Coupon craze comeback

By: Michelle Carolla | SCNOW
Published: November 14, 2008

With so many of you wanting to save money while shopping, coupons are making a comeback. We met a woman who defines frugal. She is a life-long coupon clipper and a self-professed yard sale queen. She knows how to pinch a penny unlike anyone else.
Aimi Dalness, a Carolina Forest wife and mother of two, said she learned her frugalness from her mother and she is teaching her two young daughters how to live a frugal lifestyle.
If you think you're frugal, match this. Dalness only buys yard sale and goodwill clothes, shoes, furniture and everything else in her house. She collects coupons for everything, no exceptions. “I’ve always cut coupons and watched the grocery sale ads in the newspaper."
She also shops the clearance bins in the grocery store and discount stores to add to her savings. She likes to clip traditional coupons and collect the ones in the mail. But she spends a lot of time online, looking for deals. She likes craigslist for free items and yard sales listings. Amazon is how she price shops and ebay just has good deals, she said.
“You can sign-up, save five dollars in store or 10 percent online, a lot of stores have cheaper prices online,” Dalness said as her girls sat on her knee. She gives her email address online and gets 5 and 10 dollar coupons and all kinds of other things. "They sent me a coupon for free umbrella once so I took advantage of that."
Dalness said she tries to shop online before going to stores. “I'll go to Wal-mart's website, K-mart's website and try to find the cheapest price. For instance, toys, so that I don't have to do as much driving and it also saves time."
If you don't already clip coupons, you might want to take a look at them again. They’re everywhere. Just start looking for them in the paper, in the mail and in stores. But online, you can type in almost anything and find a coupon for it.
Start with products you normally use, go on that company's website and look for a coupon.
There are many e-coupon sites. Here are few. Each will lead you to other sites. You can do a general search for “coupons.”