Sale not to miss!

[workinforwood]

It's not just a title, it's becoming well known in the community! This is a twice a year event. I told ya'll, my wife is the Queen of Coupons!!! Let there be no doubt, bow down now! This is just in the garage, there's a bit more outside, in the basement and in bins. All items purchased with coupons and rebates, costing zero dollars, or almost zero dollars. You are looking at diapers, shampoo's, razors, deoderants, peanuts, household cleaning products of all kinds, dish and dishwasher soaps, party cups and supplies, toothpaste and brushes, batteries, medicine's like advil and more, adult toys, cereals, crackers, chocolate bars, juice, gatorade, the list goes on and on and on! Her last garage sale "sale not to miss", raised $3000+ in 3 days! And people need food stamps??? This is all part of her plan to bring us into debt freedom, god bless her!

 

[Hayseedboy]

That is AWESOME!!! She needs to teach others (for a fee) how to do that!

 

[VisExp]

As Dave would say: "You guys are totally wierd!" :biggrin:

 

[workinforwood]

She does teach a class at the high school a couple times a year, and she doesn't charge much for the class. If you are thinking poor people don't show, you are correct. Only middle class and rich people show up...perhaps that's why they have money..they want to spend it wisely!

I'm weird!..well, you wouldn't love me if I wasn't!

 

[woodman928]

Thats because the poor do not have the money to buy the stuff and wait the 60 to 90 days or more for the rebates to show up. :frown:

 

[shull]

"Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves".

Ben Franklin

 

[workinforwood]

nah..very few items she has are rebates. most items are clear coupons. I see reciepts on a weekly basis between $500-$1500 ...really huge long reciepts, and then below the total, I see a savings total that exceeds the billing total!!! If I didn't see this, not once, but on a regular basis, I wouldn't believe it possible. Heck, just think...popcorn. It is on sale 5 bags for $1. She has 1000 coupons for $0.25 off each bag. How much is she paying for her popcorn? Now, the store can't pay you to take merchandise from the store. They will just give you a reciept and that's that. Not my wife...she's in the fridge buying beer, buying milk and other items that can't be couponed, but the beer has rebates on it! She'll pay for those using the quarter she saved buying the popcorn..remember they owe her $.25 for every 5th bag!! you divide 1000 into 5 and that's how many quarters she can spend in the store before she leaves..assuming she doesn't have another coupon worth more than another item in the store at the same time. The best shopping is CVS. Bottom line..you don't need anything but a newspaper and some coupon fliers. Give her one dollar she'll make you a fortune.

 

[angelofdeath]

got to teach my girl to do something like this....awesome idea....

 

[Monty]

Wow...but here in Texas, coupons do not work like that. One coupon per item. Generic is usually cheaper than the brand with a 25 cent coupon (even doubling, that is all they do here) . Rebates on beer?? Good for her, but I would be happy if I could get meat and vegies a little less. No bargains here, no coupons in local papers to help. (1000 bags of popcorn? What about supper??)

 

[workinforwood]

There's rebates on budweiser 18 packs right now. Some stores have a gift card system, CVS and Meijer do this, but you don't have Meijer in Texas, but I bet there's other stores that do. You only buy items on sale and with a coupon, coupons usually double but only up to $1.00. You buy your coupons online. It is illegal to sell coupons, but you are not buying the coupons, you are buying the "shipping and handling" so the sellers quote it...a loop hole. You buy item's on sale only, so if a razor is on sale for $1.99, you use a $2 coupon and get back a penny. You probably won't find a $2 coupon in the paper here during that sale, but that $2 coupon might be in a paper in Minnesota! They have a whole message board just like this one set up for couponers with all this data! So you might post that razors are on sale for $2. Someone in Minnesota or elsewhere could respond, not on sale here, but I have $2 or $3 coupon and at the same time maybe someone in Texas says I have buy one get one free...whooo...now you can be paid $1 for the first razor and get the second one free! The $1 is applied to a gift card. The gift card is used to buy meat and vegetables. It's an incredible system of opportunity that any income level can benefit!

 

[jleiwig]

there is a website called www.afullcup.com that is full of couponing moms. They are quite militant about coupons. When Target stopped taking printed coupons I think they almost threw an armed revolt!

 

[workinforwood]

Day one is almost over and she is setting a new record, her sales are approaching $3500. In the spring her sale made about that much but over a 4 day period, this is only day 1 !

I am pretty sure she is a member of full cup and I think her ID is ILOVECVS

 

[NewLondon88]

(1000 bags of popcorn? What about supper??)

It works.. you just make a meatloaf shaped like a turkey, and you stuff it with the popcorn.

When the ass end blows out of the turkey, you know it's done! :biggrin:

 

[markgum]

Excellant Jeff. My daughter is a coupon queen also. She went to Kohls today and some how; the real bill was $525; she only paid $250 and got $70 in Kohls coupons. Wish my wife would learn how to make coupons work. Wonder if there are coupons like this for wood turning stuff..