Couponing

So due to the new show, Extreme Couponing on TLC, I've become more diligent about taking coupons to go shopping and to use them. Don't get me wrong, I put less than 1 hour into my couponing skills so I'm just a beginner and just someone who is using my resources. I'm a bargain hunter and I use to think that buying coupon items were more expensive b/c of the bulk or the name brand but now I've learned to stack coupons. To stack coupons=to use more than one coupon toward the same item (e.g., target coupon + manufacturer's coupon...did you know that target has mobile coupons?). I learned this from www.couponing101.com

Today, I got my first free item! This doesn't mean I'll start a stock pile at home and stuff things under my kids' beds but it just means that now I see coupons as something worth looking at. I needed new tweezers and clipped the Revolon coupon for $2 off a tool. I later learned that there was a printable coupon for $1 that could be combined. I found tweezers for $2.24 and thought I'd try it out and it worked! I got $0.76 to go toward the rest of my tab. cool huh? Then I got three more coupons for Revolon tools. On my next trip maybe I'll get tweezers again and I"ll have $0.76 and then 76 new tweezers! jk. Today's total savings at Target was $25. :) Share your couponing experiences.