Cyber Monday

For the most part, Cyber Monday is all hype and not a lot of substance. It really just signifies the beginning of the online shopping season, but the deals are getting better and better as the day becomes more popular.

Don’t forget about Ebates! If you don’t have an Ebates account, get one here. It’s free easy money just for shopping online. You just have to remember to enter the shopping site through the Ebates site. The list of Ebates stores is here. But if we all have to do holiday shopping anyway, why not sit in the comfort of your own home, then just wait for a rebate check in the mail? If you are signing up for a new account, please use lightners at comcast dot net as your referral. We’ll both get $5 in our accounts.

One online shopping site that looks good is restaurant.com. They offer very cheap restaurant gift certificates. The downside is………there really aren’t any from southern Chester County. A few in Wilmington, several in Philly, but none close to here. But you may find some gifts there.

Saturday Night-what’s a couponer to do?

Get ready for superdoubles or triples! I’m going to spend my evening sorting. I never was the clubbing or partying type anyway.

Tomorrow is the 30th–LOTS of coupons expiring after that. Tomorrow also starts the superdoubles at Kmart. There are now several threads going on about this on hotcouponworld. Here is the link to the KMart board. Remember, they will double anything up to and including $2 coupons, no internet printables. Limit 4 of same coupon.

Also–when you are checking out, you need to make sure you watch carefully. They have a new register feature which prompts the cashier to match up the coupon to the item. My advice is this–let’s say you have the $2 Dove hair care coupon. Dove hair care is 3.79 at Kmart. If you have 4 Qs for this, put your 4 Doves on the belt, let them ring it, then hand them the 4 coupons so that when prompted, they will match it correctly.

If, let’s say you have another Unilever item (like Suave, Ragu or many others) and they just match it up to anything, you could lose money. It happened to me last time. It takes a little bit longer, just scout out the cashiers and look for a friendly one. If you’re at Pike Creek, there are several young, very friendly male cashiers that I like. The older women I do not care for.

Also, yesterday started another week of triples at Superfresh. And, they have Rayovac batteries on sale for 0.99. If you got the $1 coupon recently, I think it was just last week, free batteries.

I am taking a break from CVS for a while. The next couple of weeks look slow there and my ECBs are now all good until the 27th or 28th of December, so plenty of time to roll them.

Lowe’s & Pyle’s

Pyle’s is having both Santa and other characters at their store this Sunday and next. They have it posted out front.

Lowe’s: Has a deal right now where if you buy a $100 gift card, you get a rebate slip when you check out. Send that in for another $20 gift card. Limit 3 per household. There is no processing/activation fee for their gift cards, so if you have things you were going to purchase at Lowe’s anyway, get yourself a gift card first. Might as well take the free money.

Urban Legend-Store Closings and Gift Cards

If you get one of those email forwards about various retailers closing their doors and not honoring gift cards, it’s an urban legend. See info here.