Advice From A "Coupon Queen"
One of the highlights of my week is when I come home from the supermarket and tell my husband how much money I saved that day. I call myself the Coupon Queen, even though there are better shoppers out there than me. It is a thrill to stockpile household staples, non perishable foods and fun treats for my family.
Before you clip even one coupon, I suggest that you sign up for the customer loyalty card at your local supermarket. Each week there are in store special sales that are only valid with your store card. Some consumers have concerns about the privacy of your information when signing up for these cards. I have never received any unsolicited phone calls or mail, except for special coupons or free samples sent directly from the supermarket. I would never say no to free products!
The other advantage to using your loyalty card is to earn money back on baby products. Here in New Jersey , Shop Rite and A&P have baby buck programs where you receive either cash back or $10 off your grocery order when you accumulate a certain amount of baby purchases. The card automatically keeps track of these purchases for you. The baby items include formula, baby food, diapers, wipes, baby toiletries, etc. When I finally have spent enough to receive my baby bucks, I add the baby bucks amount to the amount I saved in coupons that week.
Another tool in my coupon kit is the website Grocery Game (www.grocerygame.com). This website takes most of the work out of clipping coupons. The people at Grocery Game research your local supermarkets each week for sales and then combine them with coupons that are found in the Sunday newspapers. Instead of you using a coupon for an item when it is not on sale, Grocery Game advises you of when to use the coupon with the sales and pay rock bottom prices. Many weeks, there are items that are FREE with the sale and coupon! Grocery Game also uncovers hidden, unadvertised sales (I am not sure how they do this, but most of the time the hidden sales are correct). An example of this is when Grocery Game advised that an expensive brand of ice cream was on sale. The label on the shelf stated the full price. When I scanned the item in the store, sure enough, the price revealed by grocery game showed up on the scanner. However, other times the hidden sales were not loaded into the store’s scanning system, so it’s a good idea to scan these items first to make sure you will receive the sale price.
Grocery Game also advises you when to stockpile items and when to only buy the item if you need it. Stockpiling is best for non perishable goods. Since I started using Grocery Game, I have never paid for a tube of toothpaste. Usually, once a month there is a free toothpaste or toothbrush item. The cost of subscribing to Grocery Game is $10 per store for an eight week period and $5 for each additional store. This cost is nominal, since I have saved many times that amount using this service. Grocery Game has a referral bonus, so this service could be free if you refer enough friends and they sign up.
The really fun part of couponing is figuring out the percent you saved for each grocery trip. The way to do this is to divide the total amount you saved by the amount you would have spent before applying any sales savings or coupons. For example, if you saved $25 with sales and coupons and the total amount of your order, before the sales and coupons was $75, you would divide $25 by $75. That equals 33%.
Before you clip even one coupon, I suggest that you sign up for the customer loyalty card at your local supermarket. Each week there are in store special sales that are only valid with your store card. Some consumers have concerns about the privacy of your information when signing up for these cards. I have never received any unsolicited phone calls or mail, except for special coupons or free samples sent directly from the supermarket. I would never say no to free products!
The other advantage to using your loyalty card is to earn money back on baby products. Here in New Jersey , Shop Rite and A&P have baby buck programs where you receive either cash back or $10 off your grocery order when you accumulate a certain amount of baby purchases. The card automatically keeps track of these purchases for you. The baby items include formula, baby food, diapers, wipes, baby toiletries, etc. When I finally have spent enough to receive my baby bucks, I add the baby bucks amount to the amount I saved in coupons that week.
Another tool in my coupon kit is the website Grocery Game (www.grocerygame.com). This website takes most of the work out of clipping coupons. The people at Grocery Game research your local supermarkets each week for sales and then combine them with coupons that are found in the Sunday newspapers. Instead of you using a coupon for an item when it is not on sale, Grocery Game advises you of when to use the coupon with the sales and pay rock bottom prices. Many weeks, there are items that are FREE with the sale and coupon! Grocery Game also uncovers hidden, unadvertised sales (I am not sure how they do this, but most of the time the hidden sales are correct). An example of this is when Grocery Game advised that an expensive brand of ice cream was on sale. The label on the shelf stated the full price. When I scanned the item in the store, sure enough, the price revealed by grocery game showed up on the scanner. However, other times the hidden sales were not loaded into the store’s scanning system, so it’s a good idea to scan these items first to make sure you will receive the sale price.
Grocery Game also advises you when to stockpile items and when to only buy the item if you need it. Stockpiling is best for non perishable goods. Since I started using Grocery Game, I have never paid for a tube of toothpaste. Usually, once a month there is a free toothpaste or toothbrush item. The cost of subscribing to Grocery Game is $10 per store for an eight week period and $5 for each additional store. This cost is nominal, since I have saved many times that amount using this service. Grocery Game has a referral bonus, so this service could be free if you refer enough friends and they sign up.
The really fun part of couponing is figuring out the percent you saved for each grocery trip. The way to do this is to divide the total amount you saved by the amount you would have spent before applying any sales savings or coupons. For example, if you saved $25 with sales and coupons and the total amount of your order, before the sales and coupons was $75, you would divide $25 by $75. That equals 33%.
