Coupons Options

[Mommy]

Does anyone know of a Web site that has coupons on it for groceries? I want to be really frugal at the grocery store. Even though I have the money to pay more, I want to get through these recent food price spikes with only paying the same as I did before. I wouldn't mind printing up a few coupons to do that. I don't get the Sunday paper so that idea is out.

I did manage to go to the store today for a few things and made out decently, but only because fruit is finally in season so it's cheaper.

I got a bag of grapes, 3 plums, 2 nectarines, 6 bananas, 3 large oranges, 3 cans of tomato sauce, a bag of frozen french fries, a 12 pack of Pepsi, dishwasher soap, and some cookie dough all for $20 and some change. I just wonder if I could do even better than that.

I wanted some of the muffins from the HEB bakery, but a 3 pack was $3.19! That's insane. They used be two something.

[Epic]

You aren't being a responsible capitalist, you're being a fucking cheapskate. Seriously, you're shopping for one person. How much are you going to save via using coupons? Two, three bucks total? If you're worried about amounts of money that small you have some serious financial issues you need to address

It's just like the jackasses who will drive out of their way to a gas station that has gas 5 cents cheaper. Five cents sounds appealing until you realize a 15 gallon tank will save you a whopping 75 cents total, and it probably cost you more than that in gas to drive the extra distance. Morons.

haha, i will never take financial advice from you Will. And I cook 3 times a day, rarely eat out, and i can accummulate quite a bit of savings that I devote toward hobbies that I enjoy instead of overpaying when you don't have to. The next time you buy a car, go ahead and pay sticker because apparently you're a cheapskate any other way.

And you can't spare 30 seconds to save 7 or 8 bucks? Well maybe if I'm doing it I'll ask out the cute underage cashier, will you approve then?

Of course this is coming from the guy who just a few years ago wouldn't buy food at Rosa's because it broke into his beer budget.

[Oasis]

haha, i will never take financial advice from you Will. And I cook 3 times a day, rarely eat out, and i can accummulate quite a bit of savings that I devote toward hobbies that I enjoy instead of overpaying when you don't have to. The next time you buy a car, go ahead and pay sticker because apparently you're a cheapskate any other way.

And you can't spare 30 seconds to save 7 or 8 bucks? Well maybe if I'm doing it I'll ask out the cute underage cashier, will you approve then?

Of course this is coming from the guy who just a few years ago wouldn't buy food at Rosa's because it broke into his beer budget.

Of course I'll spare 30 seconds to save 7 or 8 bucks. But are you really saving 7 or 8 bucks, and is it really taking only 30 seconds? Most sunday newspapers run $1.50 each. It costs time and money to go buy the newspaper. It takes at least 30 minutes to sift through all the Parade magazines and other shit in the paper to find the coupons you need, and more time to cut them up. Of course you could spend another 30 minutes online looking for coupons and printing them out using paper you purchased. And unless you're leeching internet, you're paying at least $25-$30/month for high speed internet access so you can get those coupons. Unless you're working a minimum wage job (which you aren't), that hour of time, effort, and small expenses in getting coupons probably saves you nothing in the grand scheme of things.

I'm all about saving money, but I can't justify wasting time accumulating coupons as way to cut expenses. Give me that hour back and I'll go mow my mom's lawn or something on the weekend and make $30, and the extra eight bucks I won't save at the store will be more than worth it.

That was my point.

Oh, and the last car I bought, I talked him down from $7200 to $6000 after several hours of doing research figuring out what similar cars in similar conditions have sold for. I'm not gonna pay full sticker price for shit if I can bargain the seller down