Do you coupon?

Ok, I am OCD! About almost everything, truly. As most of you already know. Great if you are a bow customer, not so great if you live with me, ha! I have learned to be more patient as I age and my children are teaching me tolerance like it or not. "Chillax" as Haliee calls it. I am officially ADDICTED to couponing...I have always been crazy about getting good deals, since Hal & I got married. Growing up I was so spoiled, never even considering what daily expenses were or acknowledging they existed really. If I wanted something, I got it, including a new cosmo or people every time we went to the grocery store. I had never looked at the price of an item, ever. Any money I earned went to me, new clothes, going places, etc. Needless to say when we got married I was rudely awakened by reality, lol! When it was my/our money not Mommy & Daddy's paying for groceries, clothing, electricity, etc. my outlook slightly changed. *Sigh* A monster was created. I have since mastered this money saving skill to a fine art. I may just save us into the poorhouse, but we will always eat well, ha! I go to the store every week. I have a list of what we need and a list of what's on sale. We have a food storage comparable to any supermarket, lol. If it is on sale, I must have a coupon or 2 for it so by stacking it will be virtually free. I spend at least an hour a week organizing the coupons with the ads. The checkers know me, yes, true, but...I get great deals!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here is an example of last nights visit. I "needed" milk, hamburger meat, hot dog buns, aluminum foil, and well...that's pretty much it.

I spent $45. 59 and saved $112.34 + earned $.25 off per gallon of gas...

I got only 2 items which were not on sale...hot dog buns, and mike & ike candy, oh that husband messing up my perfect couponing experience with his candy addiction, grrrr...

I didn't take a picture, dang, I will next time of all the booty, but here is a list of everything I got, no kidding....

1 box reynolds wrap

1 box mike & ike (grrr)

2 pkg. spaghetti

2 pkg. pasta

2 gallons milk

6 lbs. hamburger

1 pkg. hot dog buns

2 pkgs. ball park hot dogs

4 pkgs. keebler cookies

2 pkgs. nutter butter bites

2 (6ct.) pkgs. motts applesauce

2 (12 ct.) snapple yep, a case

6 boxes quaker granola bars

2 boxes pancake mix

2 (5 lb.) bags of sugar

1 welchs squeezable jelly

2 boxes cap n' crunch

3 bags hershey's baking chips (choc chips, etc.)

1 lg. coffee creamer

Oh....and I got a $10 rebate on the cookies, so if you factor that in, I only spent $35

So...do you have a sickness? I really do, lol! I LOVE free stuff!

The sad part is...this was one of the more expensive "couponing" trips, I usually get more free. Here are a few pics of my food storage, I didn't open the fridges/freezers, I am a big enough dork this way right, but you get the idea, the scale is worse than you can see in pics as it is stacked 3 or 4 back. Yes, some of the pics are in the laundry room you know where you are supposed to store laundry goods, well, I am out of space. This is the part my husband always tells everyone. Do you think it is a problem or a blessing? My point is...when it isn't on sale, I don't buy & we don't notice because we already have it, lol.