Comments on: Coupon dilemma

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:51:57 +0000

Check with your local grocery store before you discard them. Just found out my local store honors expired coupons (as long as they are the ones clipped from the newspaper coupon inserts) for up to 6 months!

By: Bargain Babe » BB scores! Target redeems coupon$

Bargain Babe » BB scores! Target redeems coupon$ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:31:54 +0000

[...] The stash that I am currently excited about is not clothes but a huge bag of toiletries. I used my coupons from TheCouponMaster.com at [...]

By: The Unethical Man

The Unethical Man — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:21:32 +0000

All of the suggestions that you have your husband get the items is a bad loophole because whether you go out and use the coupons or he does the money ultimately comes out of the same household. What’s yours is his, what’s his is yours. You’re not fooling anyone by doing that. When you went on your spending moratorium, you also enlisted your husband too. We’re not talking about a diet where you eat nothing but leafy green vegetables and he can eat all the junk food he wants. Your money and budget belong to the both of you.

By: Jenni Porter

Jenni Porter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:45:19 +0000

You should totally use them! If it’s at the Market, it’s totally fair game (unless you are shamelessly spending on movies and gift items). Toiletries count as groceries… I’m voting use ‘em!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:06 +0000

I guess the real question is, however you buy those items will you feel like you’re cheating. If so, don’t do it. Your honor and sense of integrity should not be for sale � at any price.

Loop holes and gray areas:
1) Have hubby buy you a gift card to cover cost of items then go get them yourself.
2) Buy with a credit card that technically won’t be paid until next month (if you wait until after the statement date for this month passes).
3) I liked Cathy’s ideas best if you go ahead with buying the items.
4) Give, trade or barter them.

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:39:57 +0000

Great – I’ll check out the Walgreens sale flyer.

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:39:36 +0000

Tammy, great idea! I think I may well use this as my solution. My backup plan is to convince Hubby to use them for me.

By: bargainbabe

bargainbabe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:38:48 +0000

It is regular Breyer’s ice cream. Not my favorite but it’ll do.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:59:43 +0000

Cathy is right, as usual. If you can get them free, and pay taxes on your gift card, that’ll get you hooked on something you just can’t stop! It did for me.

However, if that’s not the case and they are super cheap, I Twittered you my advice: Give the list and coupons to hubby and pray it gets done right. Mine is okay with the coupons, I haven’t been giving him enough credit. Besides, the best thing about the coupons is waiting till a really awesome sale. If you’re getting Starbucks Ice Cream…well, you’ll never get it cheaper.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:00:09 +0000

I don’t get why necessities like some toiletry items aren’t allowed in the moratorium? I say that if you NEED the item the coupon is for it would be okay to use them during it.
AND if it’s cheaper at Target, then I would go get it there (and PS some grocery items are cheaper there, too).

For any that you don’t need I like the previous idea of giving them to your friends.

By: may 2

may 2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:01:28 +0000

Suffer, it proves spending moratoriums don’t work in real life.

By: The Unethical Man

The Unethical Man — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:53:27 +0000

Moratorium schmoratorium. Though toiletries are technically not groceries because you cannot ingest them, basic sanitation products are a necessity since they take care of basic bodily biological processes which occur on a daily basis. I say use the coupons. Don’t let the good deal slip away. What you get now may last into the month of August and reduce the amount you spend in August. If you pass up on this deal, then you’ll end up spending more when you run out. If you do not wish to test your reader’s opinions regarding the spending moratorium on toiletries, I suggest that you have a garage sale or post things for sale on sites like eBay. The extra money coming in will make up for anything you spend for toiletries this month.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:31:57 +0000

Make the purchases, but keep the stuff in a bag in the closet till next month, and count the purchases as made in August That way you’ve kept to the spirit of the moratorium where you’ve not “bought” anything for yourself in July.

By: Cathy @ Chief Family Officer

Cathy @ Chief Family Officer — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:00:38 +0000

I should add – the drugstores sometimes have great deals on food too! There’s a Breyer’s sale at Walgreens this week, although I don’t know if it’s enough to get the price to free with coupon

By: oc

oc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:25:26 +0000

Use them, because any ways you need those toiletries to buy in next month. If you buy them this month, it will save from next month spending.

Also you can give it to friends, bargain babe followers and also to the ones who shows up for frugal festival.