How would you like to save crazy amounts of money on your groceries, without having to turn into a coupon fanatic?
Too good to be true? Absolutely not.
You just have to know how to find 2 things quickly and easily: coupons and rebates.
In this article, we’ll show you how to find awesome money-saving coupons fast, and then how to use your receipts to get cold hard cash back on your grocery purchases.
It takes a minimal amount of time to do each week, and doing the steps below can put a chunk of cash back in your pocket each month.
Let’s start by looking at the smart way to find coupons.
Finding and stacking coupons is the key to saving money at the grocery store, but who has time to spend looking for them?
Fortunately, there are a few ways you can quickly find the best grocery coupons.
If you know you tend to shop certain brands, go to their website and join their promo email list.
I recommend creating a separate email address specifically for coupons, and organize them by folder.
Here’s a list of a few good brands to contact in order to get coupons sent to you (instead of searching for them).
Most of the links in that list will take you to the company’s contact page, so you may have to do a little searching on each company’s site to find their email signup form.
Dealspotr is the largest and most accurate coupon database online, and it’s a great resource to help you find valid coupons to your favorite grocery store.
You can even save time by signing up for email notifications through Dealspotr so you never go searching for coupons.
For example, you can subscribe to the “Grocery and Drugstore” interest, or subscribe to your grocery store’s deals only (like Publix or Kroger).
Most stores allow you to use multiple discounts at the same time - meaning you can combine manufacturer’s coupons, your store’s coupons, and competitor’s coupons to get your total down to nearly zero.
Coupon matching can be a little confusing at first, but here are the basics of how it works.
And here’s a good site to start looking for coupon matchups.
If coupon matching starts to get too complicated for you, it’s perfectly okay to skip them and just stack coupons you find through Dealspotr and email promos.
Just remember, the key is to stack coupons by finding manufacturer and store coupons for the same item.
If you really want to save serious money at the grocery store, rebates are the key.
When combined with coupons, money from rebates can take your savings from decent to amazing.
Here’s how to do it:
Checkout 51 is a website that gives you cash back rebates on your groceries, and it’s a simple way to save even more money on your already-discounted grocery purchases.
All you have to do is go to their website, register for a free account, then start finding cash back offers on items you need from your store of choice.
For each offer you claim, you’ll be asked to complete small tasks like watching a short video, answering short survey questions, and more. The task shouldn’t take longer than a minute or so, and you can rack up a ton of cash back offers quickly.
Advertisers give you this cash back in exchange for your time spent completing the small task, and it’s well worth it.
Once you’ve lined up all the cash back offers on items you know you’re going to purchase, and you’ve been to the grocery store and made your purchases, all you have to do is upload your receipt into Checkout 51, and claim your cash rebate.
Add that to the money you saved from your coupons, and now you’re talking about saving a ton of money over the long haul.
Mike is a husband and father of 2 who studies the art of never paying full price for anything.
