New Q Shoppers, Don't be Scared! You Can Do This!!

Quote from hawaiiandawn : TY. Sometimes I feel so irrelevant now. No CVS, no Target and almost all WAG's prices are about $2 per deal higher than ya'lls. Makes it hard to contribute. Encouragement is all I have to offer.

Truthfully, I believe I could give up CVS, Wags, Target, Kmart, WM....all of them, to live where you are! Everytime I see your name and location, I feel all jealous!
Thank you for this post! How sweet and encouraging. This site and the people here are so helpful, and I appreciate that.

Quote from sd59 : not all areas have all the stores found in the forums. and sometimes if they are, they are an hour or so away making it hard for people to do deals.

I love your webpage!!! And it is so nice of you to post it so others can learn for FREE. Good job.

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the positive vibes from everyone.

Quote from crazy4vs : No CVS or Target in paradise...the islands

Yes'm. Crazy isn't crazy.

Quote from yellowlb : Truthfully, I believe I could give up CVS, Wags, Target, Kmart, WM....all of them, to live where you are! Everytime I see your name and location, I feel all jealous! Thank you for this post! How sweet and encouraging. This site and the people here are so helpful, and I appreciate that.

I do love it here. Don't get me wrong. I just like to help folks too.

Great idea HD! A thread that will have patience with noobs - which we all once were.

Dang, I'm out of reps. I have to add you to my list of reps when I get them back.

Nice thread.....thanks HD!

Thank you. I am going to subscribe to this thread... I am overwhelmed right now after reading pages and pages of threads dedicated to Walgreens and CVS deals. I gave myself a migraine last night - I was busy reading for so long.. Thanks again and repped!

Thank you for the nice thread and many thanks to those who have offered tips on slick deals. Saving money is more fun than spending it...Wait let me rephrase that....Saving money while still spending it is an addictive fun!
Just the other day I had to buy some chicken and was upset because I didn't have a coupon. lol

Thank you!!! I really do try to search the threads for things before I post a question... but with thousands of posts a day it can be overwhelming!!! Very nice to have a place to ask my stupid questions now.

Quote from 1southern1belle : Thank you for the nice thread and many thanks to those who have offered tips on slick deals. Saving money is more fun than spending it...Wait let me rephrase that....Saving money while still spending it is an addictive fun! Just the other day I had to buy some chicken and was upset because I didn't have a coupon. lol

It's a good thread.

Never fear we have some chicken coupons floating around here. I'll send you the links

Quote from crystal181 : Thanks! I love this place, everyone has been very helpful to me! You wouldn't believe all the money I've saved since joining. I wish I had known about coupon shopping years ago.

Knocked $81 off my CVS order with coupons yesterday, thanks to my SD training. Thanks, HD, I'm sure I'll learn something here even though I'm an old newbie.

Quote from crazy4vs : Never fear we have some chicken coupons floating around here. I'll send you the links

Chicken coupons!? Other than the Perdue nuggets from a few weeks ago? I'd be interested in those links, too, if you don't mind.

Quote from crazy4vs : It's a good thread. Never fear we have some chicken coupons floating around here. I'll send you the links

I was just thinking the same thing.

I wonder if those new to coupon use know the SD abbreviation for the word coupon is "Q"?

But great thinking.

Quote from rosprncss : I wonder if those new to coupon use know the SD abbreviation for the word coupon is "Q"? But great thinking.

They would if they looked at the "Drugstore and Grocery Store Index and Information Thread" listed above.

Quote from rosprncss : I wonder if those new to coupon use know the SD abbreviation for the word coupon is "Q"? But great thinking.

That's a good point. I had a Gerber Q PDF saved to my desktop and my DH was on my laptop doing something and he was like "What in the he** is a Gerber Q?" lol... In my house, we call them coo-pons, not Q-pons like many do, so he was totally confused.

I just want to say, as encouragement to others. I got into all this at the end of my pregnancy and while I was on maternity leave. Don't get me wrong, I'm super busy with my son, who is 17 weeks old, but I was off of work for almost 3 months and couponing was the PERFECT hobby for me to pick up. Money got really tight when the baby came, I love to shop, and I was desperate for some "me" time. So, I'd research some deals and when hubby got home from work, I'd go out for an hour or so and do some "shopping". My stockpile is growing steadily, and it's SO gratifying to see how much money I'm saving my family. I only work part time because we can't afford day care, so I feel like couponing is my way of contributing. With 3 cats, a dog and a baby, I need to save everywhere I can. To me, coupons = money.

Anyway, my point is, I've only been doing this for around 4 months and I feel like I know the ropes really well. My advice is to perfect one store, then move on to the next. I have a Kroger that doubles up to $1 Q's, so I started with small runs here and there, maybe saving 50-60%. Then eventually it was getting down to less than $1 OOP (out of pocket) and now I'm disappointed if it's much more than that lol. Now I also do Rite-Aid and am working the Kmart double days. Whew, I'm long winded.... lol The moral of my story is, start where you're comfortable and go from there. You CAN do this!!!