....but Shana I don't need 15 boxes of popcorn.

I hear this all the time, and my response is "Neither do I." I buy large quantities of an item once, not every shopping trip. I don't need 15 boxes of popcorn in one month, but I do need that over the course of three months. This usually the length of a store's sale cycle, the amount of time between sales, when the product is at it's lowest price.

The point of couponing is to drastically lower your grocery bill, not to save $1 here and there. I buy Blast o Butter popcorn, it was free after the coupon. However due to inflation, what a drag lol, I now pay roughly 14 cents per box when it is on sale B1G1 at Bi-Lo. I buy as many as my coupon arsenal will allow, not because that is what we need for the week. but because I never want to pay full price for popcorn. My goal is to only buy popcorn 3-4 times a year, due to space, or else I would only buy it once. I manage to do this through couponing, and combining a store sale with a manufacturers coupon and paying the absolute rock bottom price. I will stock up on that product, so that I have enough to last until the next sale. This prevents me from paying full price, and allows me to cross that item off my list and repalce it with something else.