I guess you can say I like bargain shopping, but on a budget, what other choice do I have?

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I have 4 kids and a husband and I know what you mean by bargain shopping. Here is a site that helped me out a lot. http://www.couponmom.com/

Also have you thought about a coupon train/envelope? You put x amount of coupons that you don’t need in it and give it to a friend that also uses coupons and the only rule is that you exchange the envelope back weekly/every other week and you replace as many coupons as you take out. It is nice if you have a neighbor/sister/friend who also clips coupons.

Another thing to do is if you get your Sunday paper there is coupons in them most of the time. I used to have a neighbor that got the paper, but did NOT clip or use the coupons so we had a trade system set up, she saved me her coupons ( or dropped off the whole paper on my porch when she was done with it on Sundays) and at the end of the month I would bake her something. Nothing big, 6 cookies, 3 brownies, whatever I was cooking my family I would set aside a little for her. I was saving about 20.00 a month in her unused coupons and giving her a night off of baking and only costing me pennies.

You could set up a block paper recycling where you have your neighbors set out their papers on their porch and whatever day you want and you pick up the papers and are able to get all the unused coupons and get a little extra money recycling the papers!