I vented a little bit this morning about some other blogs that I’m finding annoying because they’re advocating coupon fraud. One of my commenters, Amy, said she prefers the challenge of trying to do it by the rules. Me too! Couldn’t agree more! I mean, if you’re just going to try talking a cashier into accepting a coupon that isn’t for the product you’re purchasing, where’s the deal? Why not just try to talk them into accepting Monopoly money?
The best deals are those that are honest, although they may not be the easiest to come by. Let’s flash back…it was just two years ago, that Kmart had superdoubles and it was unlimited. Look at this post from 2009, and this one and this one from 2008, with photos. Then they cut it to 75 coupons per customer, then 50, then 25. Now it’s 5! Five! And only 4 of those can be the same coupon. And now they require a $25 purchase to accompany it. Still I was up for a challenge this week.
Here are the deals I wanted to stack:
$5 off $50 I got for registering my email (link in yesterday’s post)
$10 back wyb $35 worth of P&G products (I may have incorrectly reported this yesterday as 10/25)
$5 back wyb $20 worth of All/Snuggle
$5 back wyb 4 of the Hershey’s drops (these are yummy by the way!)
Superdoubles! Limit 5
Ok, had all those deals in my head, and evaluated my coupons. I scored several of the $8 off ANY Iams dog food coupons, and they are a P&G product. Time to use some of those. This is what I did:
$28-two bags of Iams Dog Food, minus $16 for two $8 coupons
$9-Pampers, minus $4, had $2 coupon from yesterday’s paper, doubled
$10-4 bags of the Hershey’s things, minus $4, had two $2 off 2 coupons which doubled
$6.58-two Snuggles, minus $4, one $2 off 2 coupon, doubled
$17.37-3 Alls, minus $4 in coupons, only one of my $1/1s doubled, the other two, just face value
$5 off $50 coupon
Delaware-no sales tax!
Paid $31.26, got $20 back. $10 for P&G, $5 for Hershey’s, $5 for All/Snuggle.
It’s a much better deal if you do all Snuggle (3.29/bottle) and no All. But remember, great deal vs great price. Only a great deal if you really need it, and I needed the All more than the Snuggle.
Eight bottles of Snuggle=26.32, if you have four of the $2/2s, they’ll double, so minus $16. Pay 10.32, get $5 back.
Personally, if you want to make it better (darnit, now why didn’t I think of this while in the store!) I would do the Hershey’s deal by itself first-4 bags=$10. Minus $4 in coupons (no $25 threshold=no doubles) but then you pay $6, get $5 back. The Hershey’s catalina is the only one you can roll this week. The others you can’t use until next week. But if you did this first, then use that $5 catalina to purchase your Snuggle, pay $5.32, get $5 back.
Now I have $20 in Kmart cash that I have to use next week, but that’s no big deal since they sell all kinds of groceries now, including milk. That makes my final oop 11.26 for all that stuff, I’ll take it!
Love the Monopoly money example. There are comments I haven't accepted on my blog if they are advocating fraud. I need to post some of the common things that people may not know are fraud to be sure readers understand correct coupon usage.
Our Kmart is 30 minutes away so I rarely go there–and for 5 doubles when they will be wiped out of anything good isn't worth a trip. I go so rarely I never even heard of Kmart cash :-). It is harder to get great deals now.
Actually Cheryl, Kmart Cash is a term I made up. They're actually catalinas, but I used that term to make it clearer for possible newbies reading it, kwim?