I got swept into the couponing thing for a while and then I took a hard look at the foods I was buying because I had coupons , what a bunch of junk ! I started cooking from scratch and TADA I was spending less than when I was spending all that time coupon clipping ! I ' ll use a couple coupons for like shampoo or kitty litter but yeah , just buy store brands and inconvenient foods and you ' ll save a lot . <| sep |> That ' s a normal Thursday . Thanksgiving has mashed potatoes and a can of black olives . <| sep |> I feel sorry for you <| sep |> whoever wrote the title for the article , didn ' t even read the article . it ' s actually a base south of mosul , which is still in iraq . U . S . troops celebrated Thanksgiving at an Iraqi army base in Qayyara , some 60 km 38 miles south of Mosul , where a U . S . led coalition is helping Iraqi forces battle Islamic State .