Top 10 Places to Find Coupons to Fill Your Binder

1. Online Coupon  sites:

Sign up for Coupons at the following websites. Each one will mail you the coupons you select.  Lets start with the most common sites that will mail coupons to your mailing address. : Websaver.ca  , Save.ca , GoCoupons  Brandsaver.ca , Right at Home ( websaver portal but must be signed up) Lifemadedelicious ( Another Portal of Websaver, but must be signed up for as well)

There are some Good Printable Coupon Sites as well:

Smartsource: Brand new and seems to update quickly.  Each coupon has a different expiry date.

Livingwell:  Printable Coupons, and at least once a month gives 10,000 samples out of different products.

NOTE: Printable Coupons are not always accepted at all stores. Generally Wal-Mart accepts them, and Shoppers Drug Mart will take them no questions asked. 

Hint: Websaver you must choose a minimum of 3 coupons. So do not choose all of them the first time, as Murphy’s Law there will be a new coupon next week, and you won’t have access to find another 2 coupons to order with it.  But also see Top#2 for more information.

2. Website Portals

Some companies have teamed up with Websaver.ca, and Save.ca but have their own entry page separate from their main pages, so the companies themselves can manage their coupon offerings.  This is where some of the better coupons can be found, and sometimes they are the quickest to come and go.  But where do you find them? Good Question. I have a list of Websaver.ca Portals. Remember on point 1 I said you need to order a minimum of 3 coupons, Well now you’rer going to find out why its important to leave a few coupons behind.  Many of these portals only have one coupon. ||You’ll get lucky sometimes and they will have 5 , but is not always the case.  So when you go portal hunting – simply log into websaver.ca first, and then begin your hunt for portals, as long as you’re logged into websaver.ca  you can portal hop and add to your shopping cart. In no time you will have the minimum 3 coupons that is required for an order.

Another way to find Websaver  Portals is to use google by typing into google the following: site:www.websaver.ca/en_ca/portal/. You may get lucky and find one that is new this way.

The same can be done for Save.ca.  Type in site:www.save.ca to find all the portals . One great thing with Save.ca is that there is no minimum. You can order just 1 coupon.  Click here for the list of save.ca portals we have.

3. Tear Pads:

Where to find Tear Pads coupons: in your local grocery store aisles, or even drug stores, usually whereever products are sold.  I live in a small town so tear pads are rare for me.  Once a month I make sure I tear pad hunt. I walk up and down each aisle of the stores, and manage to get lucky for a few. Also if you’re visiting another town, and need to run into a store for something, take a few minutes and take a look around , you may find a good one.  When tear pad shopping, DO NOT take the whole pad, simply take one or a few of them.  But please enough for others to enjoy.

3. Newspaper Inserts or Store Flyers:

Every month or so, Smartsource and Redplum put coupon inserts into city papers across Canada.  But when do they come out? And what papers? Well Click Here to see when the next one is out.  I suggest buying more than one newspaper when starting to fill your binder, or ask your friends and neighbors for theirs.  This will get you doubles or triples of coupons, and you can start to make a good “Haul”.

4. Email Lists:

Go through your cupboards and see what products you use, and begin signing up to companies’ email lists so when they have a new coupon out, sometimes they will email you an alert, or sometimes they will do a printable coupon.  I do have a printable coupon list for 2013.  I suggest when you do find a good printable coupon print it right away, as a lot of the time, especially this year, they’ve pulled the coupon due to couponers taking advantage and loss of profits.  Don’t think “I’ll do it later”, as later may not be available.

5. Phone brands:

Call your favourite companies, and tell them what you love about their products etc., and then politely ask if they have coupons they could send you, or, if a product failed for you, let them know. Talk to the companies about their new products,etc.. Remember don’t call and simply ask for coupons, chances are that answer will be an easy no.

BTW did you know you can call Johnson & Johnson monthly and placed on their mailing list? Call 1-866-565-2229 and they will send coupons once a month.

6. Shop ebay:

Yes you can buy coupon’s on ebay. But why pay for something you can get for free? I agree, but when starting out in the couponing world, you may not have enough coupons to get yourself started. Also if you can not for the life of you find Tear pads in the store, this is another way to accumulate them.  Or if you want more smartsource coupons, etc.. You’re not really buying the coupons, but you are purchasing the pickers time to cut and mail and them out.  Also you can try Kijiji in your area.  I took a look at a city in my province, and found several people either selling or trading them.  So worth the look to see.

8. Trading Coupons:

Trade coupons with others.  Find a group of people to trade amongst, or put your own ad on Kijiji, or on a forum similar to ours at CFS.  Simply create a list of the coupons you’re willing to trade, and what you would like in return.   Perhaps you don’t have a baby, but have lots of diaper coupons from your smart source insert, well trade them for some more glad refills etc..  If you can find a couponer, you can find a trader.   Check Facebook, – most communities have their own buy sell and trade group, simply ask if there’s a group in your community that gets together to trade coupons. You may be surprised. And its fun! If you can hook up with others, you’re bound to learn a thing or two.  You can learn the ins and outs of your local stores, which ones take printable coupons, etc..

10. Products Themselves :

That’s correct, some products have coupons included on the inside, like cereal boxes. I’ve seen POGO corn dogs and Jane Chicken,  with coupons on the inside for other products. Recently, Wal-Mart was selling Maple Leaf Chicken Portions that had $15 worth of coupons inside.  Keep your eyes peeled, as sometimes it is not advertised that there’s a free coupon, it may just be on the corner that there are coupons.