I have a really, really stupid coupon question that I should know but don't. If I have 2 coupons for just one product, buy one product, can I use both coupons for it? I am trying to figure out how on earth people walk in and buy $500 of groceries for $10.
HELP!
Lisa
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I know here you have to buy two, one for each coupon.
I once had a coupon for shampoo that said buy one get the conditioner free. I also had a coupon for like 25 cents off the shampoo. I could not use both coupons at that store.
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Lisa, if you have a store coupon (from your local store and it says the name of the store and not "manufacturer's coupon" at the top), and a manufacturer's coupon, you can use both on one product. But if you just have 2 coupons that are manufacturer's coupons, you can only use 1 per product.
The people on the extreme coupon shows go to great lengths to get every coupon they can - they print from manufacturer's site, buy from e-bay, etc.
I will print if I can get a coupon worth more than what is in the Sunday paper, or it is not in the paper and for something I want or want to try. I just got one for the new Jello Temptations in the mail for a free 3 three pack. I signed up on the Kraft site, and go there once in awhile to see if there are any new coupons out. I get quite a few in the mail that way.
I also do rebates. I just got $5.18 in rebates this evening because I bought 2 Kellogg's cereals that had a try-me-free tag on them. You printed the rebate form from their website (Kellogg's), you bought the cereal, and sent in the upc code, the cash register tape with the purchase price circled and the rebate form, and they sent you your purchase price back. I had $1 coupons on each from the Sunday paper, so I also made $1 on these. Last week I got a check for $11.98 from Physician's Formula for trying their new mascara. I went to Ulta, bought the mascara, (you have to have the try-me-free peelie from the package or you can't do this one), sent in for the rebate.
Sometimes you can get free produce with certain purchases - buy milk and cereal and get $X of bananas free, or get $X off meat with the purchase of bbq sauce and charcoal.
The people who are taking these things to the extreme aren't looking at the fat, salt, and sugar in the items they are purchasing either. Or that their purchases are heavy on processed foods, and light on veggies. If I could get frozen veggies all the time (and I do a lot of the time - every brand from Green Giant, Bird's Eye, and Cascadian Farms at a reduced price, I would be happy. If not, my store brands are great.
You also have to keep up with what is on sale with "rewards" of some sort at your pharmacies. Many times those rewards can be turned into milk, bread, coffee, etc. I bought KY products (which I have no use for), to get more rewards back than I put out for the products using high value coupons. The 2 things (that was the limit the store put on this offer too) I bought cost $5.98 each. I had $3 coupons off each, so I only paid $5.96 total for them, and got $6 each back for my purchase in rewards. With that $12 in rewards I bought 12 cans of Frito Lays Stax which were on sale for $1 each, and each offered $1 reward. So far, I had 2 KY items, and 12 cans of Stax for $5.96. I took those $12 in rewards and bought BC brownie mixes which were 2/$4 and used $.35 coupons on each one, and got back a $2 reward for each 2 bought along with a $1 reward for each one bought (seemed strange but that is what spit out). I had to add 3 $1 candy bars and pay $1.05 for the overage and tax. So, now for my initial $5.96 I had 6 boxes of brownie mix, 12 cans of Lays Stax, 3 candy bars, and 2 KY items, and still had $12 in rewards to spend. But I could have added milk use to the overage from those 6 $.35 coupons that I used on the brownie mixes.
Next there were Bodiheat thermal pain patches which were on sale for $1 and gave $1 rewards back, along with TGIF snacks, more Lays Stax, and BK snacks. I made several trips through the line with any combination of 12, and kept getting that money back. As long as I didn't clear out the shelves, and I also hit more than one store. I kept the deals going until I just got plain tired. At that point I invested in store brand facial tissues and used part of the rewards with a B1G1 coupon for vitamins That only cost another $1.23, most of that in tax.
I took a ton of the snacks to my nephew, and gave some to my church's youth group, and even some to the food pantry. Still not sure what to do with the KY. I still have some of the lays stax that I eat, and I am using the vitamins, and the facial tissue. The body heat patches are on a shelf for next winter when I pull another muscle shoveling. I will use the brownie mix over the next few months. And I never cleared the shelves either, always leaving some for those who came after me.
This is truly how you make money with a small investment. You have to be willing to think outside the box, and be willing to make several trips.
