Poor No More

Especially during times of economic downturn, the local news station always features a woman who is a self proclaimed coupon queen.  This woman has mastered the art of saving money at the grocery store.  With dedication determination, she rifles through piles of clipped coupons and the local supermarket circulars to find the best deals on grocery items.

This woman could be you.  The idea of combining grocery coupons, especially with double or triple coupon deals, and supermarket sales is not a new one.  While it does take some time each week, there are also online services that will do the bulk of the work for you.  One such is the grocery game.

The concept behind saving massive amounts of money with grocery coupons is threefold.  First, combining the best coupons with the best sales will get to the lowest price.  Obviously, that is wonderful thing to get your favorite product at a low price.  The real power of these grocery game programs comes when you consider bulk purchasing.  The more coupons you get for one item, the more money you will save in the long run.  The final important point is storage.  You need to dedicate part of your kitchen or house to building an extensive pantry.

How do you become a coupon queen?

The first up is to get coupons.  There are multiple ways to do this.  Most people can find coupons for supermarket items in their weekly newspaper, usually on Saturday or Sunday.  You can subscribe to the newspaper yourself, borrow a family member or friend’s paper, take part in coupon trains, or it even purchase coupon clipping services on the Internet.  A coupon train is a group of people who mail packs of coupons to each other.  Each person can remove the coupons they want and put in coupons that they don’t want.  The idea is that everyone gets some coupons that they don’t have.

After you get a bunch of coupons for products you’re interested in, it is time to study the sales.  Checked online or in the circular and matched the coupons to the best sales available.  After that, head to the supermarket and start shopping.  You might be surprised at the amounts of money you can save.