Okay, okay, I admit it, my wife is a coupon-coupon and for several years now. Nothing can be blamed, because she saved our family thousands of dollars every year. Here are some ways she does it.
Being a coupon mom usually meant cutting off coupons from a newspaper. My wife still does it, but now she also uses online resources such as Groupon, Living Social, Amazon. These are great sites that allow you to search and search for deals by geography. You can also specify the type of transaction you are searching for by category.
Using coupons for local restaurants
Let me give you an example. If my wife and I are planning an evening, she always goes to Groupon and checks restaurant coupons for our city. We love to do this, because the offers are usually not made in restaurants of a large chain, but they are usually excellent local establishments that have fresher and better food. We always find Groupon, which makes up 50% of the dinner! Only that night we had sushi in a local Japanese restaurant (our favorite!). The total bill was $ 31.32. Before we left, I bought a $ 30 Groupon dinner online for $ 15.00. Result? Our dinner for $ 31 cost us $ 16.32, plus a tip. Not bad!
New turn on coupon food coupons
The grocery store is another area where my wife shines like a coupon mom! Our local supermarket offers double coupons every day. But on Wednesdays they offer triple value! Last week she bought a can of famous spaghetti sauce for $ 2.59. I had a coupon that I took off 75 cents paper. Since I always shopped on Wednesday, I ended up getting the triple value of this coupon - or $ 2.25. The end result was that this coupon mom bought this spaghetti-sauce for only 34 cents!
Another great trick is to clip a few coupons. We have a neighbor who delivers newspapers to vending machines. She tells him what papers she wants, and he keeps her unsold copies of this edition. Using these additional coupons, she will come back and buy four or five cans of spaghetti sauce, saving even more.
Coupons are great ways to plan your shopping trip because they help you prevent impulses from buying. When my wife enters the grocery store, she is reset in that she is there on purpose.
What does it mean to be a coupon mother?
Do I need a time when the coupon-mother takes time and effort? Of course. But there were many cases when my wife came home, looked through the grocery receipt and found that she bought groceries for $ 120 and paid only $ 30 or $ 40 - often even less! I suppose that if she spends two hours to get ready before going shopping, but she will eventually save $ 80 as a result of this effort, that's about $ 40 an hour!
You may also have such savings. Just start trimming coupons and use daily deals and coupons sites. Before you know it, you too will recognize your family as a coupon-mom!
