EXTREME COUPON TIPS
I have to admit I have watched every episode of Extreme Couponing. Watching all the people with their stockpiles does make me somewhat jealous! Especially since most of the couponeurs (is that such a word? I guess I just made it up, its like a entrepreneur and coupon collecting person=couponeur!) Anyway, most of the people coupon clip about 20-60 hours per week! Wow… most do not have jobs outside of the home, so they can dedicate their time to coupon collecting and dumpster diving for coupons. Many of the people also had fallen on hard times during their life, which motivated them to be an extreme couponers, and some people just want to save money, or see it as earning an extra income. Not having to pay for your groceries would sure help a family monthly budget!
Some of the foods that I see on the shelves or “stockpiles” as they are called in the coupon world, seem a bit to processed for my taste – Is it really worth it? Purchasing a bunch of over processed foods?
Buying staples that we all need such as; body soap, laundry and dish soap, household cleaners and some of the foods that are not over processed, would make a nice stockpile in my garage.
Below are some of the extreme coupon tips, and some great links to get started with becoming an extreme couponeur!
- Double coupons! Make sure your store accepts double coupons.
- Get a loyalty card or even a couple! This will help you receive the sale prices that the store might have.
- Drug store coupon deals. Don’t forget all the Sunday inserts for the drugstores they can have good deals on shampoo and toilet paper
- Find a store who takes expired coupons. This is pretty rare but some stores in the Midwest still do.
- What is a Catalina? (Catalina Category Marketing (CCM)- A Catalina is, when you purchase a promoted item it rewards you with a coupon another name is a “check out coupon” Usually Catalinas can only be redeemed at the store chain where you received them. they would like you to use these coupons on your next shopping trip, and they usually expire in about 4-weeks. Some stores accept other stores coupons and their Catalinas.
- Have a notebook with baseball card holders in it to organize all your coupons.
The KrazyCouponLady.com has a FREE great category binder pages, to start with organizing. - Print coupons online-match coupons with the weekly deals in the Sunday papers.
- Some of the companies online are: Redplum.com and Smartsource
- CouponMom.com Has great tools to help you save, Stephanie Nelson has some great coupon tools on her site, for the novice or the for the person who likes to extreme coupon-