Extreme Couponing - What Is It All About?
What can be a coupon? It is a simple advertisement for the store or the product. Let's imagine that you had a coupon that would help you save $1 on a $2 item that you really normally use. The store is hoping to entice that you buy it, and also hoping that while doing so, you will purchase some other items. You save money because you used the coupon, the store makes funds because (hopefully) you bought other products. So now you might have saved $1. If you saved $1 on 10 different items in the week, that is $10. That is what basic couponing does for you.
Now, let's take it up a notch. Power couponing takes it a few steps further. Imagine if you could use several on each item that you really bought. Imagine that the $1 you saved converted into $2 on that $2 item. The advertisers do not expect you to do that. It won't happen all the time, but many advertisers (either the major company or even individual stores) will advertise in lots of different locations. They do not expect that you would be able to get all the coupons from the different advertising media and benefit from the multiple coupons. So let us examine the $2 product again. If you identified a coupon for $1 off and used it... you would only pay $1 for the item (basic couponing). Now, if you found an additional coupon advertising Buy 1, Get 1 Free for the same item (same basic principle for any retailer.... pay $2 and purchase a Free item gives a net result of $1 per item) They do not imagine that you can have both coupons! You purchase one $2 item while using the $1 off coupon AND use the Buy 1, Get 1 Free coupon which means you get 2 of the same $2 item for just $1... or 50 cents an article. Much better deal to suit your needs... you just saved 75% in the purchase. This is Power Couponing or Extreme Couponing.
Couponing, whether basic or to the extreme is actually a skill. You need to know where to find the them. You need to keep organized to ensure that none of them are generally expired, or have limitations. Individual retailers may have policies on using multiple coupons on a single item either imposed by themselves or by the companies. Of course you can only rely on them for the items they're just advertising. In some circumstances, some stores will take the multiple coupons as long as it they have sufficient inventory with the item to cover the ones that they accept. coupons printable