Welcome to The Shopping Wizard Shopping Made Easy! Featuring America's Best Grocery Prices

Getting Started - Step by Step Introduction By Gene Parrish       Store Policies   Store Policies Step One How to Set up Your Account with Ads & Bargains Step Two The Ads & Bargains Binder - The Key to Staying Organized and Saving Time Step Three Subscribe to at least TWO subscriptions to your Sunday Paper Step Four Indexing Your Coupons - Never Clip a Coupon Before Its Time Step Five Preparing Your Shopping List Step Six Printing Your Price Matching Labels Step Seven Clipping Coupons - Now's the Time Step Eight Shop - Tips and Helps to Make Shopping Easier Step Nine Price Matching Step Seven Clipping Coupons - Now's the Time Coupons do not need to be clipped before you are ready to go shopping. Clipping them to soon makes them difficult to track and locate. In the very right hand column is the location code of the coupons. For each item you have highlighted and that has a coupon you will now be able to easily locate the coupon by using the code to locate the coupon in your library. Note:This is a great activity to assign to one of your children who would like to earn a few extra dollars and learn the thriftiness principles involved.  The codes are quite easy. They are made up in the following manner. V9/16-4 UT V is for Valassis      9/16 is for September 16     4 is for page 4     UT is for the Utah papers outside of Salt Lake (Every Market Area will have one or more Newspaper Groups that are selected when you set up your preferences.) You simply would now go to the folder labeled 9/16 (September 16) pull out the Valassis insert, turn to page 4 and clip the coupon. Have you ever clipped your coupons and forgot to use them at the store? Here is how you avoid such a costly mistake. Place the coupons you have just clipped in the Trading Card Sheet in the first folder. This allows you to easily see the coupons you have clipped and avoid leaving the store without redeeming your coupons. When you are ready to go shopping take the Trading Card sheets with you. As you shop take the coupons out of their pocket and place all of the coupons to be redeemed in the upper right pocket of the first sheet. You may want to put the sheets in a school folder that has some clips to hold the sheets together.

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