Using Online Coupons to Save Money

Coupons are massive in America, everyone uses them – everyone wants a special little discount on the things they buy regularly. Some people even go as far as planning their daily activities and recreational events around what coupons they can find. So how come Australia doesn’t?

Although Australia is not as big into coupons as the US, we are slowly moving towards a similar model with multiple coupon sites going live.

These sites offer the user the chance to search for promotions and specials via their postcode, providing highly relevant and highly targeted coupons for local shops and major retail chains.

Online store coupons – What are the benefits?

I am not really a coupon kind of guy myself; the mere idea of searching for discounts before I go to dinner seems a tad on the cheap side. However, I am learning to put my pride aside for a moment and teaching myself to have a little look at what is available.

In fact, doing this has not only been an interesting learning curve, I have actually found some great bargains for places I visit all the time – no lifestyle change necessary!

Benefits of online coupons include;

• Plenty of places to eat, generous discounts
• Everyday retail chains we use are on these sites (Bing Lee, Harvey Norman, Blockbuster)
• The savings that can be made are substantial

How do you start looking for online coupons?

Pretty easy really, I found a number of websites that listed the dockets/coupons via searching for my local postcode.

The best coupon site I have found to date is Hot Dockets, the online leg of Shop-A-Docket – remember those dockets on the back of Coles and Woolies tickets? Yep that’s them.

The website lets you search via postcode and easily print the dockets off after you select the ones you want.

Online coupon ideas

After looking around, here are some of the good ideas I found for using these online coupons to save money on everyday things;

1. Ordering a pizza? Grab a discount.
2. Hiring a movie? Print a docket for BlockBuster.
3. Having dinner somewhere? Check for discounts. In my area I found buy 1 get 1 free deals for Indian, Thai, Chinese and more.
4. Bored? Go bowling. Lots of discounts available.
5. There are so many more options. Just have a search yourself.

Any other websites for coupons we should know about?

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