I live in Canada. Both hubby and I work. He works for a call center and I work for home care. Money is a very tight issue for us. How can I get my hands on coupons? I would love to use them but never can find or get my little hands on any. Things are just getting so pricey that it's start to kill us.
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Subscribe to a Sunday newspaper that will be mailed to you that includes coupons. Perhaps you could find a coupon marketing company or several and offer to act as their rep. in your area, selling the service to your local newspapers. First make sure your grocery stores accept or even double or triple coupons. The New York Times has excellent coupons and is a great Sunday paper, as well, and well worth the investment.
We, in Canada, can NOT use USA coupons, so any coupons in the New York Times are not able to be used up here.
Some Sunday papers have coupons, some do not. Actually, there are very few coupons in stores and flyers now compared to years ago. I find that for ourselves, I am now only buying what I need and nothing else, not buying "name brand" particularly (unless it is on a really good sale) and just watching what I spend $ on. I find that the few coupons that do come in the flyers are for items that I would rarely buy anyways. Coupons that I do see now in the store mostly seem to be on or in items that are "frivolous" items...why buy a sugared cereal when the same amount of money can buy you a loaf of bread and 2 dozen eggs.
Just some things to think about.
http://www.save.ca has coupons they mail right to your home.
When you are out shopping, pick up coupons from the shelf displays and hold onto them until you need them.
Try to work a coupon exchange with someone at work, or if you are in an apt building, put a coupon exchange envelope on the bulletin board.
Buy generic and store brands, avoid "convenience" items and buy your produce fresh and in season. 5 pounds of carrots can be had for about $2.00 right now and 10 lbs of spuds for about the same $2.00. Buy whole frozen chickens instead of parts and avoid deli meats... use leftovers for lunch.
Call the manufacturers of the products you are interested in and ask them to send you coupons.
Tell them you really like their product but are on a tight budget, you will be surprised at what you will get.
Espeicially if you tell them that you will have to buy a cheaper brand.
Most of the companies have a toll free number on the package.
I do not recommend using this if you do not need to however.
If Canada is anything like Australia there are very few coupons, and what there are are for reduced price take away foods or prepackaged/pre prepared items. Basically things that do not even approach frugal. I would have to second a lot of what beanygirl and valleyrimgirl say - buy loss leaders, basic foodstuffs, cook from scratch, menu plan and stick to your shopping list. This will save much more than a few cents off a bought pizza or a dollar off a trip to the cinema.
Regards
Jo
Thank you all so very very much..... i love the ideas and find every single one of them very helpful. I will keep you all updated on how things are going
search the manufacturers web pages. they often include coupons they will send you or you can print them out.
Hi Karen~~I'm also from Canada and have joined a group of people who do trains of coupons. If interested you can look into it at tradingpostcoupons@yahoogroups.com. Hope this helps you.
You can aslo sign up for all kidns fo newsletters taht will help you find Canadian coupons. Try going to yahoogroups.com (or a similar site) and search for Canadian coupons or freebies.
Also, if you're buying anything online, make sure you do a google search with the store name and words like coupon codes, or discount, etc. You can often save a lot of money or shipping fees just by doing this search.
I subscribe to a wonderful refunding magazine that is really helpful on what to look for at the grocery, couponwise & refund/rebate form
wise. People send in their ways to save, pictures, etc. They have a website. You can use the following url to get there: refundcents.com/
If it's where you can grow your own veggies, it'll be a great investment till the end. The flavor of homegrown fresh veggies are the best, far better than anything bought at the grocery produce counter. Best of luck in your hardship.
Refund cents magazine is published in the US which means that we in Canada can not use it. You also have stores there that we do not have. But it does sound like a great magazine, for those who live in the US.
Save.ca is available for us in Canada and seems like an easy site to use. I have just used it for the first time and saved it into my favorites, to use in the future.
there are other sites that do coupon trains as well and we have alot of coupons in canada and even our grocery stores will sell you a coupon book for a buck with a great amount of savings inside (ie safeway)
i recommend using cnd tire money for day to day things such as dish soap, foil paper etc
If you live in golden horse shoe try www.smartflyer.ca
I cant get through to smartflyer.ca
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this has nothing to do with coupons, however this is a site that has saved me money and is helping the environment. check online if you have a freecycle.com site available in your province. people offer and accept free items of all sorts there. my sister got a free air conditioner that actually works,a computer and i've gotten things like dog food and furniture. simply put evreything there is free and stays out of the landfills. hope this helps.
We find plenty of coupons in the stores and now that we're seniors my brother shares his coupons with me also I get them from save.Ca.
Does anyone here know if Canadian grocery stores double or triple coupons? If so, which ones?
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