Couponing and Brand Loyalty

How To Coupon:  Forget About Brand Loyalty

If you want to really get into couponing, you have to forget your brands.  I am not saying you need to buy generics (bc those are more expensive)...I am saying you cannot always only buy your favorite brands.  I struggle with these, but I have made tons of improvement with this since having a baby.  I know I have to be more frugel since were are now a one income family.  I am only brand loyal when I can find a great sale use a great coupon.  

Examples:

I LOVE Tide....who doesn't love Tide?!?!  Tide is pricey even with coupons.  The cheapest I can find Tide is $4-5.  I had to give up my laundry snobbish for Tide.  I cannot justify spending $5 when I can buy All, Whisk and Purex all for $1-2.  By the way, I love ALL just as much as Tide now! 

As far as stain removers go, I buy both Tide Stain Remover and Oxi-Clean.  I bought Oxi-Clean a month or so ago for only 50 cents.  There have been awesome coupons for both of those, so I can afford to be brand loyal to both of those!

I love Huggies.  I prefer Huggies over ANY other brand.  I can buy Huggies for really cheap; however, I know I can also find Pampers for just as cheap or cheaper at times.  I buy both when I found good deals.  I stock up when I found them for $3 or under; however, less than $5 is still a great deal!  I will ONLY buy Huggies and Pampers, but at that price I can afford to be brand loyalty.

I spend used to spend a lot of money on my hair.  I would only use Salon shampoo/conditioner and products.  I found a products I LOVE just as much as salon shampoo, and it smells heavenly.  John Frieda Root Awakening, and I bought it at Target for ONLY 50 cents last week.  (I am sure this sale will come around again.)  50 cents compared to $30+ dollars...that is no brainer. 

I use to only use Aquafresh Sensitive.  It is $2.74 at Walmart, and those coupons are RARE.  Knowing I can ALWAYS find toothpaste for 50 cents or less (normally free), made me lose my brand loyalty.  I use Cologate, Crest and other Aquafresh products. 
 

I even have my hubby stopping his brand loyalty.  My hubby is a lotion guy (I tease him a lot about this.  He says it is bc he was raised with several sisters.).  He loves Curel; however, Curel coupons are normally not high valued.  Nivea had several high value coupons, and I recently bought Nivea lotion for under $1.