I  may have discussed this before.  I belong to a local gym here in the D.C. area.  It’s a gym with multiple locations, and multiple membership levels.  I had a membership that let me use my “home” gym (which is near my office) at any time, and any of the other locations at “off-peak” times [...]

Yesterday, at the grocery store, I had a coupon for a free item that the self-checkout wouldn’t accept.  I couldn’t track down a store employee to override the system for me, so I finished my checkout and took my coupon to the customer service counter.

Of course, because the service is so great at this particular [...]

I have a confession to make.  I had all these great intentions of getting the Sunday paper every week, clipping the coupons, and using that and the grocery store and CVS ads to figure out the best bargains that week.

I haven’t clipped coupons in almost a month.

I do still check the CVS ad and the [...]

In the past few weeks, I’ve been doing my best to shop using coupons and watch the sales to get the best deals that I can. I actually enjoy perusing the sale flyers to see what’s on sale and how I can make the sales work for me.

But I started to wonder if I [...]