Thriving on a $20/week Grocery Budget. Best Online Coupon Sites. It seems like only yesterday that people were frightened to shop online.
Just a few years later, economists are now not only monitoring Black Friday spending but also Cyber Monday—the Monday right after Thanksgiving, when you're back in the office, in front of your computer, ignoring deadlines in order to figure out just what to get your sister who has absolutely no taste. (Statistics show that's not just us.) Online shopping is the new mall shopping, and will only become more popular as new shoppers get comfortable living virtually. This season in particular, with the credit crunch and financial crisis fostering widespread spending panic, consumers are turning to the web to shop—and save—more than ever before. Fear not, our fellow frugalistas: we've talked to the experts, scoured hundreds of coupon sites, and put together this, our first-ever Shoestring Smart Shopping Guide—for Online Coupons—to help you navigate the interwebs with ease.
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The best deals at the grocery store aren't listed in the weekly circular, but now that a supermarket cashier has posted insider secrets online, you can find out how to really save when shopping. These tips, which were published on Reddit (note: profanity is used), aren't exactly rules to live by, but utilizing them may help save you a few bucks at the register, and that can add up over time. In addition to common sense suggestions like "always buy in season," Reddit user Lenniebaby advises to make friends with your produce guy, and says to shy away from pre-cut fruits and vegetables.
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Okay, the whole point of coupon shopping is to stockpile products we use. We buy when we can combine coupons and sales – even coupon stacking during sales. We hate paying full price for anything. When we run out of an item, we want to go to our stockpile, not have to run to the grocery store and pay full price because we need it right now. With our stockpile, we have what we need, when we need it, with the satisfaction we paid rock bottom price for it. Coupon Queen Savings - Get Your Grocery Coupons Organized! Living a Better Life (featured column... from the editor's desk) Coupon Queen Savings: Get Your Grocery Coupons Organized!
By Michelle Jones, Author of 101 Coupon Tips Learn how to organize your grocery coupons for Coupon Queen savings! And it doesn't have to cost you a penny! When our children were very young and we were often short on cash, I regularly saved 50-60% off of our food bill by using free grocery coupons each week. Over the last twenty years I've learned many additional ways to save money on groceries (even without using coupons) and regularly add more of my tips to our grocery site at GrocerySavingTips.com. A reader recently asked me what I do with my expired coupons. NOTE: This was the LAST TIME I had to toss out my expired coupons! To me, tossing out a pile of expired coupons like that (many were coupons we could have really used) is just like throwing money down the drain. Frugal Living by Sara Noel.