Re: Met this gal at the store tonight - A HCW member in the news
Originally Posted by bparker493 This was filmed at the South Commercial Safeway in Salem, Oregon. I was the other person in the video. I'm Barb. Luana has the large coupon box. I should add that she has two. One for food items and one for non-food items. I don't lug all my coupons around like that. I just take what I intend to use.
Luana and her sister keep the food pantry at her sister's church stocked. That's why she buys so much stuff.
It was filmed during the Savings Rally. In Oregon, we are limited to four double coupons per trip, up to a maximum of $.50 each.
I rolled my previous $20 SR coupon and used a Kraft $2 catalina and a couple of $1 Glad catalinas to get my balance down that low. The news people wanted the total to be low so we planned that trip very carefully to make it work out that way.
Luana's $150 in savings wasn't from WAGS. It was from rolling her $20 SR catalina on the Rice A Roni. They were $25 for 25 of them - $20 SR catalina - several $.50 off one coupons - $2 double coupons. She had a profit for every transaction and had to buy other items to eat up the difference. She was ending up around $13 profit on each transaction. She bought meat with the difference because it's one thing you don't normally get for free.
I think the folks on this board are way more advanced than the Supersavers group and I appreciate you all very much. I've learned so much here.
The Supersavers group was meant for the stores in Salem Oregon although they will work elsewhere if the same stores exist. HCW has far more posts and better deals than our board. Most of our members aren't interested in doing "power" couponing, they just want to learn to save more money. |
This is awesome! Thanks so much for giving us some details to the news clip! Great job organizing a local group-I'm sure a lot of people appreciate your efforts!  |