Got mine today.......
The only good coupons are .75 off Dawn Hand renewal and .50 off dawn.

8/24/2011 8:20:14 PM

HT has loaded all new P&G evic coupons

8/30/2011 2:06:42 PM

If I have a coupon for $ off a razor, then one for buy a razor and get shaving cream free, could I combine those? I'm guessing no but they are kind of for different items so maybe? At Lowes Foods.

8/30/2011 3:34:04 PM

You can because the money off coupon is for the razor and the buy razor get cream coupon is coded to be for the shaving cream



[Edited on August 30, 2011 at 3:47 PM. Reason : ]

8/30/2011 3:46:29 PM

What is Lowes Foods' coupon policy? Do they double? I know HT and Kroger's since thats where I mainly go, but haven't been to Lowes yet

8/30/2011 5:25:30 PM

^ Double up to 99 cents just like HT.

Another random question: Aren't coupons for alcohol illegal in North Carolina? I know rebates are allowed, and I think maybe also coupons to save on something else with the purchase of an alcoholic beverage, but coupons like $1 off a bottle of wine I thought were prohibited. Am I wrong? Because Lowes has them in its circular this week.

8/31/2011 3:16:05 PM

^ yes and no. Click link below, go to page 37 and look at section 04 NCAC 02S .1006 GENERAL PROHIBITIONS

http://reports.abc.nc.gov/uploads/resources/51ef6991e91f436796b59db6f79e9561.pdf

The general rule is that coupons for alcohol are not allowed, but there are some exceptions that do allow them.

8/31/2011 3:31:02 PM

Interesting. So basically individual stores can offer them as long as the discount isn't too much. I wonder why more places don't.

8/31/2011 3:35:47 PM

probably because people are going to buy it anyway

8/31/2011 3:52:04 PM

And/or they can only discount to 25 percent off, so might as well just put it on sale so they don't have to deal with the coupons. Just seems like it would be a good way to get into the heads of coupon clippers.

8/31/2011 3:55:52 PM

Awesome trip to HT tonight

Great deals w/ the newly added P&G e-vic coupons

Here is what I got:

Febreze Candle $4.99-- $2/1 mq and $2/1 e-vic q
Febreze Set and Refresh $2.49-- $1/1 mq and $1/1 e-vic q
Febreze Noticeables Warmer $3.49-- $3/1 mq and $3/1 e-vic q overage
Gain Dish Detergent $.99-- $.50/1 mq
Dawn Dish Detergent $1.69. $.50/1 mq and $.50/1 e-vic q
Oral B Pulsar $4.01 (clearanced)-- $3/1 mq and $3/1 e-vic q----mega overage b/c it also takes off the $.75/1 pulsar manual e-vic q AND the $1/1 Pulsar Just For Me e-vic q
Greenworks Surface Spray $1.85 (clearanced)-- $.50/1 mq
2 Triscuit Thin Crisps Chili Pepper BOGO free. BOGO e-vic q. $.75/2 mq overage
Oreo Triple Double Cookies. $2.99. BOGO free e-vic. $.75/2 mq
Iams Cat food $9.99. $8/1 mq and $1/1 e-vic q
2 Kit Kat bars (filler items)

BC: $18.23
AC: $.35 (includes tax)

9/1/2011 8:04:30 PM

I am killing the mega event at Kroger...

The warmers are 1.30 overage and the toothpaste (with the $2 off any Crest Pro Health) is .54 overage. (The small tubes & For Me are 2.46-$1 event savings). I got the free body wash that ended yesterday also with last month's P&G coupon.

I have so many of both coupons. I love getting free whatever I want. The best part is the Crest Toothpaste coupons are from awhile ago and do not state 4/transaction. So I keep it around $8 in overage and get produce, cheese, and meat

^Thanks for putting those out.

[Edited on September 1, 2011 at 8:12 PM. Reason : ]

9/1/2011 8:12:29 PM

Anybody used couponsuzy.com?

I assume that since they want you to download a fucking program ust to print their coupons, it will be full of malware?

9/3/2011 12:23:44 PM

Where can I find a key to all the coupon acronyms? I have never couponed before and this thread seems like useful information if I could actually interpret it. All I know is BOGO BC and AC.

9/3/2011 2:27:15 PM

Coupons Sources:
SS= Smartsource
RP= Red Plum
P&G= Procter and Gamble

All inserts found some/most Sundays in N&O (news and observer)

E-vic coupons= HT (Harris Teeter) loadable coupons for your Vic card
"on E-vic" Special on the bottom of your receipt

Must have signed up and linked the VIc card to your e-mail.

