Couponing Wave 101–3
By: Darlene Lavoy-Eddington
Tags: Coupon, Coupon Codes

Couponing Wave 101–3

FINDING COUPONS: Clipping coupons from different sources will provide you with a lot of options for products and deals. Once you're ready to start getting COUPONS, you will find several different ways to do this. Make sure you get the store weekly advertisements, so you can compare with the Newspapers, magazines, internet, e-mails, e-coupons, store cards, tear pads, store ads, the ad machines in the store aisles, manufacturers, friends, family, coupon clubs, etc.

When you PRINT coupons, you can only print 2 of each item, from each coupon site. Coupon sites change coupons about every 7 to 10 days. Don’t use photocopied coupons. Unless the store is providing them, using photocopied coupons may be considered coupon fraud, which is against coupon policies and can cause you trouble.

COUPON.COM: http://bcg.coupons.com/link/index/1192440001/153741

​E-Coupons or electronic coupons is a very convenient way to save money at the grocery store. Free coupons load directly to your participating grocery store savings card, which you use on your phone, so there is no paper to lose or forget.

Coupon theft is on the rise. People are taking coupon inserts, from store newspapers or from newspapers other people have already paid for. This is not being honest! Then, in turn, are selling these on the internet.

Tear Pads: Vendors put tear pads and coupons out by their products. This is a favor to the consumer. Take a couple of these, but please do not take the whole pad or an excessive amount that is just RUDE! These are not put out for people to sell, this is a promotional tool to see what response that the product is getting.​

Peelies: coupons found on products. These coupons are put on certain products in order to sell them faster. Do not remove them and save them for later. Buy the product and use the coupon at the checkout. These are put there to see how this product is doing in the store.

​Blinkies: found in the aisle at the store spitting out of a black box. The box usually has a red blinking light on it. Take a few of these, saving them for a sale if you are going to buy the product. Otherwise, leave them for the next shopper. These also are not to be sold.​

Stores ads: can be combined with manufacturers coupons, for even more savings. Please do not take a stack of ads from a store in order to hold for yourself. You are not the only person trying to save money.

Many couponers love getting a large number of items for nothing (or next to nothing), only do this if you can actually use that amount. Don’t be greedy and leave the shelves bare, be considerate of your fellow shoppers and take only what you know you and your family will actually use.​

Avoid shopping at 5 pm, fellow shoppers are trying to buy groceries for dinner. Cashiers, fellow shoppers that are waiting in line will get stressed out, which ends up being a bad day. Shop when the store tends to be less crowded, such as later at night or early in the morning.

You discover while at the store that you can’t use a coupon and it is still valid, leave it for someone else who may be able to make use of it.

The shopper behind you has one item and no coupons, you have several items and coupons, let them go ahead of you. This is common courtesy and will give Couponers a better name.