Coupons

Hi Everyone:

During these hard economic times, I have been surprised that there are a lot of people who do not use coupons. Why doesn't everyone use coupons? I don't get it. There is absolutely nothing to lose and money to be gained by using coupons.

My local grocery stores doubles the value of coupons worth up to $.99. Therefore if you have a manufacturers coupon for $.75, you get $1.50 off that product. Now in addition to that $1.50 off, if you have a store coupon worth say $.50, that doubles to $1.00. Combine the two coupons and that means you get $2.50 off that product. Depending on the price of the product, you may even get the product for free. How can you beat free? But still, I witness a lot of people at the check out at grocery stores and they don't use any coupons. Why? How hard is it to cut out coupons in the coupon flyers? Even if you don't get a newspaper, there are web sites where you can print out coupons. How much easier can it get? I get the newspaper every day of the week and I am able to save enough money through the use of the coupons I find that it pays for the yearly subscription. In my case, using coupons each week, equates to a free newspaper each and every day and even delivered to our house to boot! If you save say $5.00 each week at the grocery store, that translates into $250.00 per year. Use more coupons, save even more money.

Walmart's business has done extremely well during these hard times by using a business plan that fits perfectly in these times by having low prices. Their business plan now includes increasing their grocery items. Now subtract the use of coupons on those low prices and voila, those prices are even lower and affordable. You just can't lose.

I have also recently noticed that there are even more and more coupons in flyers for restaurants to entice people to eat at their establishments. These include chain restaurants as well as local places. During down economic times, people will not go out to eat as much as they did previously. Except for using coupons at restaurants for a date, in a new relationship, using coupons makes eating out more affordable. How can you lose?

There are even coupons for maintenance for your car. The coupons include: oil changes, transmission flushes, brakes and mufflers etc. Why pay $29.00 or higher for an oil change when you can pay $18.00?

To me it is a no brainer to use coupons at every available opportunity. It is just common sense to use them.

Til next week. Remember using common sense makes sense and can even save you cents!