I loved your post on how to get coupons for free. I know you said you haven’t paid for a newspaper subscription in ages, but I wanted to point out that a lot of newspapers in my area (and I’m sure other areas as well) are having problems keeping subscriptions, and they are offering delivered papers for much less than you would normally pay.
To save my own time running around getting free inserts, I have two different papers delivered to my home. One of them offered me a Wednesday/Sunday subscription for $26 per year, which I count as $0.50 per Sunday paper (the only one I care about). The other paper, which I prefer, gave me a subscription for $52 for a year.
I also get a lot of coupons for free from friends and my mother always gives me her inserts, but the convenience of having two newspapers delivered is a huge benefit to me and worth the $78 per year I spent on it! -Sarah
Do you pay for a newspaper subscription(s)? If so, how many newspaper subscriptions do you have and how much do you pay per subscription? Do you feel the cost/time-savings is worth it?
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Sundays are such a busy day for us with church, family gatherings, then church again. I wouldn’t be able to drive around, and run in and out looking for papers with 4 kids in tow. So, purchasing our Sunday paper is worth my money for my time
Most of the time, I don’t even pull it out of the paper box until Monday morning!
I get the Sunday paper delivered for 50 cents a week. I renew my subscription every six months at the same rate. Because I have two small children it is worth paying to have it delivered. I don’t have to get the kids ready to go out and get one. With the paper being that inexpensive I know I will save far more with the coupons than what I paid for the paper.
I don’t subscribe to the paper in Chattanooga. But my sister gets the 20 dollar deal where you get 5 Sunday papers and all the weekday papers.
I work on the weekends for a transportation company and one of the managers lives down near Atlanta so he picks up 2 copies of the Atlanta paper which is a great insert newspaper. I give one copy to my sister and
she gives me 2 of her Chattanooga Times Free Press. Plus all the extra inserts/coupons she doesn’t want from the other 3. My mother also gives me extra coupons. And I get the East Hamilton community delivered for free on Wed. It has another copy of the Red plum insert and the Bi-lo and Publix ads:) If I want the mystery item I get the paper from Walgreen s on Wed for 35 cents:)
The second thing is a bunch of us ladies at work coupon and the great thing is we need different stuff. I don’t have kids so I save all my baby coupons for a lady I work with that has a new grand baby. We have a couple tubs that we put all our extra in and when people have 15 minute breaks to spare they go downstairs with them and check them out. This keeps coupons from going to waste so its great:)
Wow, jealous of all the deals everyone seems to be getting on papers! There aren’t any deals on our papers! I actually cancelled our delivery and just pick it up at a some store on Sunday. We were paying $1.00 per paper for delivery, that’s not the subscription price, just a delivery charge.
I don’t support liberal media sources and most but not all newspapers are just too liberal for my taste. I have found purchasing my Q’s from a clipping service is much more cost effective. I get the Q’s I want in the quantity I want for much less than what it appears you’re paying for a subscription. You can even get a Q subscription at My Coupon Hunter making acquisition even cheaper.
ask for a subscription as a christmas gift!
As the wife of a man employed by a newspaper I have to remind you that although it is great to get things for cheap, when you don’t subscribe or buy the paper you are hurting the entire newspaper business. Why do companies pay to have coupons in a paper? Because they look at the number of papers purchased and know the coupons are being seen. When you just use coupons given to you by other people and don’t buy a paper the newspaper receives no money. In an industry that is already on the decline, if you continue to not buy the paper, soon there will be no paper around to cut coupons from.
I get my local paper delivered on Sundays only for a little over $15 and change per year. I have 4 subscriptions, so that is less than $64 annually for 4 papers delivered to my house every Sunday. That’s less than $1.25 per week for 4 papers.
Yes! I have a daily subscription to The Dallas Morning News. I love it and seriously have morning withdrawal when we’re out of town. Thankfully, I can now access the full paper online through my subscription, so that should never be a problem again.
I pay $28/month for my subscription.
Personally, I don’t understand why frugality folks typically only see newspapers as valuable on Sundays because of the coupons. I find deals in the paper frequently throughout the week, whether it’s coupons or just finding out about interesting events around the Dallas area. I can often get discounts on events because of my subscription.
Besides, I love the daily comics, and I prefer the news in print form. Internet news sites are often rife with errors due to their rush in getting out the news. And I really dislike watching the news on television. Too sensationalistic.
I pay $8 every month for 1 issue per week of the Sunday paper. I have it delivered for the convenience and also because the delivered Sunday paper is the only way to get the weekly TV listings. If it’s a particularily great week for coupons I sometimes get additional papers at the dollar store for $1.
My local newspaper smells. They took out all the interesting things and don’t give ANY discount on subscriptions. In fact, if you only want the Sunday paper delivered, they don’t have that option. They force you to pay for Wednesday delivery along with Sunday. The final straw for me was when they removed the nightly TV grid because they wanted to use the space for a grain report. I cancelled my subscription happily. When they phoned to ask why, I told them my exact reasons. Boring paper costs too much and keeps removing sections I like. Good riddance!
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