I just discovered this code, SHTZFR1, for a free one-night movie rental at Blockbuster Express kiosks, good through January 10th! Just don't forget to return the movie before 9 PM the next day or you will be charged $1 for another day.
If you need popcorn to go with it, check out this deal at Walmart:
Pop Secret Popcorn, 6-pack for $2.00
Use this coupon for $1.00/2 Pop Secret products
Final price - $1.50 each
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
New Deals
These are coming via KCL:
On Coupons.com, there is a $0.75 off Cinnamon Burst Cheerios on page 2 under zip code 79922.
At Rite Aid, get Malt O' Meal cereals as cheap as $0.50! Sale price is $1.50, then use either the $1.00/2 coupon from the Malt O' Meal web site, or the $2.00/2 coupon from SS 1/2...final price, either $1.00 each or $0.50 each, respectively.
On Amazon.com, get the Food Network Magazine for a year for only $10! KCL reports that it is on sale for $15 but that it will reduce to $10 automatically during checkout.
Special K Challenge: Get Special K at Target or Rite Aid for as low as $0.50 a box!! See KCL's article for the details.
FREE! Kodak photo book, only pay $1.99 shipping: Use coupon code TGTFREEBOOK to get a free 5x7, 14-page photo book here. Click on the small book option, upload your pictures (up to four per page), and edit the book. You can enter the code during checkout. This is limited to one per account, and the code is good through January 9th.
On Coupons.com, there is a $0.75 off Cinnamon Burst Cheerios on page 2 under zip code 79922.
At Rite Aid, get Malt O' Meal cereals as cheap as $0.50! Sale price is $1.50, then use either the $1.00/2 coupon from the Malt O' Meal web site, or the $2.00/2 coupon from SS 1/2...final price, either $1.00 each or $0.50 each, respectively.
On Amazon.com, get the Food Network Magazine for a year for only $10! KCL reports that it is on sale for $15 but that it will reduce to $10 automatically during checkout.
Special K Challenge: Get Special K at Target or Rite Aid for as low as $0.50 a box!! See KCL's article for the details.
FREE! Kodak photo book, only pay $1.99 shipping: Use coupon code TGTFREEBOOK to get a free 5x7, 14-page photo book here. Click on the small book option, upload your pictures (up to four per page), and edit the book. You can enter the code during checkout. This is limited to one per account, and the code is good through January 9th.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Untangling the Web
At this point, if you haven't visited one of the guru sites for extreme couponing, then you're probably wondering, where do you find good coupons on the Internet? The following sites are the ones I've been keeping an eye on:
Coupons.com
SmartSource
RedPlum
The second two are the traditional newpaper inserts, with many of the coupons on the site being the same as the paper publishes. In fact, I've noticed, at least with SmartSource, that their coupons being published on Sundays come out a couple days beforehand on their website. RedPlum's web site doesn't offer as many coupons as the other sites do, but I've also noticed that their newspaper inserts include regional coupons, such as for smaller businesses and restaurants. Most coupon sites will let you select the coupons you want to print from page to page, and then when you're done print them out and they will print on one (or more) pages, eliminating the unwanted coupons.
Another very good source for coupons are manufacturer and store web sites:
Airwick
Aquafresh
Arm & Hammer
Betty Crocker
BoxTops4Education
Breyers
Buitoni (search site for "coupon")
Campbell's
Kraft Foods
Nestle
Pfizer
Pillsbury
Target
Walmart
These are just a few of the many places you can find specific coupons; for a far more comprehensive list, check out KCL's list, which has many more manufacturers and lists what the coupons themselves offer.
Good luck and happy clipping!
CC out.
Coupons.com
SmartSource
RedPlum
The second two are the traditional newpaper inserts, with many of the coupons on the site being the same as the paper publishes. In fact, I've noticed, at least with SmartSource, that their coupons being published on Sundays come out a couple days beforehand on their website. RedPlum's web site doesn't offer as many coupons as the other sites do, but I've also noticed that their newspaper inserts include regional coupons, such as for smaller businesses and restaurants. Most coupon sites will let you select the coupons you want to print from page to page, and then when you're done print them out and they will print on one (or more) pages, eliminating the unwanted coupons.
Another very good source for coupons are manufacturer and store web sites:
Airwick
Aquafresh
Arm & Hammer
Betty Crocker
BoxTops4Education
Breyers
Buitoni (search site for "coupon")
Campbell's
Kraft Foods
Nestle
Pfizer
Pillsbury
Target
Walmart
These are just a few of the many places you can find specific coupons; for a far more comprehensive list, check out KCL's list, which has many more manufacturers and lists what the coupons themselves offer.
