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Spread the love and share your coupons

Posted Aug 14 2008, 12:01 PM by Karen Datko
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If you notice someone lingering in store aisles to see if people put certain items into their carts, it could be "Steward," the blogger at My Family's Money. Steward wants to hand you a coupon.

He has lots that he isn't going to use, so why not share? Isn't this a lovely idea? He explains it in a post called "A frugal shopping tip that leaves everyone smiling." We hope this catches on.

He got the idea from Kimberly at My Good Cents, who advised people to take their extra coupons to the store and place them next to the appropriate items. Steward, an analytical person, pondered whether that was the best way to share the discounts. Taking a utilitarian point of view, he weighed the pluses and minuses of simply leaving coupons for shoppers to pick up (coupons go unused, fall on the floor and leave a mess for employees to clean up) versus the pleasure he and the recipients would get if he handed them over face to face. Face to face won.

In case you're wondering about all of the places to find coupons, read Briana's post at Bargain Briana. She lists 11 possible sources.

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I subcribed for the Sporting New Arrival newsletter from opentip.com. Then they sent me a page with coupon, for 5% off discount. The following is the page.

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As they said,  the coupon code can be used for not only the Sporting New Arrial on the page but any other orders.

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ester2007 (Posted 02.05.09 10:53 PM ) Report Abuse

I subcribed for the Sporting New Arrival newsletter from opentip.com. Then they sent me a page with coupon, for 5% off discount. The following is the page.

[topic.opentip.com/opentip_sporting.html]

As they said,  the coupon code can be used for not only the Sporting New Arrial on the page but any other orders.

Otherwise, I always subscribe newsletter from some coupon code websites, such as Coupon Shack couponshack.com. From this, I can get the newest coupon codes. For most of the stores use coupon to promote their sells, it is not smart to shop without coupons. I don't know the situation of our customers is good or not. But I think it is smarter to know more about the stores'strategies and save more, especailly in today's economic crisis.

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