• Save money by using coupons for food you plan to buy.
• Find coupons in Sunday newspapers, weekly newspaper ads,  magazines, in the store, and on packages.
• Use coupons for foods that are on your shopping list.
• Compare prices because another brand may be cheaper than the one you have a coupon for.
• Check coupons for expiration dates, sizes, and amounts you can buy.
• Organize coupons to save time and money.
• Don't spend money just because you have a coupon!

Prepared by Evelyn Prasse, Extension Educator, Consumer & Family Economics

Fact Sheet  3
1997

Consumer and Family Economics
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois Extension
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign