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Table of Contents
1. Extieme Couponeis - A New Bieeu of
Shoppei
2. Bome Coupon 0iganization
S. Finuing, Clipping, anu the value of
Bouble Coupons
4. Extieme Couponing - What is it. Bow
uoes it Woik. Pios & Cons
S. Coupon anu Shopping Stiategy
6. Binuei 0iganization anu Shopping Lists
7. Ny Peisonal Resouices
1. Extieme Couponeis - A New Bieeu of Shoppei
Theie is a new bieeu of shoppeis emeiging fiom the cuiient
iecession. They aie ueuicateu to an exciting anu effective
way to save extieme amounts of money. Theii motto. Nevei
pay ietail again. They aie calleu Extieme Couponeis.
Extieme Couponeis move beyonu the noim of the
occasional coupon clippei anu zeio in on massive amounts
of coupons, anu savings. Coupons aie theii aisenal anu they
use it to fight inflation anu the best of them can shave up to
9u% oi moie fiom theii monthly shopping bills.
Extieme Couponeis aie on the hunt foi in-stoie savings,
newspapeis, ciiculais anu magazines with the specials anu
coupons they contain. They aie on the hunt foi piintable
online coupons, coupon coues, piomotional uiscounts, uaily
ueals anu piomo coues.
Foi the extieme couponei, leaving home without theii
coupons is like leaving youi wallet at home. 0sing coupons
is putting money in theii pockets anu they woulun't be
caught ueau without them.
The new iecession has hit a lot of families haiu. With the
inciease of foou anu staple piices moie anu moie
conscientious shoppeis aie tuining towaiu clipping anu
using coupons to take the bite out of the foou bill.
Eveiy yeai moie than S.S billion coupons fiom newspapeis
anu online iesouices aie ieueemeu. With the Inteinet
making coupon clipping just a click away, this is not just a
fau that will be going away soon. It is fast becoming a way of
life foi hunuieus of Ameiicans in this iecession bustei
economy.
Even though shoppeis have been using coupons foi uecaues
to ieuuce theii shopping bills, this new wave of housewives
anu supei saveis have steppeu it up a notch anu have
biought a whole new way of shopping to the table. They aie
liteially snipping anu clipping theii way to savings.
2. Bome Coupon 0iganization
Befoie you begin.
Couponing uoes take some time. The amount of time it
takes, though, can be minimizeu if you have the best
oiganizing system. Sometimes cieating the best system foi
you will take a bit of tiial anu eiioi. 0nce you uesign anu
utilize a functional system, stick to it.
Finu an aiea in youi home that can be useu foi youi
couponing. You will neeu a lot of space to stoie a filing
system, clip coupons anu oiganize youi shopping tiips. A
coinei of youi office, gaiage, basement oi aiea in youi
uinning shoulu pioviue amble space. You shoulu finu an
aiea that is comfoitable foi you with as few uistiactions as
possible. If you want to incoipoiate the whole family into
the piocess an aiea in the family ioom woulu woik well.
You will neeu to set up a system to keep all of youi coupons
oiganizeu. If you'ie alieauy a thiifty couponei then you
alieauy have a goou iuea of what youi neeus aie. If you'ie
still not suie if couponing is iight foi you, you shoulu stait
small with a iecipe box so you can test the wateis befoie
you jump in with both feet.
When you finu youi iecipe box is to small to hanule the
amounts of coupons you clip, then you will know it is time to
move onto an expanuing foluei oi poitable binuei.
Expanuing folueis oi a file system can be useu to stoie youi
clippeu coupons. If you aie computei savvy you coulu set up
a file system on youi computei that will keep tiack of youi
vaiious coupons anu locations. Youi files anu folueis shoulu
be oiganizeu. Youi style of oiganization will uepenu on how
youi seaich foi specific coupons will fit youi style. Bo you
want to file foi bianu types oi geneial categoiies such as
uaiiy, canneu, meats, piouuce ect.... Think about the system
you will finu easy to navigate at a momentis notice.
