The Art of Stacking Coupons
Most people coupon because they want to save money. But, they may not realize there is an art to it. It’s not a creativity that will result in a masterpiece to hang on a wall, but it’s one that will bring results to the wallet. One tool in the art form of coupons is stacking coupons.
Stacking doesn’t involve the sport of cups, if that’s your first thought. While you can’t use two manufacturer coupons on one item, stacking simply means using one manufacturer coupon and one store coupon on one product. Thus, you are “stacking” two coupons on one item.
A store coupon is just that. A coupon that a particular store has released for use only in that store. Store coupons usually have a unique look and are marked with the store logo and name. Walgreens, RiteAid, CVS, Target, Dollar General, Family Dollar and Winn Dixie all have store coupons.
A manufacturer coupon is one that is issued by the manufacturer of a product. Manufacturer grocery coupons are located in the newspaper inserts and printed online. They are clearly marked with “manufacturer coupon” on the top.
The key is to save money by stacking in a practical way. There are “extreme” deals that you can find, but here is a practical one.
At Walgreens this week, Huggies Wipes (184 or 216 pack) are $5.99 each. There is a $2 off Walgreens coupon in the August booklet, which can be found in the store. You can stack a $.50 manufacturer coupon from the 7/17/11 Smart Source insert with the store coupon. So, you would:
- Buy one Huggies wipes at $5.99
- Have the cashier scan the Walgreens store coupon.
- It subtracts $2.Then give the cashier the manufacturer coupon. It subtracts $.50
4. Your total for the wipes is $3.49
Another example is at RiteAid this week. If you purchase two M&M’s (9.9-12.6 oz) for $2 each, you will receive a $1 UP, which prints on your receipt. If you are registered on RiteAid’s website you can watch videos and print “Video Value” coupons. There was one for $1 off two M&M’s. If you watched this video, you can stack this RiteAid coupon with a $1 off two manufacturer coupon from the 7/24/11 RedPlum insert. So, you would:
- Buy two M&M’s at $2 each, equals $4
- Use one $1 off two RiteAid Video Value coupon. It subtracts $1
- Use one $1 off two manufacturer coupon. It subtracts $1
- Your total for the two bags of M&M’s is $2
5. Plus, you will receive a $1 UP reward that you can use on another purchase. This makes the two bags of M&M’s $1
The key to stacking coupons is knowing the store coupon policy to make sure of the limitations on stacking. Target, for example, recently changed the store coupon policy and now has limits on stacking.
Although Target still accepts one manufacturer coupon and one Target coupon for the same item, there are new limitations on stacking coupons with Buy One Get One items or BOGO’s. In the past, if you had a BOGO manufacturer coupon, you could use two Target coupons. Now, in the same scenario, you can only use one Target coupon with the manufacturer BOGO. Target’s policy states, “A second cents-off coupon of the same type cannot be redeemed towards the purchase price of the first item.
· If a Target BOGO coupon is used, one additional manufacturer coupon may be used on the first item.
· If a Manufacturer BOGO coupon is used, one additional Target coupon may be used on the first item
So my advice is to first research the stores you shop most often and read the coupon policy. Then, register for any promotions on the store website so that you can receive store coupons in the mail or your email. After that, when you read match-ups online, you will be prepared for the art of stacking.
Do you have a question about couponing? Email me at tshadrix@annistonstar.com. Like Clip2Save at www.facebook.com/clip2save
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FREE Advil coupon
This Sunday, Anniston Star subscribers will notice the newspaper in an Advil polybag. At the bottom of the bag, subscribers can open and remove a small card marked "HURRY! Act Now & Get Advil & Advil PM FREE."
Subscribers will find a unique code printed on the card. Go to www.advil.com/freeoffer by 9/4/11 and enter the code to receive a coupon by mail for a free bottle of Advil & Advil PM. Please allow 10-15 business days for delivery. Free coupon expires 10/23/11.
This coupon, offered by Valassis, is availble to subscribers only. It will not be available in rack and single copy locations.
Also, The Anniston Star will not have coupon inserts in the newspaper this Sunday. If you would like to have coupons in your local newspaper, let News Marketing America (Smart Source) and Valassis (Red Plum) know.
CONTACTS:
Smart Source: http://www.newsamerica.com/Pages/contactus.aspx
Teacher Appreciation days at Office Max
Office Max will have the 2011 Teacher Appreciation Days on Sunday, July 31 and Monday, August 1.
Max-Perks Rewards Teacher will receive:
- FREE reusable tote, plus 20% off everythng you fit inside.
- FREE give-aways for the first 150 teachers, while supplies last.
If you are not a Max-Perks Rewards Teacher, you can sign-up at the store or online here.
P&G 7/31 Coupon Preview
I compared the P&G insert that will be in The Anniston Star on 7/31 with the list on Sunday Coupon Preview. There are some regional coupon differences that will work in our favor! For one the Downey coupon is $.50, instead of $.25. Plus, there are three Pampers coupons that I didn't even see on the Sunday Coupon Preview list. I have the coupon differences bolded in the list below.
