I use a plastic index card box with index card dividers to store and sort my coupons. It holds all the coupons my family needs and is small enough to fit in my tote bag when I go shopping.
But the box system frustrates a lot of people, so I’ve been mentioning other methods when I [...]

Here’s a post from Moms Need to Know that’s getting a lot of traffic and comments – When couponers and non-couponers collide.
The story is based on the snarky comments that non-couponing customers have made to couponing customers.
A snippet:
As long as one is completely organized with their coupons before getting in to line and is using [...]

The Nov. 3 issue of Women’s Day magazine has this article by Susan Samtur, aka The Coupon Queen: Slash your grocery bill in half (or more).
Here’s the lead:
Last month, I paid just 42¢ for $211 worth of groceries. Yup, you read that right. In fact, I save around 65 percent every time I shop, and [...]

It’s a popular merchandising technique to offer a buy one, get one free sale.
Here’s how you make that promotion work for you:

Know what the “going price” is these days for that product on a per unit basis. You will not see always see prices listed in the sales fliers, you’ll have to watch the price [...]

We got an interesting question from a customer today:
Does The Monroe Evening News host a coupon swap box?
Not at this time, however …
Coupons from the Monroe, Toledo and Detroit Sunday papers that circulate among my co-workers and I are going to good homes. Here’s what I do with the coupons after we’re done swapping:

Donate them [...]

Monroe Evening News business reporter Charles Slat has this piece for his Sunday column today: In hard times, coupon clipping yields high returns.
How would you like to be paid at the rate of more than $35 an hour and do the work in your spare time?
Even if you’re lucky enough to already make more than [...]

How good is your grocery coupon knowledge? Let’s find out.
1. What is the purpose of coupons?
A. To advertise a product.
B. To save you money.
2. There’s a coupon on 2 for 1 single serve candy bars. [...]

There are five coupon books each in my home-delivery editions of The Monroe Evening News and the Detroit Free Press.
I don’t get the Toledo Blade delivered at home, but the Toledo paper usually has the same number of coupon booklets as the Monroe and Detroit papers even though individual coupons can, and occasionally do, vary [...]

I was recently interviewed for a money-saving grocery tips article that ran this weekend in the Toledo Free Press.
Mike Driehorst wrote the piece, and included both myself and Toni-Lynn Barber, who hosts shopping and bargain web sites in the Toledo area. The focus of the news article was on tips that work no matter what [...]

Monroe Public Schools has issued its fall community education schedule. I’m booked for “Grocery Shopping on a Budget” class from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 14 at Cantrick School, 1008 Riverview Ave., Monroe.
I took the presentation that I gave this spring at Monroe Community Education and several other events about grocery shopping techniques and [...]