Mike Waugh: Coupon Man

As I mentioned earlier, I've started clipping coupons and shopping the sales at Albertson's.

During one trip, the coupon printer (known as a catalina to us super shoppers) at my check out register ran out of paper. I was a little upset because I had purchased some items specifically to get the $6 in checkout coupons, so a manager made me some hand-written coupons. (My apologies to the people behind me in line).

I was worried that I was going to have trouble redeeming such a thing, but luckily she was my cashier when I returned a couple days later to cherry-pick the better deals.

When I presented her hand written coupon to her, she said "Oh, I remember you. You're the coupon man!"

When the checkout finished, I had bought over $30 worth of groceries for about $8, plus getting another $3 checkout coupon for my next grocery trip. She remarked "Oooh, you did pretty good."

Oh yeah!

So I have two ideas to add to my list of monikers:

Mike Waugh, Coupon Man
Mike Waugh, Domestic God

When you are a coupon man, some interesting things start to happen to your pantry. After a while, it looks as if you could open a small grocery store yourself. For example, I bought into a rebate deal so that I could get 4 free bags of Tostisto's, but to get it I also had to buy 4 12 packs of Mountain Dew. I don't really drink much soda, so that's about a 6 months supply of Mountain Dew. Maybe I could go a Mountain Dew binge and stay awake for 5 days straight. Jibby-jibby-blaaaah!

As for an update on my letter of praise to Amy's: I got two coupons for free frozen dinners, and two $.55 coupons for any unfrozen Amy's items (over a $1o value). The letter mentioned that Amy's grandmother had been a librarian, so the person writing the letter had clearly read my letter. How very nice.