How much does it cost to print that coupon?
The coupon sites that I tried used an entire piece of paper to print each little coupon. With printer ink costing up to .10 per printed page and paper coming in around a penny per page, you’ve already spent a good chunk of some of those coupons by the time you are done printing them. If you simply must have the coupon, make sure you set your printer for the lowest quality print and don’t be afraid to print the coupons on the back of junk mail, scrap paper — anything you don’t mind ending up in the cashier’s till. How much does it cost to go to that store? Before you print that coupon, ask yourself if the item you printed the coupon for sold at your local grocery store. If it isn’t, you will have to make a special trip to another store in order to buy it. If you have to make an out-of-your-way trip then you need to consider the cost of gas as an expense that detracts from the saving’s offered by the coupon. It might only add an extra couple of pennies but when you add that to the cost o
