How to Utilize Coupons to Get Free Groceries Part 2: Efficiently Use and Keep Coupons

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The way to save the most money using coupons is to wait until the items you want are on a really great sale. But that means saving them until that sale comes along. Coupons can easily net you free food. In my most recent couponing trip I “purchased” $221.90 of food but paid only $48.30! It definitely works! But keeping and using coupons is time-consuming! With ten children to feed I didn’t have the time to be cutting out all those coupons! And what to do with them once they’re cut: that was another problem. The solution is not to cut them!

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Weekly sales ads
Connection to the internet
Your own file of coupons

Step1

Cut and store your coupons as described in the first part of this series (see Resources.)

Step2

by kurlisola at flickr.com When you are poring over your grocery weekly sales ads, get online and find the Coupon Database at Hot Coupon World (see Resources). Enter the name of any item for which you want a coupon. This search will yield which, if any, coupons are available for that item as well as the date and source of those coupons. The source of most coupons will be from the coupon inserts. If you searched for Charms Lollipops and the database listed the source of a $0.50 off 1 coupon as “01-27-08 SS”, then you will find it in your files in the January 27th edition of the SmartSource coupon insert. Make a list showing the products you want as well as the dates and sources.

Another option is to go to the becentsable blog's "Grocery Gathering" section to see the current deals others have already found.

Step3

Systematically find your coupons by date and publisher. No shuffling through a zillion coupons trying to find the one you thought you might have.

The more you utilize coupons the more important that is! When you have accumulated 6,000 or more coupons you will appreciate how much time this system saves you!