Koolau
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
I say that gal is marriage material!
Yep, she's well groomed, smells good and she's frugal. Can she cook??
I say that gal is marriage material!
It chaps me you have to carry around a darn card to get the sale price advertised. I do it because I would be crazy not to, but I shop at other stores mostly that have no such thing. Others must feel the same way I do as the Winn Dixie Store close to my house went out of business not long ago. And it was a fairly new store. But Walmart and a generic grocery store did them in.
You're welcome!Semi-interesting experience using this coupon (which I printed out after reading robis attached note on Walgreens). The coupon was pretty nebulous, indicating several items it was NOT good for. It didn't make particularly clear what it WAS good for, but I assumed that meant anything in the store not on the list of 'prohibited' items. So, I just went to the local Walgreens and asked at the front register. The lady seemed puzzled though she admitted a couple of other folks had brought in similar coupons. She had to call a supervisor to figure it all out. After about 10 minutes, we found that it was as I thought. Most items were eligible for the % off coupon. Here's the kicker, though. You can only use this coupon at the cosmetics counter. You don't have to buy cosmetics there, but it's the only register that will give the discount. No reason for it, just their policy.
SO, I bought some deep discount sale items that I needed anyway and then got 15% off of the whole price. With the sales and the % off, I had to have saved half of what the stuff would have cost at any other time. Just glad my patience quotient was high tonight.
Thanks robis!!
After seeing the disappointment on my face, a salesman came... back a minute later with a 35% off coupon in hand and said, "It's your lucky day."
I don't use the cards either. I am waiting for the companies to sell the info to health or life insurance companies. You can bet your rates will go up if they see you buy a 30pack of Busch every day, or a box of twinkies.
In the old days, people put a little tab on their key ring with their license plate number. If you found keys and dropped them in a post office box, they would supposedly be returned to you.
And, I guess replacement keys with electronics in them can cost > $100.
...Some say its not worth the effort... well, when my wife buys $300 of groceries and walks out paying under $60 I'd say its worth the effort. ... Not unusual for half the items in the cart to be free, or even better, priced at less than $0.
ER is about what you save and put away, not what you make, ... I laugh all the way to the bank.
Southern Savers is one of the sites which gives strategies. Some say its not worth the effort... well, when my wife buys $300 of groceries and walks out paying under $60 I'd say its worth the effort. She spends hardly any time at it thanks to that site, which tells you how to time the coupons with the non-coupon sales cycles manufacturers have, plus you go where coupons are doubled. Not unusual for half the items in the cart to be free, or even better, priced at less than $0.
So humor us and post a list of what she got for such great prices.
True, which is why we buy the less processed foods and cook/prepare it ourselves. I'll bet your list is full of 2/3 off on "Instant Oatmeal with real life-like replicas of dried fruit and brown sugar and fruit-like processed particles". I'll be impressed when you come up with stuff cheaper than regular bulk oatmeal from Costco, and their Craisins which, IMO tastes better and is probably better for you.
Not going to spent an hour of my time going back through receipts,
My wife just told me about two recent deals she used: 6lbs of flounder fillets for $10! Also, canned tuna for -$0.50 (yes, they do credit it to the total!) by waiting for it to go on sale and then using a coupon which was doubled.