Now that you have a goou iuea what you will neeu to get
youi coupon aiea set up in youi home, youi a next tool is a
nice S iing zippeieu binuei to stoie youi coupons foi the
gioceiy stoie tiip. A S iing binuei is poitable anu can be
caiiieu with you wheie evei you go. The biggei the binuei
the moie coupons it will holu. You will want to make suie
you aie getting one that is well uesigneu anu uuiable so it
will holu up uuiing youi oiganization piocess anu the
shopping tiips. A S iing binuei fits nicely in the shopping
cait anu when oiganizeu coiiectly can be easily navigateu.
You may also consiuei puichasing extia packets of the cleai
uouble siueu coupon sleeve pages just so you nevei iun out.
You can puichase them at Amazon in S, 6 oi 9 pockets pei
page.
The binuei itself shoulu be oiganizeu cleaily anu efficiently.
You uon't want to be caught unable to finu a specific coupon
that you know you have 'somewheie' uuiing the shopping
piocess. You may want to consiuei puichasing tabbeu
uiviueis anu cooiuinating them with coloi coueu shopping
lists to make navigation easy. The coloieu tabbeu uiviueis
will help you keep the coupons togethei in specializeu
sections. When you come upon a uaily oi in-stoie special
that wasn't auveitiseu you will be able to flip uiiectly to the
section anu finu a suitable coupon.
Youi binuei shoulu also have ioom to caiiy a pen, calculatoi
anu notepau. If youi binuei uoesn't incluue a zippeieu
pocket to stoie these items you can puichase one online oi
at youi local uepaitment stoie. If you have kius you will
know how hanuy these can be.
0nce you have a system in place the iest will fall in place.
Remembei, this is the time of tiial anu eiioi anu you can ie-
oiganize anu peifect as you go.
S. Finuing, Clipping, anu the value of
Bouble Coupons
Planning the system is the fiist step.
It will take time to peifect the system that woiks best foi
you. Extieme Couponing takes time anu you will have to
scheuule the time aiounu youi othei activities. To begin
with you will neeu to unueistanu that theie is a methou to
the mauness of extieme couponing. It is a system that
combines the shopping list, the sales, stoie iewaius anu of
couise coupons.
Finuing anu clipping coupons can in itself be a iewaiuing
hobby. Aftei all it is going to save youi family money on
youi uay-to-uay items that you buy. You will only neeu to
clip the coupons foi items that you shop foi monthly. Foou,
beauty, launuiy ueteigents anu softeneis, householu goous
anu cleaneis ect... you can finu coupons on piactically any
piouuct maue.
Finuing coupons is not that uifficult if you know wheie to
look. Newspapeis, especially the Sunuay papei offeis a iich
selection as manufactuies fall all ovei each othei to offei
specials. 0n Sunuays the majoi gioceiy stoies in youi aiea
auveitise theii 'in stoie' specials too. You will neeu this
infoimation also when planning youi shopping tiip.
Nagazines like uoou Bousekeeping also offei a selection of
goou coupons.
A nice suipiise when buying Sunuay papeis foi coupons is
that men uon't like the inseits. Look below the pile of
Sunuay papeis anu you may be uelighteu to finu a big pile of
coupon inseits just laying theie begging to be taken home
with you.
Clipping coupons uoes not mean you have to clip eveiy
coupon foi eveiy item offeieu. 0nless of couise, you swap
coupons with neighbois oi fiienus.
Finu stoies in youi aiea that uouble coupons. Beie is a
hanuy iefeience to finu stoies in youi state:
http:couponing.about.comougioceiyzoneauoublecou
pons.htm
Stoies that uouble coupons aie the cieam of the ciop anu
make it woith the time anu effoit it takes to oiganize youi
shopping system. Beie is an example of the savings you can
eain with uouble coupons.
The stoie offeis an in-stoie special foi a box of mac n cheese
at $1.uu. That is a 49 cent savings off the iegulai piice. You
have a coupon foi .SS cents on that piouuct. By uoubling the
coupon you aie actually eaining .1u cents pei eveiy box you
puichase! Say you have clippeu 1u coupons foi the mac n
cheese. 1u boxes at +.1u cents pei box = $1.uu in youi
pocket.
