I was listening to a report yesterday on NPR about using coupons when grocery shopping (I can't seem to find the link). I personally am not a coupon clipper - actually, I do sometimes clip coupons but I always forget to take them with me to the store. I also find that many of the coupons I find are not brands I use, or products in which I'm interested. I found the latter to be true when I looked into one of the websites (www.coupons.com) recommended in the report.
I'm wondering about your experience with coupons? Is this something you suggest to people accessing food services? Do you think it would actually save our clients money if they clipped coupons regularly?
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- Community Action House
- Community Action House (CAH) has a 38 year history of working to end poverty in the Holland area by empowering families and individuals to reach self-sufficiency. The agency operates out of three locations providing emergency services (daily soup kitchen, food pantries, infant needs, personal products), housing services (homelessness prevention services, transitional housing), case management services, employment assistance (as a MI Works Access Point site), and education services (homebuyer education, general life skills). Community Action House also operates the THRIFT BOUTIQUE store located in the Macatawa Resource Center. Proceeds from the THRIFT BOUTIQUE support agency programming. Please visit our website for additional information: www.communityactionhouse.org
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- COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center on Hunger and Poverty
- Economic Policy Institute
- Food Bank Council of Michigan
- Food Research and Action Center
- Interagency Council on Homelessness
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- Institute on Assets and Social Policy
- Michigan Campaign to End Homelessness
- Michigan League for Human Services
- Michigan State Housing Development Authority
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- Ottawa Area Housing Coalition
- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
- Urban Institute
1 comments:
Personally, I love coupons. I use them every time I go shopping and usually save between $10 to $20 a week. It can take some time and, for me, it is worth it. But my method of shopping may be different than some. When I create my list I look at what essentials I need to have, put them on my list and then check out the ads. I shop only at two main stores so I look at their ads. If there is something that we use and it is on sale there is a good chance that I will have a coupon for it. When you put these two together you begin to get toothpaste for $.75, Shampoo for a dollar. I just bought 2 boxes of my hair color (don't tell anyone) that are usually $9 a piece for $6 for two of them - that's $3 a box, a pretty good deal. I shop to stock up on things, I don't meal plan and then go. That makes it easier to use coupns.
I am lucky, I have a good source of coupons. I have the internet and I have a free Access to the sunday paper coupons - relatives who get the paper. I also love the hunt for a good deal. It takes time to get organized to do this but you can save money.
Do I think coupons can help everyone? Yes but it takes work. Also, they are not usually available for store brands so one always needs to compare and opt for the cheaper of the two.
Keeping updated materials available for clients would be difficult but would be a help. If they shop at stores that don't have national brands then it would be a waste of time to maintain. I think that having information available for people about where they can go to get coupons would be a very good idea.
I checked out the coupon site and see a couple I want but again, I only use them to buy items already on sale.
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