[MrsD2112]

Member name: MrsD2112

Name: Stephanie

Location: Holt, MI

Stores I Shop at: Kroger, Target, CVS, Meijer and Wal-Mart

Weekly grocery budget: $125

Number of people in my family: 5

Number of pets: 2

Years Couponing/Refunding: 25

Favorite Coupon of all time: Free anything!

What I hope to get from AFC: tips and more coupons

Hobbies/Interests: scrapbooking, stamping and reading

[msvidkiller13]

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Hello and Welcome to AFC So glad you found us Here are few links to help you along

Where Do You Begin? A Quick Intro To Couponing - Grocery Coupon Blog and AFC 101 - Grocery Coupons & Deal Forums - A Full Cup and New Members - Please Read to Learn Your Way Around AFC! !!!

If you need help with anything here is my link ( just press my name) MSVIDKILLER13

Again Welcome to AFC

[iluvadoption]

Here are some additional links that you might find helpful!

How To Print Coupons From The Coupon Database

AFC Trading Post and Auction Block

How To Create A Wishlist


If you have any questions, or if there is anything that I can do to help you get acclimated to AFC, click on this link and post a message on my visitor board!

iluvadoption

[coupon214]

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[Z and G's Mom]

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Hi and welcome to AFC! THE best, and most informative, forum on the internet!
Here’s some advice for your couponing journey…

** READ READ READ READ READ READ READ!! And then READ some more! Learn your local store’s coupon policies - GROCERY STORE FORUMS. Print those policies out and keep them with you at all time! You’ll be surprised at how often cashiers and even store managers are unfamiliar with all the intricacies of their own policies!

** Don’t be afraid to ask questions - COUPONING 101!

** START SLOWLY! If you jump in too fast, you’ll get frustrated. PLEASE don’t think that if you don’t build a massive stockpile overnight, that you are a rotten couponer! It takes time and effort! BUT, if you'd like to peek at what your stockpile COULD look like one day, check THESE out!

** Not sure how to begin? Do a David Letterman… Make two TOP TEN LISTS! One for food and one for non-food items that you and your family use on a daily or weekly basis. If your family is a HUGE pasta eater, then noodles and sauce should be on your list. If you have 4 teenage boys, then body wash/soap is a MUST! Walk through your house as you are making your lists. Then, go to the grocery/drug stores WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING! Take along a pad of paper (or 6) and make notes on current prices for those items on your Top Ten lists. Do this once a week for a few months. Start learning the sales cycles. Start learning the fluctuations in prices and soon you will be able to figure out what your stock-up prices should be. Start your stockpile with items your family will use regularly. Nothing worse than staring at a stockpile with a whole bunch of stuff (gotten for free or really cheap) that no one will EVER use!

** Start clipping your coupons! Sign up for a newspaper delivery – this is THE only way to guarantee that you will receive coupons in the papers you buy. Not all newsstand or drug store papers receive inserts as the inserts will always be placed in subscriber papers first. CALL the newspaper first and make sure of which coupon inserts they carry! Ask about special subscriptions – Sunday or weekend only, discounts for multiple Sunday papers, etc. Start asking your friends and family members for their coupons. You’ll be surprised at how many people just toss them in the garbage – YIKES! **Need complete sets of inserts? No problem! Click COMPLETE INSERTS for LOTS of choices!

MOST OF ALL – HAVE FUN! If you ever have any questions you’d rather not ask in the open forums, click JESSIE to ask me directly! Glad you’re here in the AFC family!

[MrsD2112]

Thank you all for the very warm welcome. I hope to learn alot, and save alot being a part of this group. Even though I have been couponing for years, I have only recently begun to stockpile. I would like to ask, has anyone else noticed a decline in the amount of coupons being issued in thier newspapers? I am not getting nearly the number of products or the value that I did 6 months ago. Just wondering.

[msvidkiller13]

Yeah I have too I know it's not just us suffering in money I know the so called big company's are too. But I know they have been getting smaller in what they are giving and making prices higher.

Originally Posted by MrsD2112

Thank you all for the very warm welcome. I hope to learn alot, and save alot being a part of this group. Even though I have been couponing for years, I have only recently begun to stockpile. I would like to ask, has anyone else noticed a decline in the amount of coupons being issued in thier newspapers? I am not getting nearly the number of products or the value that I did 6 months ago. Just wondering.

[Weatie]

Welcome to AFC... Any friend of ILUVADOPTION's is ofcourse extra WELCOME !
We are happy you have found the best Frugal living and couponing site on the web.

To help you get started in understanding a bit about couponing please take a look at these links.

This one is written by an AFC member. Its a great Where to begin post. http://www.afullcup.com/forums/coupo...couponing.html

Couponing 101 - Grocery Coupons & Deal Forums - A Full Cup
Grocery Coupons & Deal Forums - A Full Cup - FAQ
AFC 101 - Grocery Coupons & Deal Forums - A Full Cup

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