Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Summer Savings - "I Need More Coupons!"



Last week, my sister and I started our "Summer Savings" plan to save to go on vacation next Fall. She started by playing a bit of catch up. She's a new couponer, so the first step was collecting coupons!

Next she had a question - WHERE ARE THEY GETTING ALL OF THOSE COUPONS?

Yes, she too had seen Extreme Couponing and the stacks and stacks of inserts and seemingly never ending supply of coupons they have each episode. Don't get me wrong, I actually like parts of the show and find it motivating.  But in my sister's case, it was very overwhelming and frustrating to her to see how easy it was for them, but not so easy starting off for her!

There are coupon clipping services like the Coupon Clippers, where you can buy full inserts and individual coupons. I have done this once.  Last year when the $2/1 Pampers wipes coupon was out, I ordered some and with a newborn, it was TOTALLY worth it.

Then we started to brainstorm other ways to find MORE COUPONS! :) Here's what we came up with:

-Check the dollar store for Sunday Newspapers that are only $1

-Make friends with the librarians, coffee shop owners, McDonald's employees, etc. and ask for the leftover inserts from their free Sunday newspapers (you know, the ones they lay out for people to read and leave when they are done for someone else)

-Dumpster Diving - ok, she actually did this...there was no "diving" involved, but she did put on gloves and head to her local recycling center to look through the "paper only" dumpsters. She actually found a couple P&G inserts and Smart Source ones.

-Ask neighbors, friends, and family...not everyone is as crazy as we are, so we have friends, family and neighbors to help feed our addiction :)

-Sign up with our favorite companies (like Pampers - just got a great mailer of coupons from them)

*Help us out - Let us know where do you find all your coupons?* 


Her homework - keep collecting and get ready to organize...will you use envelopes, binder, Couponizer, file folders, or other???

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