Other than ordering coupons, printing coupons and collecting coupon inserts, there are several other more unique ways to grow your coupon collection! Here are my suggestions:
Trade with friends
Get together with some coupon loving friends and trade the coupons you won’t use for some you will use! Do you need baby coupon and does your friend need pet coupons? Swap them!
Check recycling bins
Pretty self explanatory, but there are tons of people out there that could care less about the coupon inserts that come in the local newspapers. I find several in the recycling box at work! 🙂
Write your favourite companies and ask for coupons
Do you have a favourite product but never find any coupons for it? Try writing/emailing the company to say how much you love their products and then ask it they have any coupons to share to help you enjoy their products more often. I recently did this with Kiju organic juice. I really wanted to try the juice, so I emailed and asked politely if they had any coupons. They sent me two coupons for free juice! Just as a note, please don’t abuse the kindness of companies. Maybe request coupons once or twice a year only?
Sign up for Freebies
Many of you that already sign up for the freebies I post on Simply Frugal, probably notice that along with the samples, the manufacturers also tend to send along high value coupons. It’s really a great tactic on their part as they give you a sample hoping you’ll like it, then think you’ll go out and buy the product with the coupon they sent you, then buy it again and again! But really, if I do actually enjoy the product, I will go out and buy it with the coupon!
So you have any other unique ways to collect coupons to share with us?
You can trade coupons using classified sites like UsedEverywhere.com. I live in Victoria and have managed to trade a bunch of coupons by posting to our local site UsedVictoria.com. They have a coupon section. Also alot of people post they are giving away free coupons there.
My local Co-op now hosts a coupon exchange, it’s very simple and it works on an honesty system.
They have a basket of coupons in the entrance and anyone is free to take and replace coupons from the basket as they like – what an effective coupon trading system! I always check the basket on my way into the store to see if there’s anything I can make use of. I also bring along a few good coupons from my coupon binder and add them in for others to use.
It’s really got me thinking about starting coupon exchanges at other supermarkets and stores.
I love to ask my family to get me any coupons they see anywhere stores magazines the newspaper and send all to me
like and shared and would love to win Canadian coupons – another great way to get them
Websaver.ca, save.ca, and facebook is a great source of coupons
I search the internet, email companies and follow your updates!!!! Thanks!!!
Hi Taya,
It’s not a very high-value coupon, but I thought you might not know about http://www.thehealthyshopper.ca. They put out both a printed booklet of organic and natural foods/vitamins/products, as well as have a printable option at their website. The booklets and registration are free!
The reason I’m mentioning it is because you mentioned in your post that you like Kiju juice. Well both the booklet and the printable coupons–and there’s no limit to how many times you print them–have a 50-cent off coupon. They also have coupons for the Knudsen juices–both the regular and the carbonated ones.
I don’t work for any of those companies (including The Healthy Shopper!). I just really want to eat a few more organic foods, so I was really excited to find out about them. I just recently wrote to save.ca asking if they could try to issue organic food coupons. We’ll see how that goes!
Thanks for all of your postings, by the way. I get so much out of them, always.
Magazines, there are TONS of folks in my office who subscribe to magazines and then bring them in after they’ve read them, even if it’s not my favorite… I go through and clip the coupons, if I won’t use it… I will likely be able to trade it.