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I was never one much for football. But maybe by the end of the season I can find my son on the field. LOL!!

Why it is a good idea to have multiple coupons

I know some people think having 10-20 of the same coupon is a waste of money. I thought so too when I started couponing. But here are two examples with receipts to show you why it is such a good idea. Christmas is coming and I have tons of stuff like this to fill baskets for friends and families.

First example is from Walgreens. Nivea lip gloss is on sale this week for $1. There are multiple coupons out there for $1 off 1 or $2 off 2. This makes them all FREE. You just have to pay tax. So for 9 tubes of lip gloss I paid a whopping total of .72 cents. I saved $26.91 total with store sales and coupons.

Next receipt is from Food Lion for the candles. Sometimes you have to break purchases up into smaller purchases to take advantage of the sales promotion. This is how this deal worked. I purchased 4 glade candles for a total of $13.96. The register automatically took off $3.00 (this was their promotion). Then I supplies 2 BOGO free coupons. That took another $6.98 off the total. The first transaction I had to pay $5.06. Once I paid for this transaction the catalina machine spit out 2- $2.00 OYNO coupons. I continued to purchase the same thing in the next 6 transaction, but since I had $4 worth of OYNO coupons it brought my total OOP down to $1.06. (Notice that my total tax was $1.08, so they paid .02 in tax for me!). So after 7 transactions I had 28 candles and had spent in total. $11.42. And I still have $4.00 in OYNO to spend on food.So that makes the cost of the candles to be 26.5 cents each. Not bad for candles huh?

These are just a couple of examples of how to get things for FREE (plus tax)!!

Who needs coupons???

Since becoming a stay at home mom I have been looking for a way to help bring money into our home. Most of the stay at home moms I know try to do this. I have never came across anything that really sounded like anything I was able to do considering I can't work at night or weekends because of family obligations. Well recently a friend of mine has been talking about things she sells on ebay and what kind of money she makes from it. She is actually teaching a class later this month at our church. I plan on attending and have been racking my brain as to what I could sell. She tends to come across a lot of bargains, but I am never that lucky as I rarely have time to shop unless I have multiple kids under foot and that is not fun.



Then last week , through a friend of a friend, I came across not only something I can sell, but I can use myself. COUPONS!! Oh how I love coupons. If you have only read my blog once you know how much I love them, and how much I truly save using them. So now I have access to hundreds of coupon inserts from the Wilmington Star. I plan on listing them all individually on ebay in groups of 10 for $1.00 because that seems to be the going rate. But I thought I have so many and I am sure they will not all sell on ebay, I should offer them to my friends also.



So here I am trying to sell coupons to people I know use them all the time. We all know that a standard paper sells for $2.00 so I thought if I offer them at a cost of $1.00 that is a real bargain!! If you order a set (all of the inserts that come in the paper that week) you would pay $1.00 per set. If you want individual coupons from a paper I will sell you a set of 10 coupons ( of the same kind) for the cost of $1.00 also. This is about the cost all of this is costing on ebay, you just save the shipping cost and the time it takes to have them process and mailed.


I have a listing of all coupons that come in each insert and I can send them to you if you would like to review them before you decide to purchase. Just so I can cover my bases, I am not actually selling the "coupons" as they are free, I am just charging for my time to obtain, assemble, sort, and compile a listing of them. I am sure you understand the need for this statement as it is on all coupon auctions on ebay.



So if you are interested please just email me @ blackburnsales@gmail.com