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Beginner’s Quick Guide to Couponing
By Sherri Causton Huter
By Sherri Causton Huter
The most valuable tool for you as a new
couponer is going to be this site http://www.savingsguru.ca/.
Take the time to read the FAQ, the Coupon Guide
& Coupon Terms, a serious wealth of information!
Study your prices so you can learn what a good price
actually is. Beware of sales, not all are good!
Next, please, get a binder, some hockey
card protector sleeves, and some binder separator tabs to keep all of your
coupons organized.
The most prized tool
in couponing for me is my gmail account. Make sure your entire family/extended
family has one too.
Having multiple coupons when the perfect storm hits, is key. The perfect storm for me is when an item is at its lowest price, you have a high
value coupon, AND you can get money
back for purchasing the item on one of your money-back apps. Thereby making
your item FREE, or even better,
actually, making money by purchasing the
item!
There are four different apps that I know of for
this. They are zweet, checkout51, cartsmart, and snapsaves. Get them all and make
sure all of your family/extended family members have an account as well.
Okay, so with everything above put into place, now
you’re ready to gather some coupons. Check “Canadian Coupon Guide”, “where do
you get all those coupons”?
Study your coupons, read them carefully. The wording
on coupons can be quite tricky especially if you’re not familiar with them.
Things you need to take note of are:
·
Sizes – such as “400g only”
·
Flavors/varieties – such as “lemon scent only”
·
Exclusions – such as “not applicable on trial size, travel size,
value pack, gift pack, and bonus packs”
·
The best coupons are the ones that state “valid on any (1)
product”. These can be used on trial/travel sizes which is a great opportunity
for a freebie. Some other things to note in regards to the wording on coupons
are:
·
Expiry date – a coupon is valid until the end of the shopping day
on the expiry date.
·
Pictures on coupons – unless otherwise stated, you do not have to
purchase exact item in the picture, go by the wording on the coupon.
·
One coupon per purchase – means one coupon per item. One coupon
per transaction - means one coupon per item, per transaction. If you want to
use more than one coupon to buy more than one item, you’ll need to break it
into separate transactions.
·
Not valid with any other offer – means that you can’t use this in
combination with another coupon. This does NOT
mean that you can’t price match & use your coupon.
·
The huge NO NO of couponing is reproduction! This is fraud. You
cannot reproduce your coupon in any way, shape, or form. It is illegal and you
can be prosecuted.
Some
stores such as Target have their own store specific coupons. This is great
because generally, these stores will allow you to use one store specific coupon
PLUS a manufacture coupon.
**If your store has a great Catalina,
break your items into separate transactions to get as many coupons as you can.
**
Almost
every day, if not every day new deals are added to this site. All of the best of the best deals are here. Each best deal, details how to get the specified
item for the lowest price, and a lot of it can be FREE.
Bookmark this page; it IS your new
bible!
Happy Couponing & Happy Savings
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