Posted on 04/06/2011 9:06:53 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
I think home canning is about to see a renaissance.
My grandma canned too, everything from pears to pickles. She never taught me so I had to buy the “Blue Book” and learn from scratch, but I did get a few tips from her before she died. Like using a couple different types of apples in apple butter.
I’ll be attempting a garden this summer and will try canning more than just apple butter. I hate tomatoes but my husband loves them, so they’re on the list.
At these prices( with coupons)..I can afford to donate my older stock to the neighbors here and there...
I dont keep months worth of food...but a few weeks worth...if I have to bug out I wouldnt be able to take it all anyways...need for for the guns and ammo...oh and the kids...
*grin*
This reporter obviously has NO IDEA how much time and effort it takes to do extreme (or even mild) couponing. I did it for a while, but it took a lot of time and organizing. These people are taking their resources (time, money (yes, sometimes you pay to get the coupons through exchanges, multiple papers, magazines, etc.)) and making a “profit” of sorts. What’s wrong with that?
I bet this reporter never does a column exposing the lady I saw one day in line at the grocery who was buying $40 worth of prepared fruit trays with an electronic food-stamp debit card... she commented that her son likes fruit, so they always buy it already prepared. Never mind that people who are actually paying MONEY for fruit usually but the cheapest (unprepared) fruit. Or maybe a column about how people on food stamps can now use their cards for fast food restaurants??
I, again, won’t hold my breath.
My daughter is an extreme shopper. Every time I go with her on one of her shopping expiditions I am very proud of her she works very hard at her job and at couponing. Whenever she gets in the checkout line it seems like she is always behind some fourth or fifth generation welfare recipient purchasing a cart load of ribs, steaks, and all of the most expensive items in the store without ever considering the price. The worst part is my daughter a taxpayer is paying for the cart load of welfare food in front of her. Hope and Change. Hope and Change
Both companies responded with a personal email the next business day. And they both sent me coupons for their products. One company even sent me a t-shirt.
Long story short, coupons rule and I'm going to keep writing about products I like.
When did Americans stop finding frugality a virtue?!?
They didn't. Just left-wing media types who look down on them.
When I had 3 boys living at home, I organized a tupperware ice cream container, coupons fit perfectly in it.
One year I save $2,000.00.
I would make on the calendar every time I went to the store what I saved and totaled at the end of the month.
That was awhile back when some stores would offer 3 times value.
I wasn’t a nut about it, just used coupons that came in mailers or the newspaper and I only used ones for the food we ate. I did try a few new products at times.
Hey, you & your CW site even got a mention in the comments below the article there! (Wasn’t me.)
My wife is a proud coupon clipper. And she saves us a lot of money that way.
One of our jokes is that she’s looking for a two for one deal for our headstones. Her headstone will proudly say “ModelBreaker’s was Free.”
That last sentence made me crack up!
I used to be a great couponer when dh and I first married 16 years ago—kind of had to on what they paid an E-4 in the Navy ;) We ate really well for people who qualified for assistance (we didn’t take it).
I got out of the habit for a long time, but I’m back to doing it again. Walgreens has some great deals—I’ve bought four tubes of toothpaste in the last week and didn’t pay a penny thanks to coupons and their Register Rewards. I got an almost free stick of deodorant. I’ve stocked up on body wash for the next several months for next to nothing (same with shampoo and hair care stuff). With four kids (including an almost 13 y.o. daughter) and a husband, toiletries are great place for me to save money.
A few months ago, I scored a $30 pair of shoes for just over $5 brand new. They were an return from an internet order at Target. What’s funny is that they were a little smaller than I normally wear, but at that price I convinced myself to try them on, and lo and behold, they fit perfectly!
One of my Sunday rituals is the weekly culling and organizing of the coupons, and then matching them up with the sales ads in the paper (the only reason I get the paper on Sunday). My kids know that is their time to steer clear of me ;) —unless it is an emergency, of course!
“One of my Sunday rituals is the weekly culling and organizing of the coupons, and then matching them up with the sales ads in the paper (the only reason I get the paper on Sunday). My kids know that is their time to steer clear of me ;) —unless it is an emergency, of course!”
Heck, we shop for clothes at 50% off day at Goodwill, especially for the kids. I hate paying all that money for decent clothes that will fit for about three months.
Me too! I just bought new shoes for the two oldest...I usually buy better shoes for them because they are not so hard on them and they seem to get about a year’s worth of use since they are supposed to wear tennnis shoes w/their school uniform. My son’s were $20 and his big sister got a $40 pair, but then again, she’s got bigger feet than me now :( My 6 y.o. daughter is hard on shoes, so I still buy her less expensive ones from either WalMart or Target.
I don’t think my kids know what lies beyond the clearance racks in stores, lol. I specifically waited until the last day of the big 3 day consignment sale at the fairgrounds last month because it was 1/2 price day! I got two pairs of summery shoes for my younger daughter for a total of $2! I paid a little over $40 and came home with several bags of clothes and shoes.
Over the weekend I ‘splurged’ and spent about $25 on a dress for my oldest daughter for her 6th grade graduation from Catholic school next month. It was normally $58. It’s so hard to find modest dresses for a teen/pre-teen girl that it was worth the expense—and she can wear it again for Mass or dressy occasions.
Oh my! This is the perfect picture of a limo lefty.
That comment irked me too. No one sees me drop off any food either, because we have a monthly collection at my parish. And if someone doesn’t want to donate, what’s it to me?
The Coupon Whisperer will be watching "Extreme Couponing" very closely tonight. In fact, I wouldn't mind appearing on the show. However, I don't like piling up my shopping cart in a single run. I prefer to get a few select things on each supermarket visit mainly because I don't want the people behind me on line pissed off and also because if the cashier makes an error (which happens a lot) I would have to have a lot of work canceled out and start all over again.
p.s. And no matter how good the other couponers are at stockpiling I bet none of them ever got themselves a laptop computer (new which I am posting on now) for FREE. Even the Walgreens coupon "Yoda" Jedi Master was impressed by that.
“Little piggies go to market, and clean up on Aisle 5,” the article’s online headline snarked.
What an absolute a-hole...
Or maybe just common sense. For example, I am now stockpiling (among other things) vacuum pack bricks of coffee. Right now have about a 2 month supply but building it up to last until the end of the year. Just one less thing I have to buy. Ditto for A/C filters, tuna fish, cleaning products, and a lot of other stuff.
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