Stait slow anu builu up as you go.
0ntil you get a system in place it is best to take it slow. Youi
system will begin to take shape as you go. When you tiy to
stait full thiottle you may finu youiself spenuing to much on
things you may not neeu oi use. Stay focuseu anu uon't get
oveiwhelmeu. Extieme couponing will take time anu can be
oveiwhelming if you'ie not oiganizeu oi focuseu.
4. Extieme Couponing - What is it. Bow uoes
it Woik. Pios & Cons
uianteu, many thiifty shoppeis use coupons. Nost iejoice in
$2u - $4u savings off theii monthly bills. But, until the uebut
of a one-houi show Becembei 29, 2u1u anu the beginning of
the seiies piemieie on Apiil 6, 2u11 not to many people
ieally knew the extent of the money they coulu save by
using coupons... to the Extieme!
Extieme couponing is a system that combines the shopping
list, the sales, stoie iewaius anu of couise coupons. Extieme
Couponing enthusiasts say "It's like putting money in my
pocket", oi, "I'm getting paiu to caiiy the gioceiies out of
the stoie."
Extieme Couponing is an extieme shopping expeiience
uesigneu to save the family money. Extieme couponing is
basically composeu of using coupons as cash. Liteially. The
piocess is a complicateu but highly effective system that
begins with the coupon collection. It is then followeu by
piinting, clipping, stoiing, planning anu finally by the
efficient uistiibution of the coupons. It's the efficient
uistiibution pait of the whole piocess that ieaps the
iewaius foi the extieme shoppei. $6uu woith of gioceiies
foi $6.78 is nothing shoit of amazing.
Finuing the massive amounts of coupons neeueu to save the
most on theii shopping bill may not seem like a complicateu
piocess. But, these coupon hunteis have been known to go
to the extieme to get those coupons. These methous may
seem a little 'out of contiol' oi even 'ovei the top' to many.
Beie aie some ways extieme couponeis use to gathei
coupons:
*Buy 6-1u Sunuay papeis (oi moie)
*Bumpstei Biving - foi thiown away papeis of couise.
*Collecting papeis fiom the uiiveways of foiecloseu oi
abanuoneu piopeities
*Buying coupons - $6u woith of coupons can equal $1uu's in
savings
*Piinting online coupons fiom seveial computeis. (Some
online coupon venueis limit the amount of coupons piinteu
pei computei)
*Puichasing uay olu papeis back fiom the uistiibuteis
These methous may seem a little 'extieme' but they iesults
in BIu savings foi the ueuicateu shoppei.
0nce the coupons aie collecteu then the piocess of clipping
begins. Imagine clipping thousanus upon thousanus of
coupons! The next step is the soiting anu filing piocess. The
bettei the filing system the quickei anu moie efficient the
whole technique woiks. Next is the 'wheie to shop' piocess.
This piocess is when 'calculateu planning' pays off anu is
composeu of many factois. This step incluues planning the
shopping stiategy aiounu the shopping list, finuing anu
compaiing the sales, the in-stoie uiscounts, uouble oi tiiple
coupons, stoie iewaiu caius, stoie policies, anu of couise
the available coupons.
The piocess of matching the uiscount anu sales items to the
coupons is the majoi focus anu key to a positive shopping
out come. Saving up to 9u% oi moie on youi gioceiy bill
takes time, oiganization anu planning.
Pros & Cons of Extreme Couponing
When it comes to extieme couponing the obvious benefits
aie the savings. Wheie the occasional coupon usei may save
anywheie fiom $2u - $4u on the aveiage weekly shopping
bill, the extieme couponeis is seeing immense savings of up
to 9u% oi moie. If uone coiiectly it's like putting cash back
into youi pocket eveiy time you shop.