Stores:
HT
FL food lion
RA Rite Aid
Wags Walgreens

Other:
SD= super doubles (HT double to 1.98)
Triples= Tripling up to .99 at HT
mega- event where Kroger has X amount off if you buy Y products (The current one is buy 4 P&G save 4 dollars)

Coupons are described as amount/how much coupon- $1/2....

There are several families of products and stores have sales around them....P&G (Proctor and Gamble), SC Johnson, Unilever, etc. So you will see people talking about a this or that sale.

[Edited on September 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM. Reason : ]

9/3/2011 4:13:02 PM

Great posst, thanks. What is mq?

9/3/2011 6:19:59 PM

manufacturers coupons....unlike a store coupon

You can usually stack both a manufacturer and a store coupon depending where you shop.

9/3/2011 11:43:19 PM

Rumors of Triples at HT starting 9/14

9/6/2011 9:18:32 PM

^Been confirmed on tons of websites I frequent. I can't believe I am going to say this.....I wish it was Super Doubles. I went through most my inserts and the coupons of the things that caught my eye were $1 or more

Hope they leak the ad soon so I can trade for some coupons.......

Anyways on a side note, I keep finding free egg catelina in the food lion parking lot. I have found 5 dozen free eggs and free FL orange juice

9/6/2011 10:31:55 PM

According to the centsible saver blog on the N&O there's 4 inserts in this week's paper too. Will be nice to stock up for HT Triples later in the week.

9/9/2011 5:47:01 PM

Quote :

"Anyways on a side note, I keep finding free egg catelina in the food lion parking lot. I have found 5 dozen free eggs and free FL orange juice "

Speaking of catelinas, does anyone actually get anything good for them? Every time I get one its like 20% off payless shoes or Allstate or something like that. Never anything for food at the store

9/9/2011 9:00:43 PM

^At Harris Teeter I got tons of free yogurt, Cliff bars, Cottennelle etc.

It tracks your spending habits and targets you. If you fill all the information out for all your cards (HT,FL,LF,CVS), you have an account somewhere that figures out your spending habits. The ones you are getting every one gets. I only get good stuff every 1-2 weeks.


I get I get a lot of baby stuff. I have received promo codes for Pampers as well as coupons for diapers, wipes, and products. If I see one in the parking lot when I get back to my car I will pick it up. That is how I am finding the free eggs. Also, FL has $/total order coupons printing on their catelinas and I save them for Harris Teeter.

[Edited on September 9, 2011 at 9:31 PM. Reason : ]

9/9/2011 9:30:48 PM

This lady has a pretty sweet list of deals and freebies for the teeter triples event later this week.
http://www.wral.com/5onyourside/smartshopper/blogpost/10116446/

All I ask is that my fellow NCSU classmates please don't completely raid the Cameron Village store. Please leave some for the rest of us.

9/12/2011 11:06:53 PM

^I used to go to the other one on Oberlin (at Gleenwood)....it used to be pretty unscathed.

9/13/2011 1:44:29 AM

Quote :

"All I ask is that my fellow NCSU classmates please don't completely raid the Cameron Village store. Please leave some for the rest of us."

That is usually the worst stocked HT in town. It is also the busiest HT in town. I agree about the HT on Glenwood and Oberlin. They are good about being stocked.

Also the HT on Creedmoor in Stonehenge Market is also stocked

9/13/2011 8:34:10 AM

Triples do officially start tomorrow.

9/13/2011 11:56:48 PM

wow I just went got together all my coupons....

I am so glad I started trading online. I have so many non inserts that no one else will have! I will have deals all week

Good luck tomorrow TWW couponers.

9/14/2011 12:18:46 AM

How do you do this? I need to gather coupons!!

9/14/2011 12:26:05 AM

^I go on afullcup.com. I go on trains...so basically I build a wishlist of product that I want coupons for and then I find a train thread. I claim an envelope from the person above me and then offer an envelope. The next person then takes my envelope. There are rules posted in the first thread about how many coupons you have to send, etc. So when I send the envelope out I look at that person's wishlist and put coupons that I have into it. It is a good way to get coupons we do not get in the paper. By doing this, I am trading coupons I would never use for stuff I want..I also get wine tags, rebates, etc. Most people put in 1-2 HOT coupons. People will print out coupons if you put them on the wishlist. I have 6-10 copies of printable for HT from trading.

With everyone having different stores (Bilo, publix, wegmanns, Hebs, etc) everyone is looking for different coupons.

Back to school for education is like cash right now. I traded 400 for 60 bowls of toddler food (retail at 70) I do stockpile trades. Someone posts a list of what they are looking for and what they have (including money) and I build flat rate boxes.

