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No one around here has doubled coupons for the past two decades, and just about every good sale price has limits on how many you can buy.
I can buy pasta for considerably less than the sale price and unless the coupon was glaringly obvious, I wouldn't even have noticed it, being as how my family uses very little pasta.
Without the doubling factor, the coupon and sale only get pasta down a couple of cents below what I would normally pay. So unless it all came together at a store I shop at anyway and I was going to be there anyway, I would not make a special trip.
Now give me a really good sale on chuck roast with a 75 cents off coupon for that, and I will buy a couple of them. Or fresh apples. Give me a nice 75 cents off coupon on the variety of apples I like when they are on sale for a good price, and I will use that.
I'm actually surprised that stores are still doubling coupons.
No one mentions space. I wouldn't buy 12 boxes if I only had room for 10. ANd I'm not talking about making space or getting creative.
I had this argument with my wife during the TP scare. I'll take my chances on running out in 5 months rather than move it every time I vacuum/mop the kitchen.
I would have mentioned space but I just started reading the thread. When you have a spare room or dry basement it's easy to stockpile essential or useful things. I wouldn't store things if I had to constantly move them.
My deal wasn't as good as yours, but Walmart had a relatively expensive (for them) pasta on an end cap. The brand was La Molisana, which I've never tried. A couple of weeks later, though, there was a sign that said 25 cents. So I wondered how many I should buy. I do eat pasta; not only do I use it in spaghetti, but also chicken tetrazzini, pasta fagioli, etc. I am a household of one, though, and I already had some in the pantry.
I came up with four packages. Since then I've been unexpectedly quarantined for 2 weeks. I don't have covid, but I was exposed. I now realize that you must have enough food in your house to be self-sufficient for two weeks without warning or be willing to pay the exorbitant prices that delivery services charge. No thank you.
So I don't honestly think any amount is "too much" right now. After buying it, though, put it in the freezer for at least 24 hours to kill anything. That's the best way to prevent pantry moths.
Please remember there are hungry famlies out there. If you can get really cheap food, and you can`t use it, why not donate it to your local soup kitchen, or food pantry.
Last week we got Grain Berry cereal. Food Lion had them for $2.47 a box and buy 3 save $3 = $1.47 per box. They don't double and they once told us "we don't need to." The $1/1 coupon made it 47 cents a box. Honey Nut variety is a favorite and "onyx sorghum" sounds healthy (?) so we splurged on 12 boxes for under $6. The cereal boxes these days are about the same height but they are mighty thin. So each box will barely be 3 heaping servings. If we had the coupons we might have gotten more. The coupons were regional so we got some from a friend in another area of the country.
In the old days, most of the doubled coupons were limited to 25 cents. now, it is hard to find a coupon that small.
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