Step 1: Get Coupons

The first step to Extreme Couponing is getting coupons obviously. Beg, borrow, or steal(from the breakroom) if you have to. Just kidding. There are lots of  ways to get coupons.

1) Sunday Paper-As a general rule of thumb, buy 1 paper for each member of your household. I buy 4 papers every week, unless it is a super coupon week. A newspaper is the cheapest way to get a lot of coupons. In this area, Publix has papers for 99 cents, and some CVS stores have papers for $1.

2) Coupons.com-Printing from a coupon source, print high value coupons when you find them. Coupons reload on  the 1st of the month, and there are limits on how many you can print, usually 2 per computer. Coupons have an id number on them. DO NOT COPY them. The manufacturer will know who it is. There are a few different coupon sites, coupons.com, redplum.com, smartsource.com

3) Facebook- Become a fan, and a lot of places give you coupons. They are usually higher value than the ones that come in the paper or coupons.com. That's why I am fans of so many random places.

4) Manufacturer- Websites, calling, or emailing them can result in them sending coupons. Make an email address just for couponing, or you will regret it. Your inbox will be full of coupon newsletters. If there is a product that you love, that you can't find coupons for contact the manufacturer, coupons will usually apear. Tell them you love their product, coupons. Tell them you hate their product, coupons. They love to send coupons.

5) In-store- In stores you will sometimes find coupons in a little machine. When you pull one out, another one will come out. Then it will pause. It is waiting for you to walk away. Take one or two and leave some for the rest of us. Pick them up when you see them. You DO NOT have to use them now. Save them. Next week they might be on sale.

6) On Products- "Peelies" are on specific products. You peel them off and use them when you find them. ONLY peel them if you are buying that one product. They are there to get that one thing off the shelf. Others will know! Don't do it!

7) Coupon Clipping Services- My last place is a coupon clipping service. I only use this when I know that is a product that I need to stock up on. Some have minimum spending amounts, others do not. These places charge you for the time that they are taking to cut and send you the coupons, not the coupons themselves. I usually pay between 5 and 10 cents per coupon. Remember that those costs are part of the out of pocket expense for products.