No, you didn’t get “skimped” on coupons this Sunday. I have only one packet of coupons each in both my home delivery editions of The Monroe Evening News and The Detroit Free Press.

It’s up to the food companies to decide when they want to schedule the coupon packets.

However, this is why you save your Sunday grocery coupons until they expire.

Some people like to put them in a binder and use Internet reference blogs or guides to “find Sept. 13 Smart Source packet” for the coupon they can match up to this week’s sale.

I do my own matching. It’s not hard. Really all that’s involved is having a supply of coupons and a careful reading of the grocery fliers.

I cut up all my coupons and sort out the ones I might use into a plastic index card box where index cards sort the coupons by category. The coupons I know I don’t need or want go into a hand-me-down box (yes, someone has spoken up for my current stash …)

The reason you do this is that it is not very common for a sale to be in effect the week a coupon was distributed. It does happen, but …

It is far more common for that sale + coupon opportunity to show up a couple of weeks later.

So if you stuffed your coupon box or coupon binder during the past few weeks with all your coupon packets, you’re going to find a lot of products in the grocery and drug store sales fliers this week that you can match up to those coupons.