How I Shop Using Coupons

Here is my process for my weekly coupon shopping excursions:

1. Every week I clip coupons and sort on Sunday eve (unless the paper is late). 
   
2. I scan the weekly ads to see if there is anything that pops out at me. 
   
3. I look at the couponing websites for match-ups and copy and paste any deals I like into a Word document, sorted by store. Then print and cut out each section by store.
   
4. Next I gather the coupons I need out of my binder and/or print any coupons I need off of the web. I put them into store specific envelopes with the store lists I made in Word.
   
5. Before I go shopping, I make a list of all of my Ibotta coupons in Word and print it out. 
   
6. When it's time to go shopping, I carry only one store envelope into each store, use the list I made, and it's really easy shopping. 

• The only exception is Walmart. At Walmart, I bring in my store envelope, but I also bring in my whole binder and another handwritten general shopping list (for things I don't have coupon match ups for but I need to buy anyway). I go department by department, using both lists.  I am looking for special Roll Backs and sometimes getting lucky with matching coupons in my binder with those sales.  With my general shopping list, it might say that I need shampoo, but I didn't find any sale-to-coupon match-ups that fit my need on any of the couponing websites I visited earlier. But there is a 99.9% probability that I have coupons for shampoo in my binder. So I'll go to the shampoo aisle and try to find the best possible deal with using the coupons I have against the regular prices of shampoo (unless I'm lucky and find a rollback and have a matching coupon!).  This process in Walmart is repeated in various departments in Walmart, depending on my needs.

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