Review: Pretty useless for even most beginning couponers
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
The bulk of the author's methods for saving at the grocery store involves doubling or tripling your coupons, or 'stacking' them to get an 'overage' to pay for the rest of your groceries. As more and more stores are clamping down on these types of behaviors and there are less deals to be had thanks to 'extreme' couponers abusing the system, the advice is pretty much useless unless you're part of the small minority that has a store that will still double/triple coupons and allows coupon amounts to exceed the value of the item. Little of use in this book if you don't fall into that category. There was no mention of using couponing along with drugstore rewards to get deals, which was shocking to me as I have found some of the best deals to be had are by combining drugstore points/rewards with a manufacturer's coupon. Nope, not a mention.The section on Black Friday is a big waste of time. I think everyone knows by now why people camp out days ahead of time and that the stores get crowded. This section simply encourages people to buy into the madness of that day, to get a deal just to get a deal. It feeds into the 'I MUST not miss the 'deals' ' frenzy. There's no information in it that anyone who has heard of Black Friday doesn't already know.Authors often ask readers to leave a review in the back of the book, but I didn't appreciate the way this author specifically suggests readers leave a 5 star review. I found that tacky, and I didn't appreciate the push for a 5 star. But rest assured it was not that demand that led me to choose to give this 1 star...it was the information, or lack thereof, in the 'book' itself. I read it in under 1/2 an hour, as there wasn't much to it in either length or useful information.There are far better couponing books out there with much more information and many more ideas to save you money. Skip this one.