Getting Started: Buying & Trading Coupons

If you find yourself needing more coupons than what you have access to, there are a couple more options you have to expand your coupon stash. 

ecoupons.com is a great place to trade coupons and it only costs the price of two stamps.  How it works is really very easy.  You go to the website here and sign up, then you mail them 25 coupons that you aren't going to use along with a self addressed, stamped envelope.  Once they receive them, they will credit your account with one order credit.  You can then sign on and choose 25 coupons from their list.  I have used ecoupons.com for quite awhile and it works really well, when a great sale is coming up I can stock up on coupons of items that my family uses.  I try to have several credits on file so that if I see some really good coupons I can order what I need without having to wait for more credits to arrive in my account.  They are located in New Jersey so it does take a couple days for the coupons to arrive in the mail. 

Trading with friends is a great way to get more coupons that you need, and there are coupon swaps forming at a lot of local libraries. 

You can purchase coupons for pennies on the dollar at places like The Coupon Clippers, which is a clipping service.  There are several different services like these out there, but I am not familiar with any of them because I have never used them. 

Ebay is another place to buy coupons.  Sellers are varied and I have never used Ebay for a source for coupons either so I am not familiar with their pricing.