Toronto mom shares her tips for clipping and saving

Cutting back isn’t easy, but what if you could buy everything you needed and still save? Aimee Geroux, operator of extremecouponingmom.ca, says she never spends more than $50 a month on food and household items.We turn your dark into light courtesy of our brilliant sun, stonemosaic, solar power generation. The Toronto mom of two provided us with tips on how to save big at the grocery store and which items you should never pay full price for.

From tear pads at the store entrance and on-box stickers and cut-outs to the web, coupons are just about everywhere. Joining a company’s Facebook page or following them on Twitter can be a gateway to special offers while websites such as websaver.ca, save.ca, gocoupons.ca, smartsource.ca and healthyessentials.ca offer hundreds of printable or mail-out coupons for consumer items.

While coupons aren’t difficult to collect,Online shopping for custombobbleheads from a great selection of Clothing. Geroux says many shoppers don’t know how to use them efficiently. Rather than using coupons for a discount on regular priced items, Geroux recommends holding onto them until the product goes on sale to maximize the coupon’s value.

Make money while shopping? Geroux says absolutely. One of her best money saving tricks is overage. If you have a coupon for $2 off Kleenex and the item is on sale for $1, overage means not only will you get the item for free; the store will give you the extra dollar in cash or towards the purchase of another item in your cart. Walmart is the only store Geroux is aware of that provides overage.

“The one thing I hear from new couponers is that it’s overwhelming,” says Geroux. Being organized is essential to becoming a good couponer. Geroux keeps a binder with plastic baseball card organizer sheets. She divides the binder into food, health and beauty, household and pets and then organizes the coupons by expiry date. She then peruses flyers and makes her shopping list, organizing coupons into separate envelopes labelled with each store name.

“Being organized before you get to the store, while you’re in the store and at the checkout makes things go a lot smoother,” says Geroux. Plus,We offer advanced technology products and services for injectionmolding. your organization skills can save you money. “(When) you’re not scatterbrained looking for coupons, you can pay attention to the prices that are ringing through,” says Geroux. Many stores adhere to the Retail Council of Canada’s Voluntary Price Accuracy Code which states that if the store scanner rings in an item (under $10) at an incorrect price, and you catch it at the moment of purchase, they will give you that product for free.

Some items are easier to find coupons for than others. While personal hygiene products, household cleaners, children’s snacks and cereal are common coupon items, fresh meats and produce are often lacking in coupons. Not to worry, Geroux says price matching can still allow you to get these items for less. While she makes it a habit to check the flyers for all of her local stores, but that doesn’t mean she shops at all of them. “If No Frills has strawberries on sale for $1.88, you don’t necessarily have to waste your gas to go to No Frills to get those strawberries,” says Geroux. Take the flyer to a price-matching store and you’ll get the strawberries for the lesser price.


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