Here’s what I did today before I could go shopping for triples:

1.  Went through a WHOLE LOT of coupons.  Not only do I have my own weekly coupons, but my relatives are nice enough to give me theirs.  I went through the past month and a half (we had triple coupons about that long ago so I knew I had gone through the older ones) worth of circulars.  I cut out anything that was high value that I might use if it was free (or close to it) as well as anything I normally would buy.

2.  Put all of those coupons in my coupon carrier.  I put them in “order” by shopping isle at my regular store.  It makes it a lot easier since that’s the store I am at most often.

3.  Went through the circular to see if anything matched up.  In this case, not much that I was interested in did.

4.  Go to a few websites I like to check out if they found any deals.  Some did, but it wasn’t really on anything I was interested in.

5. Make a list of all of the things I want to buy – both items with coupons as well as anything we need in the house.

I then went to the  store, went up and down each isle, and figured out which were the good deals.  You would think anything that had $2.25 off of it would be a great deal, but I did turn down a whole bunch of items.  For example, I like the Betty Crocker Mini Warm Delights, but even after taking $1.50 off  (the coupon was for 0.50c) it would have still been about $1.29, and I just wasn’t willing to pay it.

A&P isn’t the best priced store in my area, so I knew that I wasn’t going to get as many items as I would have if the triples were at Shoprite instead, but I figured I’d still find a few things.

I ended up getting a few items for free, and a few items for close to free.  I’m happy with how I did, but I think it took more time to find and cut out the coupons then to do the actual shopping!

Of course, the next time there are triple coupons, I will be running! I just hope next time it’s Shoprite that has the triple coupons!