Another post about savings

I've started printing coupons -we don't get the Sunday paper or anything- and price matching at Walmart. I don't spend a ton of time doing it and I am NOT planning on becoming an "extreme couponer." However, on our small shopping trip this week, between price matching about 9 items and using 4 coupons (just 4!) we saved over $10. They were things I was planning on getting anyway, things we needed. Milk ($.75 off), juice ($2.88), eggs, lunch meat ($2.28 for 1 pound), bread (2 for $2.75), yogurt ($.75 off), some fruit (2 lbs for $2), roma tomatoes ($.69 for 2 lbs) and a couple boxes of breakfast cereal (2 for $3).

Why the new post? Just to share a couple quick ways to save this week/month.

• The best coupons are available the first of the month and today is, well, the very first of the month
• Check out Coupons.com, pillsbury.com, etc. & "clip" the coupons you would use on things you're already planning on getting
• Print as many as it will let you, save & use as needed. 
• Check the ad's that come in the mail & see if things are on sale (I got 2 dozen eggs for $0.69 just by ad-matching Buy Low's ad) & then use coupons on those, too
• Shop as usual & save a few dollars