How many newspapers should I buy?

Many people never think to buy more than one Sunday newspaper every week, but buying more can mean the difference between minor and extreme savings.  A good standard is to buy one paper for every member of your household.  I have 4 people in my household but I buy 6 papers most weeks.  In Terre Haute, we get our local paper as well as the Indianapolis and Chicago paper.  The Chicago paper rarely carries coupons inside to my dismay.  I would buy all Indianapolis papers but the Indianapolis paper does not carry the Red Plum insert.  The Indianapolis paper DOES carry a bigger variety of coupons in their SmartSource insert.  I want those extra coupons that we don't get in our Terre Haute Smartsource insert.  Our Terre Haute paper DOES carry the RedPlum insert though so I buy a mixture of both to get the RedPlum coupons as well as a large selection of the coupons Smartsource has to offer. 

I buy 3 Indianapolis Sunday Stars and 3 Terre Haute Sunday Tribune-Stars most weeks

If there is a large number of really great coupons that I want to get my hands on, I buy more.  This past Sunday we had a Smartsource, Redplum, AND a General Mills insert.  I bought 8 newspapers. 

This may seem counterproductive to SAVING money but those savings will come back to you, I promise. 

Say you REALLY love Tide and there is a $2.00 off 1 Tide product in the paper.  You would like more of just that one coupon but don't want to spend the $1.75 per paper to get that coupon.  Consider a clipping service.  They clip the coupons and you buy them at a small handling fee that covers their time to clip them.

I use CouponDede but TheCouponClippers is another popular clipping service.

What do you DO with all these coupons?  Well, you get a coupon binder of course.  Stay tuned for an informative and entertaining film on organizing your coupons.  Your coupon binder will become one of your children (in some cases, maybe your favorite child...your family dynamic is really none of my business).