Slash Your Grocery Prices With Coupons
By GranMamma, Fri Dec 9th

Coupons save consumers hundreds of dollars a year. Smartshoppers take the time to look for, cut out, file, and usecoupons on a regular basis. You may be surprised how much moneyyou can save in the long run.

Coupons are easy to use when organized efficiently. Couponsshould be put into groups such as cereals, fruit, pizzas, papergoods, pet food, baby needs, and anything else that you needfrequently. With this strategy, you can easily plan to savemoney each time you make your grocery list. Simple rules forsmart shopping:

1. Always check the prices of similar brands. Another brand maybe less expensive even with the coupon. Don’t buy the brand-nameitem just to use the coupon.

2. If your retailer doubles the face value of your coupons on acertain day, plan to do your major shopping on that day.

3. Always shop with a list and the appropriate coupons basedupon what your family uses the most.

4. When filing your coupons, put those with the earliestexpiration dates in front so you won’t forget about them.

5. You can really save if you combine the SALE with the coupons!

How

to store your coupons:

You can organize your coupons in an orderly manner for half thecost of an off-the-shelf organizer. Simply buy a 3 - 4 inchthree ringed binder and about a dozen plastic baseball cardsheets. You can put tabs on the sheets to identify differentcategories of coupons.

Seek out your coupons online and you’re sure to save time. NOmore are the days when you had to scour the newspaper, searchfor usable coupons, clip each one individually, and then sortthem so that they could be easily found. No sireee. We live in adigital world. Using coupons can be as simple as typing in acode upon checkout at your favorite online retailer. This isknown as a “coupon code” or a “promotional code”.

You’ll quickly be on your way to becoming the smartest shopperin your neighborhood.

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