My most received message has to be "Hey boo, where do you get your coupons?" Half of the time, I get my coupons right in the store! Today I am going to share some of my methods I use to obtain my coupons and hopefully you guys will be able to start saving some cash with my tips.
Peel pad coupons
The trick to finding coupons in the store is to look on the newer displays. If you walk into Rite Aid and you see a new display of some hot new Physician's Formula products or you see that Essie has a new limited edition polish, snoop around and see if there are any peel pads attached. There are almost always coupons in the store for new products to entice you to buy them. If you see a peel pad, don't be a hog and take all the coupons! Take one for now and one for later, no more. Share the savings, peeps.
Peel off coupons on products
These types of coupons are also found within the store. They are attached to the products and can be used on the spot. Be sure that you pull them off as you are paying out to give to your cashier because the Lord knows most people will not go out of their way to save you a buck or two.
Sales ads coupons
As soon as I step into a store, I will grab one of their sale papers or one of their coupon books like Walgreens offers. There are always coupons within the sales papers. These are store coupons, so they can be stacked with manufacturer coupons to get some insane savings. Make it your practice to grab a buggy then grab a sales paper and see how much you can get the store to pay you to shop.
Online coupons
You can also find coupons online if you know where to look. Websites such as coupons.com and Red Plum often have coupons that are printable. You can print two copies of a coupon from these websites (or more if you work in an office with 20 computers but you didn't hear that from me). Ever so often the coupons will reset and you can print more. This usually happens when a coupon expires. The website will replace it with a new version with an updated expiration date. Often times, fan pages on Facebook will also post coupons that are limited in quantity (only 10,000 copies available or something like that). If you see one, print it ASAP as these typically tend to go fast, especially if it is on a hot item.
Store websites also offer coupons as well. Rite Aid and Walgreens both offer an option in which you can load coupons directly on to your rewards card. I think most of the coupons offered for the "Load2Card" option are pretty lame (save $10 on your diabetic shoes blah blah) but maybe someone out there can use it. Rite Aid also offers their Ad Perks too. With these, you just watch a commercial and then they give you a one time use store coupon. They post new Ad Perks every month. Usually, most of these are duds as well (remember the $5 off an at home DNA test coupon?), but they do have usually have coupons on beauty products with these, so I always check them out. Keep in mind that receiving any kind of store rewards, like Up rewards, whatever Walgreens calls their point system, and register rewards are just like receiving store credit AND you can actually make money by using these. For example, an item can be on sale for $3.50, with $2.50 back in rewards, making the item only $1. If you have a coupon for $2 off on that product, then you have just made a dollar! I haven't paid for toothpaste in ages. There is never a reason to pay full price for toothpaste.
You can always go old school and clip coupons from the Sunday paper, but that would require me to do the two things I hate most on my Sunday mornings: waking up early and putting on pants. Keep in mind that you can stack manufacturer coupons with store coupons/Up rewards with an item that is on sale for insane savings. Let me give you an example of what I mean. Just a few weeks ago, I scored 6 bottles of Pantene Pro V shampoo and conditioner for only 33 cents a piece at Rite Aid. This is how I did it:
-The products were on sale for 3/$10, making them $3.33 a piece on sale.
-Rite Aid offered $3 back in Up rewards with a purchase of $10 on hair care
-The bottles had peel off coupons on them for $2 off
BOOM! 33 cents a piece. I spent like $2 total for everything and I won't have to buy shampoo for like 2 years. If you see something that you are always going to use and it won't go bad, like shampoo, toothpaste, or toilet paper, and you catch it on sale, do a little research and see if you can find a coupon to pair up with it. That is the key to couponing, at least for me. I'm still not good at couponing for groceries, probably because no one ever offers coupons for the stuff I eat. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE NO COUPONS FOR ORGANIC SWISS CHARD?! The struggle is real.
Stay tuned for Friday's post. I am doing another feel good post that will be sure to put a smile on your face!
Xoxo,
Bridge
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