Blog from the Library

Last Tuesday night, Riverview Branch Library was graced with a royal visit when Carrie, the Coupon Queen, presented a lively program on how to save big at major retail, grocery and drug stores. Carrie shared money-saving secrets like combining coupons, taking advantage of sales and discount card programs, locating coupons in unlikely places and using rain checks. She also covered specific store policies. Audience members were impressed with her real-life examples of getting products at a deep discount, free or the store owing her money at the end! Other tips included organizing and planning shopping to maximize savings, using websites to scout out deals and networking with other coupon clippers. Carrie closed the program with a sharing session in which audience members asked questions and dished on their own money-saving strategies. Everyone agreed that Carrie nobly earned her royal title of Coupon Queen, but if anyone doubts it, she has a $4 case of cereal bars and twenty free toothbrushes to prove it!