My wife tried the coupon deal.. Still does it from time to time on some stuff but we found that the house brand (aka generic) is just as good, and cheaper than the brand with a coupon, even on double coupon day.
It pays to shop, and stock up when things are on sale, no doubt about it.
I don't know about that. This week I picked up a bunch of 6 oz Colgate Total toothpaste tubes for just under 20 cents each, including tax. Actually I got them for FREE and what I paid was the sales tax.
Could you do better than that with generic?
Yes, stock up...for example a drug store chain here (Bartells) often has colgate toothpaste for ONE DOLLAR....limit 5. Love it!
Keep an eye out for the buy 10 get $5.00 off at stores like Kroger’s I stocked up on .49 DelMonte veggies that way. That is cheaper than store brand. I like Kroger’s brand of veggies but the DelMonte was 20 cents cheaper. And use the coupons with the 10 items. Did that last week and I can’t believe its not butter ended up costing .49 for the 1 lb sticks.
The trick is to buy what you need or are going to need in the next few months or will keep a long time and will be rising in price. Like laundry soaps. I bought All for $1.99 Tuesday because it was part of the buy 10 and I had 3 coupons for All..used all 3 and won’t need laundry soap for 4 months now.
Bought my hair care products at Walgreens, had coupons for every item, they gave me a $5.00 register reward, which I used to buy 12 large rolls pk of Cottonel TP.
Bought my BOGO vitamins at Rite Aid with coupons, and the RR’s to buy an 8 pk of Viva paper towels and a box of Kleenex which was BOGO final cost $1.36 for the paper products.
Exactly. Local stores have finally started putting unopened cases on the endcaps too because of people like me when some canned items go on sale.
If the price is right, I'll buy a couple cases of items we use regularly.