My husband is a district manager and he gets me tearpads from distributors. I have 3 hot tearpads right now that I could sell if I wanted, but I trade for what I want.....I have made around $400 in mail in rebates of meat, cheese, produce, etc. ( I have the .55/1 vitamin water, .50/1 any Hershey milk, and 1/2 wonka (free candy at CVS this week))

Also, you can buy coupons from people there. I haven't but they seem to be reasonable prices. The rebates run 10% value + postage. Coupons between .03-.50/coupon depending on what it is.

[Edited on September 14, 2011 at 4:07 AM. Reason : ]

9/14/2011 4:05:04 AM

First HT Triples trip

2 Tetley Iced Tea Boxes BOGO free. $2.39 for 2. 2 $.50/1 IP.
2 Mahatma Rice Bags $1.55 each. Used 2 $.50/1 coupon. $.05/bag
2 Iams 4lb Cat Food Bags $8.99. Used 2 $8/1 coupons (found on Ebay). $.99/bag
2 Morton SeasonAll Salt $1.29 each. Used 2 $.55/1 coupon
2 Muellers Whole Grain Pasta $1.25 each. Used 2 $.55/1 coupon
1 Kikkoman Soy Sauce $1.59. Used $.55/1 coupon
2 French's Worchestire. $1.99 each. Used 2 $.75/1 coupon
1 Mariani Banana Chips $1.99. Used $.75/1 coupon. HT at Stonehenge Market, I got the last bag this morning
2 Softsoap Hand Soaps. $2.00 each. Used 2 $.70/1 IP.
1 Barilla Pasta Sauce. BOGO free. $1.44 for 1. Used $.55/1 coupon
2 Kashi Frozen Entrees. BOGO free. $4.35 for 2. Used 2 $.75/1 coupon
1 Egglands Best Dozen Eggs. $2.50. Used $.50/1 coupon (found in magazine)
2 Bob Evans Sausage Patties $2.50 each. Used 2 $.75/1 coupon

BC: $53.40
AC: $5.19 (incl. tax)

9/14/2011 9:07:41 AM

^ they had soy sauce marked down? I just got back myself and got some too and the smallest bottle was like $2.39 but the bottle one size up was marked down to like $2.50 so I just got that one.

Nothing overly impressive on my end. Had to get some produce and meats and stuff that weren't marked down too much.
Total BC $155.18
Total AC $81.07

Way too much stuff to type out what all I got

9/14/2011 11:13:42 AM

Its not on sale. $1.59 is the regular price for the 5oz bottle

9/14/2011 1:22:03 PM

Hmm. Don't think I've ever seen a bottle smaller than the 10oz where I shop. And thats a staple in my grocery list

9/14/2011 1:34:50 PM

The soy sauce they sell at Harris Teeter is gross anyway. Go to the Asian market and get better soy sauce

9/14/2011 1:38:37 PM

I am about done....did 3 trips.


3 Mahatma Rice Bags $1.55 each. Used 2 $.50/1 coupon. $.05/bag
3 Morton SeasonAll Salt $1.29 each. Used 2 $.55/1 coupon
3 French's Worchestire. $1.99 each. Used 2 $.75/1 coupon
3 Barilla Pasta Sauce. BOGO free. $1.44 for 1. Used $.55/1 coupon
2 Kashi Frozen Entrees. BOGO free. $4.35 for 2. Used 2 $.75/1 coupon
2 Mario Olives. BOGO. Free 2.35/2 Used 2 .50/1 PDF coupon from their site (It was pulled last week but I had printed it)
3 Vitamin water 1.45 used .55/1 tearpad

6 Chunky Campbell Soup 1.50 each. Used .75/2 printable + .50/2 newspaper + .50 e-vic
2 Apple Juice (CANNOT remember the brand) 2.50- .50/1 printable (OLD ORCHARD)
3 gold fish...raincheck for bogo used .35/1 tearpad
2 Mario Olives. BOGO. Free 2.35/2 Used 2 .50/1 PDF coupon from their site (It was pulled last week but I had printed it)
3 Vitamin water 1.45 used .55/1 tearpad
1 gatorade 6pk 2.99. Used .75/1 no idea....non insert came in trade
3 heinz ketchup 1.99 for 10 oz (small one is more)...50/1 Sunday's insert
3 balance bar single coupons .55/1 Sundays insert free

Received the bonus 250 point Campbell label.

3 budding meat 1.65. Used .55/1 peelie
2 Mario Olives. BOGO. Free 2.35/2 Used 2 .50/1 PDF coupon from their site (It was pulled last week but I had printed it)
3 V-8 fusion 2.50. Traded for the .75/1 coupon from paper
more soup....can't really remember what it look liked
2 Yobaby yogurt 2.45 used .75/1 printable from mambo sprouts
2 cinnamon sugar butter .75/1 tearpad
6 powerade used the .75/2 tearpad
baby food + coupons traded for....mailer coupons targeted to some people

I think I might get some black olives. They have a 3 year shelf life and they are so expensive when I need them while I am cooking. I have more non insert coupons and may get some more soup since I have absolutely none in the house right now.

