Where To Find Coupons?

Where do you find coupons?

Well, first of all there are several places where you can find manufacture coupons. I am going to break it down into two (2) groups of coupons. The groups will be called Traditional Places and Non Traditional Places.

You can find manufacture coupons in the following Traditional Places:

• Newspaper – Each week with the exception of Holidays (a holiday falling sometime during that week (ie:Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Easter, 4th of July)) the newspaper has a booklet type flyer known as an insert. You can find the insert located in the middle of the newspaper and mixed together with all of the store sale flyers.
  • Smart Source Insert – Smart Source is a company that offers manufacture coupons by inserts (found in the newspaper), blinkies (little red boxes) and web based printable coupons (smartsource.com).
    • A Smart Source Insert is in every weeks newspaper when coupons are being offered.
  • Red Plum Insert – Red Plum is a company that offers manufacture coupons by inserts (found in the newspaper) and web based printable coupons (redplum.com).
    • A Red Plum Insert is in the 2nd and 4th Sunday’s newspaper that is being offered.
  • General Mills Insert – General Mills is a company that manufactures a lot of groceries and they offer their coupons in an insert of their own that is produced by Smart Source.
    • A General Mills Insert is in the 2nd Sunday of the month newspaper. You will find other General Mills manufacture coupons in the other Smart Source Inserts but only a few. The GM Insert has a full list of General Mills product coupons available.
  • Proctor & Gamble Insert – Proctor & Gamble is a well known manufacture for a lot of Health & Beauty Aids type products and they offer coupons in an insert method only.
    • A Proctor & Gamble Insert will be found in the 1st Sunday’s newspaper when it is being offered. If by chance the 1st Sunday falls on a national holiday, then it will be offered the Sunday before the national holiday (ie: Labor Day weekend falls on the 1st weekend of September and because there is no coupon inserts in the weekly newspaper it comes out the Sunday before).
  • Parade Insert – The Parade Insert occasionally will offer manufacture coupons. This is a hit or miss type of thing. You will have to look through the insert each week to see if any coupons are available.
  • USA Weekend Insert – The USA Weekend Insert will occasionally offer manufacture coupons. This is another hit or miss type of thing. You will just have to look through the insert each week to see if any coupons are available.
• Magazines – A lot of magazines offer manufacture coupons which can be clipped and redeemed. You can purchase these magazines from several different sources (such as: magazine manufacture, stores, Amazon, school fundraisers or a variety of websites that resell them). Here is a list of Magazine that offer awesome manufacture coupons.
  • All You Magazine – All You Magazine is offered every 4 weeks (13 issues per year) and this particular magazine is designed for coupon people in mind. All You is chalked full of coupons. On an average month, All You Magazine has $75.00 or more worth of coupons that can be redeemed.
    • All You Magazine can only be purchased at Wal-Mart Stores or through a mail order subscription from Amazon, a school fundraiser or All You Magazine itself.
  • Good Housekeeping Magazine – Another really good magazine that offers manufacture coupons.
  • Sunset Magazine
  • Parade Magazine

