September is National Coupon Month and if you don’t use coupons often, you can use just a few coupons each week and watch the savings grow. You don’t have to be short on cash to use coupons. You may just want to free up some of your money for other things, like a vacation, a new car, or even that expensive purse you’ve been eying! Coupons are easy to use so wouldn’t it be nice to stretch your paycheck by at least 25% every week?
Coupons are like money, the more coupons you hand over to the cashier, the more money you keep in your pocket. Have you ever read a magazine and found a coupon for $1.00 off a product in the middle of the magazine? Imagine that was a $1.00 bill. Wouldn’t you put it in your wallet? If you answered yes then it’s the same thing as using that coupon and keeping that $1.00 bill in your wallet!
You don’t even have to use a lot of coupons to see a difference. You could use just a few each time you shop and when you look at the big picture it really can add up to a lot of money over the course of the year. If you don’t want to go through the hassle of buying the newspaper and clipping coupons you can always just use printable coupons that are easy to find online. Then you print them when you are going to use them.
A few places to start are Coupons.com and SmartSource foR coupons!
If you save just $3 a week with coupons and shop every week for a year doing so, you’ll save $156 in a year. Now imagine you double that, or triple that! Then combine those coupons with a sale and you’ll save a lot! Possibly enough to pay an extra payment on your mortgage!
On average, how much do you save a month with coupons?
I printed out coupons this past weekend and intend to use them! Trying to save for Christmas.
You have such good points here. I wish more of my friends would take advantage of coupons. It takes just a few to make a big difference.
Thanks! I totally agree!
I am a single female, and I save an average of $300 a month using coupons, if not more. I often see 60-70 percent savings on my shopping trips, and none of the grocery stores in my city double coupons. It is amazing how much a lil clipping and planning pays off!
It sure does!!
I give my parents and brother a huge stash of goodies from my stockpile as part of their Chrismas gift. My brother thinks it’s hokey. My mother, practical woman and coup owner that she is, loves it! They are gonna get lots of Palmolive and Purex this year! Lol
Oops, couponer, not coup owner!
I love coupons and use them whenever I can. Thanks for the great post and great ideas.
I like to use coupons but it seems so difficult to keep up with expiring coupons and organizing new, incoming coupons. That is what I should be working on right now – but enjoying your blog instead 🙂 (I probably save $15/month)
$15 a month can add up over time! Not bad.
I REALLY want to get into couponing more. I love to watch Extreme Couponing on tv & admire their stockpiles. It’s so much fun to watch a $1000 total go down to nothing or just a few cents! I realize these are extreme instances, but still would love to learn to coupon much better than I do.