I buy generic brands for the most part at Food Maxx and they are generally cheaper than brand name products with coupons.

I did refunding too. I made bundles of free stuff, cash, etc. The mess was worth it to me. I'd easily send in for 50 or more per month. They just don't offer that anymore.

Shopping with coupons takes me almost twice as long. But a good side is that when I spend over $50, I get 15 cents off per galloni of gas at the next door station.

That's nice! Do you have to shop with coupons to get that, or just spend that much money?

We get 10 cents/gallon off at Giant, but we have to spend over $100 to do it. And it has to be within certain date ranges. They're big enough ranges, but once I forgot to use my Giant card and had over 200 points, and they expired before I realized it. <sigh>

No coupons, other requirements. Just a total of $50 dollars at a time. It's pretty easy to spend that much, even for just my family of me and my honey. So we fill up two cars at once on the same pump to get a discount. Our gas just raised to $2.89.

I don't think just clipping the coupons counts for a whole lot---you have to actually USE them in order to save money :)

I find that coupons are not as good as they used to be. Most of the coupon section now seems to consist of ads for bras, upside down tomato plants, shoes, dolls, etc. What ever happened to coupons in the coupon section????

Wow---good point! I never thought about checking my receipt to make sure I am not being overcharged. I will be watching my cashier a little more closely from now on.

My husband used to travel with his job and would bring me Sunday coupons from different cities. It wads amazing to me how much the value of the coupons changed from one part of the country to another. But, I guess the cost of living is different too--so the coupons are a reflection of that. I still loved it when I had really good ones, though!

I just did a grocery shopping trip today. I used coupons and the store" discount card and saved $139.00. It is a pain to cut out the coupon and do the comparison as I shop but with results like this...it makes it worth it.

i shop by unit pricing and i find that at shoprite the house brand is almost always cheapest, even with coupons. but....i don't know if everyone noticed this. tuna cans have gone from 6.5 ounces to 5 ounces. at the same or higher prices. and they say 'net weight' which means without the water. if you weigh it, you'll freak out. i wrote to every single tuna company and complained about this fraudulent practice and said how disappointed i was in them, blah, blah. i wasn't looking for anything - i was just frustrated. all except bumble bee sent me coupons for 5 cans or $10 worth of products or something. it really pays off when you're feeling taken advantage of, to say something to the powers that be. it taught me a lesson.

my store does double coupons up to .50. they won't give you more than $1.00 back on anything. and i do use my card. oh, and before the holidays, they count points for a free turkey or ham or 5 lbs of matzah, which binds you up 'til next passover. just recently i got a 7.5 lb frozen meat lasagna. what holiday was that? my anniversary?

yes yes and yes!!! I just used them today and saved BIG.

I joined Grocerygame.com got a free 4 week trial

I learned that you can easily match coupons to whats on sale, and that site helps you find the sales and those coupons.

I dont go anywhere with a coupon.