More Than a Little

I remember clipping coupons when I was a kid. It was so much fun!  These days, coupon-clipping is a necessary chore, but fun doesn’t quite enter the equation, especially when you buy multiple papers every week.  However, there’s no reason to make it take any longer than it has to.  Here’s a simple, faster way [...]

My friend Kelly–I would link to her but she does not have a blog even though I have nagged her repeatedly–mentioned something in an email today that reminded me of one statement that I missed in the post about what you should say when a coupon is rejected.  I can’t believe I forgot that one.  [...]

If you use coupons, you will eventually have a cashier who will resist you. It may be over a trial-sized item, it may be over the cashier’s ability to read and comprehend, it may be over a store policy, it may be over coupon overage.  Other times, it just won’t be worth the hassle or [...]

I wish that I had posted about this while you could still get in on the deal, but I really didn’t piece the whole plan together until Saturday evening, when it was too late.  I’m going to post about it now because a) I am pretty pleased with myself over this and b) this sort [...]

Saving money is great but earning easy money is even more fun. I always try to take advantage of bank offers as often as possible.  Bank offers are when a bank advertises a sign-up bonus for creating a new account and fulfilling certain criteria.  You just have to read the terms of each one before [...]

CVS is the favorite of the three major drugstore chains for many people, and it’s pretty easy to see why.  They offer some truly fantastic deals on a regular basis! I think I’d be more into CVS if it wasn’t so darned far away, but I still go about once a week.
Extra Care Card
The first [...]

I spend most of my shopping time at Walgreens, so I think it’s time to fully explain how their system works.  Currently, the deals at Walgreens mostly depend on Register Rewards.  There used to be an EasySaver rebate program, but it ended in April.  It was great because you could buy the rebate items and [...]

Sometimes you need to think outside the box.  This rule applies to everything, really, but especially when you’re shopping for deals.  Thinking outside the box is at the heart of extreme couponing, if you think about it–the “normal” way to use your coupons is to just get a few cents off of a purchase.  The [...]

I hate the rebate that require UPCs to be lifted from bottles.  It’s really hard to do sometimes.
Here’s how I do it:
Take a utility knife and cut a line around the section you want to remove.  This will help prevent the label from tearing in a wonky fashion.
Pick at the edge of the UPC where [...]

Stockpiling is when you buy enough of a product at its lowest price (preferably free, of course) to last you through the times when the item isn’t on sale.  Sales are generally cyclical, meaning that what goes on sale now will also go on sale again in the future. (Often, this cycle is about twelve [...]