Dummies guide to finding any type of coupons, deals, and more

Sunday Newspaper - While the Sunday newspaper is the most popular place to get coupons, don't restrict yourself to that. There are many places to obtain coupons such as magazines, junk mail, manufacturers websites, ebay, or websites that let you print coupons.

Magazine coupons - There are always friends that read magazines but never bother about the coupons, it never hurts to ask, money is going to waste!

Manufacturer coupons Many manufacturers' websites have coupons that can be printed out and redeemed. Here is a list of some of the more popular manufacturers with coupons on them.

Betty Crocker brands
Pillsbury coupons
Coffee Mate
Kellogg's coupons
Walgreens coupons
Chuck e Cheese - Register and receive coupons
Cottonelle
Tylenol

EBAY
Ebay is a great resource for coupons. I remember this was a must when I needed to get baby diapers coupons, enfamil infant formula coupons and tons of baby essentials. There are tons of coupons that are already clipped and sold by people. If you are into amusement parks such as Disneyland, you can even find people selling their vouchers to help you save money! In my opinion Ebay is great for coupons that are really hard to get such
as:

Lowe's Home Improvement Coupons
Home Depot coupons
Enfamil Coupons
Diaper coupons - for those pooping accidents.

Check these out on my ebay modules below.

Holidays are a great time for coupons.
When it's a big event such as ChristmaBig holidays lead to coupon overloads or Thanksgiving, coupons will be in abundance. Use this time to stock up.

Need help searching for coupons? Try forums.
Forums are a great way to ask questions to see if an actual coupon does exist. You will be surprised sometimes at what you find. You may be able to find things such as employees willing to give you their employee discount, stores giving you their secret referral code in order to get a discount, and even more. There are many coupon forum but here is a list of some:
Couponforum- Like its name says it is a forum for coupons. They have more information than coupons, however, they also offer forums on recalls, frugal living and more.

Coupons for local businesses in your area:
Sometimes we want coupons from local businesses in our area. Usually these come in the mail but if you don't get any, try these websites below. You will input your zip code and they will provide coupons from local businesses in the area.

couponclipper.com
valpak.com

Coupons you can buy
thegrocerygame - A very good website, that lets you get a list of items, sales, coupons available and more. It really is worth joining it. It gives you the lowest prices of products available in your local supermarket, advertised and unadvertised. Let these guys do the work for you!

They also have a list of manufacturer coupons, everything from Hot Dogs, to bread dough.

Thecouponmaster This website searches coupons for you, you just need to purchase them.

Eversave - Lets you print some coupons for free! Try them out, they are quite popular.

Join a coupon club.

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Sometimes it's a pain just searching out for coupons and deals in your local area. What if there were others like you that shared the same passion of coupon clipping and you could inform each other of the best possible deals that are around. This is the idea behind a coupon club, you can share information and coupons with others so that you don't have the burden of looking for coupons by yourself. You can create a coupon club with in churches, workplaces, neighborhood organizations or any other place where people gather. If you want you can also run some ads near the local supermarkets, churches or other community sites (some places have cork boards where you can post announcements), stating you would like to start a coupon club. I am sure someone will be willing to share the same coupon clipping passion with you.

Once you join a coupon club, you will most likely participate by bringing coupons that you don't plan to use to the group meetings. This way, when everybody brings different coupons, everybody can utilize coupons depending on their need.

Thanks to the internet you can also find local networks where people may share the same interest in your coupon gathering. You will be fascinated at all the different information that people have, such as when a certain store has sales, what days of the week are the best to buy for certain stores and so on. A much more informed consumer is one who will save the most. One of the best way to begin your search for groups is google groups. Here are all the different google groups that offer coupons:

Google coupon groups
Yahoo coupon groups

If you are not familiar with the concept of web groups, it's really simple. You first join the group, then you can receive all emails from anybody that sends information to the group. If you send an email to the group, it will also be received by all the members and most likely anybody will be able to have an answer. You can email questions such as Does anybody have any coupons for cat food?, or any question you would like to ask.

Coupons for restaurants and fast food.

Make sure you search the fast food website to see if you can find any coupons available. Sometimes you will be surprised to find coupons for the places you eat often. I remember going to a local indian restaurant for over a year for my lunch before I decided to venture out into their website. To my surprise, there was a coupon for 10% off the meal. I only regretted that I didn't visit it sooner. Did you also know that some pizza places have coupons on their websites as well. I know that Pizza Hut does, since I got some coupons from there prior to placing my order. Never underestimate the power of the web!

Pizza Hut coupons
Dominos coupons -Check their site for coupons.
Kentucky fried chicken coupons -Want some chicken? These guys have coupons on their website so check them out before going there.

Online shopping is growing ever so much more popular. At the same time, coupon codes are gaining in popularity as well. Online Coupon codes are text entries you put before checking out of a merchant's site to get a discount. Some of these discounts can be quite significant. It is easy to save money and no hassle of coupon clipping is involved!

If you plan to shop online you these are the steps you must follow!

1. Comparison shop - Places like pricegrabber.com, mysimon.com lets you see what great deals are available.

2. search for a deal - Make sure you search for an online deal to see what's available. Use a online deal search engine that helps you search various sources for the deal you are looking for.

3. Look for coupon codes. Most retailers have coupon codes these days. It is imperative that you look for coupon codes before purchasing because you could get a significant discount. To give you an example, Dell once had a coupon code taking $750 off a laptop. You could have gotten the discount by simply putting a promotional code in the shoppping cart area.

Here is a list of my favorite merchants offering promotional codes:

Travelocity:
You may find a travelocity promotional code that can save you hundreds of dollars.

Ebags:
Ebags offers discounts and deals often as well. Check out if there is an ebags promo code to use.

Dell
Dell promotional code - One of the best sites offering Dell coupon codes, since Dell has coupon codes so frequently.

VERIZON FIOS
verizon promotion code - Verizon offers discount and frequent promotions on their lightning fast FIOS broadband product.

If you are looking for the best deal sites available online, I wrote a separate article that may pique your interest. The article is a comprehensive site of all the deal sites available.

Sound ridiculous? It's not! I did not know this but I learned that the military stationed overseas can use manufacturer coupons six months after it expires. For a list of bases where you may be able to send coupons here it is

Armed forces bases for expired coupons.

If you are shopping for items in places such as Circuit City or Best Buy, you should realize that a lot of these places have a price match guarantee, so that if there is a cheaper advertised price in a different retailer, then they may give you the difference plus an additional discount.

I recently bought a Garmin GPS from Best Buy. It was about $50 cheaper on Amazon. Although Amazon is not a neighborhood competitor, I threatened to purchase from Amazon instead and the manager gave me $30 off. Use price match to your advantage.