You can work it so you can get so many free or almost free products, that your family may not be able to use all of them and you will be able to help others in your family. You will even be able to give some to your friends, plus be able to help those in need of donations such as your local food banks and your local animal shelter. There are only three in my home, so I am able to donate way more products than we could ever use here.
I read once in an article by a lady who writes about couponing that you should consider buying at least 4 local Sunday newspapers. The cheapest way to do that is to go to your local Dollar Tree on Sunday morning or early afternoon and purchase them for $1.00 each. Or you can beg them from your family and friends who don't use theirs. However if you depend on them to get them to you, you may not have them in time, or when you want them to use. So hopefully your Dollar Tree is not to long of a drive from your house. And last but not least, know several ladies who now do this: GO DUMPSTER DIVING!!
If you have access to more than one Sunday Newspaper like I do. I can get one from Louisville, KY and one from Evansville, IN. Buy 2 of each for a couple of weeks and compare those coupons. I have found that the Evansville one has only about half or less than half the amount of coupons that Louisville does and that Louisville gets more free coupons in theirs and higher dollar coupons in theirs quite often.
Many coupon websites say to just put a date on the front of their coupon inserts and file them in dated file folders and then cut out the coupons when they need them. Instead of having boxes of coupons and have to sort forever in search of the coupons you need each week.
Normally there will be a sale anytime within the next few weeks after a coupon is released. Sometimes the same week you get them, possibly within 1 to 6 weeks later it will go on sale. But usually there will be a sale on that product so you can use that coupon. I have noticed often the coupons for products will go on sale the last week before the coupon expires.
When you catch the item on sale, be sure to purchase enough of the item to last you for 2 to 3 months so you do not have to pay full price on that item and can purchase again when it is on sale again.
Now for more coupons you will need to search any magazines that you may subscribe to. I subscribe to a magazine called All You. It has many and very nice coupons in it and sometimes a free coupon in it. You can also purchase this the last week of the month at your local Walmart. It cost around $2.00 a magazine. You can also get it delivered to your home for around $20.00 for the subscription.
You can search out coupons on the internet. There are many places you will find them on there. You can purchase them from Ebay and also from people who search out coupons, sort, clip and post them on the internet for you to buy. They charge you a fee for finding, cutting, sorting and packing those coupons to mail to you. Some of the ones I have purchased from are www.thecouponclippers.com., www.couponsandforms.com, www.thecouponmaster.com, and www.coupondede.com. I have had wonderful service from all of these, however often the mail will fail me. They do offer quicker forms of delivery at a higher cost, but if you need the coupons ASAP, for sure, you may consider using the quicker mailing. These nice people have posted when to expect your coupons to ship, by what day you purchase them. Your finders fee may be 5 cents or more depending on the value of the coupon.
There are coupons to be found on products website sometimes and also coupon websites to search out coupons. The ones that come to mind are www.coupons.com, www.redplum.com, and www.smartsource.com. Smartsource doesn't always cooperate with one of my computers and will not let me print sometimes. But coupons and redplum seem to work well on both my computers. Also manufacturers will have coupons to print on wesites. Betty Crocker, General Mills and Box Tops for Education are good for printing coupons. If you can it is good to have two or three computers to print coupons since you are only allowed normally 2 of each coupons to print. They know if you try to print more than two coupons and they will not let you print a third one.
One of my favorite places to print coupons also is www.slickdeals.net. You go to that website and click on forums, and then click on coupons. Then you search all of the latest post for coupons you might use. Also, you can go to slickdeals, then forums and then Drugstore, Grocery and B&M deals and search out the store you intend to shop at and then look at the post for the week you intend to shop, say CVS drugstore, the week of May 23, If you look at that post you will see that often there are coupon links for the items on sale that week so you can click on that link and then print the coupon for purchasing that product. Print them off a week early, because when the company sees they have so many coupons printed they will turn off the print and you will not be able to get that coupon.
Now earlier I told you that you can put a date on the front of your coupon insert each week, the reason being is that on slickdeals by each item on sale, they tell you what week your coupon should have been in your newspaper. It might say SS 6/31. That would mean the coupon was in the Smartsource coupon insert the week of June 31. That is IF you were luck enough to get the coupon in your newspaper. Not always will you have one that they have listed, but most of the time you will have one.
There is also a website called www.couponmom.com who has on her website, the Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, etc and drugstores weekly sales posted and also the coupons to go with the products listed just like slick deals. Also www.iheartcvs.com, www,iheartwags.com and www.iheartriteaid.com. The lady does the same thing so you will know what week the coupon was in the paper.
It is a good idea to check all of these websites. The reason for this is that one website may have a link to a very good coupon, but one of the other website may have overlooked this coupon and did not get it posted for you to see.
Other places to search out coupons are in the stores newspaper adds, tear pads on the store shelves and coupons stuck to the product. So keep your eyes open while in the store. You can also just do a search for a coupon you are looking for. A good place to search and make money off searching is http://www.swagbucks.com/
I think I will quit here for awhile, more to come later. This is probably more than enough information for you to consume at one time. I hope to provide more information soon that
will provide you with a lot of good information to help save you some money and to let you provide products that you have not been able to purchase for those in your household before and hopefully some extras to help out those in need.
I think the Council on Agencies here is open M-W-F for a few hours each day and they are tickled to death with any food donations you can provide. They will take anything non perishable and they do have refrigeration for frozen products. The Animal Shelter loves dog and cat treats and chews and often there will be free coupons or almost free coupons in the inserts often. So when you have an abundance of products, please think of those in need and pass some one.
Happy Coupon Shopping! I hope you have an overflowing shopping cart full and spend at least 3/4 the money you normally would have spent!!
Barb
PS I was not fond of English and the older I get the worse I type. So please forgive me for misspelled words, twisted letters, and improper grammar.
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