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Digital News Report – If you are getting serious about clipping grocery store coupons and using the new digital coupons you still need to be organized to get the best value for your shopping trip. You should consider investing in a your time at home a little to pre-plan you shopping excursion so that you will not only save money, but also save time while you are shopping in the store.
Invest in a coupon binder with see through plastic pockets. Get some tabbed sheets to separate your coupons based on the section of the store, such as freezer item coupons, refrigerator section, cereals, drinks, personal hygiene, etc. By having a quick access to your coupons based on the section you can find them fairly easily when you are out shopping.
But before you even do this you should look into couponmom.com website for way to get a list of offers at the different grocery stores in your area. Other couponers tell of deals they found that can be extremely inexpensive and they tell where they got the coupon from. If you label your newspaper coupon inserts by date and don’t cut them out, when you see the list of items you want to get on this website you can look up and find the coupons that you want to use without having to sort a lot of coupons and trying to find them later on.
The binder still is very helpful in keeping yourself organized while shopping, because the deals might not be at the store, there wasn’t any items left of the advertised deal. So you really need to have a system in place to make sure that you can zip through your printed out coupon sale want list and match the coupons that you are going to use as you go through the store.
Using digital coupons are great, but you might miss out on some extra good deals with old fashioned coupons. So you need to consider using the both options.
If you have expired coupons get rid of them because clutter is not going to help you with being organized. Plan on discarding and getting rid of the old coupons on a regular basis so that you won’t become overwhelmed with trying to find your deals.
Another thing to consider is to have a grocery shopping list of food that you need and that way you can cross reference the sale items and maximize your savings.
By: Victoria Brown