Let me see if I get it

[digi_diva]

I'm a newbie and just want to make sure I get how this is done. If I want to buy say Martha White Flour-then I find the best advertised deal for it. Before, I've never looked anywhere but grocery stores for this sort of thing but you want to find the best deal where you get rr's or ecb's and then use q for however many you buy. Then you have your rr's or ecb's to pay for something else. Is this correct? Also, I read that you need to do multiple checkouts at WG's to do good. Does that mean break up your stuff and pay for it in 2 or 3 transactions.

Do you usually do better buying small sizes of stuff and using multi coupons versus the larger sizes. I have 4 inside kitties so I buy the large bag of cat food or litter, but to effectively do couponing, would I need to buy the smaller size and use multiple coupons?

Hope I've made sense! LOL!

[tmsmalley]

You can just start with watching for flour to go on sale at the same time you have a coupon for it. You don't have to go to multiple stores and make multiple purchases.

Tess

[digi_diva]

Thanks Tess,
I was just trying to see if I had it figured out how to get the really good deals on things like the flour and baking stuff this is supposed to be going on sale now. How do you know when it is a really good sale on say flour/cornmeal/sugar. Baking stuff. I never even thought it went on sale...lol!

[momto8kiddos]

I'm a newbie and just want to make sure I get how this is done. If I want to buy say Martha White Flour-then I find the best advertised deal for it. Before, I've never looked anywhere but grocery stores for this sort of thing but you want to find the best deal where you get rr's or ecb's and then use q for however many you buy. Then you have your rr's or ecb's to pay for something else. Is this correct? Also, I read that you need to do multiple checkouts at WG's to do good. Does that mean break up your stuff and pay for it in 2 or 3 transactions.

You always wants to find the best advertised deal for whatever you need. If you have a coupon all the better. If what you need is at CVS or Walgreens then IF it is featured in their loyalty program that week (yields RRs or ECBS) then you will get RRs or ECBs back when you buy the flour. You then turn right around and use those RRs or ECBS in your next transaction. There are limitations to doing this. At Walgreens, for example, if you buy flour and get $2RR and then use that same $2RR to pay for more flour in your next transaction, the register will make note that you paid with a flour RR and will not print another one. The key there is to use an RR from another product purchase.

That being said, I've never seen a great deal on baking goods at drug stores. Not that I've watched carefully every week. But my point is that some things you're just never going to find at the drug stores.

When you find a great deal, that is when you buy multiple items to store for later use.

Do you usually do better buying small sizes of stuff and using multi coupons versus the larger sizes. I have 4 inside kitties so I buy the large bag of cat food or litter, but to effectively do couponing, would I need to buy the smaller size and use multiple coupons?

You definitely do better by buying the smaller sizes. Instant potatoes is a case in point. They come in big boxes as well as little pouches. The little pouches are often free with coupons if your stores double or triple. The big boxes would never be free. So I just get tons of the little pouches.

How do you know when it is a really good sale on say flour/cornmeal/sugar. Baking stuff. I never even thought it went on sale...lol!

Keep a price book that keeps tracks of prices at various stores. And follow the yearly sales cycle. Surely there's something like that on this site. Can't find it right now because the search function isn't working. For example, condiments and grilling meats go on sale over Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day weekends. Cereal goes on sale in August and September. Baking products in November and December. etc.

Hope that helps!