A student proves that even couponing newbies can save hundreds of dollars like expert couponers do.
Lauren Liggett, a college student and a newbie at coupon clipping, tells how she has been saving $300 dollars every month by using her coupons. Like a number of coupon newbies, Liggett was also inspired to start couponing after having seen TLC’s Extreme Couponing pilot episode. She started collecting coupons in December, searching the Internet for couponing sites and buying Sunday newspapers for the coupon inserts that came with it. After collecting her first coupons, she then went shopping for her family with them.
Although the Liggetts are not having financial difficulties, Lauren still wants to practice couponing in order to help her parents out, who are currently paying for her college education. Her mom is a realtor and her dad is working part-time as a salesman for cars (her dad is also a retired engineer for IBM). Combined, Lauren’s parents have a low-six-figure income.
On her first trip to the grocery with her coupons, she was able to pay only $50 for groceries worth $263. She recalls that the experience gave her an adrenaline rush and since then has been using coupons to pay for most of her groceries. Currently, Lauren has already reduced the family’s grocery bill from $400 to only $100 every month. She has also created a stockpile that includes toilet paper (280 rolls), tomato sauce (80 jars) and body wash for men (40 bottles). Lauren even got store credits for buying 30 cans of baby formula (even though there is no baby in the house). She got $1.22 for each can. The baby formula was not wasted though, as she gave them away to charity.
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