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[cuddlesmama]

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

[panda1234]

@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. 

[PINKdogWOOD]

@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.

[CalminHeart]

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.

[Group 5 minus 1]

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

[ValuSkr]

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.

[ScrapHappy]

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@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

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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. 

[StylishLady]

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.

[kaydee50]

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.  

[Eileen in Virginia]

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.