In response to the "where do you find the coupons" posts... it VERY much depends on what you are looking for. BUT you have to remember that your not going to save a LOT of money couponing if you plan your meals and then try to find coupons to match. Flip it around. Go online and find coupons. Cut coupons out of your newspaper. Get a pile of them and see what you have and compare them to the local grocery paper ads. (yes this takes some time) Example: I am having my daughter's 1 year old birthday party this saturday. Instead of sitting down and planning a meal, I looked at the sales first. Cub had a buy one get one bags of broccoli. Guess we're making broccoli salad. Cub also had buy one get one potatos-looks like we're having potato salad too. Then I found coupons for Goldn Plump chicken online for $1 off. Super One foods was running a sale for Gold n plump drumsticks for 1.66. So i bought 4 packages for $0.66 each and we're having barbeque chicken as the main course. I also found coupons for bacon, pop, cheese, crackers, and mayo. In addition to those items, I stocked up on things my other kids go thru like crazy such as cereal (for $.75 per box) Oatmeal, granola bars etc.
I totally agree about the being one step away from the hoarding show! I don't think it makes much sense to buy 40 of anything.
After my inital post, I ended up at the evil empire (Walmart) and managed to get 5 bottles of body wash for free due to coupons. Again, with myself, the bf, and the 2 kids it won't take long to use all that up.
The best website I found for doing some research is couponmom.com. Check it out!