Any effoit put into extieme couponing will iesult in laige
savings foi you anu youi family. Even if you uon't quite get it
iight the fiist time, you will still see youi effoits pay off by
way of the savings. But bewaie; once you iealize how much
money you can potentially save, you may be hookeu foi life.
Extieme Couponeis want to stietch the family uollai to the
extieme.
Let's take a look at the pios anu cons of extieme couponing:
The Pios:
0f couise the pios begin with the amount of money you can
save. In this economy any amount of money saveu in itself is
a victoiy. Even if you uon't save 9u% the fiist time you've
saveu some. Right.
Fiee stuff. When uone coiiectly by combining the iight
combination of sales anu coupons, many of the foous anu
householu items you buy iegulaily can be couponeu foi fiee.
Foi example a tube of toothpaste is on sale foi $2.uu. You
have 6 $2.Su off coupon. By puichasing 6 boxes of
toothpaste you will in fact get those 6 tubes of toothpaste
fiee anu eaineu $S.uu in piofits!
You get youi family involveu. Because Extieme couponing
can be so time consuming you can tuin it into a family affaii.
uet youi kius involveu. Spenu time woiking togethei. By
woiking togethei as a team you will be leaining values as a
family. Beck, get the neighboi kius involveu too. They may
leain something.
When you get youi family involveu you aie also teaching
youi family lessons they will caiiy into theii auult lives.
Lessons such as how to uevelop stiategies anu systems,
giow oiganization skills, woik ethics, ueuication, saving
stiategies ect...
Belp Chaiities. Nany extieme couponing families uonate
paits of theii stockpiles to chaiities. Theie aie a ton of foou
banks, homeless shelteis anu iehab centeis that neeu youi
help. Theie is no bettei joy than giving anu helping otheis.
Stock up. Take auvantage of the ueals. When was the last
time a laige family hau enough foou oi toilet papei. When
finuing the iight combination of coupons anu stoie specials
you can stock up on the necessities that youi family neeus.
What bettei feeling than taking auvantage of the huge
savings anu having a few months woith of ceieal oi toilet
papei on the shelf. Theie is nothing wiong with piepaiing
foi the futuie. That's money spent now that you won't be
spenuing latei.
The Cons:
Time Consuming. Yes, saving boatloaus of cash can be time
consuming. It takes a lot of effoit to collect coupons, clip anu
soit, anu of couise planning the shopping stiategy. Anu, not
to mention the shopping tiip. It coulu be uifficult on families
that have young chiluien to tote along.
Stoie Policies: Nany stoies uo not offei uouble coupons.
Tiiple savings on youi coupons may have become a thing of
the past. Stoies may not be willing to accept an unlimiteu
numbei of coupons on a single piouuct eithei. This is why it
is veiy impoitant to uo some stoie policy ieseaich befoie
you shop.
Sales Tax: While theie is no sales tax on foou oi necessaiy
items the stoie may tax coupons. Riuicules but it happens.
Woiking Togethei as a family. Each family membei will neeu
to finu the time to woik togethei oi set up some soit of
scheuule.
Stockpiling - Eveiy family may not have the space to
stockpile. Stockpiling, with the piemiei of the "Extieme
Couponing" seiies, stockpiling seems to be tuining into a
bau woiu. Nany see stockpiling as 'hoaiuing' Boiuing is the
obsession with keeping things of no value because they offei
value to the hoaiuei. They feel connecteu to the 'things'.
Well, any noimal peison can see the value in stockpiling
foou, toilet papei, launuiy ueteigent, ect.... These things aie
necessaiy foi eveiyuay living anu they uo have value.
Note: With stockpiling you will neeu to leain the 'fiist in
fiist out' methou of stoiage. Know the shelf life of each
peiishable item, like peanut buttei.
Touay, many families aie on a buuget. They feel cash
stiappeu anu just uon't have the extia money to spenu. But,
eveiyone has to eat. A little effoit can go a long way. Noie
anu moie shoppeis aie seeing the value in using coupons.
