Coupon Question

Visit the site jillcataldo.com, or couponmom.com, and follow their suggested links to sign up or look for coupons online. I have had good luck starting there. There is a magazine you can subscribe to called All You, or you can buy it at Walmart, cover price is cheap, subscription is cheaper, and there are TONS of coupons inside. Also, the Sunday paper coupon inserts are key for matching up with sales - the online coupons are not the same and you won't find the insert coupons anywhere else. Buy the largest newspaper serving your market area for the most and highest value coupons.

I love couponing and hope that you have some luck with it. Being from washington too since I am in tacoma. mamatothreewee you need to get the Sunday News Tribune. It has a ton of inserts. Plus sites like coupon.com or smart source.com is good too. I agree that alot of the sites have like coupons and its sucks. Have you ever seen the show on TLC extreme couponing. It's an amazing show I think. What the coupon insert companies do is put out coupons that coorespond with the store sales. I have lots of sites that I visit if any of you are interested you are more then welcome to personal messege me and I will be more the happy to send you my sites that I clip from.

Don't forget to get your sunday paper either. I buy between 2-4 every sunday.

I have the best luck with coupons.com and going directly to the grocery store's website. I'm sure there is more, but I'm just starting out too, so it will be nice to see you other responses.

There are tons of places the offer coupons but take you link to link to link and never a coupon. I used to use www.thegrocrerygame.com - there are pages there where you can find printable usable coupons! That site also offers membership and will tell you weekly what sales are there for your store and what coupons to match up. It was great at $10 every 8 weeks, but I stopped using it. Ive also gone directly to the manufacture and found coupons on their site. Sometimes if you write to them they send you coupons too, could be a good review or even something bad. These coupons are the best - I once wrote to Purdue and they sent me about $9 in coupons. MY husband called Breyers once and they sent a coupon for a free tub of ice cream!

The thing with extreme couponing is having the space to put it all. Ive scaled down a lot! First I didnt have a lot of room to put all my 'free' items - or I forgot about them since they sat in the back of the pantry, I cant tell you how much I tossed cause they expired. Second it takes a lot of patience and time to do it but if you can wait, you can usually find an item on sale for say 99 cents use that 50 cent coupon which may double in your store and get it free. I gave away a lot of stuff too, but you have to consider that while you didnt 'pay' directly you paid for it indirectly. With buying newspapers, using all your time to plan, traveling to the store and back and storage of all you purchased. Buying coupons online doesnt make sense since they charge you and there is shipping fees to consider. The 50 cent coupon isnt 50 cents anymore. My husband collects them at his job and my neighbors give them to me for the most part. I also buy more fruits and veggies which I rarely find coupons for.

That show on TLC, is a little insane to me since my store does not allow you to buy more then 4 items at the sale price - the rest comes up at regular price. Besides do you really want 80 bottles of pasta sauce in your garage? lol

Thanks, Sarah B for the tip about the All You magazine! I just looked at their website, and you can print coupons there too :)

Mamatothreewee: You need to get the Sunday paper, that's the single biggest source of coupons. Dollar stores sell them, I have heard. All You magazine (sold at Walmart), and also through subscription has high value coupons every month. Also watch free standing store displays and "blinkie machines" at the store and grab any coupons that you think you might use in the future. Trade with friends and family. Get the word out that you want coupons and people will save them for you. I rarely, if ever, *buy* coupons from websites unless it's something that I want to get a lot of and then I usually only pay 10 percent of face value.

Two websites that you will probably find helpful are www.couponconnections.com and www.refundcents.com. Amber at Coupon Connections lives in Lynnwood, WA and hosts couponing classes and coupon swaps. Her site is free. Since she is from Washington state, her site will be helpful for you since the stores and store sales vary by region. Michele from Refund Cents is from Utah and runs an amazing website. Her site costs $12 a year for online only access, but it is well worth it. Michele also has several trading boards where you can trade coupons that you have for ones that you need, or trade coupons for a handling fee or stamps.

Hope this information is helpful. You do need to know up front though that you will not be saving the kind of money that you see on "Extreme Couponing" the word "extreme" describes that show very well. I routinely save 50 percent or more off of my weekly shopping trips taking advantage of shoppers cards, store sales, store coupons and manufacturer's coupons by buying only what I know my family can use. Let me know if you have any other questions..

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Those will help you. They are all free. and local