Good luck and happy clipping!
CC out.
The Sunday Paper, Part Two
I finally made it to the store tonight and bought two copies, each for $1.50 instead of the typical $2.00 so I was already feeling good! We checked for the right inserts before we bought them, to make sure they were all there. We ended up with all five expected, two each of RedPlum and SmartSource, and one General Mills insert, in addition to other random inserts. Then we returned home and clipped away after dinner, for about two solid hours, and ended up with well over 100 coupons! I know we won't use them all but we are pretty excited seeing the potential for incredible savings!
Speaking of savings, I capitalized on the Borders coupon this afternoon, but it seems I wasn't the only informed shopper! A lady in the checkout line ahead of me had a stack of printed coupons, and when she realized she would not be able to use them all she started passing some on to the lady behind her. Since the coupon I had was only 50% off a single item, I only managed to get three books on my $20 gift card, but I was still pretty pleased with my coupon savvy-ness!
On the way home, we stopped at a new grocery store in town, a Save-a-Lot, which has everyday prices that put Publix and Walmart sales to shame. It's our new favorite grocery store and since they carry a lot of brand name items at rock bottom prices, we're going to take full advantage of our coupons there!
Next deal we're off to check out: $.24 for a 42-oz. can of Quaker Oats, with the Target printable coupon and the manufacturer's coupon from today's paper!
CC out.
Speaking of savings, I capitalized on the Borders coupon this afternoon, but it seems I wasn't the only informed shopper! A lady in the checkout line ahead of me had a stack of printed coupons, and when she realized she would not be able to use them all she started passing some on to the lady behind her. Since the coupon I had was only 50% off a single item, I only managed to get three books on my $20 gift card, but I was still pretty pleased with my coupon savvy-ness!
On the way home, we stopped at a new grocery store in town, a Save-a-Lot, which has everyday prices that put Publix and Walmart sales to shame. It's our new favorite grocery store and since they carry a lot of brand name items at rock bottom prices, we're going to take full advantage of our coupons there!
Next deal we're off to check out: $.24 for a 42-oz. can of Quaker Oats, with the Target printable coupon and the manufacturer's coupon from today's paper!
CC out.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Sunday Paper
Actually, no. I don't have it yet. But I'm about to go get it. Soon. I think. I have church first.
But after church I'm going out to Border's and signing up for a Border's Rewards card, and then using a coupon I found via KCL in combination with a gift card I got for Christmas, to find something exciting for 50% off. After that, I'm excited to clip coupons, since I'm already hearing rumors about extreme deals from the paper (one of the tricks to extreme couponing is combining great coupons with great sales, to maximize buying power). So I'm off, the day isn't getting any longer!
CC out.
But after church I'm going out to Border's and signing up for a Border's Rewards card, and then using a coupon I found via KCL in combination with a gift card I got for Christmas, to find something exciting for 50% off. After that, I'm excited to clip coupons, since I'm already hearing rumors about extreme deals from the paper (one of the tricks to extreme couponing is combining great coupons with great sales, to maximize buying power). So I'm off, the day isn't getting any longer!
CC out.
Day 01
Well, technically it's Day 02 (and some of you have probably noticed that my first post was also written on Day 02), but no one's counting. Last night was my first foray into couponing, and it was pretty exhilarating (even if we left most of the coupons at home, which I will neither confirm nor deny). Okay, so we did leave them behind. But that's part of the learning process.
Publix: $68 spent, $107 worth of groceries earned! Now, most of this was due to a BOGO (buy one get one) free sale they were having for New Year's Day, BUT we did get the chance to stack a BOGO with a coupon, so we were able to get four boxes of cereal for $9, normally $5.07 each. Is this huge? Probably not, since that only comes out to 55% off, but for my first coupon experience that was pretty impressive!
My next task? Purchase several Sunday papers, since there are five sets of coupon inserts in today's paper, as opposed to the traditional two or three. I will be constructing a coupon binder per KCL's guidelines, complete with printed store policies on the use of coupons. My girlfriend and I will then sit down and clip them all out and organize them, and then we will pretend to be ready for coupon adventure number two!
Publix: $68 spent, $107 worth of groceries earned! Now, most of this was due to a BOGO (buy one get one) free sale they were having for New Year's Day, BUT we did get the chance to stack a BOGO with a coupon, so we were able to get four boxes of cereal for $9, normally $5.07 each. Is this huge? Probably not, since that only comes out to 55% off, but for my first coupon experience that was pretty impressive!
