Tracked Today's Coupons Via Individual Newspapers

• First tip - Do NOT buy your papers at a grocery store. I've been doing this for months and only recently noticed they mark up the prices $1 for each paper! Buy from a gas station. The prices will not be marked up much, if at all. Wherever you buy from, you will pay sales tax, so the best place to buy is from a newspaper dispenser. You pay the lowest price and no sales tax. I've only seen Times News & Washington Post dispensers. If you've seen any others please let me know!

• Second tip - ALWAYS check the newspaper for coupons before you purchase them. There are no inserts on holidays, and one time the paper was missing all the coupons even though it stated "Save $500 in coupons" on the front page.

• Third tip - Do not buy the Sunday paper from our local area unless you're going to read it. Our local paper is always missing at least 1 coupon insert (apparently Smart Source) and when it does have coupons, they're never as good as the out of town papers. 

So today I bought 1 of each newspaper from a gas station, and I plan to buy more tonight from the dispensers.  Here's what I found:

Cumberland Times News - Priced @ $1.50, paid $1.50 + tax, had a very small Red Plum insert that did NOT have the Suave coupons for the Martins gas deal.  (Side note: Martins used to automatically double your $1 coupons during their doubler promotion but last time they didn't double unless you actually scanned the doubler coupon from their sale paper, so if you plan to use this promotion then buy a C.T.N. paper for 4 doubler coupons)

Baltimore Sun - Priced @ $2.25, paid $2.25 + tax, had a Red Plum and a Smart Source insert.

Washington Post - Priced @ $2, paid $2 + tax, had the same Red Plum and Smart Source as the Baltimore Sun, but $.25 cheaper.

Pittsburgh Post Gazette Sunday - Priced at $1.75, paid $2.25 + tax, only had the Smart Source insert.

The Washington Post is the best value for coupons this week. I'm going to keep track of these stats over the next few weeks to determine if this remains true.  Have a great week everyone =)