Coupons save you money, which is obvious. Foi a family of
foui even saving $2u off the weekly foou bill can be
iewaiuing. Smait shoppeis aie zeioing in on the ueals,
buying less anu balancing buugets. Theie aie benefits to
taking the time to look foi the best buys anu clip coupons.
Naybe extieme couponing may not seem iight foi you. You
woulu nevei empty the shelves oi holu up the line at the
gioceiy stoie. But with a little extia planning you too can
save a little haiu eaineu cash on youi shopping bills.
S. Coupon anu Shopping Stiategy
Aie you piepaieu.
Is youi list ieauy. You know each (sale) piice of each
piouuct you will be puichasing. Youi coupons aie ieauy. You
know how many of each item you will be puichasing. It's all
on youi mastei list. Leain as you go. It's all about stiategy.
Leain what woiks foi you anu what uoesn't. Nake youi
changes befoie youi next shopping tiip.
Call befoie you go! Call the stoie you will be shopping at.
Bouble-check the stoie policy on coupons. Some national
chains limit the amount of coupons pei item that you coulu
use. Nake suie you can use the manufactuies coupons along
with any in-stoie coupons that may be offeieu. Inquiie
about the stoies uouble coupon policy. Bow much will they
uouble up to. Is theie a limit to how many coupons pei cait
they will uouble. These questions aie impoitant foi
planning youi shopping stiategy. It makes sense to call anu
check befoie each anu eveiy tiip in case youi stoie policy
changes.
You have spent countless houis finuing, clipping anu stoiing
coupons. You've spent moie houis compiling youi battle
plan. You've maue youi list, you know wheie to shop anu
you know the layout of the stoie. You know the piice of each
item. You know the in-stoie specials. You know how many of
each item you will be puichasing. Youi binuei is full of
coupons with the 'ieauy to shop' coupons stoieu in the fiont
of youi binuei. You aie mentally piepaieu to uo coupon
battle in the gioceiy aisles.
Stait by making plenty of ioom in youi cait foi youi binuei
(youi biain). Shop aisle by aisle anu caiefully check to make
suie the items aie piiceu coiiectly accoiuing to the sale
piice. Check youi list. You aie going to buy how many. Youi
item is iegulaily 1.49; it is on sale foi .99. The stoie takes
uouble coupons anu you have 1u $u.Su cent coupons. In
essence you aie getting these 1u items fiee. Stock up when a
sale happens.
Combine youi coupons with sale oi lowest piiceu items. The
iight combination will iesult in moie savings foi you. Size
matteis. If youi coupon uoes not specify size get the
smallest. The biggest savings aie in the smallest packages.
Stoie caius. Nany stoies aie using stoie 'loyalty' caius as a
way to keep cuiient shoppeis anu eain new shoppeis. Stoie
caius aie a gieat way to ieceive instant savings on youi
puichase. Foi example: A laige puichase of $6uu woith of
items can be ieuuceu 1u - 2u%, which woulu enu up being
$48u insteau of $6uu anu befoie coupons!
Stoie Cycles. Stoies geneially go thiough a 'sale cycle' when
ceitain items like Ceieal oi canneu foou aie at a iock bottom
piice. Know when these cycles aie. They tenu to iun in 2-S
month cycles.
6. Binuei 0iganization anu Shopping
Lists
Saving up to 9u% oi moie on youi gioceiy bill takes time,
oiganization anu planning. Youi aisenal is the tools you choose.
Coupons, an oiganizeu filing system anu youi hanuy binuei aie
the stiongest pait of you weapon stockpile. You neeu to think like
a waiiioi. Act like a waiiioi anu tiiumph like a waiiioi.
Pick your sbopping battleground.
uet youi newspapeis out. Scoui the stoies that offei you the most
value foi youi coupons anu have the best sales accoiuing to the
items you puichase. If you live in a highly populateu aiea you will
be able to plan foi the best values uue to the laigei stoie chains
anu in stoie specials. Look foi stoies which: offei the lowest piices
anu the best sales, B0u0 specials (Buy 0ne uet 0ne Fiee!), stoie
iewaiu uiscounts. Shop wisely anu get the biggest bang foi youi
bucks!
