In case you have not been watching Extreme Couponing on TLC, you need to watch this before you read this blog so you can understand my inspiration for Extreme Couponing/my obsession with it.
It all started when last week, I took a trip to the Bi-Lo with my Aunt Shirley and Candyce. We were going to get a few things we all needed, and we decided to go to the self-checkout. Well, someone had left their Bonuscard reward coupons at the coupon printer, and my Aunt Shirley decided to gank them. Candyca kept insisting that we needed the Bonuscard to make them work, but my Aunt Shirley scanned one and it worked. This started a frenzy. I used a coupon, and Candyca used a coupon plus a sale price to get a large container of Hi-C for $0.97.
Ever since then, I have been collecting the Sunday papers trying to get coupons. This was not working out very well, because you don't get very many. Well, my grandmother told me & my aunt (I was at her house supposed to be working on job applications) that on Wednesday, she always threw out her coupons that were put in her mailbox. Apparently, the post office distributes these inserts on Wednesday and most people throw them away in the post office....GOLD MINE.
This led to my aunt Shirley and I driving to two different post offices to dig out the coupons from the trash cans...and yes, we only took coupons & the only trash in the cans was paper & mail so it's not like it was gross. And, we wanted to be EXTREME after all.
We ended up clipping coupons at her house for about an hour and a half. Then we went on our first couponing trip to Bi-Lo because they will let you double coupons up to $0.99. Shirley saved $67 and I saved $20, and it was AWESOME. I just really like buying things without having to give away any of my money. Also, I want to get good enough to go on the show, haha!
After I finish this post, I am going to Harris Teeter to buy M&M's. With my coupons and the fact that they are tripling this week, Harris Teeter will owe me money.
If you are reading this and don't use your coupons, save them for me please!
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