Extreme couponing, is it for you?

The hit reality show "Extreme Couponing" has people in a frenzy to clip, collect and even buy coupons to save up to 90% on their groceries. Many have given up, in a short period of time. The trick to saving the most isn't only in how many coupons you have, since forty bottles of a laundry detergent you won't use is no good to you even if it is free after coupons, it's all in how they are used. I have used them for years, now that all the attention is on them, I will give some tips. Coupons for products you don't use are a waste of time, but can be traded with friends and family members for ones you do use. DO NOT take more Sunday papers than you paid for, it is not fair to the delivery drivers. Leave some coupons on the tear away pads on the store displays for other shoppers. That being said, here is one of my latest shopping trips- Found 39 coupons for 75 cents off a juice drink. Good deal, since Wal Mart had them for 50 cents. Had seven $3.00 off coupons for kids board games, they were marked down to $5.00, same store. Had a $1.00 floss coupon, it was 88 cents. The board games had an offer, send in the UPC with receipt and get a free Tombstone pizza coupon. The great part is, if a coupon has a set amount on it, like 75 cents off, the store gives you that discount on your total. I also picked up ten tubes of toothpaste, priced at $1.00, with a $1.00 coupon, cube of pop, and a ream of printer paper. I paid $2.28 total for all that, and I have enough games for birthday gifts, with five free pizza coupons coming in the mail. 
   These deals are few and far between, but they can be done. There are places to go online to print your own coupons, and find out what is on sale and where. Try www.coupons.com to print up coupons at home, and keep on clipping!!!