How to Get Unlimited Free Grocery Coupons

Using coupons can save you hundreds of dollars a month which translates to thousands of dollars a year. Couponing only works if you are organized, plan accordingly, and have a big supply of coupons. The key to saving with grocery coupons is getting them from multiple locations and having a large supply. Here are several strategies for getting free coupons for grocery items that you will actually buy!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Ask friends, neighbors, coworkers, and relatives if they use the grocery coupons in the Sunday papers. Most do not. Offer to pick up the papers from them at a convenient time. Make it easy for them – don’t ask them to bring the papers to you.

2. Ask friends, neighbors, coworkers, and relatives if they subscribe to magazines that contain grocery coupons such as Family Circle, Women’s Day, Redbook, or Good Housekeeping. If so, ask if you can have the magazines when they are finished reading them and you can clip out the grocery coupons.

3. Join a coupon train. A coupon train is a group of people in a close geographic area who pass coupons along to one another via snail mail. (Coupon trains are not a new idea, but the internet makes it easier to find and participate in them, and communicate with the members.) One person starts the train, sends the next rider coupons, the 2nd rider takes the coupons she wants and adds hers, and this continues for all the riders. The only cost to participate in a coupon train is the postage for sending the grocery coupons to the next person once a week. You can score hundreds of great coupons for the items you actually need, and find a home for coupons you would have thrown away. You can find coupon trains on coupon forums such as The Grocery Game.

4. Take the coupons from the “blinkie” dispensers in grocery stores. You’ve seen them – the little dispensers of coupons right on the grocery store shelves that blink. Watch for them wherever you go.

5. Pick up unwanted free newspapers. Does your neighborhood receive a free weekly paper full of coupons? Mine does, and most people don’t pick them up. After a few days, I walk around gathering up as many as I need or want. If there are really good coupons, like the $2-$5 ones, I’ll even go to other neighborhoods to stockpile them.

6. Get printable coupons online. Visit sites like Money Saving Mom, Sisterly Savings, The Grocery Game, and The Coupon Mom for links to printable coupons. Participate in the forums – there are hundreds of members posting printable coupons. Check the resources section below for direct links to printable coupon sites.

7. Dumpster dive. This is for the die-hard coupon collectors. Check out newspaper recycling bins - they will only have newspapers in them so you won't be swimming in nasty garbage. (You don’t actually have to “dive” into them.) Usually, you can just take Sunday paper coupon inserts lying on the top few layers. Check these bins regularly and stock up.

8. Check the resources section below for free printable coupons and samples.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't be afraid to ask your neighbors and friends for their Sunday papers. Just explain that you are trying to make ends meet and coupons are a resource you use. They will probably admire your creativity.

Resources

• Print Free Online Grocery Coupons
• Print Grocery Coupons - Save Money!
• Get Free Samples and Coupons

[Diablo2]

on 11/10/2009 Thank you! 5*
One too many is never enough :p

[Diablo2]

on 11/10/2009 Thank you! 5*
One too many is never enough :p

[cookiecook]

on 11/1/2009 I heart couponing!!!

[tgail]

on 10/31/2009 great ideas on saving money with coupons thanks for sharing 5*and rec

[auntkitty]

on 10/29/2009 Great ideas you have here. Thanks for sharing.