Sunday, January 4, 2009

Where to find coupons or Couponing 101

To truly rack up the savings, you are going to need multiple copies of the coupons. In order to save the most amount of money at the grocery store, you need to start a stockpile…and we have touched on stockpiling before. Just getting the weekly papers isnt going to get it. It will take you forever to amass the kind of coupons that you need. But one good thing about the coupons in the newspapers is you can look though the coupons and decide if there is enough things listed that you normally use or want to try. If there are coupons in there and say they are .50 cent coupons. and the item is less then 2.00 to buy. Buy more, take them to a double coupon store (Kroger's, Schnucks)and you will really see the savings. That's 1.00 off of a 2.00 item. Even better if you can get it at CVS and it has EBC's your making money off that item.

But once you have those coupons and you need more for specific items that you use where do you go?

Internet Printables (IPs): there are tons of coupons to be found all over the internet. General Mills is the most generous with the coupons. There is also Coupons.com as well as SmartSource.

http://www.boxtops4education.

http://bettycrocker.com

http://www.eatbetteramerica.com


One of the best ways that I personally find coupons is by using http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=271017. Just copy and paste this in your browser and it will take you right to their site.I have used this fairly regular now and have been more then pleased with it. On this search engine you do 2 things. One say I'm looking for a crest total toothpaste coupon. I type that it. I might get the coupon if it's available and I might also get swagbucks that I can win gift cards on too. It's a double win win situation for me. If you havent tried this site. Do so, I think you will like it.

So hopefully this will help you get what you looking for coupon wise. How did you do with the coupons in todays papers?



Big Coupon Day today 1/4/09



Today is a great day to start your coupon base. Today's papers have 5 different sections of coupons. Be sure to check before you get out of the store. I've grabbed a paper and gotten home to find out that someone has taken them out of the paper. Argh not a happy camper when that happens and I've been known to take them back and get another one. So this morning, since I was up at 3:30 am I ran to Hucks (that's our local convenence store) and grabbed 5 papers. I figured the total of all the coupons will be over 1000.00. So if you new to coupon today would be the day to grab several of the papers. If you do the CVS game with the EBS's you can even get the papers for free. If not spend the 1.50 for the paper so you get your base coupons started.