Slate.com has a great story on coupon use today profiling not only Super-Couponing but one of our forum regulars shopping habits… take a look!
I began hearing about a strategic sort of couponing that enables tightwads-who-blog to get cartfuls of groceries for tiny prices and even take home many items for free. I was intrigued: Could there be such a thing as free groceries? I started at Super-Couponing.com, a site run by Jill Cataldo, a self-described coupon queen who writes a syndicated newspaper column. Here, I picked up the basic premise of scoring free stuff: combining store sales and coupons.
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jafralady847 says
That was great. I hope you don’t mind. I posted a link to the article on Mary Hunt’s Debt Proof Living website-on her blog. Too many non-believers over there not to mention multi-hour coupon cutters :-)
Every time I get my multiple papers at Menards I direct yet another cashier to your site, Jill.
J.R. says
Cudos to Jill and Pam!
cg1 says
Lots of bad attitude posters there think they get how it works since they tried cutting coupons out of a paper once and didn’t save a lot.
https://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/3601/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=2232669
cg1 says
although it was kind of a bummer that Alicia, the Slate writer who seemed to get a buzz out of it quit couponing and had almost forgotten about the expired Cats in her purse the store was nice enough to take. Sounds like she needs a bit more training. It came across like she felt it was too much work. I got the feeling little time saving tricks like using Coupontom were missed and she still thought it was about cutting every coupon out of Sunday’s paper and trying to remember what she has.