Couponing

Ok so I have never understood how extreme couponing works.  I don’t get how people can go into a store and buy over a hundred dollar’s worth of groceries for only seven dollars…it’s a complete mystery to me.  Although I don’t do extreme couponing, I have started looking through papers for deals and coupons for items I do use.  One place that I keep saving money with is Target. I recently downloaded the Cartwheel app and like seeing how much money I save by using the extra discounts that come with it.  Ever since their security breach last winter, Target has also been providing awesome coupons in their weekly sale paper.  One week they had a great deal where if you bought $50 worth of certain items such as toilet paper and cleaning supplies, they would take $20 off at the register.  As I looked through the items, I thought “Hey! These are great deals on brand name products that I actually use!”  I decided that I would hit up Target on Saturday morning the week of this great deal, and so did every other woman in town…it was a madhouse!  I ended up getting great deals on laundry detergent, toilet paper, garbage bags, and other cleaning supplies.  While extreme couponing isn’t for me, I do encourage anyone who is on a budget to look at sales papers for the coupons like this that can save money.  I only spent $30 on the products pictured below. It was two months ago that I bought all of it, and we are only halfway through using each of the products. If you have room for it, buying items in bulk when they are on sale is the way to go!