Extreme Couponing

I've become addicted. 

It can be a sickness to have an addiction.

This addiction, however, is a good one for our family.  I've become addicted to finding deals.  And I mean real deals.  Deals that you have to work the system to figure out.  Deals that you can stack on top of one another to make an even sweeter deal.  Deals where you can come  home with a dozen $0.12 boxes of cereal and 4 free salad dressings and 6 boxes of pasta for $0.08 a piece and eight 2 Liters of Pepsi for $2.00.  Those kind of deals.  Deals that make you feel like you've won the championship!

"Couponing"  Did you know that word existed?  It's even underlined here as a word that I should check the spelling of!  It is a word.  However new to my vocabulary, it is a word.  I get the local paper on Sundays and I scower the ads.  I clip any that I think I may use.  I used to only clip the ones that I KNEW I'd use, but now I pretty much clip them all.  Then I go online and find the coupons at various websites, and I print more coupons.  I sit with the weekly ads, and I match up which stores have the lowest prices on what I want and compile a list of what I am going to get and where.  Then I go back online and find which stores have "Catalinas" for which items, and which stores have the biggest store credit I can get for such items I have coupons for.

Sound a little demented?  It is.  Sound time consuming?  It is.  Sound worth it?  I guarantee it is.  My girlfriend, in MS, is my inspiration.  She can find a deal like nobody's business.  I mean she can go into a store and come out with a BASKETFUL and tell me she has spent $2.12.  Try and tell me that is not inspiring! 

I'm on a mission.  Extreme couponing.  I'm learning the ropes and I'm going to nail this.  And once I do, I'll teach you all!  I'm thinking I might even take the inspiration of my friend, Emily, and teach a class on how to do it!  Then I can make some moola while I'm saving moola! 

Oh, and it's a darn good thing I bought that box of copy paper a while back when I had the coupon....