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I am a stay at home mom with four wonderful kids. I have been married for over 9 years to my best friend. I am head over heals in love with him. He always supports my crazy "thrifty adventures". We have a lot of fun together.

I was raised on a small dairy farm. Where I learned very young, the value of hard work and how to be thrifty in all areas of life. Growing up our meals were made from scratch. Only on special occasion would we get name brand cereal, chips, or any other fancy treats. Now that I am a Mom with my own budget, the basic foods always comes first. I too make most of our meals from scratch and take pride in feeding my family a well balanced healthy diet.

I enjoy seeing how far I can make our budget stretch, and when I take the time to match sales with coupons I am able to get all those "fun & fancy" items that would other wise be out of my budget. Being thrifty has always been a way of life for me, but it has also become a real joy.

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In today’s paper

In today’s local Idaho Papers were  lucky to get THREE coupon inserts, the Red Plum, the  Smart Source and the P&G.  I was also happy to find a sheet of Albertsons doubles, with 3 twice the value coupons in it!

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If you buy your Sunday papers from the news stand   MAKE SURE you look to see if the coupons are in them.  There has been a huge problem with people stealing the coupons from the papers and not buying the paper. You are out of luck if your coupons are missing from the news stand.  But  If you get the paper delivered to your home ,and have a subscription with them, and if for any reason your coupons or inserts are missing  CALL THEM SUNDAY MORNING ASAP!!!  They will be happy to bring out your missing inserts but they need to have you call in time to get on that days re-deliver route.

I am lucky to have 2 local papers, That are willing to help us coupon  shoppers out with rock bottom  multiple deals .  To ready about the A Thrifty Mom paper deal click here or the Idaho Statesman Thrifty Mom paper deal .  This has been a huge key to my coupon savings because I am able to get multiple coupons at a rock bottom price!

20 comments to In today’s paper

  • ratha

    I’m so mad! I bought 2 papers at wal-mart today in the seattle area and none of them had coupons in there.

  • Candy I just called and called and finally found the right person who listened to me and we were able to work out the deal

  • Helen in Meridian

    Is the $3 catalina printing for the Post Select cereals? Somewhere someone said it would start again last Friday.

  • jamie

    No more doubles in Utah!! I am going to miss albertsons when it goes. I heard we are getting a winco, is that any good?

  • Candy

    I was wondering how you got this multiple paper deal set up. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on how we could get something like this going in other areas?

  • I too didn’t get the Albertsons ad in my 4 papers. I already called and left a message. They haven’t delivered in the past when I was missing something and they promised redelivery. I will follow up with them in the morning. I could really use those doublers so I’m going to keep on them until I get them or until I don’t get them and they are expired and of no use to me. :P

  • Sara

    So I just have a random question, but how much do you actually spend per month on groceries? Our families are similar in size and I’m just getting started at this coupon thing. Should I expect to see an immediate drop in my grocery budget or….? Just curious. Thanks!

  • Heather

    Any doubler ideas for other things besides the promo going on?

  • candyargyle

    i’m in utah and just have to say i’m truly jealous of your doublers! :)

    WE didn’t get any, and probably won’t anymore. I’m almost sick about it!

  • Tyree

    thanks for posting about doublers I get my paper from my mom later in the day and I was dying wondering if we really got them.
    Thanks

  • Casey

    in Puyallup, WA we got the Fred Meyer insert but no Albies doubles :(

  • Sherrie

    I get six copies of the Idaho Press Tribune delivered and all of my coupons were there. I just have to now figure out what to use them on this week. Any ideas???

  • Alli

    Note on the Glad coupon: Walmart has Glade soy based candles on sale 2/$6 making them free!

  • Liz

    None in Twin Falls, like usual. :( I’ve called corporate and the local manager, but no help. I know Utah is losing albertson’s, so no doublers there. But our store isn’t leaving, so it’s very odd to never get doubles.

  • Amamnda, If I am ever missing something they bring it the next day with no problem. I would just keep calling at let them know…they try very hard to have great customer service ans will try to fix the issue

  • asia

    In the Statesman ther is also a “Fred Meyer” insert w/ only 1 fred coupon & several man. coupons including $3 off glade fragrance

  • Ruth

    We didn’t get any doubles again, maybe we won’t ever see them again!!!

  • Lori Sifuentes

    I live in Las Vegas and we got an Albertson’s ad with double coupons, also. Our first ones! I guess that petition and calling corporate worked. I am so excited!

  • amanda

    I didn’t get the Albertson’s insert in any of my papers today. It seems to be a regular thing with the Press Tribune lately. I called to get them delivered but in the past they have NEVER delivered them when they were missing. Do you have any suggestions on what step I should take if they don’t deliver them this time?