How I get so many coupons

Okay I have been asked how I get so many coupons. First of all I have 4 subscriptions to the Tampa Tribune (50 cents a week per paper...so $2 a week total--obviously I save way more than that per week). Plus I get my MIL's leftover coupons, which quite often tend to be almost everything. And then if there is something I think I really will want I snag a couple of pages from the coupons in the newspaper that gets delivered to work. I am one of only 2 people there at 5:30 in the morning so I usually get first dibs! lol However, I think I am going to subscribe to the St. Pete Times, as I can get a subscription for 30 cents a week. That will basically give me 6 sets of coupons each week.

This is the tub I use to keep all my coupons in. I have the entire coupon book filed by date. So in most folders there is a Red Plum and a Smart Source (well 5 of each right now lol). Some times there are two different Smart Source or Red Plum. There are also Publix and Proctor and Gamble. There are also Parade magazines if there is a coupon in it. That's pretty much all the newspaper stuff.

Then, like I said in my first post, I use the local coupon website called TrueCouponing.com. They have all the local stores and their ads for the week and then they match up the coupons for you. I go through the list and see what I want/need and then it tells me where to get the coupon, it could be either in my stash of coupons or it could be a printable coupon. So tonight when I worked on my list, I found $1.50 off Nabisco Crackerfuls in one of my sets of coupons. I also saw that online there was a coupon for $1.00 off Wheat Thins Crunch Stix, so I went and printed that out. Some of the websites you have to actually sign up for the newsletter and some are directly coupon printing sites. Here is my crazy work station, PLEASE don't look at the junk papers! lol I also have the desktop computer on because several sites will only let you print out 2 coupons per computer. Luckily, the ports on the desktop are on the front so it is easy to change which computer the printer is hooked up to! lol DH wants to get a new computer and I told him that was fine, but he could not get rid of this computer so I can print 6 coupons if I need to! lol

The other places I get coupons are actually on products, for instance the first week when I bought toothpaste, I chose a different "flavor" just because it said there were $10 worth of coupons inside! Also, there are little "blinkies"...the red coupon dispensers in the store. One lady said she takes her kids with her and they each have to come back with at least 3 of those coupons each before they can leave the store. I try to only take what I would actually use. lol Now wishing I would have been more diligent about it last week though so I could get some cheese this week for only 66 cents a bag. I will see if there are any left, but my guess is they are gone. Darn!

Let me know if you have any other questions! It makes me so excited to do this and share, which is the philosophy of TrueCouponing. :-) I am super excited about my grocery store trip tomorrow....here is a sneak peek...I will get at least 4 products for FREE!!! YEP you read that right! The coupon is the same amount as the item is being sold for this week! And I THINK I will MAKE MONEY on one of the items! I will show and tell tomorrow or Friday. :-)