Sunday, April 26, 2009

Where to Find Coupons

-Newspapers
Drew and I have a subscription to the weekend paper, so we get a paper on Fri., Sat., and Sun. The Sunday papers are the ones with all the coupons. We pay $13 a month for the subscription which saves us a ton of money each month. I know we could get the paper on just Sun. and save a few dollars, but Drew likes the ads, and we are giving the papers we don't read to my neighbors who wish they had a subscription, and sometimes they give the papers back and we have a pile of them to give to Drews parents to help with fires in the winter. We save money, my neighbors get the papers w/out cost. We are all happy.
In some states you can buy the Sunday papers on Sat. and some stores carry them still on Mon. (mine do not do either which is why in order to not purchase Sun. papers on Sun. I had to get a subscription). I have heard of libraries getting papers on Sun. and they leave the coupons and ads outside in a basket for anyone to take. I have also heard of women who dumpster dive behind CVS's Mon. morning...I do not encourage this, it is illegal in some states...and unsanitary.

-Online
There are lots of resources on line for coupons. You can google coupons and various links come up. My favorites are:

http://www.coupons.com/
coupons.smartsource.com
http://www.coolsavings.com/
Now you can only print each coupon twice. I have 2 computers at home so I can actually print them twice from each computer. (I take my laptop and hook it up to the printer that is with my desktop). It's a way to beat the system, but do it fairly.

http://www.redplum.com/ (click on grocery and drug on left toolbar)
http://www.pgesaver.com/ This site is cool, because if you have those reward cards...like a Bashas card, or Safeway, or Fry's, or Kroger, etc... It lets you load the coupons onto your card. So it saves paper, ink, time cutting, I don't use it, but a lot of people do.

Also! My favorite!
http://www.target.com/
If you scroll all the way to bottom you will see a link for grocery coupons, click on that and it lists coupons for target. You can print these as many times as you want.

http://www.organicgrocerydeals.com/forums/view.php?pg=coupon_generator
This lady somehow generates Target coupons, Targets website changes their coupons weekly, organicgrocerydeals still has the ones from previous weeks up to print, so you can print Target coupons that Targets website no longer has posted. And she lists when they expire.

Now! The best thing about Target (and many other stores) they let you use a store coupon, and a manufacturers coupon for the same product. So for example- you saw all the baby lotions and baby wash I was getting? I used a johnson and johnson toiletry coupon from target.com, and a coupon from johnson and johnsons website, one for lotion and one for baby wash at the same time. I got the lotion for .44 and the baby wash for .44 when it was priced for $2.32.
Walgreens has coupons in their ads, if you don't get the paper you can just walk in and their ads are next to the front door. You can use their store coupons and a manufacturers coupon for the same item.

http://www.johnsonsbaby.com/special-offers-expanded.jsp
Johnson & Johnson Kid/Baby Product coupons.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/Coupons-Promotions/Coupons/Default.aspx
Betty Crocker coupons- I love Betty Crocker products, I even have a Betty Crocker calendar with recipes on each month.

A lot of time you just have to search sites. I LOVE Quakers new line of granola bars, so I got on the site and right there on the home page is a link for $1 off, I then contacted the company to tell them how much I have always liked their products but really LOVE these new granola and they sent me more coupons. So when Bashas had them on sale for $2 I stocked up using all my $1 off coupons.

Yes, it's time consuming. But I saw the coupondiva on GMA and she said if that's your mentality, that you don't have the time then, "You haven't been broke enough." Drew and I are no where near broke, but this is a good skill to master, if it ever came to that point. Plus it's so fun to go shopping and spend very little and walk out with a ton.

Also, I have saved a lot of money price matching at Wal-Mart. I don't go to WalMart just to price match,for example, on Sat. I went to buy Autumn some sandals and since I was there I decided to price match on some salad dressing and yogurt. I feel it holds up the line and doesn't help things run smoothly, since the lines are always hellatious at WalMarts anyways. But if I am there for something else I do take advantage of price matching and using my coupons on top of that!

So there are some of my secrets. Since many posted comments asking where I get coupons. Most of them are from the Sunday paper, many others are from online.

2 comments:

  1. Wohoo!! Thanks for all this awesome info! I am so going to start "couponing." :)

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  2. yay now i have you as my guide! and this site to keep checking up on! thanks!!

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