I watched that "Extreme Couponing" show yesterday, and I realized that I could probably do better on grocery prices than I have been doing, so I bought the Sunday paper to get the coupons today. I found only four coupons for things I actually use, and two of them were toilet paper. (The secret to that show is that people find a way to combine a few different coupons and savings things on the same item so that they actually get to a negative price for it, and buy a whole ton of them. The store won't actually give you cash if you do this, but you can apply those negative prices to other stuff in your order, so that you end up buying a whole ton of stuff and paying just a few dollars. Of course, you also end up with a shopping cart full of laundry detergent or toothpaste or whatever. The people on the show spend at least 15 hours a week on researching prices and organizing coupons to figure out how to do this, and they all have stockpiles of stuff in their houses.)

Hil, the Sunday circular is ok, but if you go to coupon site, generally you can print off more coupons.

My sister clips coupons (not obsessively!) on Sundays over he coffee, and send the ones she thinks I can use to me. And I spend maybe 15 minutes before a big trip to the store. Sometimes I save .50, sometimes $5 or $6 dollars...but I probably save $200/ year from my lazy-ass couponing.

Even if you only save .50 a week, that $26. That's a hard-cover!

(My rationale for coupons is measured in how many books your can buy with the saving. /geeknevercloses)

(My rationale for coupons is measured in how many books your can buy with the saving. /geeknevercloses)

I t heart this.

I checked coupons.com and got a few more things, but my printer is currently uncooperative. Coupons.com actually has a coupon for some lettuce mix, but I can't remember if I've ever seen that brand anywhere.

The coupons I see are always something like $1.50 off 5 of something that I don't want to buy 5 of. The local store brand is often just as good as the name brand and starts off cheaper.

Though I do horde the coupons for feminine products. Though I may be blissfully, finally at the stage of my life where I don't say, "Sure, buy four boxes, it's not like I won't use them eventually."

Connie, it's the best damn thing. Having that leaky damn faucet ripped out of me was the best decision I ever made.

(Did I say "leaky?" I meant "the dynamite going off in my gut blasting the Hoover Dam open into a flood" every month.)

Uterus, I don't miss you AT ALL.

I think my problem is that I just don't eat enough packaged things. I found a thing on the Nasoya website that will send me a tofu coupon once a week, but I can't find any coupons for canned beans or tomatoes, which are really the only things I buy in cans. I know I've seen soymilk and almond milk coupons before, but none this week.

The weird "Weren't we supposed to be doing something?" cramps I can more than cope with. Not having to deal with a mess every month is sheer joy.

I think they ought to pair up the showings of Extreme Couponing and Hoarding shows. 'Cause I suspect some of those couponers are going to end up irrationally clinging to 30yo dented/rusted mystery cans in the fullness of time.

Sing it, sistah.

I'll spare the gory details, but I am SO happy to never again have to ruin skirts, jeans, undies, sheets, blankets, mattresses and once, a fucking CHAIR.

And having to be in a Vicodin haze 3 days a month just so I could stand straight. OTOH, the Vicodin haze probably prevented me from killing myself or someone else from the batshit-insane hormonal reaction. And I'm really not joking.

Over. Done. Happy.

Sometimes when I tell people I had a hysterectomy at 35, they're all "Oh, that's tragic! You can't have children. I'm SO sorry!"

I understand for many women, it would indeed be heart-breaking, but for me...well, instead of giving life to someone else, it have me MY life back.

Heh, I went in for my annual and my gyno STILL classifies me as having the hardest, most stubborn uterine and ovarian removal she's ever done.

It had been over a year and she was all looking at my charts and was "Oh! Oh, yeah. Wow, in my 40 years of practice, that was the hardest damn removal I've ever done. So sorry we had to leave a bit of your cervix in there."

I was all "Well, obviously ALL parts of me are stubborn as hell

Best gyno evah!