Uncommon Cents

Coupon clipping isn’t an obsession with me, but I do find it helpful. What I find even more helpful is sharing coupons. For instance, several of my friends, including one of my blogging buddies, regularly sends me Costco coupons for Diet Pepsi, helping me fuel my final vice. Since coupons cost about nothing for the consumer and stamps cost 41 cents (right now), a coupon of $2.00 is well worth passing along.

When we had a bigger group in the clinic where my office is located, we had a coupon box where people would clip their Sunday newspaper coupons and dump their unwanteds; anyone could go through and get whatever was there. Expanding on this aspect of coupon sharing, I once worked with someone whose full time job was as a newspaper distributor. He would bring you whatever coupons you wanted from the weekend’s paper and also use lots of them himself; he once got manufacturer coupons for $4 off a box of laundry soap and waited until the soap went on sale for $4, then bought 100 boxes for sales tax!

Today, coupon clipping is also virtual. Tons of sites on the Internet are for sharing deals and coupon codes as mentioned before; a couple I will highlight again are Discount Coupons Guide and Rather-Be-Shopping. You can find tons of others out there as well.

Coupon clipping can help you spend less on your shopping; of course, the usual caveats apply. Don’t buy something just because it’s on sale! Make sure it’s something you’ll actually use or you’ve wasted whatever you’ve spend on it. That said, coupons can make a real difference in your bottom line.

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