What's the time frame?

I thought I'd document how much time I spent on coupons this week, if I could, counting trips and all.
So I'll start with Sunday. 45 minutes at Rite Aid, mostly because they hadn't labeled the new sales things so it took a while to figure out what toothpaste was on sale.
From there, I went to Walgreens for another half hour.
1.25 hours shopping.
Sorting the inserts from the paper too about fifteen minutes.
1.5 hours on Sunday.
On Monday, I sorted the inserts into piles of similar pages so I only had to clip once to get five coupons. That took about fifteen minutes. Clipping coupons took about thirty minutes. Sorting them into their proper spots in the binder took about an hour (although granted, I was watching TV as well).
Doing the food inventory on Sunday and Monday took about an hour as well. (Making the lists was last week's task and we are not going to go there!)
So 2.75 hours plus 1.5 hours, we're up to 4.25 hours.
Tuesday I printed a bunch off and clipped 'em and read websites for another hour.
Wednesday I printed lists, clipped some more internet coupons, and all that for two hours. I also organized coupons into envelopes for each store in that time, and watched America's Got Talent with my husband :-)
Actually, counting some of the time I spent on websites on Sunday and Monday, I'll add in another forty-five minutes.
So far this week, then, I've put in 8 hours into couponing.
That, of course, is not counting the hours I've spent thinking, wondering, planning, and generally obsessing over this.
That's a lot of time. I probably wouldn't spend this much time without the incentive of my husband's hours cut in the fall.
Although I could figure the time spent into the cost of couponing (and I'd have to add in the paper subscription, gas, and the FoodSaver we bought), I probably won't. Why? Because this is what I would have normally done in those 8 hours:
napped
watched TV
cleaned out a cupboard (haha!)
instead of watching TV and couponing.
It isn't like I took time off from work to do this. So I feel productive, feel like I'm doing something positive for my family, and feel hopeful that the food budget can be tamed at long last.
Onward!