If you are serious about saving nickles and dimes, there are a few things you can do to prepare yourself, get organized, "get ready, get set, GO!".
1. Set up a new FREE email account with google. Just click on the top of the google page where you see gmail, and set up an new FREE email account. This account is the email address you will give every retailer, website, savings club and reward program. In other words, there will be nothing in that mail box EXCEPT ways to save money. Make it a cleaver name, like Iluvcoupons@gmail.com, or couponchristian@gmail.com, or maybe watchmesavewithcoupons@gmail.com. Then, give this email address to Kroger, Publix, Ingles, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Long Horns, ShortCuts.com, and the Coupon Mom. Your new email address will be full of money saving tips and coupons.
2. Buy the Sunday paper (and extra copies) and keep the whole circular. Even if you clip a few coupons you want to use this week, keep the circular. You will want to get more coupons out of it later. There are many ways to organize the past circulars. I file mine by month in a file folder. Others hole punch them and keep them in binders. Whatever works for you.
2. My favorite website is COUPONMOM.COM. This website will give you a list each week (comes out on Sunday mornings) of all the local grocery and drug stores and let you know what is on sale that week, where you can find a coupon, the final price and the percentage saved. This is a FREE website, so you have nothing to loose, but lots of money to gain.
3. When you are on the COUPONMOM.COM website, don't miss this: extra info on the left hand side of the page, in blue.
a. Coupon Database. This where you can find a coupon. For instance: You need to buy cold medicine, kleenex, cough syrup and soup. (Obviously you are feeling bad). Go to the Coupon database and type in Sudafed and a list of all the ciruclars from the past that still have an unexpired coupon for Sudafed will be in there. Go to that circular (yes, you are suppose to be saving the circulars) and cut out the coupon you need. Repeat for Kleenex, nyquil, soup etc. This will save you a lot of money.
b. Coupon Mom Blog. This is also on the COUPONMOM.COM website, on the left hand side in blue. This is a place where the Coupon Mom and her readers can blog great deals. It will tell you about money saving tips, deals and other things that are unadvertised. On the blog this week, I found out about Walgreens offering a $5 off anything coupon if you know the right code (the code is on the website). The catch was that this coupon was only good for two days. (sorry, already expired).
On your next day off, spend a few minutes setting up your new gmail account, giving this new address to companies with savings programs, and navigating the coupon mom website.
You'll find these few minutes very informative, and well spent.
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