Getting Ready To Start Couponing

This week I want to talk about how to get started couponing. Each Sunday on my YouTube channel, I am posting learning videos, and I am starting with how to get started couponing. So I figured why not talk about it on the blog as well. 

I will tell you a little bit about how I got started couponing it started years ago. The kids were still small, and I came across a 5 off 25 Dollar General Saturday coupon. I had never used one before, but I used it and was amazed that it saved me 5 bucks. 

I was instantly hooked because I realized that if I used that coupon with other coupons, I would save a ton of money. I remembered watching a show about couponing years earlier. I immediately went home and looked it up. For the next year, whenever I had a spare moment, I was learning about couponing, watching Extreme Couponing, taking as many notes as I could, and doing whatever I could to figure it out. 

Today we all know that the show was as fake as it gets, but I was still able to learn a lot about couponing from it. If nothing else, the show proved to me that using coupons was possible and that I could save a ton of money. 

It wasn't long before I purchased my first newspaper and started clipping coupons. I headed to Wal-Mart and matched all my coupons to the items that I was going to buy. Then I learned my first lesson. Elderly women cashiers do not like couponers! For the first time, I also experienced having to show a cashier what a coupon meant, and I learned that cashiers had no idea how coupons worked. I was amazed. 

I walked out of the store with my items and a smile on my face, and I never looked back. I have been couponing ever since. Of course, I have taken breaks and used my stockpile here and there, but I will never give up couponing, and I can only hope that my children take this skill and pass it down for generations. 

Now for the important part. How can you get started? 

The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands on some coupon inserts. These come in your Sunday newspaper. However, purchasing the paper can end up being quite expensive if you want to get more than one or two sets of inserts. 

Instead, you can go on Facebook and search "inserts," and you will get an entire list of groups or people who can provide you with inserts. There are different regions that coupons are supplied, so it is crucial to make sure you know if you are getting the best coupons available. 

You see, different regions get different coupons. For example, one region may get "Tide" coupons while another region will not. It is up to you to decide what region you get your coupons from. 

After you figure out where you will get your coupons from, you will want to find a way to store your coupons. Personally, I use a binder. You can see mine in the video over here

Finally, it is time to start thinking about the store you are going to begin couponing at. It is best to take it one store at a time. Over at the Every Day Couponers YouTube Channel, we are focusing on Dollar General. 

If you are following the learning videos, now would be the time for you to download the Dollar General Digital coupon app. Thursday, when our scenarios come out, you will be ready to take advantage of all of the digital deals!

That is all there is to getting ready to start couponing. Check back every week for more posts about learning to coupon. 

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