Friday, December 2, 2011

extreme couponing?

Many of you know my love of coupons, not the extreme couponing TLC level (I'd prefer not to purchase 20 cans of cat food in order to get Kroger to pay me five bucks...but that's just me). In many ways, it's become a bit of a game for me, trying to find matching manufacturers coupons for the store coupons, for example...last week at whole foods I scored $7 off of $20 for a few yummy items because of my double couponing.

The hard part of me has always been figuring how to balance my love of organic, fancy brands and my love of couponing. There are lots of coupons out there for Totinos Pizza Rolls and the like, but not so much for Robert's cheddar bunnies, unfortunately. I've looked long and hard to find those organic coupons and have stumbled across a few sites that have them, and will email them to me on a regular basis...here's my version of a coupon roundup, most of which yall probably already know:

Sites with coupons for their own products:
Stonyfield Farm (join their rewards program...my free martha stewart subscription is courtesy of my son's yogurt obsession)
Old Orchard (I love to buy the frozen concentrates and then use our glass milk bottles...saves the enviornment and is much cheaper for juice-a-holics like myself and my son)

Horizon Used to visit this weekly when we'd print coupons for their milk for Robert, this was before we discovered the beauty of Homestead Creamery (no website for them, sorry)

Target: I hope that everyone knows that Target has weekly coupons, not only for their up & up products but also for lots of other things...namely, their selection of TLC Kashi bars and crackers...I wait until they're sponsoring a sale that includes a Target gift card, then I pounce and get four boxes at once (with four coupons, obviously)

Kroger: loaded their smart phone app on my iphone, now I check through their coupons before I go to the store and then download directly to my Kroger account...while I'm at it, if you haven't already heard how we work the system with fuel points and gift cards (Martins does this too), let me know and I'll fill you in..Robert and I haven't paid full price for gas in months! Again, it's all a game to us, gotta see how we can hit the $1 off per gallon before filling up!

Frugal Free Gal this lady does a weekly Organic coupon roundup...become her friend on facebook and it'll appear on your wall as a reminder...just printed $3 off Yes to Carrots for my facewash:)

Mambo Sprouts It's the coupons.com for organic foods:) Right now they've got Organic Valley half and half among other things...

Passion for Savings join their daily newsletter for deals from all other the web:)

anyone else know of good sites that I'm missing?

Happy Couponing:)

And because this is intended on being a blog about my kids and not my frugality, here's our Joshua...getting bigger by the day!