Free money is everywhere! You just need to know where to look to find it.  "Yes it is legal." and "No, it is not a scam!" I found $160.44 cents!!!!! I am posting photos as evidence! (please see below)

Hi friends, please call me "Coupon Planter." I am so passionate about saving all of us money that I had to find a way to share this information! I am an everyday mommy with a family of five to feed.  Like many, I have been greatly affected by this tough economy.  So I decided to make lemonade out of lemons.  Cheers to finding free money!

I will get straight to the point. If you plan, you save money.  Most of us need to shop for groceries because they are a necessity.  We need toothpaste, shampoo, laundry detergent, pet food, and of course food for ourselves. Sooner or later we will need to visit the grocery store and spend, spend, spend! Paying too much for life's necessities. Did you know that there is someone out there who wants to pick up part of your bill? They will pay for half, if not more!  Who is that someone? Why are they doing this? Where are they? When will they do this? That someone is your local grocery store, a product manufacture or even well known restaurants.  They are giving away free money in the form of coupons and product discounts! Coupons and product discounts are a form of marketing. Coupons have a dollar value.  The value is printed on them.  Coupons also have an expiration date. Stores and product manufactures are doing this to get your attention.  Saving you money is an incentive to get you to buy their products. Coupons are everywhere. You can find them in your Sunday newspaper, in neighborhood saver magazines, on the inter net and sometimes they are printed on the store ads. Coupons can be use at anytime. I call my self the Coupon Planter because I can not resist the idea of saving someone money.  I randomly plant coupons in stores, next to products. Yesterday I handed out a few $2.00 coupons at Ralphs. Today I handed a" buy a meal get one free" $7.00 value coupon at IHOP as I was walking out. So start collecting your free money now. It will take some planning but it will pay off. 

PREPARE TO SAVE MONEY AT THE GROCERY STORE

(but first see all eight of my "evidence photos" - please scroll all the way down)

1. First I compared store ads for this week.

2. I identified the store that best met my needs, due to prices or items on sale.

3. I pulled and combined my store coupons and manufacturer coupons.

4. I created a list. I chose Ralphs in order to use my rewards certificate, that was generated based on the amount of points I earned. I also wanted to use a local magazine coupon for $5.00 off my grocery bill.  I will combine the rewards certificate and the magazine coupon with my manufacturer and store coupons. *Could not get this image to rotate, sorry.

These are the steps to take: 
1. Buy your Sunday paper at the 99 Cents Store.  (you just saved .50 cents)

2. Pull out the manufacture coupons and cut them out.
****Don't cut out the coupons for products you will not use. If you don't have a baby, you won't need diaper coupons.
****Do cut coupons for products you may want to try, sometimes you will get certain products for free.

3. As your cutting coupons put them in piles of relevant products, all dry grains and cereals in one pile, all canned foods in another, household cleaning in another and so forth and so on.

4. Using an organizer put them in this order, and label each tab as follows:
Beverages
Canned Food
Condiments
Dry Food
Frozen
Household
Hygiene
Refrigerated
Snacks   

5. Prepare a grocery list.

6. Gather all your local grocery store ads and start price comparing, weed out the ones that seem over priced. You should be left with two or three grocery store ads that call your attention based on weekly advertised sales.

7. Pick the store that is advertising most of the things you need to buy. I usually choose a store that will double the value of my coupons. Example .50 cereal coupon doubles to $1.00. That's a free scratcher!

8. Start pulling coupons that represent items on your list, like shampoo, laundry detergent, breakfast cereal, canned soups, yogurts, etc.

9. Paper clip the selected coupons to your grocery list. Remember to take all of your coupons in the organizer with you to the store.  This is in case you left something out of your grocery list, but see it on sale and have a coupon for it. Be aware that some stores have "managers specials" that are not advertised on their weekly ad.

THIS STEP WILL ONLY HAVE TO BE DONE ONCE AT EACH STORE
10. Upon entering the store go to Customer Service and sign up for a club card or a"rewards card", they are free. Have the card linked to a phone number you will always remember.  In case you forget your card you can use your phone number and still receive special savings.
TIP: Always use the same phone number at every store.  That way you never have to carry your"rewards card" but you will always get the savings.

11. Shop for the items on your list. Hopefully most of the items you are shopping for will be on sale.

THIS IS THE FUN PART!!!
12. When checking out, wait until your shopping bill is totaled, carefully look at the amount, then present you rewards card to the cashier, watch the bill shrink, then hand her your coupons and make sure the cashier scans each one. Watch the bill shrink again! Look at your receipt to verify savings. 

Congratulations, you just used free money!

Set a goal to save even more on your next shopping trip and tell a friend about how you learned to save money from couponplanter.blogspot.com.

5. This is how long my receipt was, close to 30 inches.  I purchased 57 items.

6****See BALANCE** $55.88 dollars for 57 items That is less than .99 cents per item! In total I found $160.44 of free money!

7. This is exactly what I purchased. Each of these items costs less than .99 cents!

8. Do you recognize these products? How much do you pay for them?  Please read "These are the steps to take:" above.