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this is nuts, I did a search on ebay and I only a handful of

Posted 10-09-2008 at 10:52:29 AM by nmeadows0101

After this search on ebay there was a handful of sellers that did coupons and if you take out the ones that do pet and potluck the number of sellers dropped to just a few.

I was trying to find a seller who is very close to me so I could order and get it within a couple of days. The mail is still a little slow.
Somethings(coupons) that I did a search for on ebay , I could not even find at all.

I am thankful for the trades that I have had and the trains that I have been on in the past couple of weeks.

I went to triples at lowes thurs. and then my hb and son went , we still spent to much money but it was a little over 50% savings total. I wanted to stay below 400.00 for the mo. but I am not to sure we are going to be able to make there yet.
I am still building a stockpile up and every little bit helps. I know , it takes time.

After the last trip to lowes last night , we went to bi-lo's and my son and I went in.
I want to use some of coupons that I have for the sobe(glass). He got 10 bottles and I got 10 bottles of sobe and I got 16 bx of gg vegs. @1.00 ea.
He was like mom are sure they double this coupons? I said yes, I am sure.
She rang up his total and then his coupons and he looked at me- wow, .35c for 10 of them. (he pd.)
then
I got my order and it was $8.?? b/c the gg veg. would be like a bogo with the .50c /2 coupon.
He gave me .35 c as we walked out of the store and I may stop back by there today after mid-term and get 10 more for him while they still have them.

I am finding it is hard to figure out when to get 10 / 20 coupons for certain coupons. I don't want the get them and not use them.
Is there a easy to know when to get multi. before the sales? I know with the groc stores there is just so many days and mailing can use up the sale time and then you can get use them.

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This may sound weird, but it's a start. I have noticed that some of the grocery sales cylces tend to follow 2-3 weeks behind other stores. So maybe check into the store forums that you regularly buy from and find out who their parent/sister stores are and take an occasional look at those store forums as well to see what specials/deals they are running, notate it somewhere for yourself and then see if the same specials/deals runs in your store and when. If your store is the starter store, then this may not work because the others stores will follow your store, but you never know until you compare the deals for at least a month or so. Just a thought. :)

Posted 10-09-2008 at 05:54:52 PM by ocean_brez ocean_brez is offline

I stopped by bi-lo's today and the cashier let me spilt the order into 2 - 10's
I mean like, you can just get 10 of the same item and I had 20 sobe glass and 20 coupons, so she rang 10 up then the others.
40 sobe's for 70cent! I still have more coupons , I am going to try to watch to see how lowes food, ht , and foodlion and bilo sales do.
I am wondering if bi-lo's has their sale on gg bx veg. for $1 bx if ht or lowes,etc.food will follow ? Is that what you mean by following the sale?
If so then I would not feel so bad about having so many q's.

Posted 10-09-2008 at 07:49:21 PM by nmeadows0101 nmeadows0101 is offline

	sorry, I jump on the count there, I mean 20 sobe's. I am not sure how I got 40 but I am going back to get the other 20 friday . I may have been thinking it and typed it before I caught it. Sorry about the type -o above.
	Posted 10-09-2008 at 07:50:45 PM by nmeadows0101

Competing stores will run similar sales, but it is the "parent" stores that I am referring to. i.e. Kroger owns and runs under the names Fry's, Smiths, Ralphs, Dillons, King Soopers, etc. Safeway owns Vons/Pavillions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Genuardi's, Carrs. The stores that are owned/operated by the same parent company will run similar sales and so those are the ones that you need to watch closely for possible sale matches. KWIM? HTH. :)

Posted 10-09-2008 at 08:05:09 PM by ocean_brez ocean_brez is offline