May 4, 2009
How to Use Grocery Discount Coupons for Savings
It is a shocking but true fact that grocery discount coupons can reduce your food expenses by 65% or more.
Do I have your attention? It is beyond easy to save more than you spend every time you go to the grocery store just by learning a few easy steps for savings:
1. Get coupons for every item in your shopping cart. Do not pay full price for anything, ever!
2. Look for high face-value coupons and discounts. Looking for the best grocery coupons requires only a few things. Scan the online printable grocery coupon sites and look for high face-value coupons. Scan the electronic coupon sites too, choose which offers you want and add them to your club card. Study the sales fliers for already discounted items. Know that the supermarket chains have gotten increasingly more competitive as the economy has gotten worse, so the deals are better. Look for discounted items in the store ad every week.
3. Match your coupons with weekly specials to get the highest savings. You may be happily unaware that this one skill will save you an additional 30% or more off the top.
4. The most important tip is to purchase extra when prices are very low. Why pay full price for a box of cereal when it can be had for a quarter on a good sale? I currently have 30 boxes of cereal in my pantry as I write this from a good sale last week, total savings $110 without much effort. Never pass up a really good deal without stockpiling.
Will you really save tons of cash with grocery discount coupons? Certainly. if you know how to use them properly and get the most out of them. Let me explain, properly and most refer to the need for having a good supply of like coupons to use so that you can stock up when products are free or nearly so. Almost every week there are items to be had for free or just a few cents on the dollar.
Where do I like to look for grocery discount coupons? Many places, but I really find online printable grocery coupons to be useful because of their high face-values. I also really like the new electronic grocery coupons because of how high the discounts are and how easy they are to use. When I need a broader range of coupons to chose from and have exhausted my free coupon possibilities, I use a coupons clipping service to get many multiples of the best coupons every week.
Filed under Personal Finance by Renee Gibbs
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