Aug 16 2008
Finding Grocery Coupons: Check All Weekend Newspapers
In the past, I was under the assumption that coupon inserts were only found in the Sunday newspaper. I learned this wasn’t the case when I needed to pick up a Friday paper for an article that was about a family member. Inside, I was thrilled to find a coupon booklet. I paid .50 cents for that newspaper.
That Sunday, I still went and bought the Sunday paper. To my surprise, the coupons were all the same. They weren’t different and there wasn’t additional grocery coupons inside. So, on Friday I paid only .50 cents for the newspaper and grocery coupons inside. However, on Sunday, the paper cost $1.75.
By seeing if any of your Friday or Saturday newspapers carry coupons, you could easily save yourself a $1 or more each week. Remember, that $1 will add up overtime.
It definitely pays to check out different days when it comes to the newspaper-Wednesday is the day our local daily has food coupons. They are often different than the Sunday inserts. for this reason it is worth a subscription ($.50 a day + $1.25 Sunday=$4.25 newsstand price per week versus $2.50 per week subscription for all 7 days). On average, Wednesdays coupons net a savings (for the things I need and use) of $3.50 and Sundays coupons on average = $8.37. This is ON AVERAGE. Last week I actually saved $32.45 using the coupons and store card (which doubled most of the coupons). Not too bad considering the cost of daily subscription-not to mention I actually got daily news, comics, and advice columns! That $32.45 for 1 week versus $130 per YEAR for the daily delivered paper isn’t a bad return-especially since this is not an isolated instance. The worst week of savings in the last year was $18.60!