This will seem really weird, but we have reached a milestone of sorts, and I feel I must commemorate it some way. We have opened our last bar of soap. No big deal you say. Until I mention that I have not bought a bar of soap since 2001. Now, before I get the eww reaction, a little explanation.
In 2001, our stake was putting together hygiene kits as a service project. One of the neighbors found an online coupon for $2 off Dove soap. Now, I don’t know if it was because it was in the “early” days of online couponing and they didn’t know how to do the limits on coupon printing, or if the company was just stupid, but the coupon was simply a pdf file you could download to your computer and print as much as you want. So I did.
Every time I went out, I would print off a handful of coupons, head to Wal-Mart/Target, where the soap was less than $2, and pick up as many as I could. I donated half to the humanitarian kits and then kept half for my home storage. I was literally getting them for free. Some of you may have seen the shelf of soap in the basement bathroom. It served us well and I am sad to see it go. We have not had to buy soap for a little less than 10 years and I don’t even know where to start looking for good deals. Bring on Pinching Your Pennies!
I remember that coupon. I never did use it, but we're not bar soap people anyway. That's cool that it lasted this long.
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