Couponing To Get Out Of Debt

Crabtree & Evelyn

2010-02-07T20:33:00.000-05:00

For anyone that might read this and is interrested in Crabtree and Evelyn products I just found a great store off Amazon that sells it and has SUPERB customer service! Check them out HERE

More Enjoy the Ride Codes!

2010-02-03T09:40:00.003-05:00

Here are 3 Codes each for 5 Points!

BFNMBKDSPXRCPGB
BFGMRKBCNNHHPGB
BFGSKHHXKPFTPGB

Here are 4 Codes each for 1 Point!

BGTZH NRBBG MCPGB
BGWJM FJLJN RCPGB
BGXGP FJLWB QHPGB
BHCFD QMZWB MHPGB

You need to enter a code from diapers & wipes before or after you enter this code to get the 15 points. BHHDR PWFBL XDPGB

Bath & Body Works coupons

2010-02-03T09:39:00.000-05:00

Click HERE for the latest coupon from Bath and Body Works! Enjoy a FREE Signature Collection Body Care Item with ANY $10 purchase!

Super Bowl Freebie!

2010-02-02T21:13:00.000-05:00

For all those wives who only watch the superbowl for the commercials here's one for you! Dockers is giving away a Free Pair ($30 value) to the first 2010 people to register. Just go HERE for the details and link to register at that time.

Free Old Spice Razor

2010-02-02T18:01:00.000-05:00

Join the Old Spice Shaving Crew and receive new product news, promotion announcements and more!

Once you've signed up you'll receive a free razor in the mail!

Free Craft E-Books

2010-02-02T14:46:00.000-05:00

For all you scrapbookers out there, enjoy a free book! Just click HERE to pull it up then just download it into your computer.

Getting ready for those Valentine parties? Click HERE and HERE to get 2 Valentine Craft E-Books.

Free Fragrance Pack from Glad

2010-02-02T14:23:00.000-05:00

Sign up for their Right At Home Newsletter and you'll continue to get great offers like this from them. You do have to be fast when you get these emails though, they get snapped up very quickly! So just click HERE to get this offer!

40% OFF at JUSTICE!

2010-02-01T11:51:00.000-05:00

As I said earlier sign up for those favorite stores!

I just received another email from Justice with a code for 40% off your online purchase. Just enter code 755, this code is valid through 2/11/10. If you sign up for the email you can print it off and take it to your local store and receive the 40% off there too!

$15 FREE at The Limited!

2010-02-01T11:31:00.000-05:00

A great way to get great coupons is by signing up with all sorts of companies. I would recommend having a different email address for this, since you will be getting a lot of emails that you really don't want to go through to find your family and freinds emails to you.

Here is an offer I just got from the limited: $50 off $150, or $30 off $100 or $15 off $15!

Just click HERE to link to the coupon!

A Free Sample of Cream of Wheat

2010-02-01T11:20:00.000-05:00

Just click HERE to order and enjoy your sample!

Amazon Gold Box Deal

2010-02-01T10:58:00.001-05:00

For all Soprano Fans ---- The COMPLETE series is on sale now for $119!
Just click on the ad below to buy your copy!

2010-01-30T23:56:00.000-05:00

I recommend everyone signing up for their favorite brand names websites. This week I received an email from nestle with $11.00 worth of coupons in it and some fun facts and recipe ideas! Just click HERE to go to there website and sign up!

2010-01-30T23:42:00.000-05:00

Here's a code to get a free 3-peice Versace Coffret set with your online order!

Enter code VDAYSETS in the promotion code box at checkout to receive a free Versace Pour Femme or Pour Homme Deluxe Sample Coffret Set on your online order with any merchandise purchase. Valid while supplies last. Not valid in retail stores, on previous purchases, or purchases of eGift certificates and gift cards. Cannot be used in conjunction with other promotion codes. Not available at Sephora inside JCPenney locations. Sephora reserves the right to end or change this promotion at any time.

Enjoy!

Best Deal Magazines Coupons

2010-01-30T23:30:00.000-05:00

Another coupon code for this weekend that ends on Sunday at 11:59. Just use SECRETSALE17 to get 17% off your order.

Deal of the Day:

Saturday - Woodcraft $5.39 with the code - 4.47
Sunday - Family Fun $3.89 with the code -3.23

Bath & Body Works coupons

2010-01-30T23:19:00.000-05:00

Here's a new coupon! If you cobine this with the current special of 7 anti bacterial soaps you'll only be paying $16! Just click HERE.

Bath & Body Works coupons

2010-01-22T14:14:00.000-05:00

Here's a coupon for a free anti-baterial soap with a $10 purchase! Just click here!

Family Couponing

2010-01-19T20:27:00.000-05:00

Now one thing that is very important in being a successful couponer is having family support. The most important one being your spouse. And then your kids. I’ve got the spouse down but I can’t quite get the kids to help out. My husband helps me shop while I try to get my kids to sort and file the coupons. Once you get organized (which I have yet to get to) it’s not that hard. I’ve seen others who are better then me be able to do it. But if I could just get the kids to help sort and separate the weekly inserts that would help. I like to get around 20 papers a week. While this may seem like a lot I didn’t start out this way.

When I first began I only picked up 2 or 3 then after a few weeks I ventured to 5 to 10 and so on up to 20 within a 5 month period. When there was a great sale on something and I only had a few coupons I was so bummed that I started getting more papers. Since then I really don’t think I will have to buy any more soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant or shampoo for years. Well that is if I don’t give it away (family, friends, and the food banks) or sell it at my garage sale. Last year I was able to make $500 at one well publicized city garage sale event. $100 was probably regular garage sale items the rest was from my stockpile!

I file the coupons by weeks instead of cutting out the coupons I use. I do this so when I see a sale I can go to a coupon data base to see what week that coupon was in the paper. Then I cut it out put it in an envelope and off to the store I go to buy what I need. Now if it’s something I don’t need to much of or don’t use often I will only take as many coupons as I think I might need. If it happens to be for a free item I will use all the coupons I can get my hands on. If I know in advance of a sale that will be happening I will even buy coupons off of eBay so that I can get the most out of it. By surfing the coupon blogs and forums you can find all the combinations for great sales in your area. I hope to add this to my blog soon. I just have to become a little better organized.

I'll end this with a funny spouse shopping story. One day in the summer our Giant Eagle had a great sale on Mustard; it was 10 for $10. I had at least 40 coupons for it, we were running low on it and I was having a large party that I would need it for. Now while I was doing the majority of the shopping I sent my husband with his own cart to get 20 mustards and go through the line by himself. He did do this willingly, but as he was standing in line another male customer kept looking into his cart. Feeling very self-conscious he looked at the guy and said "I could tell you all the health benefits of using mustard, but I'd be lying" The guy laughed and my husband said "It's a great sale and my wife is making me do this." The guy chuckled and my husband went through the line. He took those out to the car and came into make another run, but at a different register. In front of him were a mom and her little boy. When my husband parked the cart behind them the little boy kept looking at the cart and then my husband. Finally he said "Boy mister you must really like mustard!" Since this was a little boy my husband just laughed and said "yes", but to the mother he said "My wife made me buy them." Now if that isn't love, what is? LOL!

Couponing definition.

2010-01-18T21:46:00.000-05:00

The definition of couponing as per dictionary.com is as follows:
- Noun
1. The practice of distributing discount coupons to consumers as a form of product promotion.
2. The activity of seeking out or saving discount coupons to save money on food or household purchases.

Origin: 1950 - 55 from coupon + ing

Now the word coupon has been around have been around since 1815.

So the art of couponing is relatively new. It’s only 60 years old! You have to wonder why if they had coupons in the 1800’s why weren’t they couponing? I’ll have to investigate that further.

For myself I’m part of the #2 definition. I’m definitely seeking out those discounts and deals. I will admit I have been a little lax. I’m still looking at the deals but I just haven’t had the ambition to go out and get them. I think it’s the weather, that or I feel I need to become more organized and have to use up some of my stockpile.

Currently we went from a 4 job household to a 1 job one. Both my husband and I had 2 jobs, he a part-time and full time job and I had 2 part-time jobs. It just was easier for me with school age kids. Now when I’m deciding what bills to pay or how much I need to pay I don’t have to worry about the food. We usually have enough in the freezer, we just have to be creative on how to use it. Now if you ask my kids we have nothing to eat, no snacks, nothing to eat for dinner, nothing good to eat. Amazingly they are not starving and we all really could loose some weight.

For our family of 5 I’m guessing I’m averaging between $100 - $200 a month on groceries, mainly for the meats and produce. I know some people just save the money they saved with coupons and have a set budget for groceries, but currently I just can’t afford that. So if I don’t have a coupon and it’s not on sale I usually don’t buy it. Of course there are those times, like everyone has had, where I just say the heck with it because I’ve run out of time and need something desperately to finish dinner.

So for us any extra money I make from eBay is helping us pay down the cards and the gift certificates I obtain from reward sites will help us out with gifts for birthdays & Christmas or even a night out. So for myself the #2 definition is what “couponing” is, searching out those deals wherever they may be.

Another Huggies Code

2010-01-18T13:41:00.000-05:00

I found another Huggies Code: BCTDHBQWLPZKPGB

If you joined you and entered in all the codes found in the previoius post, did the poll, site search and watched the videos you should have more then 100 points already!

Restaurant.com

2010-01-18T09:58:00.000-05:00

If you saw my post regarding Restaurant.com and their 80% off deal, don't forget it ends tomorrow! Just put in the code INDULGE at the checkout. If you checked the site out and didn't find anything you liked you might want to check it again, I just received an email from them that says they added new inventory. I looked and they did! Plus a few new restaurants in my area.

Amazon Deal

2010-01-17T17:17:00.002-05:00

Here's a pretty good deal I found on Amazon. If you are getting ready for next years Christmas dinner party, here's the Pfaltzgraff Winterberry 16-Piece Dinnerware Set, Service for 4
It's $49.05 with free shipping!

My mom likes this set and occasionally I will see if there are any good prices on the serving pieces. I checked eBay out and the cheapest Buy It Now is $59 with shipping, there's an auction for $55.

Dryer Balls

2010-01-17T16:59:00.000-05:00

Has anyone else tried these? We bought something from our local closeout store that were actually dog toys but if you compared them to the "Dryer Balls" looked, felt and appeared to be the same thing. Now we did try them and both my husband and I felt that they did not make the clothes feel softer, and it didn't stop that wonderful static cling. I think it did help the larger loads dry a little faster. I would say don't waste your money even if it is the cheaper dog toy version.

Semi Annual Clearance Sales

2010-01-17T16:54:00.002-05:00

Yankee Candles sale will be ending tomorrow.

Bath & Body works ends today.

Both have awesome deals and I love to stock up on them during these times.

Best Deal Magazines

2010-01-17T16:50:00.000-05:00

Here are the Magazine Deals for January 16th - January 23rd

Plus Save an Extra 18% through Monday the 18th using the code EXTRA18 at the checkout.

Sunday - Marie Claire - $4.29
Monday - Life Extension - $3.99
Tuesday - Road & Track - $4.39
Wednesday - Everyday Food - $9.49
Thursday - Sporting News - $4.29
Friday - Seventeen - $4.29
Saturday -Men's Journal - $5.29
Sunday -Sherman's Travel - $3.89

Swagbucks

2010-01-17T01:01:00.000-05:00

When I started this blog I decided to join Swagbucks, that was 2 weeks ago. Since then from just downloading their toolbar, using their search and finding the bonus codes I've picked up 34 swagbucks. This is the equivalent of $10 at Redenvelope.com or just 11 away from getting a $5 Amazon.com certificate! Grant it that might not seem like a lot but I would definatley consider this a way to make money from nothing! Just click on the link here or click on the icon to the right and start your own savings.