I noticed a sale tag. A lot of it is building up familiarity and using your memory to think, wait, I have a coupon for that. You also can get a sense for the sale cycle of stores and plan accordingly there, too. And the game has changed with online coupons and sales, too. There are more places besides groceries. CVS has their program with the endless coupons you get from their sale receipts. I never got into it, but there are websites that can help you get organized and learn how to maximize. your savings. Totally Target is one website I used to follow because they talk a lot about stacking (where you use a coupon plus a discount plus a sale to extra savings). It's a good way to learn how to do it. The more into it you get, the more time it takes. Those extremes coupons are spending several hours building their efforts up. It's hard work. I'd advise starting with basic couponing, see if you like it, and grow from there. Figure out where you shop, google around, and find the people who are successfully working the system, like Totally Target does for Target shoppers, and start doing that. Once you get the hang of it just keep adding more as you can. [/quote]
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