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The Coupon Whisperer: How to Convert 54 Cents to 10 Dollars Via Coupon Magic
The Coupon Whisperer ^ | January 23, 2011 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 01/23/2011 6:55:42 PM PST by PJ-Comix

What if I were to offer you $10 for every 54 cents you give me. Even better, to sweeten the deal for you, I would kick in 30 bucks worth of stuff for FREE. Sounds like a fantasy. Too good to be true, right? Well, guess again because that is EXACTLY what I did today many times over.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor
KEYWORDS: budget; coupon; couponing; coupons; food; foodbudget; foodprices; frugal; frugality; walgreens
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To: PJ-Comix

Please add me too!


41 posted on 01/23/2011 8:50:31 PM PST by PROCON (Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #152.


42 posted on 01/23/2011 8:58:31 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: Black_Shark

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #153.


43 posted on 01/23/2011 9:01:38 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Ping me please!!! I’m a crazy coupon lady in the making!


44 posted on 01/23/2011 9:02:03 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: PROCON

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #154.


45 posted on 01/23/2011 9:02:42 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Seems to be that this is akin to gambling in that someone has to lose in order for someone else to win.

In order to score in “extreme couponing,” someone has to pay for the goods that you take home for little or nothing.

There are ethical questions to be considered here.


46 posted on 01/23/2011 9:03:49 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: To Hell With Poverty

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #155.


47 posted on 01/23/2011 9:03:51 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Please add me to your ping list—thanks!


48 posted on 01/23/2011 9:06:21 PM PST by Spudx7
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To: Jedidah
Seems to be that this is akin to gambling in that someone has to lose in order for someone else to win.

The only losers are those that don't play the game. And The Coupon Whisperer doesn't intend to be a loser. Or do you think it is "ethical" to pay full price like the suckers?

49 posted on 01/23/2011 9:06:25 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: Spudx7

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #156.


50 posted on 01/23/2011 9:08:04 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: Jedidah

There are ethical questions in couponing but this Maalox deal is not one of them.

Did Dove intend for me to get free Deodorant this week given the release date of the coupon.

I don’t know.

But I am doing it.


51 posted on 01/23/2011 9:08:55 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

What’s the Dove deal? I’m well stocked with BO sticks but my wife is running low.


52 posted on 01/23/2011 9:12:05 PM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

You need the coupon that comes out next weekend - assuming it will work on the men’s line.

Until saturday it is 3.99 get back 2. Use the 2.00 Dove Deodorant coupon.

There is also a Dove deal next week but the items won’t be free. Just cheap.


53 posted on 01/23/2011 9:17:51 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: PJ-Comix

So, you got 6 bottles of Maalox at 54 cents, to wash down 4 free pizzas? Are the pizzas really that bad? That doesn’t sound like a good deal to me.

Or do you use the extra Maalox for stocking stuffers next Christmas?

We haven’t gone through a single bottle of Pepto in more than a year, so what do you do with it all?

Or is it just a game to score “points”, with the one who “saves” the most by buying stuff they don’t need or use, the annual winner?


54 posted on 01/23/2011 10:41:41 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: Jedidah

First, the ethical considerations:

If one is using so many $5 off coupons in one day, and if (like most) there is a limitation printed on said coupons, then one is theoretically (or at least morally) fraudulently using them.

On the slightly shady side:

One coupon per paper, so multiple copies of the paper must be used. People have been prosecuted for theft for taking “free” papers, on the grounds that they are intended to be free for all, rather than glommed upon by a single individual. This is unfairly preventing others who may actually NEED the product from getting a legitament discount.

On the worldly/practical side:

If, in compliance with normal coupon limitations, ONE per purchase (often even one per person per stoore visit; or even per day), how much time and gas money is wasted going from store to store, and standing in lines?

I’ve also noticed many times, theough that doesn’t seem to be the case in this specific instance, that very often even a ‘large’ discount coupon for a major brand product leaves it still more expensive than the store or lesser known brand THAT HAS THE SAME FORMULATION.

I’ve done manufacturing inspection work, where the ONLY difference in a product (and ultimate price) was whose lable was applied in mid run.

In the warehouse, there were times that product was relabled, to put together an order for a store-brand customer, rather than set up a custom label run.


55 posted on 01/23/2011 11:13:47 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: PJ-Comix

O Coupon Whisperer, please sign me up for your ping list. I can always use free stuff! :)


56 posted on 01/23/2011 11:31:57 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (March 2010: Congress shoved Obamacare down our throats. November 2010: We will shove it back!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

You seem to be leaving the $10 RRs out of the equation. Yeah, just one of those RRs can get me all that pizza. The rest can buy me a whole lot of stuff including cameras, electronic stuff, etc.. As for the Maalox, one can be very creative in what to do with them.


57 posted on 01/24/2011 4:32:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: ApplegateRanch
If one is using so many $5 off coupons in one day, and if (like most) there is a limitation printed on said coupons, then one is theoretically (or at least morally) fraudulently using them.

No such limitation for this transaction.

One coupon per paper, so multiple copies of the paper must be used. People have been prosecuted for theft for taking “free” papers, on the grounds that they are intended to be free for all, rather than glommed upon by a single individual.

The coupon inserts are from tossed away newspapers or purchased online. Next objection.

If, in compliance with normal coupon limitations, ONE per purchase (often even one per person per store visit; or even per day), how much time and gas money is wasted going from store to store, and standing in lines?

One purchase can include multiple items aka transactions.

I’ve also noticed many times, theough that doesn’t seem to be the case in this specific instance, that very often even a ‘large’ discount coupon for a major brand product leaves it still more expensive than the store or lesser known brand THAT HAS THE SAME FORMULATION.

Not when I buy the stuff. ...One final "ethical" objection, please.

In the warehouse, there were times that product was relabled, to put together an order for a store-brand customer, rather than set up a custom label run.

Nothing to do with couponing. The ethical problem in that case has to do with that warehouse not with The Coupon Whisperer nor his Couponeers.

58 posted on 01/24/2011 4:44:16 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: Treeless Branch

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #157.


59 posted on 01/24/2011 4:48:47 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: bitt

Welcome aboard, PINGEE #158.


60 posted on 01/24/2011 4:50:18 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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