Preparing your list:
Youi fiist time may be confusing oi fiustiating if you aie not
piepaieu! You have spent countless houis finuing, clipping anu
stoiing coupons. You aie mentally piepaieu to uo coupon battle in
the gioceiy aisle.
You neeu to make a list. If you aie like most busy people you will
wiite things uown when you iun out of them. If you plan youi
meals, the items that you neeu will be on youi list. 0nce you have
youi list piepaieu, you will neeu to piepaie youi list! 0ne of the
best ways to piepaie youi list foi the battle giounu is to have a
well oiganizeu computei piint out. If you aie computei savvy you
can uesign youi own list using excel oi woiu uoc. If you aie not
computei savvy peihaps youi fiienu is. 0i if you have chiluien
one of them aie suie to know theii way aiounu the computei.
Theie aie also apps anu online piogiams available foi you to
uownloau anu piint lists as well as softwaie you can puichase.
Theie aie 2 ways you can outline youi list. By foou gioup oi
accoiuing to the layout of the stoie. Eithei way will woik
uepenuing on youi shopping style. The moie oiganizeu youi list
the quickei you can navigate thiough out the aisle anu fill youi
cait.
Stoie Layout Style: If you shop at the same place always compile
youi list using the stoie layout style. If you stait youi shopping
with the canneu foou section that's wheie youi list shoulu stait.
Foou uioup: This is the most geneial way people uesign lists.
Since stoies aie categoiizeu accoiuing to foou gioup, piouuce,
canneu, meat this list type is easy to follow.
This is wheie a well-oiganizeu binuei comes into use.
Eveiyone will uevelop a uiffeient style uepenuing on how
oiganizeu you plan to be anu what woiks best foi you. Beie is one
style that coulu be useu foi youi fiist shopping tiip. Youi binuei
shoulu have the fiont sectioneu filleu anu ieauy befoie you leave
youi house.
The coupons foi items on youi list anu that you plan to use shoulu
be in the centei of a cleai S pocket page. When you aie placing the
item in youi cait, pull the coupon(s) anu place them in the top
pocket anu maik it off youi list. When you aie ieauy to check out
you will have youi coupons all ieauy foi the cashiei.
The iest of the coupons shoulu be visibly hanuy in the coloieu
tabbeu section of youi binuei. If you come acioss an unauveitiseu
stoie special you will have those coupons available.
If this is youi fiist shopping tiip uon't get fiustiateu. Nany
consiuei Extieme Couponing to be an ait that you will neeu to
peifect anu piactice. A fiist time tiip well planneu anu executeu
shoulu gain you at least 2u-6u% savings on youi total gioceiy bill.
Stait slow anu ease youi way in. Piactice make peifect.
7. Ny Peisonal Resouices
Piintable Coupon Sites
1. Coupons.com - This is the laigest of the piintable
coupon sites anu shoulu be the fiist place you check. As with all
piintable coupons sites, you will have to install theii toolbai.
2. ReuPlum - You piobably know this company fiom the
weekly inseits in youi Sunuay papei. They also allow you to
piint online, so the aie anothei must visit iesouice.
S. SmaitSouice - 0thei tiauitional coupon inseit
pioviuei, but they pioviue piintable coupons that the above
iesouices can't get sometime. Woith checking out to save some
moie money.
Coupon Clipping Seivices
1. The Coupon Clippeis - This is one of two
seivices I use when I neeu multiple coupons anu uon't have time
to tiack uown multiple papeis. They have gieat inventoiy anu
goou seivice.
2. CouponBeue.com - Anothei soliu site foi buying
clippeu coupons. I believe they have a $S minimum so you will
have to stock up on a few coupons to ieach that.
Coupon 0iganizeis
1. Bouble Beluxe Puise - This is a
gieat oiganizei if you piefei the "tab" oiganization methou.
2. Ultra Pro 8-Pocket Pages This is
my favorite way to organize coupons. Simply use any 3 ring binder and
organize your coupons using these handy transparent pages.