Albertsons Doubles 101

Since we have a lot of new readers here, we wanted to share the low down on Albertsons Doubles...

So what to do
with all those
DOUBLES??!?!

First a little
"Twice The Value"
(aka: Doublers/Doubles)
101

What are they?
You can use THREE "Doubles" per transaction. This will allow you to double three of your coupons. The coupons must be $1.00 in value or less.

Where can I find them?
When we have them (and it seems that we get them nearly every week), they will either come out with the Wednesday ad (in the newspaper and TMC), or more commonly, they are in the Sunday paper. Most often in a slick one page advertisement as shown above, but we have also seen them in the actual print section of the newspaper, and one time they were in with the coupon inserts!

You will also be able to go to customer service in your store and request an ad that contains the doublers. 99.9% of the time, they will only give you one ad (which contains three doubles). So if you want to do multiple transactions (the most effective way to build your stockpile), you'll need to make multiple shopping trips. This is why we strongly suggest getting a Newspaper Subscription where you receive multiple copies of the coupons and ads. In just one Sunday, you'll pay for your subscription with the value of all the sets of doubles you'll receive!

Sometimes the doubles come in the Wednesday ad and last the entire week. When this happens, we usually have some readers who have connections to the TMC and willingly share the extra doubles they end up with!

When Can I Use Them?
When they are in the Wednesday paper, they are valid for the entire sale week (Wed-Tues). When they are in the Sunday paper, they are valid for the last three days of the sale (Sun-Tues). Usually, when it is a fab sale, we will do three transactions in a row. We will use one set (a "set"contains 3 doubles) per transaction, and almost always do three transactions in a row! Many of the stores are "cracking down" and not letting you double the coupons that say "Do Not Double". So be aware of this as you are planning your shopping trip. (I'm not going to waste a whole paragraph explaining why I think this is silly, since it is ALBERTSONS that is paying for the value of the "double", not the manufacturer).

What is the best way to use them?
To get the most bang for your buck, double the ones valued at $1.00! But do be aware that there may be times the cashier will adjust the value of the double down. This would be the case if you were to purchase a box of crackers that was on sale for $1.75. If you doubled a $1/1 coupon, you would be "making" $.25 off the product. While you would always have other items that would absorb the cost, many cashiers will just adjust the coupon down to $.75 so you would get the crackers FREE (still not bad!) vs. getting paid to buy the crackers.

Sometimes I'll just get enough items to maximize my doubles. This is when I leave the store paying $2 or less for a number of items.

Other times, I'll use them in conjunction with a promo. When doing this, I'll just make sure I have three "$1.00 off" coupons to double and then I'll plan on my total out of pocket being an additional $3.00 less.

Are you excited to use some Albertsons Double Coupons?! You can always go to our label cloud and click on DOUBLE COUPONS to find the latest double coupon deals!

Fabuless Coupon Tip Tuesday: Trouble Printing?

Before we can help with printing problems we want to be sure you know some lingo.........

Bricks: Partner with coupons.com that has coupons usually available after signing up for something. But not always.

A "bricks page" will look like the image to the left.

IE: Internet Explorer Browser

FF: FireFox Browser

The URL will look similar to this:

Bricks coupons have a link that is meant to be printed in a certain browser (i.e. Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari).

When you try to print a coupon in a different browser than was intended, you will get a message the says, "trying to download coupon printer."

You can cut and paste this link to another browser. If you have two browsers on your computer.

Or simply change two characters in the link.

Here is part of a Firefox link:

http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=ri3peuo59687503&bt=wg&o=53740&ci=1&c=GM&p=TyQrvJAY

Note the “wg” in the URL. That means it is a Firefox link.

To make the link an Internet Explorer link: change the “wg” to “wi” or “vi”. If one does not work try the other.

Here is part of an Internet Explorer link:
http://bricks.coupons.com/Start.asp?tqnm=qhldcyo15421561&bt=vi&o=55267&pt=&lang
Note the “vi” in the URL. That means it is an Internet Explorer link

To make link a Firefox link: change the “wi” or “vi” to “wg”. If one does not work try the other.

If you use Safari: replace the “wg”, “wi”, or “vi” to “xs”. And to get a Safari link to print in a different browser, change the “xs” to“wi” or “vi” for Internet Explorer or to “wg” for Firefox.

What are your tips for coupon printing?

Coupon Tip Tuesday: Printing Coupons

The best place to find coupons to print is coupons.com. They have 15-20 pages of coupons, up to 200 coupons available for printing.

