Coupons and General Craziness

So far my get rich quick experiment has had absolutely no results. I guess I had better stick with what I know works...coupons. I am obsessive about coupons. I clip nearly all the coupons in the Sunday paper and spend a couple hours a week searching the internet for them. I keep them in an organizer to make shopping easier. Thanks to coupons, I rarely pay for items such as toothpaste, hand soap, air freshner, and pasta. The trick is to clip all the available coupons and then hold them until the items you have coupons for go on sale. Recently a $.50 coupon for Wacky Mac pasta was printable on Coupons.com. My local Kroger triples coupons up to $.50. The sale price of the pasta was $1.63 so with my coupon I paid $.13. I collect coupons from all of my neighbors who don't use them also. No sense letting them go to waste. Handsoap is another item that is easy to pick up for free or close to it. It frequently goes on sale for $1 and there are often $.35 coupons. Triple the coupon and the grocery store owes you money. To successfully use coupons, you also need to follow the tip in my last post....stock up on items when they are on sale. Try not to run out of the essentials before they go on sale again. I've been told by a fellow bargain enthusiast that a great way to track the sales and coupons of your local stores is through a website called www.grocerygame.com. Right now they are offering a 4 week trial for $1. This website keeps track of all the current coupons and tells you when the items go on sale at the grocery stores of your choice. Give it a try, it could be the best $1 you ever spent.

Normally I am very rational and think hard about the things I do before I do them. Today, however, I've gotten a wild streak. I got one of those crazy letters in the mail about making a fortune by paying the six people on a mailing list $1 and then adding yourself to the list and sending out a couple hundred more letters. I decided to experiment with it and see what happens. I don't by any means expect to get rich from it, but seeing how it spreads might be fun. I would love to hear any feedback on the idea, it seems kind of like a scam to me, but I'll try it anyway. If you've done this yourself, please let me know how it turned out for you. So far this morning I've posted it on five or six message boards.