Couponing's Best-Kept Secrets: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

I’m sure you know by now that I love getting groceries for free with coupons whenever possible. But we can’t get everything for free all of the time. Here’s a fun way to maximize coupon savings and get items very inexpensively, even when they’re not completely free.

Couponing's Best-Kept Secrets: Learn When Less is More

This week's Super-Couponing secret may surprise you because it goes against just about everything shoppers believe about saving money and shopping. Are you ready for a head-scratcher?

Build Coupon 'Library' by Saving Weekly Inserts

In previous columns, I’ve stressed the need to hold on to all of the coupon inserts we receive each week in the newspaper. The biggest mistake that “casual” coupon users make is to cut out the coupons for the items they think they’ll buy and then toss the rest of the insert into the recycle bin. As you likely know by now, this is the biggest mistake that people make with coupons. In tossing the insert you throw away coupons for items that will be free later.

Couponing's Best-Kept Secrets: A Year-Long Guide to What's Cheapest When

If you've been coupon shopping for any length of time, you may have noticed that there are times of the year when certain categories of products seem to take even larger dips in price than normal. Paper plates? Cheaper in the summer. Frozen food? Cheapest in March every year. But is there any rhyme or reason to this?