If it is your first time using the website you will have to download a coupon printer. This is a totally safe download so don't be alarmed. You will just need to follow the simple instructions.

NOTE: Coupon printing is not supported by the browser Google Chrome. So you will not be able to print any coupons in that browser.

Coupons.com allows you to print each coupon twice. Once you have printed a coupon twice it will appear on the last page of the website and have a "PRINT LIMIT REACHED" notice on the coupon.

Sometimes we will let you know that a coupon has been "reset". This means that the limit has been removed and you will be able to print the coupon two more times.

You can print using our coupon bar by clicking on "see all coupon" at the top or click at the bottom where it says "by COUPONS.COM" to go to the website.

For a tutorial on printing the coupons using the bar or the website see Cathy's Fabuless Tutorial here.

New coupons will arrive at the beginning of each month. We will remind you when they do on our website. If you would like an email reminder just send us your address and we would be happy to send you one.

Expiration dates: Tend to vary by coupon and the date that you print.

At the end of the month: You will want to be sure to print any coupons you may still want because in a few days they will either be gone or you will be able to print them two more times. Giving you 4 coupons instead of 2.

Saving paper: Print your coupons on the back of scratch paper. Remember that you can print 3 coupon per page. So I usually print in groups of three in order to use the whole sheet of paper.
Next week: We will show you ways to trouble shoot printing problems.

Fabulous Coupon Tip Tuesday: Walgreens 101

Walgreens 101

Stacking Coupons: You can use a Walgreens store coupon and a manufactures coupon on the same item.
Example:
Buy four cans of Campbell's Soup
Use one Walgreens in-ad coupon to make the soup 0.59 also
Use one .40 off 4 manufactures coupon.
Final Cost 0.49 each

Where do I get the Walgreen's Coupons?
Walgreens coupons can be found in the store ad. Find your store ad in the Sunday paper and at the store. The coupons are only good for 7 days, Sunday-Saturday to go along with the stores weekly sales.

What if they are out of my coupon item?
If the store is out of an item you can get a raincheck for the price on your in-store coupon. Just ask a manager. Keep the coupon with the raincheck in case there is confusion when you go to redeem it later.

What are Register Rewards (RR)?

Register Rewards are dollar value coupons (pictured above) received for buying certain promotional items at Walgreen's. They print out after you have paid for your purchase. They act as in store cash and can be redeemed like cash on future Walgreen's purchases.

Look for this wave symbol in the ad or in the store to find Register Reward items. We look for register reward items that have coupon match-ups in order to make the item cheap, free or even have overage.


Example:
Nivea Body Wash 16.9 oz $4.99
Use $1/1 Manufactures coupon (MC)
Receive $5RR
Final Cost $1 OVERAGE

Overage When the combination of an RR and MC exceed the value of the item purchased.
Sometimes the RR offer has no coupon match-ups and is not free after RR. Not all RR deals are good ones, but many are.

Golden Rules:

1. You will only get one RR per transaction in a certain promotion.

Example:

Nivea body wash has an RR promotion. If you buy 2 Nivea body washes you will only get one RR. If you buy Nivea and Rembrandt toothpaste you will get an RR for each product as long as they are part of different promotions.

Rolling RR's: This is how you get more than one bottle of Nivea during the promotion with out having to pay cash.

Buy the Nivea get a $5 RR
Buy the Rembrandt pay $1 cash and $5 RR get $6 RR
Buy Nivea and a $1 item to get your subtotal to $6, pay with $6 RR
Get another $5 RR and on and on til you have what you need!

Sometimes they will do a group a products together like several varieties of Tylenol seen here. If you buy the 2 Children's Tylenol and 2 Tylenol Allergy you will only get one RR. This is because they are in the same promotion!





2. You can not roll Register Rewards within the same promotion (usually)
Wait I just showed you how to roll RR's. You have to alternate promotions. If you tried to buy another Nivea with the $5 Nivea RR your next RR would not print!

3. You can not have more manufactures coupons than items
Register Rewards count as a manufactures coupon. (MC)
Example:
Buy
Nivea Use $1 off MC
and
Rembrandt Use $1 off MC
Let's say you want to use your $3 RR from Tylenol you will have to buy a pencil or small piece of candy (filler item) to match with the RR.
If you had store coupons to match with each product you could you those as well.

4. There is an order to give the coupons that seems to work best!
1. Register Reward
2. Manufacturer
3. Store

What is the Big Deal About Soup?

Some of you may be new to Fabulessly Frugal and are wondering why are they so excited about soup? Buying coupons on ebay, making multiple posts?

