Subscribing to papers outside of the area

We have only two papers in our county that I am aware of. One is just a small paper from a township here, or a village lol as it's called. The other is the big paper. I am not sure what I'll do. I have to weigh the pros and cons of it, I guess I'd much rather know what coupons I am getting so perhaps spending like $5.00 a week and ordering them online is much better. I use couponcuttersco.com

Yes but I can also go to the website to find out local news. I am not sure, perhaps I will get the subscriptions. I have purchased from coupon cutters co several times and I really love it. I've also purchased from Coupons By dede but she makes you buy $3.00 worth of coupons. I don't believe Coupon Cutters Co. has an amount you have to buy.

I just looked at that website and it looks really cool. Seems like it might be small enough of a site to be able to know who your buying from and the story behind it. There is always a few coupons I want more of so I may have to buy from there time to time. I guess even if you're not totally sure on what coupons you will get, you can always keep up with the news by getting a couple subscriptions.

If we had what you have I would consider it. However, we do not have a decent double couponing store. The store here requires you to buy an additional $25 in groceries and you can only use 5 coupons. I would not save any money that way now if I could use as many as I would like and didn't have to buy the additional $25 then perhaps. Though a boss of mine claims they know someone who does that here but I don't know how as Walgreens and Target let you stack with a mfg and their own coupon but even then is it worth the effort to save on one or two things?

That is ridiculous! That's not allowing you to save at all! Now I could see perhaps if the $25 worth of items mandatory to get were say buy one get one free, so you are getting a lot more, but even so.. I'm sorry that's just robbery really.

Very true. We have strict couponing rules here but we also have double coupons and super double / triple weeks. If I'm going to stock up, I'm going to stock up following the coupon rules. Extreme Couponers ruin it for the rest of us. Now if you ever did want to get into couponing you could order the coupons online but like you said sometimes a deal at another store close by outweighs / makes more sense then buying a newspaper to clip a coupon.

True, true. I am really debating it. I am just not sure. Perhaps if I was to go crazy on it like some do, but I don't see myself doing that. It doesn't pay off for anyone in the end. Myself, other couponers. I may just keep buying them how I have been, I can see online what will be in the next sunday's paper. I can buy the coupons online and if it's just a great coupon week then I'll pick up a copy at the gas station near me.

I think they are about three months, and I do believe you can stop them at anytime unless they've changed that. The problem with this lot is though that it floods when it rains and they liked to throw our paper in it. We had to call and then they'd hand deliver it to the porch, but it took a few times. This was, years ago. I am still weighing pros and cons of everything.

I remembered earlier that Saturday is when the coupons for one of the counties comes out... I know that some papers for other counties are strewn in stands throughout different counties. Okay that made no sense to me, let me reiterate. Okay so outside my work there is three stands. One for the local (county) paper, one for the next over (it comes once a week and never any coupons) and one The Wall Street Journal. So there are two different county papers and one National paper in the stand near me. I wonder where the closest stand is for the other county paper I want is.

The sunday subscription for just MY paper is $1.00. I am not sure for the Davidson County paper and would have to call and ask them as the website doesn't give the option. In the USA, a lot of stores have special coupon weeks. The store I work at doubles coupons daily up 0.99. However we have weeks where it doubles up to $1.98. This week (wednesday) is one of those weeks. It is very much worth it when you consider that. Another example, at walmart a 4 pack ultra soft of Charmin is $3.36. I had a coupon a few weeks ago for 0.25 off. It doesn't seem like much, but considering that 4 rolls of that toilet paper can last me two weeks if not more, it goes a long way. At the store I work at four rolls of the same brand is just a few cents more, if I had used the coupon there it'd have doubled it to 0.50. If I had that same coupon this week at my store It'd double it all the way to 0.75. It is well worth it.

Oh gosh, that's not rambling at ALL! I appreciate all the information and I'm going to look into those sites to see if there's something I can do from Canada! Thank you I would really love to be able to know in advance what coupons I'd have for the coming week... would sure be a LOT easier to plan. I'm like you and only order coupons for the things I know I buy or might even conceivably buy. I'm not part of any coupon exchanges or anything (yet!) so I don't order coupons for cat products when I only have a dog or baby products when my daughters are grown. I sure wish we had double or triple coupon days though! I hear about those all the time in US and I'm envious. They just don't exist here. I think about how much more cost-effective I could be!! I used to cross-border shop for groceries, especially when my girls were babies and I could get baby food for SO much cheaper in the States. But now, with gas prices being what they are, and knowing that they'll only let me come across with so much in groceries on a same-day trip, it doesn't always make sense to go.

Amazon has groceries AND coupons now. I've not investigated so much into that yet but have considered it seeing as I can also get amazon gift cards. I do order a few things I won't likely use but my sister will as she is a very busy mom. I've looked on ebay and thought about ordering coupons. Perhaps when I know a coupon week is coming... How many groceries can you carry over? I imagine they examine closely each thing so I know putting it in re-useable bags to make it seem less would be out...

I'll be so anxious for Amazon.ca to catch up to Amazon.com! I love shopping Amazon and do a good majority of my Christmas shopping there. I think it's great to order coupons for other people when you see them. I've done that for my sister, too, for products that I know she buys that I don't. She gets coupons on her own but doesn't spend as much time at it as I do. As far as groceries go, if I only drive over the border for a few hours or the day, I have usually been able to bring back about $20 worth without them batting an eyelash. They just wave me through. If I were staying overnight or going for the weekend, I could bring much more.

That isn't so bad considering how far it ha to travel. So do you get it on Sunday or does it come a few days afterwards?