Couponers say: 1 newspaper per person in your house
Psst. Have you heard? Serious couponers such as Bargains to Bounty recommend their readers get more than one Sunday paper each week.
The suggested formula is one newspaper per person in your home.
The reason: More Sunday papers results in more coupons available for your coupon box or coupon binder. Therefore, when the really great sale takes place, you have more than one of the matching coupon to shop with and can get two, three or four of those deals. In other words: it’s stock up day!
For the past two years, I have been getting the Detroit Free Press in addition to The Monroe Evening News on home delivery. It’s hard for me to say whether the second packet of coupons early in the week (rather than waiting for coupon hand-me-downs) is making up for my Freep subscription fee. I actually signed up for the Freep because I was interested in their news pages!
But I do appreciate having multiple copies of a coupon ready to go when the matchups are good. You have noticed that the best deals do run out early in the week, right?
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under Coupon tips, Groceries.
Comments: 2
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Comment from Debbi Buettner
Time: July 30, 2010, 10:28 pm
We get the Sunday Freep at Dollar Tree where it is only a dollar, and easy to get on our way home from church.
Comment from Paula Wethington
Time: July 31, 2010, 7:31 am
Yes, those $1 deals are nice. For awhile, the Walgreens on Stewart and Monroe Sts. in Monroe also had Sunday Freep for $1. I don’t know if that deal is still in effect.
You can also get past issues of Monroe News during business hours at the newspaper office, but we sell the papers at rack rate. Reason: we keep back issues in stock for up to 3 months or until sold out, so it’s a special service. Most people who buy back issues are non-subscribers who need article clippings, not the couponers.
Money-saving thought for the bigger families: if you know you’ll get hand-me-down coupons from someone else, count that stack as one of your “newspapers.”
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