Last Minute Help! Leaving to the USA tomorrow - Coupons for Wal Mart??

[Liberator]

Since 2014 we have the TV Channel "TLC", one show there is Extreme Couponing, I guess everyone on the budget board knows this show . It is so fun to watch, so I want to do my own little couponing during the upcoming vacation.

I found some Coupons at the Wal Mart page, but they do not really fit our needs. I am looking for coupons for things like Coke, Pepsi, sweets (M&Ms, etc.), detergent etc.

Where can I find better coupons?
Is Wal Mart the right place to use coupons?

I am so new to this and we want to save some extra $$$. We have coupons in Germany, too, but 99 % of them are restricted to use only one per purchase.

Thanks for your help in advance

 

[Gracie09]

I don't think I have ever seen coupons for soda. I don't buy much but when I do I get whatever is on sale usually 5 for $5 for a 2 liter. I get most of my coupons the old fashioned way- a newspaper. Sunday has the most but our Thursday paper also has some.
Those people on tv spend hours a day gathering coupons and going to websites. And often it's set up with the store in advance so rules that normally apply don't. I wouldn't waste vacation time trying to save fifty cents on candy.

 

[Marionnette]

Since 2014 we have the TV Channel "TLC", one show there is Extreme Couponing, I guess everyone on the budget board knows this show . It is so fun to watch, so I want to do my own little couponing during the upcoming vacation.

I found some Coupons at the Wal Mart page, but they do not really fit our needs. I am looking for coupons for things like Coke, Pepsi, sweets (M&Ms, etc.), detergent etc.

Where can I find better coupons?
Is Wal Mart the right place to use coupons?

I am so new to this and we want to save some extra $$$. We have coupons in Germany, too, but 99 % of them are restricted to use only one per purchase.

Thanks for your help in advance

Pepsi and Coke don't offer printable coupons.

You can find printables for food and household products on smartsource .com and coupons .com. Don't enter a zip code when you're asked. Both of those websites require you to install printing software on your computer.

But I agree with the PP. Those extreme couponers spend days collecting their coupons and planning their trips. In some cases the store's coupon rules were relaxed for the show and in other cases, the couponer cheated by using high-value coupons for low-price items from the same manufacturer and having the cashier force the coupons through. One couponer even created his own coupons after he had cracked the code for the manufacturer's bar code.

Vacation time is the one time when I stop couponing and searching for bargains. I do enough of it the rest of the year.

 

[danygirl]

Try weusecoupons dot com or hip2save dot com or couponingvtodisney dot com for info on how to coupon and matches - they tell you where to find the coupons and where to use them

Cvs and rite aid are great places to start

 

[KKB]

That show is basically fantasy--NO one REALLY gets to do that on a regular basis.

I used to coupon regularly. Newspaper coupons were plentiful & GOOD. A couple stores did double coupons.

Now no stores in town double & I find that the coupons in my paper are rarely for things that I use anymore. I have tried printing but it is a bit of looking for a needle in a haystack, even on sites just for coupons.

Even tried Target Cartwheel--but have found the savings to not be worth the time involved.

Anymore, most store brand products are as good as name brands & things that aren't (soda plus things like dairy, proteins & produce), I watch the weekly sales, and stock up on non-perishables when they are on sale.

I would forget couponing on vacation...for the few $ you will save, how much will it cost to get it home??!!

 

[Kies99]

Here in the U.S., coupons traditionally come in the Sunday edition of newspapers. They will be an insert.

Don't know if it's the same around the country, but here in Western PA, they also sometimes come in the Wednesday mail delivery along with advertisements for the sales at the grocery stores. The grocery stores run sales from Thursday to Wednesday.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Since that shows airing WalMart has gotten tough on their coupons. Take a look


http://corporate.walmart.com/coupon-policy

 

[AquaDame]

I found some Coupons at the Wal Mart page, but they do not really fit our needs.

This is the main problem with coupons for us - you have to shop the sales no matter what they are. I spent a few months taking in the Sunday paper a few years ago and being diligent about going through them but there either were no coupons for things we were interested in, or the product we could technically use wasn't something we needed. In the end I wasted a LOT of time for very little gain.

I know several people who do serious coupon saving, and every time I look at their piles I wonder who would want all of that stuff they got... they saved $200 but spent $40 for a pile of "food product" that would be wasted in my house. Sales here and there on some items can be found, but you would need to keep an eye out on websites and papers (and get lucky if your time here is brief).