How to Save More Money with Grocery Coupons

Even avid coupon clippers can find ways to save more money with grocery coupons. Learn to take advantage of additional discounts, get more of the coupons you want (and remember to use them) with these steps.

Instructions

1. Swap grocery coupons you've clipped from flyers and printable grocery coupons from the Internet with friends using a two-for-one ratio. Have each person trade two grocery coupons for products they don't want for one coupon for an item they do. You'll save more money because you'll have additional coupons for items you typically use and have twice as many coupons to replace those for the items you don't buy.

2. Save more money with grocery coupons by holding onto them until the items are also on sale or have club-card discounts. If the price of the item falls below the store price when you use the coupon, you may even receive cash back. Consider shopping at multiple places to increase the odds of matching your grocery coupons with sale prices.

3. Find local stores that offer double coupons. Do a little research, however, to ensure the shop's overall prices aren't higher than another market down the street. If so, the "discounts" may end up costing you more instead of helping you save money.

4. Keep coupons with you at all times for those last-minute trips for groceries. Stash a slim coupon organizer in your purse or store the holder in your car glove compartment. Save more money with grocery coupons by keeping extra printable grocery coupons for the items you buy most in you car.

5. Rotate the coupons in your organizer often to ensure they don't expire since you can save more money with grocery coupons if you don't use them. If you don't plan to shop before those expiration dates, give the grocery coupons to a friend who is. She can return the favor the next time she's got discounts on the brink of expiring.