My next task? Purchase several Sunday papers, since there are five sets of coupon inserts in today's paper, as opposed to the traditional two or three. I will be constructing a coupon binder per KCL's guidelines, complete with printed store policies on the use of coupons. My girlfriend and I will then sit down and clip them all out and organize them, and then we will pretend to be ready for coupon adventure number two!
Zero Day
Hi, I'm the Coupon Crusader and I'm a recovering overpriced spender. This is the story of my discovery of extreme couponing and my instant fascination with the savings realized by extreme couponers, and my quest to earn these savings myself.
It all started a few days after Christmas, when TLC premiered their new show, Extreme Couponing. It featured people who not only discovered that coupons can save money, they made it a way of life. Walking into the grocery store and spending $10 on $1000 worth of goods sounded like a pretty sweet deal to me! So I started researching it and found the Krazy Coupon Lady (aka KCL, featured below via RSS feed). She was one of the people on the show, and it seemed to me that she knew what she was doing. So I bookmarked her site. And liked her page on Facebook. And followed her on Twitter. And I check her site several times a day. Just covering all the bases. Someone once told me that the best way to become great at something is to emulate someone who is already great at it.
This was Zero Day, what the Army called the first day of Air Assault training, a crash course for the uninitiated. And uninitiated I was! And probably still am, as couponing is something of a science. I was a bit overwhelmed at first with all of the names and lists and codes, so I kept reading, and eventually things started making sense. KCL's first step for beginners is a change in attitude about shopping: no more slavery to the price tag; expect to save between 50% and 90% on purchases and expect to have a year's supply of some goods!
This is what I'm talking about! Units in the army have departments known as Supply, headed by either an officer, a sergeant or both. They were the go-to guys, the ones with all the goods, and the best ones were always the ones in the brigade S-4 shop, who had supplies for thousands of people. They had stocks that would put a Super Walmart to shame! My friends and I prided ourselves on our ability to stockpile small things, such as paracord, MRE's (meals ready-to-eat), the little bottles of Tabasco sauce inside the MRE's, etc. Thus, the happy feeling of stockpiling for a rainy day is all too familiar to me, and probably part of what has made me so intense about couponing from the start.
So, Mr. Uninitiated, what's the next step, you say? Well, the next step for me was to stop reading the beginner's guide after the first page and scramble all over KCL's website seeing all the sites. Readings wild stories about people walking out of stores with several shopping carts full, having so many coupons that 2/3 of them had to be thrown away, and people having stocks of toilet paper to last 40 years...I was Pavlov's dog, salivating before the bell was even rung or the light came on!
But thankfully my senses got hold of me eventually and I returned to the lowly beginner's guide and continued reading...
It all started a few days after Christmas, when TLC premiered their new show, Extreme Couponing. It featured people who not only discovered that coupons can save money, they made it a way of life. Walking into the grocery store and spending $10 on $1000 worth of goods sounded like a pretty sweet deal to me! So I started researching it and found the Krazy Coupon Lady (aka KCL, featured below via RSS feed). She was one of the people on the show, and it seemed to me that she knew what she was doing. So I bookmarked her site. And liked her page on Facebook. And followed her on Twitter. And I check her site several times a day. Just covering all the bases. Someone once told me that the best way to become great at something is to emulate someone who is already great at it.
This was Zero Day, what the Army called the first day of Air Assault training, a crash course for the uninitiated. And uninitiated I was! And probably still am, as couponing is something of a science. I was a bit overwhelmed at first with all of the names and lists and codes, so I kept reading, and eventually things started making sense. KCL's first step for beginners is a change in attitude about shopping: no more slavery to the price tag; expect to save between 50% and 90% on purchases and expect to have a year's supply of some goods!
This is what I'm talking about! Units in the army have departments known as Supply, headed by either an officer, a sergeant or both. They were the go-to guys, the ones with all the goods, and the best ones were always the ones in the brigade S-4 shop, who had supplies for thousands of people. They had stocks that would put a Super Walmart to shame! My friends and I prided ourselves on our ability to stockpile small things, such as paracord, MRE's (meals ready-to-eat), the little bottles of Tabasco sauce inside the MRE's, etc. Thus, the happy feeling of stockpiling for a rainy day is all too familiar to me, and probably part of what has made me so intense about couponing from the start.
So, Mr. Uninitiated, what's the next step, you say? Well, the next step for me was to stop reading the beginner's guide after the first page and scramble all over KCL's website seeing all the sites. Readings wild stories about people walking out of stores with several shopping carts full, having so many coupons that 2/3 of them had to be thrown away, and people having stocks of toilet paper to last 40 years...I was Pavlov's dog, salivating before the bell was even rung or the light came on!
But thankfully my senses got hold of me eventually and I returned to the lowly beginner's guide and continued reading...
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