Coupons Saves Money on Food
Let’s face it–food is expensive. The average family spends just over 10% of their household income buying groceries–over $6,000 a year–and even while average wages have gone down, the price of food keeps going up. When you are just trying to feed your family that is a pretty scary prospect. That said, as more and more people are beginning to realize, coupons can be a great way to save money on food.
The grocery store is the most obvious place to save money with coupons. The biggest secret of people who save the most at the store are those who match coupons with "loss leaders" -- those heavily discounted items they feature in their ads in order to get you through their door.
Food is expensive these days, so grocery shoppers must be diligent in looking for bargains. Products cycle on a seasonal basis. Late winter and early spring are for allergy medicine and tissue deals. Late spring and early summer are the time to buy condiments, barbecue sauces, marinades, lemonade and grilling products. In July and August, look for back-to-school products, and in late fall, soups, oats, hand soap, sanitizers, cold remedies and tissues.
Couponing Saves You Time
One of our favorite ways, here at True Blue Coupons, to evaluate whether a money-saving idea or technique is worth your time is to evaluate it in terms of an hourly wage. For instance, if it saves your family $30-$50 and requires an hour’s worth of work, it is totally worth YOUR time. Coupons are worth your time because when you put in an hour’s worth of time, you are usually saving $40-$75 for doing so. That sounds like a pretty good hourly wage to us!
If you're not among the 94 percent of Americans who use coupons when they shop at the supermarket, drug store, or department store, you're throwing money away. Americans still are using coupons, and in GREATER quantities. In fact, there has been a huge recent spike in usage, especially with sites like this one, allowing for almost instantenous results and savings and far easier than clipping the old-fashioned way.
In 2010, U.S. consumers spent an average of just 10 minutes per week clipping and organizing coupons, but reaped a whopping $3.7 million for their efforts, or approximately $416 per family per year. By doubling the time invested weekly to just 20 minutes, the average shopper could save as much as $1,000. Not too bad, eh?
Couponing is Great
With the current financial climate, saving money is higher on all our minds and has become an absolute necessity for some people. When people think of money saving, they think of cutting back or reusing your gone off bananas for a banana cake, saving a few pennies. Our way of saving, here at True Blue Coupons, is more rewarding and you can actually see the results in your bank account in no time at all!.
If you are reading this, you are probably hoping to save some money. The good news is that you will save money, here at True Blue Coupons. Couponing doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Any savings are better than none, so even if you only use some of the coupons on this site, you will still be saving your family money each week.
To save, really save, with coupons, you have to change your thinking. That’s our initial advice. Couponing is a cumulative process, not an instant magic formula. You have to commit and you have to have a little patience. To save money with coupons, you have to have….coupons, which is why you are here.