cou·pon

–noun
1. a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
2. a separate certificate, ticket, etc., for the same purpose.

I love coupons! I have saved probably thousands of dollars off of them. I highly recommend restaurant.com and groupon.com. If you sign up for groupon, sign up with me by clicking here.

When my boo and I went to Baltimore, we saved $75 at restaurants. You just buy a $25 or $50 gift certificate for a deeply discounted price. Sometimes 70-80% off from the typical price and as long as you follow the fine print, like spend over $35, excluding alcohol, at least 2 entrees...blah blah blah, then you get that much off! Sometimes they add the 18% tip before they give you the check and sometimes they don't add the tip and then I usually tip them 20% off the original bill anyway.

In Baltimore, we went to LP Steamers and had a dozen crabs and some crab dip. The bill was about $50, but we walked out of there only charging $25 on my card.

Another night we splurged and spent $100 not including taxes or tip on raw clams and oysters, Maine lobster, king crab legs, cocktail shrimp, crabcakes and bread pudding, but walked out of there just under $75 including a 20% tip and taxes.

For non-food coupons, Groupon has daily deals from haircuts to pedicures to exercise and cooking classes. The only catch is there has to be a minimum amount of people who sign up before the coupon is activated. Say the coupon for today requires 50 people to sign up. If by the end of the day, only 40 people sign up, then their credit card is not charged and they don't get the deal. But most groupons have hundreds if not over a thousand people signing up. It's crazy!

I also clip coupons from the Sunday paper and use it at grocery stores.

You would be surprise how much you save by just planning ahead and resisting the urge to impulse buy!