One of the highlights of my week is when I come home from the supermarket and tell my husband how much money I saved that day. I call myself the Coupon Queen, even though there are better shoppers out there than me. It is a thrill to stockpile household staples, non perishable foods and fun treats for my family.
Before you clip even one coupon, I suggest that you sign up for the customer loyalty card at your local supermarket. Each week there are in store special sales that are only valid with your store card. Some consumers have concerns about the privacy of your information when signing up for these cards. I have never received any unsolicited phone calls or mail, except for special coupons or free samples sent directly from the supermarket. I would never say no to free products!
The other advantage to using your loyalty card is to earn money back on baby products. Here in New Jersey , Shop Rite and A&P have baby buck programs where you receive either cash back or $10 off your grocery order when you accumulate a certain amount of baby purchases. The card automatically keeps track of these purchases for you. The baby items include formula, baby food, diapers, wipes, baby toiletries, etc. When I finally have spent enough to receive my baby bucks, I add the baby bucks amount to the amount I saved in coupons that week.
Another tool in my coupon kit is the website Grocery Game (www.grocerygame.com). This website takes most of the work out of clipping coupons. The people at Grocery Game research your local supermarkets each week for sales and then combine them with coupons that are found in the Sunday newspapers. Instead of you using a coupon for an item when it is not on sale, Grocery Game advises you of when to use the coupon with the sales and pay rock bottom prices. Many weeks, there are items that are FREE with the sale and coupon! Grocery Game also uncovers hidden, unadvertised sales (I am not sure how they do this, but most of the time the hidden sales are correct). An example of this is when Grocery Game advised that an expensive brand of ice cream was on sale. The label on the shelf stated the full price. When I scanned the item in the store, sure enough, the price revealed by grocery game showed up on the scanner. However, other times the hidden sales were not loaded into the store’s scanning system, so it’s a good idea to scan these items first to make sure you will receive the sale price.
Grocery Game also advises you when to stockpile items and when to only buy the item if you need it. Stockpiling is best for non perishable goods. Since I started using Grocery Game, I have never paid for a tube of toothpaste. Usually, once a month there is a free toothpaste or toothbrush item. The cost of subscribing to Grocery Game is $10 per store for an eight week period and $5 for each additional store. This cost is nominal, since I have saved many times that amount using this service. Grocery Game has a referral bonus, so this service could be free if you refer enough friends and they sign up.
The really fun part of couponing is figuring out the percent you saved for each grocery trip. The way to do this is to divide the total amount you saved by the amount you would have spent before applying any sales savings or coupons. For example, if you saved $25 with sales and coupons and the total amount of your order, before the sales and coupons was $75, you would divide $25 by $75. That equals 33%.
Before you clip even one coupon, I suggest that you sign up for the customer loyalty card at your local supermarket. Each week there are in store special sales that are only valid with your store card. Some consumers have concerns about the privacy of your information when signing up for these cards. I have never received any unsolicited phone calls or mail, except for special coupons or free samples sent directly from the supermarket. I would never say no to free products!
The other advantage to using your loyalty card is to earn money back on baby products. Here in New Jersey , Shop Rite and A&P have baby buck programs where you receive either cash back or $10 off your grocery order when you accumulate a certain amount of baby purchases. The card automatically keeps track of these purchases for you. The baby items include formula, baby food, diapers, wipes, baby toiletries, etc. When I finally have spent enough to receive my baby bucks, I add the baby bucks amount to the amount I saved in coupons that week.
Another tool in my coupon kit is the website Grocery Game (www.grocerygame.com). This website takes most of the work out of clipping coupons. The people at Grocery Game research your local supermarkets each week for sales and then combine them with coupons that are found in the Sunday newspapers. Instead of you using a coupon for an item when it is not on sale, Grocery Game advises you of when to use the coupon with the sales and pay rock bottom prices. Many weeks, there are items that are FREE with the sale and coupon! Grocery Game also uncovers hidden, unadvertised sales (I am not sure how they do this, but most of the time the hidden sales are correct). An example of this is when Grocery Game advised that an expensive brand of ice cream was on sale. The label on the shelf stated the full price. When I scanned the item in the store, sure enough, the price revealed by grocery game showed up on the scanner. However, other times the hidden sales were not loaded into the store’s scanning system, so it’s a good idea to scan these items first to make sure you will receive the sale price.
Grocery Game also advises you when to stockpile items and when to only buy the item if you need it. Stockpiling is best for non perishable goods. Since I started using Grocery Game, I have never paid for a tube of toothpaste. Usually, once a month there is a free toothpaste or toothbrush item. The cost of subscribing to Grocery Game is $10 per store for an eight week period and $5 for each additional store. This cost is nominal, since I have saved many times that amount using this service. Grocery Game has a referral bonus, so this service could be free if you refer enough friends and they sign up.
The really fun part of couponing is figuring out the percent you saved for each grocery trip. The way to do this is to divide the total amount you saved by the amount you would have spent before applying any sales savings or coupons. For example, if you saved $25 with sales and coupons and the total amount of your order, before the sales and coupons was $75, you would divide $25 by $75. That equals 33%.
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