How to Start Saving Money with Coupons
There's no doubt that using coupons can save us money in the grocery store. Yet, millions of dollars worth of coupons go unused each year, likely because no one clipped them out, or we forgot to take them to the store when we went shopping. Perhaps we let them sit around until they expired. Coupons can save you tons of money if you are organized. A commitment of a small amount of time and money for supplies can save most families hundreds of dollars a year.
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Things You'll Need
- Scissors
- Binder
- Trading card pages
- Binder dividers with tabs
- Weekly circulars
Instructions
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Collect as many coupons as you can find to get started. Look in the Sunday newspaper, magazines, online, on product packaging, at the checkout counter in your grocery store or directly from manufacturers. Be a coupon sleuth!
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Cut out all the coupons for products that you would conceivably use in the next few months.
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Set up a binder with trading card sheets and alphabet binder inserts. Insert the coupons into the trading card slots under the appropriate letter. For example, put all cat food coupons under "C" or classify them by brand name. This takes a while the first time that you do it, but you'll get faster and faster as the weeks go by.
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Gather the store circulars that come in the mail or go online to check out the weekly ads. To save the most money with coupons, you match the sales in the weekly ads with the coupons that you have.
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The last step is to bring the coupons that match up with the sales to the store and present them at checkout. If your store offers a double-coupon day, shop on that day each week.
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To keep up with your coupons, once a month go through your binder and remove all the expired coupons.
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Tips & Warnings
This may take a few weeks to get the hang of, so don't give up right away.
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