If you've been reading KOAB for a while, you already know about my personal journey into using coupons. When I first set out to cut our food budget, I really couldn't wrap my head around HOW coupons were going to save us all this money. Fast … [Read more...]
Top 5 Coupon Misconceptions: Are they holding you back from saving money?
Posted on February 21, 2011 by
I’m not spending too much money.
Posted on August 10, 2010 by
This is part five of a series I'm doing here about coupon misconceptions. Before I started strategically shopping with coupons, I really thought they were a waste of time. I couldn't imagine that the $.20 I'd save on potato chips was really going to … [Read more...]
Couponing takes too long.
Posted on July 29, 2010 by
This is one of the biggest coupon misconceptions out there. And there's a reason it's so pervasive -- because there is an big dose of reality to the myth. When I first started couponing, I was easily spending at least two hours just writing down … [Read more...]
Coupons are only for junk food.
Posted on July 22, 2010 by
This is part 3 in my series on coupon misconceptions. Previously, I wrote about the erroneous assumptions that buying the store brand and shopping at Costco are cheaper than shopping with coupons. Today, I want to look at the very common … [Read more...]
Myth: It’s cheaper to shop at Costco than to Use Coupons.
Posted on July 19, 2010 by
Last week, I started a little series here at Kosher on a Budget about some of the misconceptions surrounding coupon usage. The first one I addressed is that it's not worth it to use coupons, since the store-brand is cheaper. Not true! At least, not … [Read more...]
It’s cheaper to just buy generic.
Posted on July 14, 2010 by
That's what a lot of people think -- and it's a typical excuse for not using coupons. But it's actually not true. There is an art to using coupons. I wouldn't have believed it when I started doing this whole save-money-on-my-food-budget thing two … [Read more...]