7-31 P&G coupon insert
(x) before coupon = multiple of same coupon
ETS = excludes trial sizes
Always Pantiliners 30 ct Save $1 (8/31)
Always Pads, Clean or Feminine Cleansing Cloths .50 (8/31)
Always Infinity 14 ct Save $1 (8/31)
Bounce Dryer Bar Save $.50 (8/31)
Bounce Dryer Sheet or Dryer Bar refill Save $.25 (8/31)
Bounty Towels or Napkins Save $.25 (8/31)
Bounty Napkins Save $.25 (8/31)
Braun curzer trimmer Save $5 (8/31)
Braun Series 3, Series 5 or Series 7 Shaver Save $10 (8/31)
Cascade Save $1 (8/31)
Charmin Save $.25 (8/31)
Clairol Hair Color Save $2 (8/31)
Covergirl Save $1 (8/31)
Covergirl Save $1 (8/31)
Crest 3D White Professional Effects or 2 Hour Express Whitestrips Save $10 (8/31)
Crest 3D White Advanced Vivid, Vivid, Stain Shield or Gentle Routine Whitestrips Save $5 (8/31)
Crest Toothpaste 4oz Save $.50 (8/31)
Crest Rinse 946ml Save $2 (8/31)
Crest Toothpaste 4 oz Save $.75 (8/31)
Dawn Save $.50 (8/31)
Downey Liquid or Dryer Sheets .50 (8/31)
Duracell .75 (8/31)
Duracell Rechargeable Batteries or Charger or 6 pack Hearing Aid Batteries Save $1 (8/31)
Fixodent Adhesive Save $.50 (8/31)
Fixodent Cleanser Save $.75 (8/31)
Gillette Body Wash Save $2 (8/31)
Gillette Deodorant Save $3/2 (8/31)
Gillette Clinical Deodorant Save $3 (8/31)
Gillette Fusion Skin Care Save $2 (8/31)
Buy one Gillette Fusion ProGlide Cartridge, get free Gillette Fusion ProGlide Shave Prep (8/31)
Gillette Fusion ProGlide Razor Save $4 (8/31)
Head & Shoulders Save $.50 (8/31)
Iams Naturals Dry Dog or Cat Food Save $1 (8/31)
Iams Premium Protection Dry Dog or Cat food Save $1 (8/31)
Iams ProActive Healthy dry dog or cat food Save $1 (8/31)
Iams canned dog or cat food B3G1F (8/31)
Ivory Body Wash or Bar or Safeguard bar or liquid hand soap Save $.50 (8/31)
Metamucil Save $1 (8/31)
Metamucil Fiber Singles Capsules or Wafers Save $1 (8/31)
Olay Pro-X Facial Moisturizer or Pro-X Clear Save $5 (8/31)
Olay Regenerist Moisturizer Save $3 (8/31)
Buy Olay Body Wash, Bar or Hand and Body Lotion, Get free Satin Care Shave Gel to Save $3.99 (8/31)
Oral-B Battery Toothbrush Save $3 (8/31)
Oral-B Floss or Oral-B Floss Picks 30 ct Save $.75 (8/31)
Oral-B Stages, Zooth or Crest Kid’s Manual or Power Toothbrush Save $.50 (8/31)
Oral-B Stages, Zooth or Crest Kid’s Toothpaste Save $.50 (8/31)
Oral-B Replacement Brush Heads 3 count Save $10/2 (8/31)
Oral-B Replacement Brush Heads 3 ct Save $3 (8/31)
Oral-B Pulsar, CrossAction Advance or any two Indicator or Cavity Defense Manual Toothbrushes Save $.75 (8/31)
Pantene Save $1/2 (8/31)
Pampers Two Bags or One Box $1 (8/31)
Pampers One Swaddlers Sensitive, Cruisers, Limited Edition Prints or Extra Protection $2 (8/31)
Pampers One Diapers or Pants AND One Wipes 60 ct $2 (8/31)
Pringles Super Stack cans Save $1/4 (8/31)
Pringles Snack Stack or Stix Save $.50 (8/31)
Pringles Fat Free Cans Save $1/2 (8/31)
Puffs Singles .25/3 or one 3 pack Save $.25 (8/31)
Scope Mouthwash 710ml Save $.75 (8/31)
Secret Flawless, Scent Expression or Fresh Effects Deodorant Twin Pack Save $1 (8/31)
Buy two Secret Scent Expressions or Fresh Effects deodorants, get one free Secret Body Spray to Save $5 (8/31)
Swiffer Wet Jet or Sweeper Vac Starter Kit Save $5 (8/31)
Swiffer Sweeper or Swiffer Dusters Starter Kit Save $1 (8/31)
Swiffer refill or Dust & Shine Save $.75 (8/31)
Tampax Pearl Compak B1G1F to Save $3.99 (8/31)
Tampax Pearl or Tampax Pearl Compak 18 ct Save $1 (8/31)
Tampax 18ct Save $.50 (8/31)
Tide Detergent Save $1 (8/31)
Tide Stain Release .50 (8/31)
Tide Stain Release 26-50 powder, 15-34 ct Duopack or 36-68 oz liquid Save $1.50 (8/31)
Buy one Venus Refill, get Save $5 off Venus Razor (8/31)
Venus or Downy Disposable Razor Save $2 (8/31)
Skinny Cow BOGO coupon
To get your coupon, just "like" Skinny Cow on Facebook, share this deal with
one FB friend and print a Buy One Get One Free coupon on any new single–sized Skinny Cow Heavenly Crisp or Dreamy Clusters. Click here.
