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Originally Posted by GingerClip Since the inserts are all manufacturers' coupons, you can still use coupons from another part of the country in your own city, right? For example, if I travel to see my sister for the weekend, I can clip coupons in her state and then use them when I return home?

Yes, you can use manufacturer's coupons anywhere, provided they don't have state restrictions listed on them. I've only seen that on some winetags, though, never on insert coupons.

This is what makes trading so helpful. You can trade "hot" coupons that you can't use for other, better coupons that you can use. I always try to get multiple inserts when there are pet food frees, for instance, even though I don't have a pet, because I can get good trades for them.

This is also why Taylortown and other posts that list local insert coupons are helpful. You can figure out from them what desirable coupons other areas got that you didn't get and arrange to trade for them. I always go through Taylortown on Sunday, after I've gone through my inserts, to see if there are any coupons I want that I didn't get in my inserts. Then I add them to my wish list.

My area doesn't get the best insert coupons, but we don't get the worst, either. We generally don't get the $1/1 Bounty or Charmin, or the $1/1 Cottonelle; instead, we get lower values for those coupons. We usually don't get the free Electrasols, but last time we got the $2.25/1s. We usually do get the pet food frees, though last time we didn't. We NEVER get Kraft cheese coupons for some reason. The one time we got a desirable coupon that others didn't get was when we got the B1G1 Ziploc bags a couple of months ago. Now I'm kicking myself that I didn't get more inserts that week, because nobody else seems to have gotten this coupon that I can trade with; it seems like everybody else got $1/2.

I did a big free + overage deal on Huggies wipes last month using entirely traded coupons, since we never get Huggies wipes coupons, either.