Coupon Tip Tuesday: Printing Coupons
Did you know you can print coupons off the internet? YOU CAN! And aside from the paper and ink, it’s FREE!
Our favorite place to find coupons to print is coupons.com. They have 15-20 pages of coupons, up to 200 coupons available for printing.
A few things to note:
- First time printing?? You will have to download a coupon printer. This is a completely safe download, so don’t be alarmed. You will just need to follow the simple instructions. After you download and install the “coupon printer”, if it still says you need to “install the coupon printer”, then try closing your browser and opening it again. In some cases, you may need to restart your computer. If you’re still having issues, try using a different browser (ie: Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, or Google Chrome).
Coupons.com (and in most other cases any printable coupon site) will allow you to print each coupon twice. On coupons.com, 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.
- New coupons will arrive at the beginning of each month. We will remind you when they do on our website.
- Expiration dates: Most of them expire 1 month after you print… although some do expire sooner!
- 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 two.
- 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.
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.
Or simply change two characters in the link.
Here is part of a Firefox link:
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
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?
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
SAY WHAT?!
HERE IS A LIST OF THE “Lingo” THAT MAY BE CONFUSING YOU!!
These are the inserts that you find in the Sunday 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
SCR – Single Check Rebate (Rite Aid)
7-day coupon- coupon found in Walgreens weekly ad
RR – register rewards, catalina that prints out at Walgreens when you buy specific products with a $ amount good for your next shopping trip.
Twice The Value Coupon aka: Doublers – Albertsons store coupon that allows you to “double” up to three coupons per transaction. Coupons must be valued at $1.00 or less.
Wags- Walgreens Drug Store
Albies: Albertsons grocery store
Fredies or Freds: Fred Meyer grocery store
Types of Coupons
Catalina- Click for detailed info- basically 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
OYNSO – On Your Next Shopping Order
Sites
PYP – pinchingyourpennies.com
HCW – hotcouponworld.com
Internet Browsers
IE: Internet Explorer
FF: Firefox
