a coupon tip

[crackercrumb]

I'm guessing many of us here clip & collect coupons, being frugal & all. Not sure if you do what I do, but whenever I see instore coupons, that I can see being worth taking, I take a lot, and save them. IE: If it's an item that I have seen or will most likely go on sale in the future.

MOST RECENT STORY:

Last week I was walking down an aisle in Shoppers, noticed $3 off Air Wick Scented Oil Started Kits. The price at walmart was just over $5 (ever since I cashed in my 10 $10 off razor coupons, I always check at Wal-Mart first), so I kept them for a better opportunity. They are now on sale for $3.99 at Shoppers with 10x the Optimum poins.

So I had taken 20 of the coupons.

I got 20 Air Wick Starter Kits for 99 cents each, but got 10x the points on $3.99.

If you know what I mean.

I have about 15 coupons I took from Wal-Mart for Lean Cuisine meals, Buy 2 Get $1.50 off & they sometimes go on sale for 99 cents at the groccery store by my house.

[turtle22]

great tip thanks!!

[roswell]

not sure i get it can you use more than one coupon at a time??

[mrmick]

the stores near me keep the coupons at the teller now. you cant have more than one coupon per person.
i have seen people get in trouble for taking the whole pad of coupons.

[crackercrumb]

Originally Posted by roswello not sure i get it can you use more than one coupon at a time??

Sure, why not? If the cashier says, "only one per customer", then you tell them to ring them in individually. I've never had a problem.

[crackercrumb]

Originally Posted by mrmick the stores near me keep the coupons at the teller now. you cant have more than one coupon per person. i have seen people get in trouble for taking the whole pad of coupons.

lol, where do you live?
i could never see them doing that where in toronto.

[cheetah]

I do exactly the same thing crackercrumb. I alway wait for the item to be on sale and then use my coupon, it is way better savings. I also usually use self check outs because you ring through all your items and then just hand the clerk your coupons. They usually don't even look at them just take the $ amount off. I have even got 1.50 off an item that was only $.99 to begin with. If they say only one coupon per customer at the cashier I just tell them to ring each one in separately-"Just do what, you have to do to make it happen" is what I tell them. Most can't be bothered and just ring it all through together.

[roswell]

cool hadn't thought of that another thing for the pin in the bottle contests i go to the bottle depot and in the cap buckets they have out you just grab handfulls i have tons of icokes that way or you get free pop in some under the lid they i tkae that and and ask if i can get the kind i want instead they usually say yes the kind i want being the contest ones or the gingerale bottles just pay the person what they would get for deposit they don't seem to mind not that they don't look at you funny and the boxes with the pins are in the bins okay does this make me weird i prefer thrifty and resourceful :laughmonkey: