[jessl]

Originally Posted by Ibis

And I think we all take turns obsessing too much. I remember a few times, freaking out a couple of days after shopping because I found an IP in my email inbox that I could have used, but hadn't checked my email for a couple of days.

Ugh..I do that all the time but not with IPs. I tend to just glance through train envelopes when I get them and then go through them in more detail on the weekend when I have more time, and sometimes I'll come accross a coupon I really could have used!

Usually I do the opposite - I see a good deal and start trading for coupons and then later realize I had a ton of them already. I guess its better than not having enough. I traded for a bunch of Tony's pizza 50 cent/1 thinking the ones in my inserts were $1/2 - they wernt. I already had 160 of them! Didn't realize it till this weekend when I was going through my inserts to toss expireds.

[Katlady]

160 So do you have enough room in your freezer?

[BrendaS104]

Originally Posted by Ibis

I think we all try to stock up when things are cheap so that we never have to pay full price for anything. So that's one of the things you can do to keep your overall costs down. Of course, that can mean that some weeks all you're buying is toilet paper and avocados!

Totally true for me too. I went to Walmart last night and all I bought was 20 packages of chips ahoy and 20 boxes of caprisun. People were asking me if I worked there.

Honestly I only wanted the juice. My girls start school next week. I now have enough juice to last them 7 months.

Now wth am I going to do with all those cookies?

[Lfwh]

I did the same thing for hubby when Gillette Foamy shave cream was on sale. A couple weeks ago it was .99 cents a can at MB. Then last week it was on sale at Shaws 10/$10. Now he has 12 cans that will last him about 7 1/2 months. So that is one thing we don't have to buy for a while.

[daised]

It's funny, I've found that more I buy, the less I spend! If I didn't do all the coupons and cat deals, I'd spend way more on just fresh meat and produce and a few of those luxury items...for me it's some bakery bread and these awesome sweet potato fries....