With the proliferation of so many coupon sites, it can truly get dizzying trying to figure out how to manage the never ending stream of deals that hit your e-mail every day. Some of the larger well known sites will hit with a new deal every day and others you can go to at your own leisure to look for coupons or other deals that may save you a few bucks. Often, I think most people just delete these e-mails as they just get in the way of getting their normal e-mail answered. For most people, I recommend setting up one g-mail or hotmail account that you sign up for all coupon sites so you actually have an organized way to view your coupons and deals every day. Check out this cool new site called www.couponing.com which can teach you how to become a savvy couponer and provide great resources to help you manage and organize your coupons.
Personally, I got tired of going through all the clutter and in the past couple of months I have begun my Google for coupons strategy. This may not necessarily get you every coupon, but I'm willing to bet if you follow these steps you'll save a ton of money here in 2012.
This past week, I had to pick up a pizza for my family at a local place called I Love NY Pizza up in Milton, GA. Before I called into the pizza shop to order the pizza, I Googled "I Love NY Pizza coupons" and then click images. The key here is to click on the images tab because you may get images of the actual retailer, images of the retailer in a publication, and sometimes you get immediate images of the coupons that they have running. When I did this for the first time, I got a dozen images of different I Love NY Pizza places all around the country, so I narrowed my image search by adding in Milton and GA to my word string search. When I added these words to my search, the first image that came up was actually a picture of the I Love NY Pizza place that is near my house. I still couldn't see any coupons in any of the images, so I just clicked the image of the restaurant.
Well, guess what? When I clicked the image, up came a link to a website called www.northfultonshops.com which showed an entire menu of the I Love NY Pizza restaurant. When I scrolled down the screen a little further I found a nice juicy coupon for an X-Large Cheese Pizza for just $9.95 expiring on March 31st, 2012. I simply clicked the coupon and printed it off so I could claim my deal!
I have now done this little game of hunt and peck at least a half dozen times in the past couple of months. Here's what I am finding out. The internet is chock full of coupons and by using the Google images section you can quickly get to what may be out there on the internet. For almost every place you go to shop or eat, my guess you'll find a deal right around the clicking corner if you just take five to ten minutes to search for them before you actually place your next order or purchase.
If you are tired of the hundreds of coupon e-mails you have to sort through every night, here is your smart moves money tip. Make a search. Click some images. Get ready to save some bucks!
