Hello everyone and welcome to the blog at extremejerseycoupons.com!! We are so excited to have you here and hope that this will become an active community where we can all share tips and tricks in our couponing exploits!
So since, we should be officially launching in a day or two, we decided we should have a blog post explaining how we got into couponing. Tiffany got hooked first, so she'll be the first to share.
So here it is! The haul that started it all.....
Well, let's back track it a little bit. About 2 years ago, I (this is Tiffany posting) I saw a few episodes of Extreme Couponing on TLC. The show absolutely blew my mind! Now that I'm a veteran couponer, I know now that not all of what I was seeing was real but it intrigued me nevertheless. So I googled couponing. I found a few sites, a few forums and liked a page on facebook that was local in my area. (livingrichwithcoupons, which is an absolutely fantastic site, especially if you're in New Jersey!)
However, the language and coupon lingo totally went over my head. I would look at posts and be like, wha?! There were too many abbreviations and symbols that I didn't understand. I even tried one small coupon trip but it didn't work like it was supposed to. So, like many interesting for a moment things, I let it fall by the wayside. For over a year, I'd get posts on my facebook feed about coupon deals and my eyes would just slide over them. Then one day, I decided to clean up my facebook page and contemplated unliking LRWC. There were so many updates every day and I wasn't using it. Thankfully, and I say it now, I decided, let me try just one more time before I unlike it.
So I found two supposedly super-easy deals. There weren't too many lingo or abbreviations involved and all I had to do was print out coupons from my printer. Easy-peasy, right? Ok, so I printed out a bunch of coupons and headed out to 2 places to try my luck. CVS and Dollartree. My intention was to get items free or as close to free as possible.
I went to CVS first and found the item that was on sale that I had a coupon for. It was on sale for 99 cents and I had a coupon for a dollar off. I kept thinking to myself, they're not really going to give this to me for free are they? I was so nervous!! I got to the counter and said, "Hi, I'm new to this couponing thing, will this work?" She carefully read the coupon and scanned it and surprisingly, at least to me, it did! Woot woot!
I then headed to my local Dollartree but had a little less luck there. Almost all of the items I had coupons for, they didn't carry, but I did find one item. Flintstones Vitamins. So once again, I headed to the checkout, super nervous and asked, do you accept coupons? The cashier was new and yelled out to her manager, "Do we accept coupons if it makes the item free?" Thankfully, I've never been the super shy type. Her manager replied, "Yes, we do, only 2 per customer per day!" So she scanned it and those vitamins went in my bag...free!
Success was mine that day and I decided to really really study this couponing thing. After all, there's no better price than free!
So since, we should be officially launching in a day or two, we decided we should have a blog post explaining how we got into couponing. Tiffany got hooked first, so she'll be the first to share.
So here it is! The haul that started it all.....
Well, let's back track it a little bit. About 2 years ago, I (this is Tiffany posting) I saw a few episodes of Extreme Couponing on TLC. The show absolutely blew my mind! Now that I'm a veteran couponer, I know now that not all of what I was seeing was real but it intrigued me nevertheless. So I googled couponing. I found a few sites, a few forums and liked a page on facebook that was local in my area. (livingrichwithcoupons, which is an absolutely fantastic site, especially if you're in New Jersey!)
However, the language and coupon lingo totally went over my head. I would look at posts and be like, wha?! There were too many abbreviations and symbols that I didn't understand. I even tried one small coupon trip but it didn't work like it was supposed to. So, like many interesting for a moment things, I let it fall by the wayside. For over a year, I'd get posts on my facebook feed about coupon deals and my eyes would just slide over them. Then one day, I decided to clean up my facebook page and contemplated unliking LRWC. There were so many updates every day and I wasn't using it. Thankfully, and I say it now, I decided, let me try just one more time before I unlike it.
So I found two supposedly super-easy deals. There weren't too many lingo or abbreviations involved and all I had to do was print out coupons from my printer. Easy-peasy, right? Ok, so I printed out a bunch of coupons and headed out to 2 places to try my luck. CVS and Dollartree. My intention was to get items free or as close to free as possible.
I went to CVS first and found the item that was on sale that I had a coupon for. It was on sale for 99 cents and I had a coupon for a dollar off. I kept thinking to myself, they're not really going to give this to me for free are they? I was so nervous!! I got to the counter and said, "Hi, I'm new to this couponing thing, will this work?" She carefully read the coupon and scanned it and surprisingly, at least to me, it did! Woot woot!
I then headed to my local Dollartree but had a little less luck there. Almost all of the items I had coupons for, they didn't carry, but I did find one item. Flintstones Vitamins. So once again, I headed to the checkout, super nervous and asked, do you accept coupons? The cashier was new and yelled out to her manager, "Do we accept coupons if it makes the item free?" Thankfully, I've never been the super shy type. Her manager replied, "Yes, we do, only 2 per customer per day!" So she scanned it and those vitamins went in my bag...free!
Success was mine that day and I decided to really really study this couponing thing. After all, there's no better price than free!