Thanks to a link on a thread I posted, I found this thread!

I'm fairly new to coupons - I've done it off and on for years but am now really looking to become more proficient at it! I was in line at Kroger a couple of weeks ago and the lady behind me commented that I should have my own show because of the amount of coupons and money saved. I personally don't think I'm that good (yet!!) but I would love to get to that point. When I was really getting good deals at CVS the cashiers would recognize me coming in the door and say hello to the "coupon girl"

I'm looking forward to learning so much more about this.
To get my coupons, we go and buy a Sunday paper. I always look to see if there are "good" coupons - if I deem that there are, we buy multiple papers. If not, I stick with the one and go from there. I also get the Sunday coupons in our local paper that was delivered this morning for FREE! We have an empty house (two now actually) next to us so instead of letting the papers sit out, I gladly take them (with their permission of course!). I also belong to a coupon train here on the DIS and have a great sender who sends all kinds of coupons!! She is amazing! I also learned from my sender that I should grab those coupons on the shelves in the store - just because I might not use them doesn't mean that someone else can't or their store doesn't have the machines!
As for how long it takes to check out, it's ususally a little while just because of the amount of stuff that I have!

The coupons don't add too much time to the routine. I also don't swipe my debit card until the VERY end as I've had the total go through before the cashier took coupons off...
For the first time this week I'm trying to shop with paper and e coupons. I've loaded some coupons onto my Kroger card and am going to give it a shot while I'm shopping to see if they come off the receipt or not. I have the print outs of what "should be" on my cards so I'll go to Customer Service if it doesn't look like the right number of coupons came off.
Thanks to a tip on the thread I started (here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=30753889&posted=1#post30753889) I'm also keeping track of how many coupons I'm using and the amounts to be sure each coupon was scanned and applied to the order. I'd never thought of this until this week.
Overall, this is super adicting for me. I LOVE having a Kroger receipt literally as tall as my 4 year old with the bottom half being the coupon part!!

It's amazing what you can save when you're really trying to.
My plan for this week's shopping is to spend about $140 (I'd planned on about $70 but found a more complete listing with more deals!!) and saving just over $100 on just over $230 worth of stuff (if my math's all right!!). Granted, it's not that great to some, but to me, heck yeah it is. I'm also just starting to stock pile so I'm thinking it won't be this much every week. I'd probably spend a bit more if we had more freezer space but we just don't right now.
Thanks for such a great thread!!
