Not so extreme couponing

Yes I use coupons regularly, most readers here know that, and several blogs I read are thinking about starting or getting better at using coupons.

Just because you use them doesn't mean you have to be an extreme coupon queen.  You don't have dedicate an entire level of your home to stockpiling everything from potato chips to pickles and you don't have to go dumpster diving for coupon inserts from the Sunday paper and you really don't have to spend much time on it at all...

BUT...You can save money on the things your family uses the most, you can find a small area of your home to stockpile those items and you can spend about an hour a week planning to save this money.

It is couponing not to the extreme.  And I am going to blog about each step I take in detail over the week...I will tell what I do, why I do it and how much I save*...

The items pictured above cost me a total of $1.39 after coupons and store rewards...There are 4 Avery binders, paper towels, 6 boxes of kleenex, three hand soaps, and a box of envelopes

If your interested you can use what I do as a guide and change it up a little to make couponing work for your family...

To get started it does take a little more time and a little more effort than I described above, however after about a month you should find yourself in a groove and be able to quickly save time and money at the stores!

So I am going to do step by step posts this week - a post per day describing each thing I do.  Grab a pencil and I will see you here tomorrow!

*many coupon users will argue that I don't SAVE as much as possible, I save what I save, how I save it and well, you can save too as much or as little as you want to!