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Has Your Sunday Paper Gone Up In Price?

cuddlesmama — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:07:11 GMT

My paper has gone up in price from $2.00 to $5.00 within 2 weeks. I loved getting the coupons but won't pay $5.00 for a paper.Anyone know of an online site that has the Sunday coupons? Thanks

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panda1234 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:32:48 GMT

@cuddlesmama No, I don't know of anyother way to get coupons. Our paper is $3.00 and there is nothing in it, takes 15 mins to read.

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PINKdogWOOD — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:32:50 GMT

@cuddlesmama WOW - that's quite a jump increase for your newspaper. DH reads the printed word too 7 days a week - more the case these days, whenever it shows up. It's a c*ap shoot these days if we even get our newspaper some days. Through the week lots of times it seems nowadays DH has left for work before the paper even gets here!!!! Honestly I don't know how much he pays for the newspaper. A friend of our's calls us both delusional for even wanting to touch a newspaper, read it instead of walking around with a cell phone and/or IPad 24/7 and read the news online.

Holy cow, today's just showed up so he's walking out the door right now to pick it up.

The news is SO sad 24/7 365 it's not worth reading, hearing, watching, looking.

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CalminHeart — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:12:03 GMT

Our newspaper rates skyrocketed too. I quit taking the Sunday paper because I spend more on the paper than on coupons from it.

My elderly dad takes all 7 days and it went from $28 to $62 per week this summer. Crazy!

I know a lot of people don't take the paper editions anymore since the news is also online. They are probably trying to cover their costs. But I'm not willing to pay that much.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:30:15 GMT

We do not subscribe to either the daily or Sunday papers.

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ValuSkr — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:37:58 GMT

I buy the Sunday paper only for the coupons. Fortunately, one local paper is still $2.00; another is $3.00 and I won't pay that much - because there's unlikely to be $3.00 in coupons I'd use.

Do you subscribe to Sundays only, or pay the newsstand price? Sometimes, subscribing costs less than newsstand. Also, some Dollar Tree stores sell the Sunday paper for $1.00 regardless of the actual price - but they often sell out within minutes of opening on Sunday morning.

You can find a preview of Sunday's coupons by searching on "Sunday coupon preview." It's usually available by mid-week. Then you can decide whether or not to buy the paper. Also, the companies that publish coupon inserts (Smart Source, RetailMeNot, and P & G) have websites with printable coupons, some of which duplicate those in the Sunday inserts.

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ScrapHappy — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:40:21 GMT

@cuddlesmama wrote:
My paper has gone up in price from $2.00 to $5.00 within 2 weeks. I loved getting the coupons but won't pay $5.00 for a paper.Anyone know of an online site that has the Sunday coupons? Thanks

My paper costs $3.75 the last I looked. I stopped buying a while ago so it may be even more than that now. I liked getting the Sunday coupons too, but I was finding less and less coupons in the paper and the coupons that they had weren't things I'd buy. Coupons used to be so much better. Years back I used to search and search for coupon sites and try to find them on line. It took hours with little to show for it. Target had an APP that had coupons and they had an APP that you'd have to text to get when in the store to get a percentage off. For example: I was there yesterday and if you text Target you'd get the extra 10% off Legos.

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StylishLady — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:08:17 GMT

We get the newspaper daily. Cost has jumped, largely due to the cost of paper itself. We do not subscribe to any magazines or movie streaming etc.,. I enjoy doing daily word puzzles and DH loves the NY Times crosswords that are in our local paper. He likes reading the sports and news, I like the health, gardening, and home articles each week.

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kaydee50 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:21:53 GMT

I subscribe online to both the NY Times and Chicago Tribune. Costs about $30/month for both, although "specials" are frequently offered. Do not need to get the paper version-- just more stuff to recycle--and the Tribune is $3.00 for Sunday only.

