coupons should work with your budget and meal plans. Lots of stores have in store coupons you can load to a savings card now, which save you the time in coupon clipping. My local store sends me coupons that it tracks from my savings card so almost all those coupons tend to be aimed towards what I already buy. I never buy the paper, I use the on line coupons and print out only what I need and will use. I tend to do my ‘couponing’ while watching tv so I don’t really count this as time I could have spent doing something else, I count it as time spent doing two things at once. Anyone silly enough to buy something they wouldn’t normally buy just because they have a coupon shouldn’t be doing the shopping for the family. I tend to save anywhere from $30-$70(sometimes even more) per big shopping trip on my coupon and store card savings, so to me, that is more then worth a few minutes of my time.

Stop being lazy and save money. In a recession the point is to save. Heathly food costs almost twice as much as regular food. You should buy in bulk at places like bj’s that do take outside coupons. Never give negative advice out of laziness because what you find as time consuming and a waste of energy someone whose thinking of a financial stability for their future won’t!