Well can I just spell it out for you?

You see before I started couponing I used to shop at Costco 1-2 times a week. I felt like buying in bulk was a great way to save money and build a stockpile. I love Costco, but rarely go there anymore because I save so much more by sticking to my coupon shopping.

Well I was at Costco yesterday (I missed it and wanted to see if they had anything new) and looked to see how much this soup was.

Costco Price: $11.98 for an 8 pack OR $1.49 a can!


Do you know what I paid at Albetrsons today? $11.31 for 12 cans or .94 a can oh but wait, that was before you factor in the $5 catalina.


Albertsons Coupon Price: $6.31 for 12 OR .53 a can!

Wow! That is WAY LESS!

Ok I just had to share a little bit about why couponing is so cool!

Wanna know what I bought at Costco? Milk, eggs, sour cream and a pizza for our dinner.
That is it. I did not even get close to the $100 I used to spend there. In fact I was all ready to sign and had to be told that I did not need to sign for only $20.

Coupon Tip Tuesday: Fabulous Coupon Database!

One of our favorite tools when we are doing coupon match-ups it the HCW database!

It. Is. Awesome.

I learned about it from a fellow couponer back in January. (Thanks Jessica!)

It is a little intimidating at first, so we thought we would do a tutorial to make it much easier for you to use.

I LOVE all the different (and FAB) options for searching!

You can search by.......

• Keyword: Kraft, Milk, Keebler
• Value: $1/1, .50, $1/2, ext....
• Type of Coupon: Printable, Blinkie, Tear Pad, Insert, ext....
• Store: Target, Albertsons, Walgreens, ext....
• Category: Breakfast, Baking, Cleaning, Dairy ext...

Let's say you are looking for some more coupons for frosting.

1. Type frosting into the description/keyword box. (Your results will begin generating as you type.)

2. The results will list all of the different options for frosting coupons.
(click on the image to see detail)


3. Let's say you want a printable coupon for frosting.

-Click the drop down menu under source

-Scroll down and select printable
and...

voilà! Now you'll ONLY see the printable frosting coupons!

Even sweeter, the results are DIRECT LINKS to the coupons, so you simply click on the description and you will then be able to print the coupon!

Keep in mind, this is a national database and some insert coupons vary by region.

I have mentioned this before, but when I want to be sure a coupon came in the inserts in my area, I go to PYP!

I cross reference in their coupon list for my state!

NOW THAT IS FAB!!

Walgreens Multiple Transaction Tutorial

Walgreens golden rule: RR= Register Reward
If you pay for a RR deal with an RR from that same deal you will not get another RR.
However if you pay with an RR from another deal, yeah you get an RR.

Example: Pay for Colgate with an RR you got from buying Colgate no RR will print.
Pay for Colgate with an RR you got from buying Skintimate you will get an RR.


This week in our coupon class we had a question. How are you getting toothpaste for free if you have to pay cash first and come back to buy something else?


Here is my solution and if you hurry you can do it too.
Colgate promo ends Sat April 10th but the Skintmate goes until April 25th.

Skintimate $2.99

Pay cash 3.18

Get $3 RR

Colgate $3.49

Use .75 coupon from paper

or $1 printable at http://www.coupons.com/ or in our coupon bar on the side

Subtotal falls below $3 after coupon so I bought some Easter basket candy to get the subtotal above $3 so I could use the RR from the Skintimate

Paid with $3 RR

.37 OOP to cover the tax and a little from the Easter candy

Then you could do the same thing again. Buy the Skintimate with the Colgate RR.

I did this twice.

Note: The Skintimate pictured is the one producing an RR for $3 until April 25th!

Hope this helps someone!

Coupon Friendly Albertsons & Walgreens

If you're looking for a new Albertsons location to shop at, I've found several stores that I like to go to. For instance, the 36th and State street store is awesome! They clip coupons and hang them up for your use, like several Meridian stores. I also love going to McMillan/Eagle and Ten Mile/Cherry Lane. Where do you like to coupon???

I also love to go to the Eagle/Chinden Walgreens. The Store director/manager is Scott and he's great! He's working to order products for the upcoming week's sales to try and have more inventory on hand!

No matter where you're from, let everyone know where you like to coupon! Which stores have been the best for you? Which store has cashiers that know what they are doing with coupons? Hopefully your tips will help those out there that dread going to the store because the employees treat them like they're stealing because they have coupons!

Store Policies

Albertsons-

• will take all manufacturer coupons and you can stack it with an Albertsons in-store coupon.
  

