You can imagine the look on my husband’s face as he overlooks my shoulder while I’m reading some frugal blog about someone buying $40+ worth of groceries for less than $5. He looks at me, looks back at the screens, views the name brand foods (that he’s missed bc I went on a generic fad THINKING I was saving money), looks at the receipts posted and says “now THAT’S something you MUST learn and I’ll help get whatever you need to do it!”. I look at him calmly of course (as I’m over the jaw dropping I once did every time I saw what others were doing) and tell him then I need to get my coupons in order, subscribe for coupons, get printer ink for internet coupons, etc etc etc…

So now I’m in the process of getting serious about couponing and frugal buying. Today I’m going to try working on my coupon binder. As I make it and get into it all, I thought I’d ask what & how others do it. In addition to the couponing to save, what else are you doing to save money on the purchases going on?

I’ve subscribed to my local Sunday paper, friends and family give me their leftover coupons, I save the coupons sent in the mail, I subscribe to Grocerygame.com, cellfire.com, coupons.com, grocerygadget.net; perhaps I’m in overload but we’ll see what ends up working for me and weed out what doesn’t.

So here are my questions for you…

• Do you have a coupon system? A binder, an accordion, envelopes, boxes? What do you use? What categories do you index them in?
• Do you use internet coupons in addition to the store & coupon inserts in the paper?
• Do you subscribe to coupon helpers like Grocery Game?
• Do you use shopping/coupon apps (cellfire.com, grocerygadget.net, coupons.com) on your computer or handheld device or are you a pen/paper kind of person?
• Do you have any couponing / frugal buying tips?
• Do you do a big monthly shopping trip or weekly trips w/ your coupons?