10 rules to play fair while shopping with coupons
Are you following the coupon ethics discussions that are popping up on multiple Facebook feeds and the coupon blogs and forums? Here are the Monroe on a Budget 10 rules to play fair while shopping with...
View ArticleExtreme Couponing: hot topic, but pointless?
Brad Tuttle has this piece for Time Magazine‘s Moneyland section that’s making the rounds on Twitter this week: Extreme Couponing – Never Hotter, Yet Never More Pointless. A snippet: Even with though...
View ArticleDon’t blame empty shelves on “Extreme Couponing” show
Don’t place the entire blame for empty or cleared-out store shelves on the coupon craze that is resulting from the TLC show “Extreme Couponing.” This was happening quite a bit before that TV show held...
View ArticleWhen coupons won’t be enough to make up the loss of income
I love coupons. I’ve been shopping with coupons for 25 years. The money you can save with coupons can help you either stretch your grocery funds to buy more groceries, or help you come up with the...
View ArticleIf it takes “too much time to coupon,” rethink your methodology
I know how couponing is typically taught these days. I mention some of the currently popular techniques when I teach my coupon classes, because someone in the room has certainly heard of them or has...
View ArticleTreat the newspaper coupon savings promos as estimates – here’s why
Long before TLC’s show “Extreme Couponing” fed the coupon craze into a coupon frenzy, newspapers used the fact that grocery coupons were in the Sunday paper as a marketing tool. A typical Sunday paper...
View ArticleReader rant: “But I don’t have time to read the paper. It piles up.”
From time to time, I’ll hear a rant from a reader along these lines: I don’t have time to read the paper. It piles up. If you have, for some reason, an aversion to paper itself, then get the paid...
View ArticleHow today’s couponing tactics cost you money, and what to do about it
Some of today’s couponing tactics cost money. There are ways to work around that detail, or at least minimize the impact. I will tell you that I was inspired to write this post after seeing a similar...
View ArticleThe clearing the shelf comments continue via the mysterious spammer
Bringing everyone up to speed: A spammer has scraped comments from another couponing blog in which there was a heated discussion about coupon policies and “clearing the shelf.” The spammer is trying to...
View ArticleDo coupon deals include healthy foods? Read the list and find out.
By Paula Wethington / Monroe on Budget One of the most-repeated and inaccurate assumptions about couponing is that the deals are all for junk food, processed food, “stuff I would never eat ….”. I...
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