Would it surprise you to know that you can buy coupons on eBay that can greatly reduce the cost of buying groceries? Recently, a grocery store in our town offered triple coupons for a week! They would triple the value of any coupon up to 99 cents! What a deal!
The technique I have used to capitalize on this offer makes the process super easy! I signed up for the e-mail version of the weekly specials to be sent to me on the first day of the new week. I then check what they are offering as super deals that week, paying particular attention to the Buy One Get One Free offers. I went to eBay and in the Search Field, I type in the names of the products that are on special to see if there are coupons available.
Recently, I was able to find 10 peanut butter coupons for 40 cents off each, for total cost of $ 1.49 plus 42 cents postage. That’s a grand total of $1.91 for 10 coupons! That’s a $ 1.20 reduction for each jar of peanut butter! I order the coupons from the eBay seller on the first day of the store sale, so they can be mailed to me right away so I get them in plenty of time while the sale is still in progress.
I took these to the store, where my final cost, after all the deductions, came to 30 cents per jar of peanut butter! Combined with all the other coupons I had for other products, I was able to save 50% on my grocery bill!
That’s like someone handing me $25.00 cash that I didn’t have to work for! I will take it!
I accomplished this task in 10 minutes drinking coffee at the kitchen table and you can too! It couldn’t be easier!
The other day, my 23 year old daughter called me to ask the name of the bagel shop where I get fabulous sun dried tomato bagels because she wanted some of them. I gave her the name of the local bakery and told her they have bins off to the side marked “Last Night’s Bagels” and they are half price.
In my typical frugal fashion I said “Get them out of that bin and ask if they’ll give you 2 packages for $ 2.49” ! She said Ok–I will try. She was amazed! They gave her 12 bagels for $ 2.49– Just for asking!
I discovered this bargain several months ago, when I was in the bagel shop and spotted this bin. I decided to give it a try and buy a package of 6 bagels for $2.49. I had become reluctant to pay the outrageous higher price of $ 1.29 for ONE “fresh” bagel, so I thought– Hey, how BAD can they be?
When I got to the cash register that first time, the lady took one look at me, dressed in my garage sale appropriate clothes after a long morning of scouring yard sales and she said–You know what? Right now they are 2 Packages for $ 2.49! I got the message! She thought I was POOR– so she was going to help me out and give me extra bagels for FREE!
I said Well alrighty then and grabbed another sleeve of 6 yummy bagels! I got 12 bagels for a grand total cost of $ 2.49! That’s 21 cents per bagel!
That saved me over $ 12 for 12 bagels! That’s $ 12 free money–that I didn’t have to earn by working!
We lightly toasted the bagels and they made fabulous sandwiches! They were great! There was NOTHING wrong with them! Now every time I go to the bagel shop–I ask them –Could I have 2 packages of day old bagels for $ 2.49? They ALWAYS say YES!
Try it next time you have a taste for bagels!
Be generous and get a whole bunch of the bagels and donate them to the food pantry so other people can enjoy them too!
