Buy a Sunday Paper to Start Saving Money on Groceries
There may come a point in your life when you finally realize that you have been spending entirely too much money on your grocery shopping trips. There may be individuals who merely do not care about the cost of items and tend to go with the flow and fluctuations of prices, but there are some people who are always looking for the best deals and will go shopping in different stores just to get their deals. You may purchase cold goods at one store while another has a better deal on soup but the main question is, how do you get the most for you dollar?
Eggs are eggs and milk is milk right? Surely, you are correct but prices do tend to change from one store to the next and even more so from town to town and then finally, state to state. Northern states may have access to different seasonal fruits and other products than what are available in the south and vice versa. The best place that one can start looking for coupons is within the Sunday paper! Who does not remember that huge paper that came every week that looked like it had a million pages stuffed in between when they were a child? Well those fliers could very well be your saving grace now, especially in difficult economic times.
Great words to scan for are name brands such as Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Gillette; you get it? The more that you are able to stack up, the more you will save - there is no shame in purchasing a few Sunday papers to have more of the same coupons. When you find a good deal, why not help yourself out a little and either increase your savings or at least allow yourself to enjoy that deal a few times over. There are websites available where one can purchase coupons as well if they do not feel like digging through the Sunday paper. Ask around though, you may find that your neighbors just stack their newspapers for recycling. You may be able to go around the neighborhood weekly and collect unused coupons as well!
Going online to look for coupons is an option as well if you have internet access and a printer. This can be something that you do during your 'free time' or during commercial breaks when you are watching television. Depending on how intense your couponing skills are, this could take a few minutes up to endless hours throughout the week. There is always access to coupons and the people who partake in extreme couponing spend a lot of time calculating and looking for the perfect deals.
Do not forget about the weekly circulars that the grocery stores offer as well. There are always sale items in the grocery store so when you combine manufacturer coupons along with store coupons, you may receive a bunch of items for next to no cost. It is definitely worth finding out store limitations on coupons because this varies from state to state as well. Pick up a paper next Sunday and start saving now!
