Frugal Living - While - Living Naturally

Surfing the Net looking for deals and information for myself and to share with you. There is no need to rewrite -- It's already available.

My Goal is to spend frugally while living organically, but I will share all the deals I can find with you.

Then, you make your choice to live frugally and/or organically.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Finding Coupon Sources

Now that I have the binder together, I need coupons.


Coupon Sources:
  • Newspapers of course.  There should be coupon inserts Red Plum, Smart Source and Proctor & Gamble usually has an insert about once a month. You should purchase about 4 papers and you can get these cheaper at either Walmart or Dollar Tree 
  • Store Ads - Many stores offer coupons in the sales ads (These coupons can be combined with a manufacturer coupon for an even greater savings)
  • Magazines (e.g. All You, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping...etc.)  (They run specials on these magazines or you could just check them at your local doctors office..etc.)
  • Internet - Websites such as Coupons.com, Redplum.com and Smartsource.com.  Do a search there are many more.
  • Home Mailers - ValuPak or Coolsavings.  If you don't already receive these, you can go online and sign up.
  • Manufacturer's Websites - Sign up on their websites, send emails, and give feedback on products and they will send coupons
  • In Store - There are blinkies (blinking machines attached to shelves), catalinas (print outs that either accompany the receipt or printed on the back), peelies (coupons that peel off the product), tearpads (coupons located on pads usually on or near shelves) and inserts or cut outs on packages available.  Also stores like CVS and Walgreens have coupon books located near the front door.
  • Friends & Family - ask your friends to save their newspaper inserts, magazines or mailers for you
  • Loyalty Cards - Sign up for all the loyalty or savings card that the stores offer.  There is also electronic coupons; savings cards that are loaded with ecoupons from shortcuts.com or cellfire.com
  • Ebay - buy hundreds of  coupons just for the minimal price of shipping and handling
  • Clipping Service - Purchase multiples of same coupons for the minimal price of shipping and handling (e.g. thecouponclippers.com)
  • Trade Coupons - with others at mycoupons.com, refundcents.com, fullcup.com, hotcouponworld.com
  • Cell Phones - get coupons direct to your phone with cellfire.com
  • Facebook - become a fan of your favorite products and receive valuable coupons
  • Freebies - sign up for freebies, a coupon for full size product will usually accompany the freebie (google for freebies and take advantage of any magazine, internet or in store opportunity)
  • Yahoo - do a search in groups:  there are many groups dedicated to couponing, join and obtain valuable advice and coupons
  • Blogs - again there are lots and lots of people who blog about couponing....there is a wealth of information to help guide you and they usually have coupons on their blogs too.
  • Google - do a search for coupons

Its a weekly commitment I know, but think about all the money we are saving by investing 2 to 4 hours a week.   There are more sources than just the newspaper and I bet you did not realize.  You save by the quantity of coupons you have, buying on sale and learning to stack coupons.  There really is a method to this madness.  I am sure you have thought about coupons before and just gave up the idea because you did not think there was really a savings.  You were wrong...because you did not have the education to know where to find them or how to use them correctly.  Using them correctly will be in my next blog.

Coupons.com
Smart Source 
Red Plum 
P&G eSaver
Mambo Sprouts
Betty Crocker
Box Tops For Education
Eat Better America

Pillsbury
Target
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