1. Stay organized! Purchase a three ring binder and clear baseball card pages to store your coupons in. This makes your coupons easier to see than an accordian coupon file.
2. If you frequent a certain grocery store, take a pen and paper the next time to write down the aisles/products and keep that list in the front of your binder. That way you can organize your coupons by aisle (like aisle 5 is the cereal/coffee aisle and all coupons for those items would go on that page in your binder).
3. Bring a calculator. Don't be fooled by an item on sale - sometimes those larger items cost more per ounce/pound/diaper than the smaller package not on sale.
4. Take some time to look at these couponing websites!
www.afullcup.com
www.iheartpublix.com
www.iheartsavingmoney.com
www.hotcouponworld.com
www.southersavers.com
www.coupons.com
www.smartsource.com
www.redplum.com
5. Ask your local grocery store if they accept competitors coupons, or have days where they double/triple coupons.
6. Create an email to use specifically for signing up at product websites. Go to your pantry and sign up for EVERY product that you use. Often you will get coupons for those products, as well as free samples in the mail.
7. If you shop Publix, sign up for their Baby and Preschool Club - these have wonderful coupons!
Hope this information is helpful to you. I'm all about finding good deals and saving money, so I hope to try some of these tips.
After our meeting, we all went out and I got one of these - yummmy!
And this is what my children did while I was at my meeting - they had a dance party!
Thanks for the info! Another great site is moneysavingmom.com
ReplyDeleteI am a huge fan of afullcup.com.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the other site suggestions!
krazycouponlady.com is also great!
Thanks for all the coupon websites. Creating an email account just for coupons is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteLove the dancing video - so freaking cute!
Ok...I LOVE this post! I always need a reminder to why I coupon and how to find new sites! Thanks a million :)
ReplyDelete~Elyse
Thanks for the tips!
ReplyDeleteI'm all about saving money, thanks :)
ReplyDeleteThat video was soooo stinking cute! I wish it was longer. My little man loves to dance too. Maybe I'll catch it on video soon. Check my blog out if you get a chance. www.sweetjenna.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteJenna
I always say that the grocery stores sometimes punish people who can't do math (and they "assume" that bigger is cheaper)! Thanks for the tips!
ReplyDeleteI actually caught myself last week - the "brand name" of oatmeal was on sale for cheaper than the "store brand" and yet I bought the "store brand" out of habit for our Youngest Boy. Darn.
Love the video of Natalie dancing!
ReplyDeleteOh my word, that is the cutest dancing!! Great entry btw; very helpful. I started couponing not long ago (I love the moneysavingmom blog) and I think I definitely need to go to the binder method for organizing my coupons; the envelope method just isn't cutting it for me!
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