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Theres a strong argument to be made that utilizing couponing as something of a part-time job is pointless because, considering the amount of time thats required, youd wind up making (or saving, as it were) far more money with an actual part-time job. Whats more, a paycheck is generally considered superior to, say, a stockpile of 50 jars of tomato sauce.
I didnt have a lot of free time because I was going to stores whenever I had spare time on my hands to try to get, you know, the next deal. A lot of the stuff, the coupons would expire, so you feel like you have to go before they are going to expire. And if the stuff sold out, well, you got to go back again the next day and see if you can find it.
i'm not an extreme couponer. I clip coupons for stuff I will use. I try to use the coupons when the supermarket has the item on sale.
my supermarkets weekly online ad is searchable. so I just enter keywords for the coupons I have and note which is on sale.
simple and not that time consuming.
Theres a strong argument to be made that utilizing couponing as something of a part-time job is pointless because, considering the amount of time thats required, youd wind up making (or saving, as it were) far more money with an actual part-time job. Whats more, a paycheck is generally considered superior to, say, a stockpile of 50 jars of tomato sauce.
I didnt have a lot of free time because I was going to stores whenever I had spare time on my hands to try to get, you know, the next deal. A lot of the stuff, the coupons would expire, so you feel like you have to go before they are going to expire. And if the stuff sold out, well, you got to go back again the next day and see if you can find it.
i'm not an extreme couponer. I clip coupons for stuff I will use. I try to use the coupons when the supermarket has the item on sale.
my supermarkets weekly online ad is searchable. so I just enter keywords for the coupons I have and note which is on sale.
simple and not that time consuming.