• will take internet printable coupons

• WILL NOT match competitors ads or prices

• Will no longer accept competitors coupons or Walgreens Register Rewards
  

• Corporate Policy

• DOUBLE COUPON POLICY:

• Will only double coupons valued at $1.00 or less
• Only allowed to do 2 or 3 (what ever the amount of "twice the value" coupons are in the ad) per transaction.
• You'll need to be sure to use the "twice the value coupons" in a set. Example, you can only use coupons numbered 1, 2 and 3 (if there are three in the ad), you can't do 1, 1, and 3 or 2, 3, 3... they must be 1,2,3 or 1,2...
• See our Albertsons DOUBLES 101 Post for more details!
  

Walgreens-

• will take all MFR coupons, and you can stack it with a Walgreens in-store coupon

• will take printable Internet coupons

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

• DOES NOT take Albertsons catalinas

• Learn the ins and outs of Walgreens... see our Walgreens 101 post!
  

Rite Aid-

• will take all MFR coupons, and you can stack it with a Rite Aid in-store coupon

• will take printable Internet coupons

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

Shopko-

• will take all manufacturer coupons, and you can stack it with a Shopko in-store coupon

• will take competitors coupons, Like Fred Meyer, Walgreens...

• will price match, others ads ( as long as it states the price, no 50% off, no buy 1 get 1 free) The items must be in stock at the competitors ad price. Ad must be current, and bring Ad with you.

• will take printable Internet coupons

Walmart-

• will take all manufacturer coupons

• will take competitors coupons coupons, Like Fred Meyer, Walgreens...

• will price match, others ads ( as long as it states the price, no 50% off, no buy 1 get 1 free) . Ad must be current, and bring Ad with you. They WILL NOT accept a coupon along with a price match. They say it has to be one or the other. :(
  

• will take printable Internet coupons

• for an online copy click here to read , you might want to print it out and carry it with you.

Winco-

• Will take manufacturer coupons

• Is now taking internet printables - use with caution. If the register won't take it, they won't force it through.
  

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

Fred Meyer-

• Will take Manufacturer coupons

• will take printable Internet coupons, as long as it says Manufacturer coupon on it

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

• You can stack the Fred Meyer STORE coupons with Manufacturer coupons
  

Target-

• will take all manufacturer coupons, and you can stack it with a Target in-store coupon. As long as the total of the coupons are more than the price of the item.

• will take printable Internet coupons, as long as it says Manufacturer coupon on it and it must scan.

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

Kmart-

• will take all manufacturer coupons

• will take printed coupons

• DOES NOT match competitors ads or prices

• DOES NOT take other stores in-store coupons

• if you sign up at Kmart.com and join their email list, they send special like double or triple coupon sales.

• FOR DOUBLE COUPON SALES:

• • Up to $2.00 with purchase of $25 or more in grocery & drugstore merchandise Participating stores only.

  • Only 1 coupon will be doubled per item. You may only purchase 4 of the same item using double coupons. Excludes Buy One, Get One offers, Kmart Savings coupons and Kmart Store coupons. Coupons do not apply to sales tax.

  • 10 coupons, per day, per customer may be doubled. Additional coupons will be honored, just not doubled. Customer should choose which 10 they would like doubled.

  
  

  
  

Another Frugal Tool

A while back I discovered another data base kind of like Pinching Your Pennies (PYP). I kind of forgot about it, but when Cathy mentioned this week she wanted to compare the Johnson and Johnson deals from Albertsons and Walgreens I remembered this site.

The site I am referring to is called SavvyShopperDeals.com, here are the things I like:

• You can search for deals at 11 different stores. Including Albertsons and Walgreens
• You can search by category. If you are looking for the best deal on Johnsons soap you can compare with all 11 stores. (This would have helped Cathy)
• You can search by Savvy rank and find out what the hot deals are for all or specific stores
• If you are interested in seeing the % you are saving they have that too. Some prefer that over the PYP star system.

(All of these tools are found in the shopping wizard section of the site.)

Things I am not as excited about:

• They have a coupon index, but it only includes the newspaper coupons. I use HCW for this.
• They do not offer printable coupon options.
• They have an organizer to keep track of your current coupons, I think it would be more work to manage than it is worth. However I use a binder with categories to organize my coupons so it is pretty easy to figure out what I have. If I did the file folder system where you only clip what you need as you use them I might find this organizer helpful so that I could keep track of what I have.
• This is awesome if you live in Utah, b/c it caters to that state. If you are a reader from outside of Utah if may not be very helpful. Although here in Idaho are ads are the same as Utah. So if your state follows Utah or Idaho ads check it out!

