Showing posts with label Coupons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coupons. Show all posts
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Home Made Simple Coupon Book
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Random notes on couponing
A lot of the sites to print coupons and get freebies require you to give your email address. I strongly recommend signing up at somewhere like yahoo.com for an email that you use only for this purpose, because some sites generate a lot of spam and unwanted email. I get a lot of emails on my yahoo account, which I glance through, and if nothing interests me, I delete them all. My personal email is for only the email that I really want. Your comments on this blog go directly to my personal account, just in case you wondered!
When printing coupons, you can set your printer preferences to black and white in order to save on color ink, which is most expensive. I have never had trouble with my black and whites. To conserve paper, you can use any color paper you have on hand, and in fact, I have already used paper that was already printed on one side, and printed my coupons on the other. I had no problem with that, either. I wouldn't use anything with my personal information on, though. :) If your barcodes won't scan, it's probably because your printer is not properly aligned. I had trouble when I first started, then I aligned my printer, and have very little problem anymore.
I usually print 3 coupons on 1 piece of paper, even when I'm only printing one at a time. To do this, I print one coupon, turn the paper around, and print one coupon on the other side. This leaves a blank space in the middle. Cut off one coupon, and you can print the third one in the empty space.
Giant Eagle will double coupons with a face value of up to 99 cents. 25 cents becomes 50 cents, 50 cents becomes $1, 75 cents becomes $1.50, and 99 cents would be $1.98. You will notice that some coupons say DO NOT DOUBLE. As a general rule, Giant Eagle doubles all coupons under a dollar as long as the numbers under the barcode start with 5. If the barcode starts with 9, the coupon will probably not double.
If you ever have any questions, I will be happy to answer them to the best of my knowledge, so ask away!
When printing coupons, you can set your printer preferences to black and white in order to save on color ink, which is most expensive. I have never had trouble with my black and whites. To conserve paper, you can use any color paper you have on hand, and in fact, I have already used paper that was already printed on one side, and printed my coupons on the other. I had no problem with that, either. I wouldn't use anything with my personal information on, though. :) If your barcodes won't scan, it's probably because your printer is not properly aligned. I had trouble when I first started, then I aligned my printer, and have very little problem anymore.
I usually print 3 coupons on 1 piece of paper, even when I'm only printing one at a time. To do this, I print one coupon, turn the paper around, and print one coupon on the other side. This leaves a blank space in the middle. Cut off one coupon, and you can print the third one in the empty space.
Giant Eagle will double coupons with a face value of up to 99 cents. 25 cents becomes 50 cents, 50 cents becomes $1, 75 cents becomes $1.50, and 99 cents would be $1.98. You will notice that some coupons say DO NOT DOUBLE. As a general rule, Giant Eagle doubles all coupons under a dollar as long as the numbers under the barcode start with 5. If the barcode starts with 9, the coupon will probably not double.
If you ever have any questions, I will be happy to answer them to the best of my knowledge, so ask away!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Starting With Coupons
My favorite money saving sites:
http://www.moneysavingmom.com/ -an awesome blog. She is just about the best blogger out there, in my opinion! She's clear, concise, and positive. Covers CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens.
http://www.ccherrypicker.blogspot.com/ - covers Giant Eagle
Sites for printing coupons
coupons.com
smartsource
redplum
brick-coupons
Our area gets the direct mail Redplum inserts (not every week). As I hear it, the Plain Dealer seems to have the most Smartsource coupons of the local papers. The Tribune Chronicle doesn't have half as many, I know that from personal experience. The Plain Dealer also has P&G coupons about once a month, and sometimes has General Mills or other coupon inserts. The Sunday paper is better than the Smartsource and Redplum websites. Unfortunately, too often the really good coupons are not published on those websites. Some couponers get multiple Sunday papers so they have a better stash of the good coupons.
I save pretty much all the coupons I get- because you never know when it might help with a really sweet deal! I don't usually print coupons unless I am pretty sure I will use them. And speaking of printables, you can save on printing by doing 2 things- set your printer to black and white- I've never had a problem with those being accepted- and you also can use paper that has been printed on one side, or colored paper. I've never had trouble with that, either, and it helps not to buy new paper all the time just for coupons. And one more thing on the printables- sometimes an ad will print beneath the coupon, hogging ink. I like to stay right by my printer, and if it starts printing an ad after the coupon, I hit cancel on the printer, and it stops the rest of the ad from printing.
http://www.moneysavingmom.com/ -an awesome blog. She is just about the best blogger out there, in my opinion! She's clear, concise, and positive. Covers CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens.
http://www.ccherrypicker.blogspot.com/ - covers Giant Eagle
Sites for printing coupons
coupons.com
smartsource
redplum
brick-coupons
Our area gets the direct mail Redplum inserts (not every week). As I hear it, the Plain Dealer seems to have the most Smartsource coupons of the local papers. The Tribune Chronicle doesn't have half as many, I know that from personal experience. The Plain Dealer also has P&G coupons about once a month, and sometimes has General Mills or other coupon inserts. The Sunday paper is better than the Smartsource and Redplum websites. Unfortunately, too often the really good coupons are not published on those websites. Some couponers get multiple Sunday papers so they have a better stash of the good coupons.
I save pretty much all the coupons I get- because you never know when it might help with a really sweet deal! I don't usually print coupons unless I am pretty sure I will use them. And speaking of printables, you can save on printing by doing 2 things- set your printer to black and white- I've never had a problem with those being accepted- and you also can use paper that has been printed on one side, or colored paper. I've never had trouble with that, either, and it helps not to buy new paper all the time just for coupons. And one more thing on the printables- sometimes an ad will print beneath the coupon, hogging ink. I like to stay right by my printer, and if it starts printing an ad after the coupon, I hit cancel on the printer, and it stops the rest of the ad from printing.
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