Save a ton of money with coupons!!!

If you are not utilizing coupons, you are losing out on saving hundreds of dollars a year! You are also losing out on alot of freebies you can get at the grocery store and drugstores. The newspapers put out flyers with coupons every week. The larger city papers (which in my case is Atlanta Journal) give the most coupons. If you say to yourself, "I don't have time to cut coupons". There is a simple way to coupon. I have a plastic accordian file, nothing too big, that I bought at Walmart. I put the months of the year on the tabs for each slot. When I receive my coupons each week I write on the front packet what type of coupons they are. (There are usually 3 types of coupons, Smartsource and Red Plum and P&G) The name is on the front of the packet and the date is in the crease of the packet. So I will write S 9-28 for example on the front if it is a Smartsource packet that I received on Sun. 9-28. (Coupons always come out in sundays paper) I then will go to www.couponmom.com and get the list of deals for the stores in my area. I can click on any store listed in my area and it will give me the deals for that store and list the accompanying coupon (ex. S 9-28) and tell me how much I will save and how much my item will be with coupon. Since I started using this method and using the couponmom website I have saved a ton of money. Using this method, you are not required to spend alot of time cutting coupons, you just cut what you would use. Now once you become an advit coupon shopper, there are other methods to keep up with coupons. So coupons can be used by anyone, from the person who doesn't have much time and doesn't want to fool with it much, to the person who is a couponaholic and it becomes a game to see how much you can save and get free that week. This has become a hobby for me (besides saving my family alot of money) and I have used this as a ministry to help others in need also. If you want to save money, like I'm sure everyone wants to do now with the economy like it is, I advise you to come back to my blog and learn the different tricks of couponing and read the couponmom's site for alot of good info and tips. My next blogs I will expand on coupon policies and using multiple coupons.