Lesson's Learned

I went to check my email yesterday and found that there was a comment on the blog. We love comments! We love to answer your questions and we love to hear what you are excited about. It makes us feel like our writing is appreciated. It is not like we get paid to do this. We are just excited about coupons and love to share it with others. Every one needs to save money in these hard economic times.
This is what the message read courtesy of

Anonymous in Illinois

"if you expect people to read this, i suggest you change the background color.... black text on brown wallpaper? what are you thinking?!? i guess it could be worse..yellow text on white.... good job!"

Wow I could not believe it. How rude. We are all moms who work in and out of the home and in our spare time we try to save people money and this is what you have to say about it.
I have been meaning to change the page b/c I was never quite satisfied with the new look, but I have been too busy posting deals for you.
This comment really bothered Cathy she set right to work re-doing the blog! It looks great Cathy.

So we do appreciate a little constructive criticism but please be kind.

So here are my coupon lessons learned. Remeber the Crazy Diaper Lady? Not to be confused with the Krazy Coupon Lady. Those girls are all really sweet and I am sure would not act like that.

Anyway after that whole experience I found myslef in a reversed role. A cart full of wipes and my friend coming to get them. A lady comes down the aisle looking for the diaper deal. The Easy-ups are gone I let her know that I had been buying the Underjams and planning to excahnge them after the sale and she could probably do the same. She then asked my if the wipe were part of the deal. I told her they were. Meanwhile my friend was on the phone telling me to get her every container they had on the shelf and that she would be there in a few minutes. I just stood there as the lady started to take the wipes off the shelf. I WAS supposed to be getting those for my friend. I just stood and watched her. I was not about to try to grab them. My friend could do with out the last few packages of wipes. She collected the last 4 off of the shelf and then we both realized that she would not have enough for the deal. You needed 6. So I took two out of my cart and handed them to her. Sorry Trish you could have had 6 more packs of wipes.
I felt bad b/c I had the last few packs of Easy ups in my cart that she had come there looking for, but I had already grabbed them for my friend. I didn't want her to feel like I did the day I met up with the crazy diaper lady, so I tracked her down and gave her some wipes coupons to go with her purchase.

So I learned a lesson that day from the crazy diaper lady. Do not ever get so wrapped up in the deals that you forget to be good to other people. Thanks and sorry. I know that was a bad experience for both of us.

I have run into some checkers that have been rude or snide to me when couponing. I have found myslef making an extra effort to be kind and friendly to the checkers and other employees at the stores I shop at. Trying to make conversation or ask how I can make the transaction easier. It is hard for me to be more talkative, but it seems to work. I tell the annoyed teenage boy the he loves to scan my coupons and he wishes I was doing 5 more transactions just so we could hang out longer.

Coupon Rules to Live By

1. Never clear the shelf of an item, others may want some too.
2. Smile and be friendly to other shoppers and employees.
3. Try to make the coupon process easier for the checker.
4. Sweetly warn the people in line behind you that it may take a few extra minutes, and if they are in hurry they might want to pick the other line.

So for the lesson I learned from Annoymous in Illinois.

1. Constructive critisim is appreciated when it is given in kindness.
2. If you like something someone posts let them know. Instead of commenting when you are annoyed, be sure to comment when you enjoy.

Let's all be a little kinder to one another.

Good Morning America

Look at the phenomenom we are apart of. The ladies at BeCentsAble were featured on Good Morning America today. Check it out to see how big couponing has become and get some helpful hints.

No Coupons This Week

I am loving A Thrifty Mom Sarah she posts something that I find useful almost every day.

Today she clued me into the fact the there will be no coupons in the paper this week. :( It seems that on a holiday weekend the coupons do not come. So with V-day being this weekend we will not get coupons.

If you get your paper delivered you may want to request a "vacation stop"
for this week. I believe you will get a credit and they will stop your paper for the week that you request.

Here are the numbers for local papers.
Idaho Statesman: 377-6370
Idaho Press Tribune: 467-9252

I usually check out Taylortown for coupon preview but Sarah clued me into another site Grocery Coupon Guide. Check them out for upcoming coupon info.

Coupon Tip

Here is a great tip to help you find out if your coupon will work on sensitive toothpaste or tarter control.
In most cases if the first set of numbers on your coupon barcode Manufactuer ID (12345) matches the first set of numbers on your product barcode the coupon will work. Hope this helps!

