Make Coupon Shopping Work For You!
By Lili Pintea-Reed, Fri Dec 9th
Recently I've had many people ask me what I think ofmanufacturer's discount coupons. I use discount coupons -- butonly if they work completely to my advantage. In my book, theyare very handy if: 1) You can match a Store Sale to a Manufacturer's thusgetting the item for nearly --or sometimes -- free. 2) If you need to purchase a particular name brand for a gift.
3) If that name brand product is something your family justthinks is the best product for the job. We have a particularbrand of toothpaste my hubby would never do without. Ergo -- webuy it with coupons. 4) Shop at a store that offers Double Coupons up to a DollarValue, thus bringing the value of the up too, or near adollar off. Example #1: My family's favorite toothpaste is normally$3.49 at the grocery store. When there is a store sale, it goesfor $2.49. With an additional Manufacturer's for a dollaroff, the price goes down to $1.49 a tube. That's when I buy it! Yes, I know I could take a hard line as the "money manager" inthe family, and say we have to use some generic brand for adollar a tube, or better yet, just use baking soda... Butsometimes when you live on strict budget life's small pleasurescan mean a lot. Ask my husband the spender of the family (laugh). Another frequent question people asked me if the stories of somewoman who got $200 dollars of groceries for $20 bucks withcupons are true. Yes, this is possible IF you buy only productsalready on sale matched to an additional dollar off coupon. Thenyou pay just a few cents an item. Example
#2: We did this this week. We got the weeklysales flyer from a large local grocery and matched it to ourcoupon collection. My teenaged son likes to do this. We foundmany items we were going to need later for holiday gift givingor treat making listed in the flyer on store sale. We went tothe store on a day they doubled coupons so all our coupons wouldbe valued around or equal to a dollar. The original total wasover $90 Dollars, but with the coupons our total came to $40Dollars, which is less than half what it would have been... Thesales girl kept looking and looking at the full cart and the lowbill. It WAS a fine Frugal Moment. You can get Coupons from: 1) a Sunday Newspaper 2) or online at sites Like: Cool Savings.com Coolsavings.com Ecoupons.com www.ecoupons.com 3) Cooking Coupons Directly From Manufacturers Like: OnlineBaking Coupons from Pillsbury.com http://www.pillsbury.com Online Baking Coupons from Nestle http://www.verybestbaking.com Online Baby Coupons http://www.verybestbaby.com All rights belong to author. Contact pinteareed@ureach.com forre-print permission. About the author:Lili Pintea-Reed is the well known author of thewww.bellaonline.com FRUGAL LIVING site where she gives all sortsof advice to working families on saving money. Check out hersite at: http://www.bellaonline.com/site/frugalliving All rights belong to author.Contact pinteareed@ureach.com for re-print permission.
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