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Eileen in Virginia — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:38:27 GMT

Have you tried calling their subscription desk and negotiating a lower rate? When we cancelled our Washington Post subscription, they begged us to resubscribe. My husband finally agreed to go with a Sunday-only subscription with online access to the daily issue for $1 a week. I do the crossword puzzle online, but can print it if I wanted to do it the old fashioned way. In talking to some of our neighbors, they got significant discounts (at least half off) when they called the subscription desk to cancel due to the ridiculously high rate hike. We have so many options for getting the news these days, it’s silly to put up with these crazy rate hikes for what’s the news equivalent of snail mail.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:56:44 GMT

I wouldn't know. We stopped getting the Sunday paper when it shrunk to the size of daily paper, that was 10 or 12 years ago. It was stuffed with adds and circulars but it wasn't the "Sunday" paper we'd known and loved in the past.

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Ruby Laine — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:12:55 GMT

We have our newspapers delivered. Our local, daily newspaper just had an increase of $3/month. Our nearby large city newspaper that we have delivered on Sunday went up $1 per week, which makes it almost $4. To buy this one at the newsstand would be $5.

We still get a paper because, as others have said, crosswords, local news, etc. More importantly, it provides a lot of jobs.

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evelyner — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:21:55 GMT

If you have a subscription, compare with your friends. I could not believe that I was paying so much more than them. We've received the LA Times for decades. I called to complain and our price fell by so much, I wish I had done it earlier.

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OKPrincess — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:26:20 GMT

We haven’t subscribed in years and don’t miss it. I’m not really sure how much it is now. So much info can be found on line now.

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Shanus — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 13:32:14 GMT

@cuddlesmama wrote:
My paper has gone up in price from $2.00 to $5.00 within 2 weeks. I loved getting the coupons but won't pay $5.00 for a paper.Anyone know of an online site that has the Sunday coupons? Thanks

@cuddlesmama Our local paper 7 days a week (not avail. any other way) went up to $600 a year. Crazy town!!! When we tried to renew and found that out, canceled.

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Misplaced Parisian — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:06:08 GMT

I'm old school....I love reading a newspaper. I subscribe to the Sunday only NYT. For me, I adore my Sunday paper, French press coffee ritual. Smiles.

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henderson — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:39 GMT

Our Dollar Tree stores sell our Sunday paper (Las Vegas Review-Journal) for $1.00.

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Dragonflyveb — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:21:43 GMT

I used to get the daily paper until their rates skyrocketed! They start out with an introductory rate, then after 6 months, it quadruples. If you want to cancel, you must call their Call Center. Only problem is, you wait on hold for 2-3 hours, then when you say cancel, you get disconnected! They don’t respond to their website either...it’s always 'down.'

Too much work for me. There weren’t that many coupons either. Some of the groceries have websites for coupons anyway. I also google a business for coupons.

botttom line for me—newspaper costs too much for something I end up recycling.

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Laura14 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:29:43 GMT

@cuddlesmama Check your grocery store's website.

One of my local ones (Kroger) does digital coupons where you click on what you want and then it adds it to your store shopper's card.

When you swipe your card at checkout, all the coupons automatically get applied. No paper necessary.

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Othereeeen — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:32:41 GMT

TImely posts...

I just cancelled my local paper when I realized I was spending 220.00 a year for a 6 day a week paper that is about 15 pages long on weekdays. NO Sunday edition. Coupons in Saturday paper are pretty useless to me because I do a lot of my shopping in ALDI who doesn't accept coupons.

12 of those pages are AP stories you can get free online, the rest, local want ads and such.

The "news"part is ever increasing second and third time DUI stops and sex abuse/assault stories. Police Blotter and Court Report is very popular here...rural nosy area I guess...

I don't want to read about that ******, or pay 55.00 a quarter to do so.

I live in a small town in Western PA with a population of about 10,000. I'm not from here and I don't know most of the people mentioned in the articles.

The ONLY useful information about the DUIs is now I realize a LOT of the people driving our local roads are DRUNK, at all times of the day.

I get the NY Times online and the Middletown (NY) Times-Herald Record online because I used to live in that market. At least they are 7 days a week, and the NY Times has lots of sections to read.......