I've been looking at couponmom.com some more, and while it isn't an app, it does appear to be a super useful site. I'm just now beginning to learn how her system works. Basically it appears to involve grabbing two or three of the coupon inserts that appear in your Sunday paper, writing the paper's date on the inserts with a marking pen, then putting them aside. Then when your local stores run specials on certain items, Coupon Mom alerts you to the specials and tells you by date which of the inserts contain coupons for additional savings.
I'm going to write to my daughter later tonight and ask her what method she uses. She's an obscenely savvy shopper who always comes back from a shopping trip having paid only a fraction of the full price for most of her items and also with several items for which she has paid nothing. My wife, who's looking over my shoulder as I write this, says to mention she's paid as little as 38¢ a gallon because a local store where she lives gives discounts on gas when you buy certain items. Big deal. I used to pay 23¢ a gallon on a regular basis. Then again, that was in 1967.
My wife criticizes my daughter's shopping because she can't seem to resist a bargain and often comes home with many items she never uses, but I don't see my wife routinely returning from the store with $100 worth of groceries for which she paid $25-$50.
Oh, my gosh! My wife is now on the phone with my daughter and just came in to tell me, "You know how I said she had bought gas for 38¢ a gallon? It was 38¢ for
20 gallons!"
