my problems with coupons-does this affect anyone else?
The coupons I find are for stuff my family rarely, if at all uses. Or we like the generic form of said item just as well.
Take cheerios for instance. Name brand cheerios in my area is $4.89 a box. On sale, they go for $3.49 a box. The generic brand/store brand cheerios is normally $2.29, $1.99 on sale. I see coupons for $1 off name brand cheerios, so using the coupon when the name brand is on sale, I'd pay $2.49 a box. But for 20 cents cheaper *without* a coupon I can get the generic brand my family likes just as well as the name brand.
This goes for lucky charms, milk, canned veggies, precut veggies, salad mix you name it.
My mom dyes her hair every other month. She found a brand at the dollar tree for $1 she loves and works just as well as the hair dye at rite aide. Even with coupons, the hair dye at rite aid would still cost $3.99 or more while the dollar tree brand she likes is just $1.
We do buy a few name brand items, and I do use coupons on those when I find them -though I don't go hunting for them and if I remember to use them...
Like laundry soap. Take Tide laundry soap for instance. I see coupons all the time for them. At the walmart in my town, a box of 120 load tide goes for $17.99. With a $10 coupon I found last week, it would only be $7.99. Yet the Walmart Brand laundry soup, same size, was only $5.99. My family likes it just as much as Tide-they can't tell a difference any way and don't mind I use generics.
Anyone else run into this same issue?
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