Couponing Through Alaska, Motherhood and College

What I have learned about couponing so far part. 1

2011-11-11T17:30:00.001-09:00

I've only been couponing for a short time but so far I love it to death. Of course things are different Alaska couponing versus the rest of the U.S. In Alaska we hardly get any inserts in our papers, thanks to a low population rate and a wide demographic company's just do not know what to do with us. That's why a Alaska couponers two best friends are IP's (Internet printables). And a friends or relative in the lower 48 who either owes you favor or just really loves you that much. I am not ashamed to say I have hit up a bunch of friends and family to send me coupons ( and in case your reading this please please please send me coupons..... oh and I love you all).

Of course there are sites were you can order coupons from the Sunday paper, or the whole insert if you like. They are kinda spendy though and I really do not understand the point of spending $30 on coupons. In my opinion this kinda defeats the purpose of couponing. By the way allot of the people on extreme couponing use these services either that or they buy like 50 papers, or both. Now a few cents on stamps for relatives to send you coupons seems like a more cost effective option.

The internet houses quite a few coupon sites but allot of them have the same coupons. Unless your super into couponing and feel like spending hours looking through sites (totally guilty on this one) there are seven sites where I get the majority of my coupons.

The site were I get most of my coupons is coupons.com. This site seems to have the best overall mix of coupons and you can enter you store cards to load electronic coupons, both Fred Meyer and Safeway cards. There is also shortcuts.com but pretty much all of their coupons are on coupons.com. Coupons.com and Shortcuts do both IP's and electronic coupons.

My second favorite coupon site is savingstar this is a electronic only coupon site and only a very few of their coupons are doubled on other sites.

The three inserts that you will see in the Sunday paper all have their own websites its about 50/50 on coupons that are doubled on other sites. And no they do not have their Sunday insert coupons online in case you just got super excited ;). P&G which I am currently getting a server error on, smartsource.com and redplum.com.

Both Fred Meyer and Safeway have electronic coupons you can load on your card. Some of the coupons are doubles from the above sites though. You create a online account and you must know your shoppers card number (its beneath the bar code) for all of you who lost their cards sadly your phone number will not work. Another nice thing about this is you do not have to fill out all that paperwork when you want to change you phone number, address, or name you can just update it online.

A great IP on coupons.com right now is a bunch of glade coupons. This is great for all you people out there who have fake trees and miss that real tree smell. Glade has special holiday scents out and one of them is Spruce it up! enjoy the coupons ^_^

Get a Melissa & Doug 25% Off Coupon When You Take the North "Poll"

2011-11-10T14:49:00.001-09:00

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Best Shopping Trip Yet!

2011-11-09T23:16:00.002-09:00

I'm writing this on commercial breaks of Extreme Couponing. Pretty sure those people are my new hero's. Anyone out there not using their insert's? I know a good home for them! I think I'm starting to border on obsession with couponing.... I'm seriously contemplating dupster diving for coupons. The only thing holding me back is that its getting really cold out. But come summer I have a feeling my new home will be the recycle bin. I really really wish I had more inserts from the 6th. There is a coupon for BOGO Schick disposable razors and guess what! at Fred's these razors are on sale for BOGO which means absolutely FREE razor's!

I had my best coupon shopping trip ever today thanks to the BOGO sale on Schick razors at Fred's. My total was a whopping $92.62. I stood there about to die thinking to myself what have I done! But I just went with it and handed over my coupons and watched the total plummet to a grand sum of $22.27. That was the best feeling ever, next to getting married and seeing my baby for the first time of course that is ;). For that 22.27 I got 2 Schick disposable razors, 2 Schick women's razors, 2 Schick men's razors, 2 Schick men's razors refills, 2 bags of halls cough drops, 1lb of carrots, Organic Coconut oil, a surprise for my Dad for Christmas I couldn't resist and the Ghiradelli Peppermint bark I also just HAD to have. That's about the same price as just the 2 razor refills alone.

sorry its fuzzy its the best my camera would take

I got a new file holder for my coupons, hopefully this works better for organizing them. I've seen other ways to organize them. The most popular seems to be the coupon binder, I think a binder would be to big and bulky for me though. Plus my file is very cute, does not really look like a file holder at all. More like a cute clutch.

The Black Friday add for Walmart went online today also very exciting. It looks much more impressive than the Fred Meyer sales I must say. Lot's and lot's of electronic deals $19 for a HP printer is a sweet deal. That's about half the cost of new color Ink alone for my printer. I was really hoping that someone would have the little people talking zoo for a super awesome price but I think I'll be out of luck. $18.92 for a Ninja is a deal I might have to take advantage of, depending on what all it comes with of course. I almost don't want to shop at Walmart what with being open on thanksgiving this year. Also being open at midnight is a annoyance and Walmart's add has prices for 3 different times! Yes were all used to adds with the deals that stop at 9, 10, or noon But three different days is going a little overboard.

Lastly on my mind is a better name for my blog. Somebody out there must have a better name idea. Which really it wont be that hard to beat my current name.

Yay!!! first blog post

2011-11-08T18:58:00.000-09:00

So I have decided to make my many wasted internet hours into a somewhat productive time by writing a blog that maybe someone will enjoy.

Let me first say that I super stink at grammar, so please have mercy on me and overlook all the vast amounts of grammatical errors that I'm sure will be in this blog. Graduating with a I.T degree really does not help the grammar side of things as you pretty much talk in acronyms.

I am a proud new mother of a little boy who in my husbands and mine opinion is pretty much the cutest thing ever. I also think he has recently started teething. His recent crankiness, ability to soak through a sweater and undershirt, and wanting to chew on everything has tipped me off. He thinks his hands are pretty much the yummiest thing ever.

I am married to the best guy ever. well most of the time ;). Case in point would be earlier today when we were watching TV he has this habit of putting on the dumbest thing on at the time. Now usually when I ask why he's watching this he says he was flipping and not really watching it at all. This however can not be believed as he leaves the annoying thing on for way longer than the other flippy channels. But today as I was saying yet again that he was leaving the stupidest things on way to long and he HAD to be doing it on purpose! He admits that yes he does enjoy the stupidest thing on TV. Only for the fact that he loves it when I get all riled up about it.... I feel strangely vindicated yet defeated about this. Definitely a face palm moment.

I also have a mad love for couponing. This love is the child of always getting a thrill out of finding good deals and my husband still being in college. I really should be planing my shopping list right now since I'm going shopping after picking my friend up from work tomorrow. I'm gonna grab some .8 cent trail size toothpaste which I'm pretty excited about and some .33 cent first aid kits. Along with some other goody's I'm not quite sure about the price yet.