Freebies
If you have been following Inquiring Minds for couponers, here is the long anticipated freebies!
What if I told you that we never pay for the following items because they are always FREE?
Antacids
Bandaids
Cough Drops
First Aid Creams
Tylenol and other pain relievers
Hand Soap
Dish Soap
Deodorant
Lotion
Floss
Mouthwash
Tooth Paste
Razors
Shampoo
Shaving Cream
Soap & Body Wash
Toothbrushes
Air Freshners
These items are always free! It doesn't matter, they are going to be free, the manufacturers want you to take it home! As long as you don't buy them when you run out, you will always have a constant supply. Now I am not saying that in one trip I get enough to last us a year, but for a couple of months. Remember no hoarding allowed!
How?
Firstly, your B1G1 coupons aren't gold, they are flippin' platinum baby!
Once you get rid of the mindset of not shopping at a drug store because ... THEY are too expensive, you will begin to understand that YOU CAN NOT not afford to shop at them. They not only offer you additional incentives they sometimes pay you to take it off their hands! At a drug store, B1G1 coupons with a B1G1 sale mean both are free. You are buying both, one happens to have 1 Q with it and well the other one is a bonus thus equalling zero $$$. Look at it as you would think the grocer would and wouldn't. B1G1, both ring up at 1/2 off at the grocer, but at the pharmacy, one rings up regular price and one rings up $0. Since you are "buying" both, you are going to have to pay tax, you are buying the one that rings up $0 and getting the say $5 one free. Get it? at the grocer, very different story.
Second, Shop here benefit $$$
At CVS they have Extra Care Bucks. At Walgreens, they have Register Rewards. What are they? Money back in your pocket. The catch...you have to spend it at the store, in a certain time frame. I know that last part doesn't seem to make something free...but it does. How? Well you hear of those coupon crazies getting free toilet paper and the like on TV right? Wondered how? They use benefit shopper money.
TIP: Some grocers allow you to Walgreens Register Rewards toward the purchase of groceries, calling them competitor coupons to be taken off the total amount of your groceries.
So here's how it works...I buy a tube of tooth paste $3, I have a Q for said tube for $1 off thus making it $2. The store is going to print me benefit money at $3 for buying said toothpaste. So I pay for the toothpaste. I pay $2 and get back $3. I made $3 in store money and my toothpaste then was free; plus $1 over. I then take that $3 in benefit money and buy needed laundry soap, that happened to be on sale for $3.99. I pay for my laundry detergent with the $3 benefit money thus making it .99 cents out of pocket for my detergent. I was going to buy the laundry soap and toothpaste anyway, so in all actuality, I would have spent $3 on toothpaste and $3.99 on laundry detergent for a total of $6.99. What came out of my pocket? $2.99. I saved $4 and only had a $1 off Q.
Here is the break down.
Transaction 1:
Toothpaste @ $3 -$1Q=$2 out of pocket, $3 benefit bucks back
Transaction 2:
Laundry Detergent @ $3.99-$3 benefit bucks = .99 out of pocket
Total value purchased: $6.99
Total Out of pocket Spent: $2.99
What was free: Toothpaste
What was close to free: Laundry detergent if I would have used a coupon!
Pharmacies are no longer places to avoid unless you are sick! Those Q crazies just happen to buy toilet paper instead of laundry detergent!
Tip: When shopping at CVS, scan your CVS shopper card twice, it will only allow you to do it 2 times in the given sale week, but hey you might pull a Q for something you are buying that day, or better yet, X $'s off your purchase!
Thirdly, Stacking
Many stores allow you to "stack" coupons. Now this doesn't mean show up with a pile of the same coupon you pulled from multiple outlets to use for one item. What it does mean is...I have a store Q, either picked up out of their circular or printed off their website plus a manufacturer's Q.
Where can you do this?
Pharma's, Grocer's...Target...anywhere that has their own Q's!
Morale of the story is buy your hygiene necessities and paper products at a pharmacy!
