The Internet is really good for finding discounts. All you have to do is search for a product or service and more often than not you will find a coupon or voucher for it to use online. What you don’t find as often are free printable coupons. These are coupons or vouchers that you can find online and printout to use in-store. You will usually find these type of offers in magazines or papers. It is still worth checking to see if there are any coupons for things like groceries before you head out to the shops though.

Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of sites offering free printable coupons so you have to do all the hard work yourself. This means searching out the individual coupons yourself rather than finding a nice long list that you can print off and take on your shopping trip. One of the few resources for printable vouchers can be found here on About.com where there is a reasonable list of mainly American coupons. Another American site is Valpak that has a searchable directory of coupons. In the UK it is forums that are the best place to find free printable coupons. There is a regularly updated thread on the Money Saving Expert forum that is a useful resource. One final site to look at is “My Savings“, it requires registration but has some good deals.

Apart from these few places the other way of finding printable coupons and vouchers is to trawl through the search engines. You will be surprised how often a search for a product name followed by “printable coupon” will result in finding something. Admittedly it isn’t as reliable as it is for online discounts but if it only takes a few seconds so it is worth a try. If you do manage to find any better resources then add a comment so we can all join in.