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Most successful couponing bloggers are young, stay-at-home moms, very attentive to their looks. I get that. However, as a woman looking straight at her 60th birthday, I have nobody to whom I can relate. Most of my close friends have done well with their finances and long left their minding of nickels and dimes behind them.
I just googled baby boomer coupon bloggers and came up with very little.
TO ME -- The greatest thrill is combining great deals, coupons --with a senior discount on top, like I am going to get at Walgreens tomorrow. They have periodic senior discount days. Watch for the notice on their Sunday insert.
Couponing Tips:
Find reliable couponing sites. I like Southern Savers, Common Sense with Money and for local--Coupon Katie.
Cut and paste their directions into a list.
Along with your coupons, TAKE THAT LIST WITH YOU TO THE STORE. I frequently cannot remember the steps of getting "the deal," and mess it up when I get to the store. E-coupons have added another layer of management.
So the following is a cut-and-paste of my shopping this week. They are both deals and things that I really need, like bottled water (for which Walgreens had the best deal this week):
CVS
Reach Floss 55 yd $0.92 (PC
thru 8/24)
Use $1/1 Reach Floss Product
Use $1/2 Reach Floss 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/25/2013)
Use $1/2 Reach Floss Products
As low as FREE after coupons
Use $1/1 Reach Floss Product
Use $1/2 Reach Floss 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/25/2013)
Use $1/2 Reach Floss Products
As low as FREE after coupons
Walgreens
Colgate Total Advanced, Zx,
or Sensitive Whitening Toothpaste, or 360 Toothbrush $3.49, Get $2.50 RR when
you buy one
Use $1/1 Colgate Total, Optic White, Max Fresh, or Sensitive Toothpaste, 4 oz+ 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/10/2013)
Use $1/1 Colgate 360 Manual Toothbrush, excluding Plus, Triple Action, Extra Clean or Classic 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/16/2013)
FREE after coupon and RR
Use $1/1 Colgate Total, Optic White, Max Fresh, or Sensitive Toothpaste, 4 oz+ 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/10/2013)
Use $1/1 Colgate 360 Manual Toothbrush, excluding Plus, Triple Action, Extra Clean or Classic 07/28/2013 SS Insert (exp 08/16/2013)
FREE after coupon and RR
1,000 BR WYB Aleve Pain
Reliever, 50 ct., $5.99
-$2 off Aleve product, 80 ct. +, excl Aleve-D printable
Water
cheerios
Fiber One, Nature Valley Bars
Krogers
Hunt’s Ketchup, 24 oz, $1
Composition Book, 50¢
(good through 9/07)
The rest of these are Mix-Match (or what the bloggers call Mega Deals. I will have to do multiples of five to get the $5 off, which is reflected in the prices below.) -$1.50 off Tyson IF bonless skinless chicken
breasts, 3 lb bag, (zip 27511) printable
(use $1.50 off, makes it $5.49)
Cheez-It Crackers, 10.5-13.7
oz, $1.99
-$1.50 off Keebler crackers or Cheez-its, 8 oz
+, 1,000 points printable
Chock Full O’ Nuts Coffee,
11.3 oz, $2.99
-$1 off Chock full o’Nuts package, SS 7/14
(makes it $1.99)
Triscuit or Wheat Thin
Crackers, 12-14.5 oz, $2.99
-.50/1 Triscuit crackers, 8.5 oz+ printable
(use .50/1 off, makes it $2.49)(if doubles – use .50/1 off, makes
it $1.99)
Soft Scrub Cleaner, 24 oz,
$1.99
-$1 off Soft Scrub product, RP 8/04
Kroger’s
Crest
Toothpaste, 4.6 oz, $1
Use the $1/1 from the 4/28 PG
or the $0.50/1 printable
Final Price = FREE!
Use the $1/1 from the 4/28 PG
or the $0.50/1 printable
Final Price = FREE!
Oral-B
Toothbrush, 1 ct., $1
Use the $1/1 Oral-B Pulsar, 3D White, Pro-Health, or Complete manual toothbrush, Kroger eCoupon
Final Price = FREE!
Use the $1/1 Oral-B Pulsar, 3D White, Pro-Health, or Complete manual toothbrush, Kroger eCoupon
Final Price = FREE!
I'm a middle-aged couponer (though I don't blog, at least not yet) but you're definitely not alone. ;-)
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