Have you ever watched that show extreme couponing? Last week, on a night when I couldn’t sleep due to my excessively stuffy nose and awful cough, I stayed up late watching episodes, and was astounded and amazed at how much stuff those women could get for either a very small amount of money, or completely free.
So I asked the only expert I know—my daughter—if people really get into couponing like that. Turns out, daughter has a friend whose mother does this and who has accumulated rooms and rooms of food storage.
Me: Huh.
Her: Mom, we should totally try it. They have all kinds of good stuff and they let us eat as much as we want cuz it was free.
Me: ??
Her: Really, I’m serious.
Me: You act like I never feed you. And that looks like a lot of work, which requires a lot of time and thought and calculations.
Her: But they save thousands of dollars. Please, let’s just try it. I’ll help. It’ll be a project we can do together. It will be fun.
This is how I have come to be considering attempting a single shopping trip in which I try to cut my grocery bill in half with the use of coupons. That it can be done, I have no doubt. The question is if it can be done by me, and if I can come home with grocery items my family will actually eat or use, without spending my week obsessing over sales and coupons when I should be writing.
What do you think? Is it possible?
Stay tuned next week to find out how it went.
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1 comment:
Yeah, that sounds like a small side job that would eat up way too much of my time just to get more...food. I'd almost rather eat Ramen and get more books written, but that's just the situation I'm in right now. I could easily whistle a different tune when I hear how this went for you. :)
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