Also, starting this Sunday (7/31) at CVS, Skinny Cow singles you will receive a $.99 ECB when you buy Skinny Cow Singles at $.99. Limit is 1 per card.
So you will want to buy 2 Skinny Cow singles. Use one BOGO coupon. Pay $.99 and receive $.99 ECB.
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It was one of those headlines that simply dared me to write a column.
“Alabama cities lead list of porn-loving religious places, poll says”
My first reaction was not to take the dare. As we say down in south Alabama, “some swamps don’t need draining,” even if the swamp is AL.com, the face of new journalism in our fair state.
But something just didn’t seem right. What sorta poll would have pollsters calling up folks around the country asking them (1.) “are you religious,” and if they answered yes, following up with (2.) “do you love porn?”
So I checked it out, and guess who did the polling?
No one. There was no poll revealing that Alabama cities were high among the “porn-loving religious places.” The article beneath the headline was based on another article that was based on research undertaken by researchers working for PornHub.com, a pornography website, and published online by BuzzFeed.com.
PornHub.com bills itself as the world’s biggest porn distributor, which I doubt because there is no Wikipedia entry for it, and we all know that if it isn’t on Wikipedia . . . .
As for BuzzFeed.com, according to Wikipedia, it is “a website that combines a technology platform for detecting viral content with an editorial selection process to provide a snapshot of ‘the viral web in realtime.’” Huh?
Well, the “viral content” Buzzfeed detected was a report compiled by researchers at PornHub.com. (Dear readers, do not go to PornHub.com to see what it is all about. You might be scarred for life or, worse yet, find yourself a statistic in a research report like the one that was the subject of the BuzzFeed article. You have been warned.)
Now, I am not exactly sure how or why the folks at PornHub.com came up with the research project that led to the BuzzFeed.com article, but the decision might have been the result of a conversation among researchers employed by the porn site that went something like this:
Porn researcher No. 1 to porn researcher No. 2: “You know what I did over the weekend?”
(Look, surely porn researchers have lives outside the realm of porn research. So I imagine this sort of conversation was pretty common around the PornHub.com office.)
Porn researcher No. 2 replies: “No, what?”
(A reasonable response, given the options available to porn researchers.)
Porn researcher No. 1: “I took a look at that recent Gallup poll, you know, the one that ranked cities by how religious their residents were.”
Porn researcher No. 2: “So?”
Porn researcher No. 1: “People in those religious cities are into porn.”
Porn researcher No. 2 gets really interested and asks: “How do you know that?”
Porn researcher No. 1: “Because they visit our site.”
And with that revelation, the research that led to the article that led to the headline was set in motion.
I am not sure whether their inquiry was an effort to search out and expand a market niche, or if it was a way for porn people to fire a zinger at anti-porn people who seem to cluster under the Gallup poll category “very religious.” Whatever the motive, this is what they discovered.
Eight of the top 10 “very religious” cities where folks watch a lot of online porn are in the South.
Yessir.
The Bible Belt.
Of the remaining two, one was in Michigan and the other was Provo, Utah, in the heart of Mormon country.
Go figure.
This raises a number of questions, not the least being whether cities that aren’t “very religious” watch even more online porn than cities with significant “very religious” populations.
The porn researchers didn’t say.
What they did say was this: Of all the “very religious” cities that watch a lot of porn, the one that leads the list is Huntsville-by-gum-Alabama.
This set my mind reeling back to 2010, when the owner of a Huntsville adult-items store, “Pleasures” (“your one-stop romance shop”), challenged Alabama’s ban on sex toys, a ban passed by a Legislature that conveniently did not ban owning the items, just selling them. That allowed Alabamians, including legislators, one supposes, to go online and order — or just watch.
Which folks down in Montgomery are doing, for according to PornHub and Buzzfeed, Montgomery came in second in the race to the top of the “very religious” cities where citizens visit the PornHub website.
That leaves me with just one question: Do these Montgomery visits to the PornHub website coincide with the times when the Legislature is in session?
Now that would be really interesting to know.
Meanwhile, “Pleasures,” well aware of the needs and desires of Huntsville’s porn-watching citizenry, has expanded to five locations so it can better serve its customers.
The free market marches on.
Harvey H. (“Hardy”) Jackson is Eminent Scholar in History at Jacksonville State University and a columnist and editorial writer for The Star. Email: hjackson@jsu.edu.
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