Grocery Coupon Guide

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In Packages: Often times, you find coupons in certain packages of items good for a discount on a future purchase of that same item. For instance, South Beach Diet foods often have a coupon for $1 off a future purchase of another South Beach product. Or certain items at the drugstore, like deodorant or sometimes toothpaste will have a coupon in it. Chances are if you bought the product to use then you like that product so why not save money on a future purchase of it?

Online: Search for “coupons” on any search engine site online and you will find a ton of sites where you can print coupons right off of your computer!

Through E-mail: Many of the online coupon sites have an e-mail list you can sign up for to receive coupons through your e-mail so you don’t have to go online to find them. Also you can also receive coupons to specific stores/restaurants when you sign up for their e-mail lists.

At Stores: Have you ever seen those little red coupon dispensing machines lining the aisles of your grocery store? I have to admit that I haven’t seen as many of them lately, but I do find coupons at grocery stores from time to time — and they are conveniently located right underneath the item they are for. You can also sometimes find coupons at the register when you are ringing your items up. For instance if you go to buy an item that the store has a special coupon for that week, but you don’t have the coupon, you can ask the cashier if they have an extra one and often times they will have a spare one that they can scan for you to give you the discount. Also, at places like Linen’s and Things where they give out a 20% off of any item coupon in all of their ads, they always have extras behind the registers that you can use — all you have to do is ask.

Magazines: Many magazine also feature coupons in a lot of their ads. You can often find coupons for grocery items in magazines that are directed towards women (Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, etc.). Fashion magazines tend to have coupons for different makeup and skin care items as well.

(Bonus) Referrals: These ones seems to be less common so I figured I’d throw it in as a bonus. Sometimes you can get discount on specific services and/or items by referring someone to that service/item (or being referred yourself). For instance, if we refer someone to our current satellite provider (Dish Network) we get $50 off our bill and the person we referred gets $50 off theirs too. Also, we recently bought new cell phones through a website and if we refer someone to buy a phone through their site as well, they receive a $25 coupon and so do we. It works great for both.

Bonus Suggestion: Organizing Your Coupons: Since I find coupons anywhere, it seems that every table and countertop in my house is overflowing with coupons and often times when I need to use a coupon, I either forget where I put it or forget that I even have it. I’ve tried using an accordion coupon organizer, but that just became too difficult and time consuming to organize. Recently, I’ve begun a new process where I file all coupons in my filing cabinet. I only have 3 folders: 1 for grocery coupons, 1 for eating out coupons and one or specific store coupons (these are the types of coupons I collect most often so that is why I made these folders). When I find a coupon I simply drop it in the appropriate folder and it’s out of my way. Then if I need to go grocery shopping, I pull out my grocery coupon folder and pull out any coupons for items I need to buy that week. And if we feel like going out to eat, I pull out that folder and we usually decide where to go based on what coupons we have. So far this has simplified the coupon process quite a bit for me and has allowed me to find and use my coupons more often.

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