My mom is on vacation so I used her card. Otherwise I just use my husband's and mine and pay cash. They link the cards if someone consistently uses a credit card between cards. My sister's and husbands ended up getting linked.

[Edited on September 14, 2011 at 11:43 PM. Reason : OLD ORCHARD]

9/14/2011 11:42:52 PM

They had the cinnamon sugar butter at your store?

They've been completely out at mine for the past 2-3 weeks

9/15/2011 7:13:54 AM

argh I just threw all my coupons away a few days ago when I was cleaning

9/15/2011 9:49:03 AM

.50/1 st. ivea makes the travel size free
.50/1 method....tons of method cleaning on clearance at HT

Good luck. Last day of TRIPLES

9/20/2011 12:24:02 AM

Just a heads up...the cinnamon sugar butter is too sugary and not buttery enough. It doesn't quite hit the spot.

9/20/2011 1:29:28 PM

really? That sucks. I wouldn't know as I'm beginning to wonder if my HT has ever had it in stock at any point what-so-ever

I would have done much better if this past week was super doubles instead of triples. Before I found out it was triples, I was using my coupons that were <$1 since I was expecting super doubles and that left me with a bunch of $1 and $1.50 coupons. Oh well

9/20/2011 2:10:51 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/09/25/1516067/going-cuckoo-for-coupons.html

9/25/2011 8:52:52 AM

^Best part of that article - TLC stands for the learning channel. What are you learning? ...............unmitigated greed.

I can't stand the show or the people it features.

9/25/2011 10:58:53 AM

yeah I always hated that every store that was featured had the special of $10 off for every $50 order. I don't think I've ever seen that in any stores I have frequented in the 3 states I've lived in since buying my own groceries.

That and using 80 bazillion coupons per order.

Though I will admit that the show helped me get into couponing, I knew when I first saw it that stores were probably going to start making it harder on people due to the "extreme" people.

9/26/2011 7:24:19 AM

hey ya'll i have a question about some coupons i want to use....

here is the set up

tidy cat litter is on sale at target for $11

i have a coupon for "buy 1 tidy cats litter get 1 6oz package of purina friskies party mix cat treats free"

here is the twist...

i have another coupon for "buy 1 package of purina friskies party mix cat treats get friskies cat treats free"

can i combine these coupons even though i am getting the "buy THIS get that free" for free with another deal?

9/30/2011 3:47:17 PM

pretty sure you have to actually purchase one, but it may be worth a shot

9/30/2011 3:54:00 PM

I don't think they would let you combine those coupons

I think you'd have to have 3 Friskies treats in order to use those 2 coupons.

1 Friskies treats that is free w/ the Tidy cat coupon
and 2 treats for the BOGO coupon

So you would be paying for 1 Tidy Cat container and 1 bag of Friskies

9/30/2011 4:01:41 PM

thanks for the input!

new question...

how does it work when i use a BOGO coupon and there is a sale for 2 for $x

example: 2 bags of m&ms for $5 + BOGO m&ms coupon = ?? would it be $2.50? or would it be the price of 1 bag of m&ms if you didn't take advantage of the 2for price?

10/2/2011 6:13:28 PM

It's based on how they run their deals, how their registers work, and how the cashier is feeling at the time.

Your scenario will almost always go like this:

1. Ring up your items.
2. Scan loyalty card. They can do this before ringing up your items...it doesn't matter.
3. Sale prices will be applied...so total is $5.
4. You present your BOGO coupon.
5. In order to honor the BOGO coupon, the cashier will have to manually subtract the price of one bag of M/M's from your order. They can either subtract the sale price ($2.50) or the original price ($3.29 or whatever)--they typically take off the original price.

So you're looking at:

$2.50 for two bags...or more likely...$1.71 for two bags.

The only way it would "be the price of 1 bag of m&ms if you didn't take advantage of the 2for price" is if the cashier did some crazy overriding.

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 6:46 PM. Reason : ]

10/2/2011 6:44:53 PM

gotcha, that makes sense

i have a cashier im buddy buddy with at walgreens who loves to ring up ppl who have a lot of coupons

i need to look at the deals again but i prefer walgreens over cvs for drugstore deals bc i find the cashiers are nicer. plus i get a 15% discount on top of everything with work so it almost always works out better anyway

10/2/2011 7:42:46 PM

I've got a bunch from the 5 inserts this week that I probably won't actually use. Anybody interested in setting up some sort of trading system or meetup?

10/3/2011 10:09:43 PM