• Printable Coupons – There are quite of few printable coupon websites that offer manufacture coupons. These type of websites will allow you to print coupons after you download a “coupon generator” that safely allows you to print the manufacture coupons that are being offered but still gives the manufacturer the security that it needs to properly identify if the printable coupon is legitimate or not.
  • Coupons Inc. – Coupons, Inc. is a company that pioneered the internet printable coupon concept back in the late 1990′s or early 2000′s. When printing coupons from Coupons, Inc., you will have the ability to print the coupons available to you twice.
    • Coupons, Inc. releases new printable coupons daily and they occasionally reset during the month. When printing coupons from Coupons, Inc. you have to check back quite often because some coupons will go quickly.
      • When printing coupons that are offered from Coupons, Inc., you will have 30 days from the time you print the coupons before they expire.
  • Red Plum – Red Plum offers several different kinds of printable coupons. When printing coupons from Red Plum.com, you will have the ability to print the coupons available to you twice.
    • Red Plum.com releases new printable coupons daily and they occasionally will reset the coupons during the month.
    • Red Plum.com offer two different kinds of printable coupons.
      • Red Plum.com offers manufacturer coupons, which can be used on specific products for a specific amount off of the product.
      • Red Plum.com offers store coupons, which can be used at a particular store. These coupons can either be for a certain amount off a total purchase or a certain amount off of a specific product.
  • Smart Source – Smart Source offers manufacture coupons for a numerous amount of manufactures. When printing coupons from Smart Source.com, you will have the ability to print the coupons twice.
    • Whenever you come across a coupon that is available from Smart Source, you will want to print it ASAP because they go quickly.
• Loyalty Shoppers Card Coupons – There are a few companies that offer coupons to a select number of grocery stores. All you need to do is sign-up your loyalty card to anyone of these companies websites and when you shop at the store you have chosen, the coupons will be taken off of your loyalty shoppers card. Each Month you will have to log in to your account and chose the coupons that you will like to have loaded to your cards.
  • The only down side of the loyalty shoppers card coupons is you only get to use the coupons that you have chosen to add to the loyalty card once. It makes it really hard to stock up on some of your favorite everyday items.
  • One of the best parts of having the ability to load coupons to a loyalty shoppers card is the fact that you can use the coupons off of your loyalty card along with a paper coupon.
    • Cellfire – Cellfire.com offers manufacture coupons that can be loaded to a number of grocery stores loyalty shopper cards.
    • Shortcuts – Shortcuts.com offers manufacture coupons to be loaded to your loyalty shoppers card.
    • P&G eSavers – P&G eSavers.com is another company that allows you to load Proctor and Gamble coupons to your loyalty shopper card.

You can find manufacture coupons in the following Non Traditional Places:

• On Select Products – A lot of manufacture’s will ad a coupon (aka: peelie) on the merchandise they are trying to sell. This is a great way to for the manufacture to sell their products to all of the non coupon people or casual coupon people.
• Inside Select Products – In the last several months, I have opened up a package (box or bag) to fix something. Only to find an awesome coupon either on the inside part of a box or a coupon wrapped in plastic.
• Tear-pad’s – Sometimes you are able to find coupons known as Tear-pads that are attached to a display or to a shelf near the products which the coupon is for. They are called “tear-pads” because you can just tear the coupon off of the pad.
• Manufacture Websites – If I am looking to purchase an item and I do not have a coupon for the item on hand, I go straight to the manufacture website to see if they are offering any. Most of the time, they are offering a coupon and you either have to take a short survey or sign-up for an account to have access to the coupon. Also, once they have your e-mail address they will continue to send you coupons via email.
• Samples – A lot of times when you sign-up for a FREE Sample, the manufacture will send a coupon along with the Sample for use on a future purchase.
• Blinkies – A company called Smart Source has equipped a large selection of grocery stores with a little red blinking box that spits out manufacture coupons. Most of the time, the blinking boxes are located on the shelf next to the product the coupon is being advertised.
• Booklets – A large number of grocery stores will work out a deal between them and the manufacture to be able to print a certain number of “booklets” full of coupons to give out to their customers. These booklets can include manufacture or store coupons. Usually these booklets are on a display, at the customer service desk or where a store usually keeps their weekly sales flyers.
• Facebook – A huge number of companies have gone to the social media site Facebook to pitch their products. In the process of trying to get consumers to buy a product from them, they will allow a certain number of coupons to be printed off of their ‘Facebook” page if you are a ‘Fan” of their page. (ie: Nabisco offers a “Buy One Nabisco Cookie Package & (1) Gallon of Milk and then get a second package of Nabisco Cookies for FREE coupon” on the first Monday of every month to the first 24,000 people who print it. The coupon is good for 14 days after it is printed.