Really getting into the swing of things part 1

Hello Again,

Well  I have really gotten into the swing of things with my couponing. But it does take some real work to make it happen. I have had several people ask me how I am doing it so I thought I would backtrack and give you the steps that I have used.

First off you need coupons. There are several ways to obtain your coupons. You can print them off the Internet from various places. All you need is to do a search for them.

Which leads me to SwagBucks.com .
This site lets you search online for anything that you need but you can earn swag bucks and get free things.  I use my swag bucks to earn amazon.com gift cards. My goal is to earn enough to pay for most of the gifts that I need to purchase this year. You can accumulate them fairly quickly by searching online and downloading the toolbar which often rewards you for just having downloaded it. I earned 1 swag buck this morning when I opened my browser to start this blog entry.

OK to get back to the coupons and where to find them.  Another place to find coupons is in your local paper. To find your local papers insert check here. I suggest you subscribe via email to have the previews delivered to your email. You are going to want to purchase several Sunday Newspapers to get the most out of the coupons.  Or you can ask friends and family members to save them for you if they don't use them for themselves. You can also buy them from clipping services or eBay if you need the extra coupons but don't want to buy the papers. I will get into the clipping services later as I haven't used them yet. A website you need to sign up with is WeUseCoupons.com   They have a great forum for all your questions, a coupon database to help you find more coupons and just a great bunch of people who are more than willing to help you find the deals.

OK so now you have your coupons it is time to check out the sales.  My favorite store is Price Chopper because they double my coupons.  So I am able to get alot of my items for less than a dollar sometimes.  I can save at least 50% off my grocery bill like last night.  So once you check out the fliers for good sales you need to see what coupons you can match up with them.  This is the longest part for me.

OK so this is going to be the end of my 2 part series on beginning to coupon.  I will be posting the second part on Monday.  So your homework is to on Sunday buy multiple newspapers to get the inserts and clip away.

Happy Clipping!