Okay, I've spent some time getting my feet wet into coupon shopping. And this week, I dove in. I started out just printing coupons off the internet. Before this week I had the opinion that coupons were pretty much worthless. So, why buy a paper to save a few pennies. Coupons give you a discount on name brand items, which are expensive. You might as well get the generic and not hassle with the coupon, right? Wrong!!! I have learned that if you match coupons up with certain sales and combine coupons, you can get incredible deals!
It was a great week for coupon shoppers. Yes, I did go to several stores. Perhaps I'll get better as the weeks go on. But here is what I scored this week.
12 cans of Contadina tomato sauce
6 Biore Pore Strips
6 Biore Face Scrubs
5 bottles of LA Looks Gel
5 single travel packs of Tide Detergent
4 Cover Girl Mineral Powder Foundations
4 Cover Girl Lipsticks
3 Olay Body Washes/ w free samples
3 bottles of John Frieda shampoo
2 Gillette Deoderants
2 Gillette Body Washes
1 Children's Ibuprofin
1 Bottle of Suave Detangling spray
OOP: 37.25
Rebates & Gift Cards: $37
Target $5
Olay $15
Frieda $5
Gillette $2
Biore $5
Biore $5
Net out of pocket $0.25
Total Savings including rebates- $195.39
I did pay for these coupons from a coupon clipping service and it cost me $13. I don't subscribe to the paper, and I wanted to test it out first. I'm kind of surprised that coupon clippers don't take the cost of their subscriptions into account, because I sure do. So, to offset my coupon cost, I plan on selling the Biore pore strips on Ebay. I don't use those, but I had to get them in order to get my free face cleanser. I should be able to net around $20 on ebay for the pore strips, making me a profit of about $7 for these items!
