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Day 7: Best Resources for Grocery Coupons
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 After your house payment, the second highest bill is…food! Unless you’ve committed a ridiculous amount of money to car payments, what you stick in your mouth eats up a huge chunk of cash each month. But unlike insurance, transportation, or cable, you have a lot of wiggle room with your food budget.
Finding coupons may be an intimidating hurdle to your frugal lifestyle. Since the recent boom in coupon usage over the last two years coupons are becoming more difficult to redeem and use within expiration. I Love Coupon Month has the inside scoop on where to find the best coupons for your shopping cart:
- Manufacturer Inserts in the Newspaper
In my neck of the woods, big name manufacturers like Proctor & Gamble and Red Plum roll out coupon fliers every two weeks on Wednesday. Each local publication varies, so call your ads representative at the paper to get accurate information. These promotions are far more awesome than many store coupons–they have longer expiration periods and are for many of your favorite, name-brand products like Crest, Nutrigrain, and Yoplait.
- Store Specific Inserts
In addition to offers directly from the manufacturer, grocery and pharmacy stores also scatter coupons through their weekly ad inserts. You will have to hunt them down with a magnifying glass, but it’s worth it! Most are placed inconspicuously throughout each page in no apparent order. Stores like Walgreens and CVS usually offer more clippable coupons than their grocery counterparts.
- Receipt Coupons
Take a moment to breathe and reflect after before peeling out of the Kroger parking lot. Have you ever looked at the coupons printed with your receipt? They’re for products that you just purchased (or similar products by a different manufacturer). These deals also have lengthier expiration dates. I scored $10 off a can of Enfamil formula on my last Target grocery run.
- Magazine Coupons
Some of the biggest discounts are found in magazines like Women’s Day and Ladies’ Home Journal. Since most products promoted here are new, you can grab big bargains on hot buys for less. This does not, however, give you license to subscribe to a mound of bathroom material! Just keep an eye out and clip with courtesy.
- Digital Coupons
Make your data package do some work for you! Download store coupons directly from Kroger and others. Here’s the caveat: you’ll forget which coupons you have for each product! Keep a list of digital offers you have on your card and check them off as you use them. More on how this process works tomorrow!
- Mailout Coupons
Provided that your store card address matches where you live, your grocery store will send coupons on products that you buy. And they are fantastic $1 and $2 off discounts. So easy and subscription free!
Keep the rollbacks rollin’ on this September! Stay tuned tomorrow to I Love Coupon Month’s insider tips on how to load digital coupons to your grocery store card.
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