FREE Couponing Classes

Downtown Rec Center

Here are two FREE offered by the City of Henderson!

• Couponing without Effort (Tues 2/28 or 4/17) - Some people save hundreds of dollars a month with coupons.  Learn a few tips and tricks to cutting your grocery bill in half.  We teach you how to file your coupons very easily and how to use a free website to maximize your savings. (Location: SSRC)
• Grocery Smarts (Monday 1/23, 2/20, 3/19 or 4/23) - Learn the secrets of extreme couponing, how to file coupons quickly and easily, the secrets of grocery store ads, and create a free customized grocery list. (Location: BMRC)

You can register (starting today!!)  for all classes at www.cityofhenderson.com/parks.

Couponing 101

For those of you interested in couponing, here are some helpful blogs and websites. These are all FREE sites! Please DO NOT sign up for any paying site or subscribe to the newspaper until you have researched this for yourself and want to pay the extra money for someone to tell you what to buy and when to buy it. Remember not to buy anything that you don't use. Even if it's on sale, it's still wasting money if you don't ever use it! One mom paid $85 for multiple subscriptions to the newspaper for 3 months! That would require a LOT of couponing to make up for this cost!

If your grocery bill is high, I would recommend shopping sales (such as the Case Lot sale at Smith's) and price matching at Walmart FIRST. After mastering these, I would try couponing :)
Try just buying a single Sunday paper for a couple of weeks. A lot of the Sunday coupons that come aren't for food items, so keep that in mind. Most of the grocery coupons are found online at Grocery Smarts. These are also FREE to print!

Kira from the Greenway Self-Reliant Sisters says:

"I would like to point out one thing, a lot of the coupons & great deals mentioned on the shop smart in Vegas coupon really aren't always good deals. Sometimes it takes rolling lots of transactions & lots of coupons to get the same kind of deal that I normally go for (ie - 10 cents an ounce on cereal) and sometimes a lot of the things that they are buying aren't things I normally would want to stock up on a ton of in the house (warm delights/brownie mixes, pre-made chex mix, etc.)."

Here is a great article called "How Much Are Your Coupons Costing You". It gives great ideas on how to get coupons, not just from the Sunday paper.

At Coupon Mom she has 3 FREE e-books that you can download to explain that basics of couponing.

Couponing/Frugal Websites

• Living on a Dime
• Like Merchant Ships
• A Thrifty Mom
• Frual Living (About.com)
• Shop Smart in Vegas
• Couponing 101
• Coupon Mom
• Northern Cheapskate

Printable Coupon:

• Grocery Smarts
• Betty Crocker
• Pillsbury

Most coupons can be printed twice. If you have multiple computers, you can print these twice from each computer!! Be smart with your money & good luck!!

Grocery Savings Every Week!!

Each Tuesday Night I will be posting the best deals* on groceries for the week.

Wal-Mart will price match (most stores) so you do not need to travel all over town to get these special prices. There are some restrictions so talk to Holly or Lisa about all the details.

Just a note - Los Comprades, Mariana's and Super King Ranch Market ads run from Tuesday to Monday. Sunflower Market runs from Wednesday to Wednesday. Other stores from from Wednesday to Tuesday.

*Disclaimer: I am only able to inform us of great deals on things that I normally buys for my family. There may be other great deals in your ad, so please keep an eye out for great prices on the things that you normally buy.