Coupons,samples, online printing and facebook...and still no coupons!

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Things have changed over the years! I play the coupon/freebie circuit for couple a decades. I was great years ago when the coupons were all doubled ALL THE TIME and they had tons of dollar off coupons Then it went to doubled only some times, at some stores and around 50 cents off an item. Now last few years, it has gone to insulting cents off, like 25cents off 3 of the same item ( 25cents off 3 cans of soup or whatever) and if you look, odds are another brand is cheaper without a coupon or if you wait a week or two, they will go on sale for less, once the coupon expires! Then it went to coupons on things that most don't really buy that often or at all. Then the new milenium came around and online printing of coupons hit the fan. Great, as I wasn't buying newspapers anymore as the coupons in them were for things I don't need, want or are cheaper elsewhere without a coupon. So online printing was a hit for me.....for awhile. I have been watching a variety of online coupons sites where they have bunch of coupons and you check which ones you want and then print them out right there at your printer. Again..great. I can choose what I want! Worked nice for awhile...but now I have been tracking for awhile and see that all these sites...have the same coupons at the same time and you are only allowed a certain amount of times to print them. I haven't figured out the specifics, but many times I will print a coupon out a few times 2-3, at a site and the next time I got to print one...it tells me that I have printed the limit for that coupon. I went to another site to try and it told me the same thing. I kept working at it and find...no matter how many many many online coupon printing sites there are...they all get the same coupons from (apparently) the same place which puts a limit per IP address! I have a whole tool bar full of coupon sites and to test it, went today to each and every one of them... and sure enough...same coupons on each of them. And again...most are for things I don't use, don't want or is cheaper elsewhere with no coupon. I watch that show Extreme Couponers and have asked around and can't find anyone that knows where they get enough coupons to be able to do that. Unless their store allows more than one coupon per item and doubles all the time. NOW...in searching the net for coupons and freebies...they make you "like" them of your facebook page in order to get the coupon or freebie, but then either have no place for you to request the sample or say they are all out or some other reason you can't get the sample after doing all that work to put them on your facebook page! One I did just to see...and it said the samples were gone so I went to delete the post on my page and it said it doesn't allow me to delete it! And still no sample! So I ask ...what now? I'm back to only a few coupons and frankly, the work is not worth the savings. What am I missing?