The Best Places Online to Find Free Printable Coupons

The popularity of saving money and using coupons has grown substantially over the past couple of years.Manufacturers and stores have noticed this trend and answered by making finding and printing coupons even easier than in the past.Coupons are everywhere.In the newspapers, magazines, online and sometimes right on the product they want to sell.Here we are going to talk a bit about finding free online printable coupons.

There are a few common, well known places to find free printable coupons.When you ask a couponer where they find their printables, most will mention sites such as RedPlum, Smartsource and Coupons.com.Some will tell you to check the manufacturer’s websites and they may also suggest a few couponing blogs or forums where people post deals and alerts.

Personally, one of my favorite sites for free online printables is Coupons.com.The reason I like the site is that there is always a larger number and wide range of coupons to choose from.You can easily change the zip code for your location on the page to see even more coupons to print because not every coupon is available in every area.They have just launched a membership that for $30 per year you can have access to higher value coupons but I haven’t participated in the program because it really is easy to find high value online printables for the products that you use elsewhere online. And you can get those coupons without paying a "membership fee" to get them.

I find those higher value coupons on the manufacturer’s websites.Manufacturers will load new coupons that are available for printing on their websites approximately every month or every two months.I keep a short list of the manufacturers that do this in my computer to check each site monthly.Betty Crocker, P&G and Kelloggs are just a few that have adapted this habit to help consumers save money when purchasing their products.

Not only are manufacturers releasing coupons online, retailers are getting into the coupon saving game too.Target is one of the leading national chains that release new online printable coupons on a monthly basis.These coupons can be combined with a manufacturer coupon for even more savings and couponers LOVE the ability to use two coupons on the same product to double the savings!They are hoping that if you come in for the stacked coupon on dog food that you will also pick up a few other items that you may not have coupons for.These extra coupons combined with a sale can possibly lead to an item being free or at least dirt cheap.

Online printable coupons are a great addition to the other types of coupons that you may have in your saving arsenal.They are more controlled in the number that you are able to get versus buying multiple newspapers to have multiple copies of inserts.There is usually a print limit on online printables.Having multiple computers in your home will allow you to print more. You are usually limited to printing each coupon twice on each computer.

A word of warning for those of you who try to think of a clever way to buck the system: NEVER make copies of online printable coupons!This is fraud and easily detected because each coupon is printed with a unique number printed right on the front of the coupon and retailers can easily see these numbers. Coupon fraud is a serious charge that you don't want to have to deal with. It's theft and it's wrong. There will always be another coupon and another sale to go with it so the risk involved in making copies of printable coupons and getting caught really just isn't worth it.