If you have been following Inquiring Minds for couponers, here is the long anticipated freebies!
What if I told you that we never pay for the following items because they are always FREE?
Antacids
Bandaids
Cough Drops
First Aid Creams
Tylenol and other pain relievers
Hand Soap
Dish Soap
Deodorant
Lotion
Floss
Mouthwash
Tooth Paste
Razors
Shampoo
Shaving Cream
Soap & Body Wash
Toothbrushes
Air Freshners
These items are always free! It doesn't matter, they are going to be free, the manufacturers want you to take it home! As long as you don't buy them when you run out, you will always have a constant supply. Now I am not saying that in one trip I get enough to last us a year, but for a couple of months. Remember no hoarding allowed!
How?
Firstly, your B1G1 coupons aren't gold, they are flippin' platinum baby!
Once you get rid of the mindset of not shopping at a drug store because ... THEY are too expensive, you will begin to understand that YOU CAN NOT not afford to shop at them. They not only offer you additional incentives they sometimes pay you to take it off their hands! At a drug store, B1G1 coupons with a B1G1 sale mean both are free. You are buying both, one happens to have 1 Q with it and well the other one is a bonus thus equalling zero $$$. Look at it as you would think the grocer would and wouldn't. B1G1, both ring up at 1/2 off at the grocer, but at the pharmacy, one rings up regular price and one rings up $0. Since you are "buying" both, you are going to have to pay tax, you are buying the one that rings up $0 and getting the say $5 one free. Get it? at the grocer, very different story.
Second, Shop here benefit $$$
At CVS they have Extra Care Bucks. At Walgreens, they have Register Rewards. What are they? Money back in your pocket. The catch...you have to spend it at the store, in a certain time frame. I know that last part doesn't seem to make something free...but it does. How? Well you hear of those coupon crazies getting free toilet paper and the like on TV right? Wondered how? They use benefit shopper money.
TIP: Some grocers allow you to Walgreens Register Rewards toward the purchase of groceries, calling them competitor coupons to be taken off the total amount of your groceries.
So here's how it works...I buy a tube of tooth paste $3, I have a Q for said tube for $1 off thus making it $2. The store is going to print me benefit money at $3 for buying said toothpaste. So I pay for the toothpaste. I pay $2 and get back $3. I made $3 in store money and my toothpaste then was free; plus $1 over. I then take that $3 in benefit money and buy needed laundry soap, that happened to be on sale for $3.99. I pay for my laundry detergent with the $3 benefit money thus making it .99 cents out of pocket for my detergent. I was going to buy the laundry soap and toothpaste anyway, so in all actuality, I would have spent $3 on toothpaste and $3.99 on laundry detergent for a total of $6.99. What came out of my pocket? $2.99. I saved $4 and only had a $1 off Q.
Here is the break down.
Transaction 1:
Toothpaste @ $3 -$1Q=$2 out of pocket, $3 benefit bucks back
Transaction 2:
Laundry Detergent @ $3.99-$3 benefit bucks = .99 out of pocket
Total value purchased: $6.99
Total Out of pocket Spent: $2.99
What was free: Toothpaste
What was close to free: Laundry detergent if I would have used a coupon!
Pharmacies are no longer places to avoid unless you are sick! Those Q crazies just happen to buy toilet paper instead of laundry detergent!
Tip: When shopping at CVS, scan your CVS shopper card twice, it will only allow you to do it 2 times in the given sale week, but hey you might pull a Q for something you are buying that day, or better yet, X $'s off your purchase!
Thirdly, Stacking
Many stores allow you to "stack" coupons. Now this doesn't mean show up with a pile of the same coupon you pulled from multiple outlets to use for one item. What it does mean is...I have a store Q, either picked up out of their circular or printed off their website plus a manufacturer's Q.
Where can you do this?
Pharma's, Grocer's...Target...anywhere that has their own Q's!
Morale of the story is buy your hygiene necessities and paper products at a pharmacy!
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