Thanks KCL Emily

Freebies

I have never posted about a freebie on here unless I have actually received it myself. I am worried about leading others astray. The problem with that is that by the time I get the item the offer may be over. Like the Costco Diaper sample. Sorry. Here is one that is still going that I actually have received.


Coupon booklet from Home Made Simple
Has over $27 in saving on Procter and Gamble products including a coupon for a FREE bottle of Cascade Crystal Clear Rinse Agent.

I signed up for this today and I guess we will see what happens.

Free pair of MIVODESIGN Scissors




When I first started with all this couponing stuff I did not sign up for freebies.
Gradually I have become more educated on which one's to sign up for.

Here are a few tips for when you sign up

* I use a junk email address,(if you don't have one get one from gmail)
* Sometimes I use another name
* I rarely put a current phone number (I can not stand telemarketers)
* I never put my real b-day. I chose one that I can remember and puts me at my age.
* I do give my address since I want the freebie.

Read these posts by Freebies 4 Mom and A Thrifty Mom for more helpful hints!

Coupon Help for Newbies

Heather over at Krazy Coupon Lady has written several post to help the new couponer. If you need help check it out.

Coupon Class

Anyone interested in a real life person to person coupon class? If you are leave a comment with your email.

Google Reader

Google Reader is my best resource for reading and staying up to date on my coupon blogs.

-It reads like email so I don't have to go from site to site checking for updates.
-I can store all of my favorite sites in one place.
-I can use the search feature to search a particular blog or all of the sites in my reader.
-I can place a star on items I want to read again or save for later.
-I just learned about the TAG feature that allows you to file away all your favorites under different categories like recipes, scrapbook, photoshop, ect.
-I can read a title and skip to the next subject easily.

Oh how I love this tool, but careful it can become addicting.

To Get Started

Click here

You don't have to get a gmail address, you can use your own email as the user name. Although you may want to set up a gmail account to use as your junk mail when you sign up for freebies.

Once you are set up click on the subscribe button and add the URL for each of the sites you want to follow.

Check out our links page for some good coupon sites for your reader.
You may want to just start with a few or choose some favories. There are also more sites on the Money Saving Blogs list that are not on the Blogs in My Google Reader List.

Sorry I did not post them with this post but now that I have reader is much eaiser just to create a blog role. Blogger askes me if I want to import from my reader and with one click there is a whole list.


Here is a getting started video I found hopefully it is working again.




For more help with reader go to The Official Google Reader Blog or leave a comment and I will do my best to answer your question.


Ok I am tired. Anyone else want to post this weeks Rite Aid and Walgreens links?

Decoding the Coupon World

Abbreviations:

These are the inserts that you find in the paper.

SS - Smart Source
PG -Proctor & Gamble
RP -Red Plum or Valassis
These will often times be coupled with a date that reflect the date of the paper they came out of. Ex: RP-1/4/09-Red Plum insert from the Jan 4th paper


Store Lingo

ECB - Extra Care Bucks (CVS)
SCR - Single Check Rebate (Rite Aid)
ESC - Easy Saver Coupon (Walgreens)
ESR - Easy Saver Rebate(Walgreens)
7-day coupon- coupon found in Walgreens weekly ad
IVC - Instant Value Coupon found in the Easy Saver Catalog at Walgreens
RR: register rewards, catalina that prints out at Walgreens when you buy specific products with a $ amount good for your next shopping trip.



Types of Coupons

Catalina- We covered this, but just in case you forgot- it's a printable coupon that is handed to you with your receipt at the store.
Peelies- peel off coupons found on products at stores
Blinkies-found in the aisle at the store spitting out of the blinking black box
MC or MQ- manufacturers coupon
IP- Internet printable coupon

Oh and There's More

B1G1 -Buy One Get One Free
WYB -When You Buy
B2G1-Buy 2 Get One Free
FAR- free after rebate
MIR - Mail In Rebate
OOP- out of pocket
Stack- refers to using two coupons for 1 purchase (ex. 1 store coupon and 1 MC)
YMMV- your mileage may vary (meaning in some stores this deal will be applicable, but you may have trouble trying it with others)


Oh and thanks to Being Frugal is Fab and Freebie Blogger for the help in compiling the lists.

Getting Started Couponing?

I want to teach other women to save money, but to tell you the truth I do not have as much time as I would like to dedicate to teaching others. So why reinvent the wheel? Being Frugal is Fab has lots of great information about getting started and the programs for different stores. Check her out she is a big help.