Brooke Geery

Couponing Cuisine

What good would couponing be if you never got anything you wanted to eat? No good, I tell you. One of my scores last weekend was a pork loin for $3.50, so I have been enjoying that for dinner the past few nights. The first night I just grilled it up, made some brocolli and cheddar rice I'd gotten for $.75 or so and used up some of the frozen peas I've been stockpiling half-eaten bags of in the freezer. Day two I opted for a sandwich. I am lucky enough to have a significant other that really enjoys making bread so that's a homemade baguette and then I added…
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Thanks Sweetpea!

One of the rules I've set for myself is only purchasing one Sunday Paper a week. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is cost (others being hoarding prevention and my desire not to prolong the life of the print industry.) At $2 a pop, buying a bunch of papers could start to add up and negate the value of the coupons, right? That said, I'm not to proud to take coupons from other people's newspapers. The only problem is, who subscribes the newspaper anymore? Even my parents have moved to the e-version. Today when I came into work though, the Sunday paper was still in…
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Next Level Shopping- June 26, 2011

First, I'm afraid blogging about this is going to make things worse. Now I have not only incentive to get good deals regularly, but the more entertaining/ridiculous things I do, the better for writing about. Enter today's shopping trip. Cereal is a couponing staple, although between matching up the best price with what you have a coupon for and which kinds you will actually eat is quite the challenge. There tends to be little to no organization among the brands, but for this deal, I decided to rough it. I left the store with 62% savings and a total out of pocket of $8.84, and *ding ding ding* a free…
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More Booze Coupons, Please!

This coupon business definitely requires some effort, and I was going to draw the line at sending in rebates, because I'm still kinda lazy, but then this little gem arrived. I'd say $12 is worth the cost of a stamp and envelope (unlike the Asprin rebate that would have gotten be back the 50 cents I paid.)
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Shopping- June 25, 2011

Today I dropped $14, which included buying this week's coupons (aka the Sunday Newspaper) and a couple things I totally didn't need but WERE GOOD DEALS, such as clearance iced tea mix. Total percent of savings was 62% and I got: -3 packs of Stride gum (1.28) -Another pack of gum I thought I had to buy to make the coupon work but totally didn't. (At least is was on sale for $.99) -Iced tea mix (1.44) -2 Spicy Brown mustards (.73 total) -A pork loin (only 3.50, but should have been 2.50 if the stupid ecoupon I loaded on my card worked) -2 bags of pistachios. (3.49) Plus I…
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Shopping- June 23, 11

I set out to buy stuff for dinner. I decided to cash in a couple catalinas I'd accrued buy buying the right things, including $5 off for buying $15 worth of batteries and $4 off lamb, (which I'm honestly not sure what I bought to get.) My actual needs were sour cream, potatoes (my first attempt a perogies!), a "nice cheese" and maybe some booze, but I spent $10.91 out of pocket (61% savings) and went home with: -a bottle of Pinot Grigio (6.99) -a lamb chop (never would have bought it but with the coupon it was $.05) -sour cream (1.99) -a thing of febreeze (only $.99) -1.77 lbs…
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Shopping – June 18, 2011

I figure if I'm saving over 50% I'm doing pretty well. I know on the show they get everything for free, but yeah, that's seemingly unrealistic for myself. My most successful trip so far has yielded 81% savings, and only consisted of SOME stuff I didn't need. For $4.25 I went home with: -a box of pasta (free) -a box of kleenex (.79) -two big bags of M&Ms (the difference) -two sticks of deodorant (one of which has already been donated to Party Time Nate) (free) -a big box of popsicles (.49) The kleenex cost $.79 and, the pasta and deodorant were free and the rest of the cost went…
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Yeah, I’m Couponing

If you know me well, you probably won't be surprised about my latest hobby, because I get into random, ridiculous things all the time. I'll be honest, I saw Extreme Couponing on TLC and said, that looks fun. I'm not doing it to save money or support my five kids on $150 a month, but I'm doing it because it sounded fun, challenging, and like that it came with small victories on a regular basis. I'm a few weeks in, and the jury is still out if it's actually going to save me money. In fact, I've bought a ton of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise purchased and even at…
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Viral Marketing Genius at Work

What have I learned recently? Giving kids free Tshirts is the best marketing, ever. Also, everything is more fun when up to 9 people at a time are watching it live on the Internet. We'll be doing a live webcast from Windells every session all summer long so if you want to be one of those live viewers, follow Yobeat on twitter, now. Right now.
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