CouponGuy's Blog

Now did you really think there would be naked people on this blog...anyway, here are the deals of the week.  By the way, this will be my last post on this site.  You can check out my posts on http://s3.freepowerboards.com/neocouponers/.  I have a forum there. 

GIANT EAGLE

Double Get Go (get .20 instead of .10 for every $50 spent) when you buy Restaurant gift cards. Good until June 16th.

Get $1 off on Get Go gas up to 30 gallons worth when you transfer a prescription there.  Coupon needed.  Rite Aid also has a $20 gift card coupon in their ad this week when you transfer a prescription to them.

The Columbus region area Giant Eagle stores are apparently doubling up to $1 coupons this ad. I don't know that they've ever done that before.

WYNDHAM

The Whitney – A Wyndham Historic Hotel

New Orleans, LA

72-Hour Sale: Rates from $49/night*

Savings:

When To Book:

When To Stay:

Sale Start Time:

In the heart of the central business district, The Whitney hotel offers an artful mix of New Orleans history, European elegance and business savvy. Once a bank, this nationally registered landmark surrounds you with style and comfort.

May 30 @ 6pm CST May 30 – September 30, 2007 May 30 – June 2, 2007

VANITY FAIR OUTLETS

Coupon for 20% off one item:

http://www.vffo.com/newsletter_6.1.07.htm

MARCS

Gala apples - .89/lb

Onions - .89 bag

VACATIONSTOGO.COM HAWAAIN CRUISE INFO

Get the Hawaii cruise deal now before they go away - find 7 day cruises starting at around $500.

Norwegian Cruise Line

Officials at Norwegian attribute the redeployment to financial losses in Hawaii in 2006 and say the move will be temporary. The Pride of Hawaii was the last of three ships introduced in Hawaii by Norwegian in less than three years. Combined with increased competition from other cruise lines visiting Hawaii as part of itineraries sailing to or from North America, the surge in capacity created a glut of cabins and lower prices for consumers.

The Norwegian Jade will arrive in Barcelona in late March, joining sister ships Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Gem in Europe for the 2008 season. Norwegian Jade will offer 12-, 13- and 14-night Mediterranean and Northern Europe cruises departing from Barcelona, Istanbul, Athens and London.

 

Bottom line: The buyer's market will continue in Hawaii for at least the next eight months. For a list of Hawaii sailings in 2007 on all Norwegian ships (including the Pride of Hawaii), click here. For a list of Norwegian Jade cruises in 2008, click here.

CLASS SCHEDULE

New classes in Fairview Park, Orange, and St. Patricks PTU.

June 4 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Solon Library

June 5 - Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Sheffield Lake Domonkas Library

June 7 - Thursday - 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM - Cleveland Public Main Library Senior Day

June 12 - Tuesday - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM - Fairport Harbor Senior Center

June 20 - Wednesday - 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM - Cleveland Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped

June 21 - Thursday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Strongsville Library

June 26 - Tuesday - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM - Lodi Library

June 28 - Thursday - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM - Buckeye Library

July 9 - Monday - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM - Richfield Library

July 10 - Tuesday - 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM - Hinckley Library

July 24 - Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Medina Library

July 30 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - North Canton Library

August 2 - Thursday - 7:00 to 8:30 PM - Painesville Morley Library

August 7 - Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Middleburg Heights Library

August 9 - Thursday - 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM - Lakeland Community College - $10 charge - Call 440-525-7116 to register

August 11 - Saturday - 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM - Painesville Morley Library

August 13 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Brecksville Library

August 16 - Thursday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Parma Heights Library

Sept 13 - Thursday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Berea Library

Sept 15 - Saturday - 2:00 to 3:30 PM - Bedford Library

Sept 17 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Willoughby Library

Sept 20 - Thursday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Garfield Heights Library

Sept 25 - Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Wickliffe Library

Sept 27 - Thursday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Brooklyn Library

Oct 29 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Fairview Park Library

Nov 7 - Wednesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - St. Patrick's PTU

Nov 8 - Thursday - 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM - Lakeland Community College - $10 charge - Call 440-525-7116 to register

Nov 12 - Monday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Orange Library

Jan 23, 2008 - Wednesday - 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - North Olmstead Library

Joe

has announced that one of its three ships offering year-round Hawaii cruises will be renamed and redeployed in Europe next year. Pride of Hawaii will discontinue its 7-day Hawaiian islands cruises at the end of January 2008, when the ship will enter a brief wet dock to be fitted with a casino (forbidden on ships that sail wholly in Hawaii) and have its colorful hull repainted, among other modifications. When it emerges, the ship will be renamed Norwegian Jade and will be reflagged into the Bahamas registry. 50% off our Best Available Rate

DOUBLE COUPONS

There is a Columbus grocer doubling dollar coupons coming up on the 31st.  I believe it is Kroger.  Might be worth the trip. 

 

WALGREENS

Free after rebate:

Gaviscom

Rimmel foundation makeup - also use $1 coupon to make money

Men's Zone Hair Color

Stayfree - also use $1 coupon to make money

 

RESTAURANT.COM

Find $25 gift certificates for area restaurants for $10 or other various amounts. Use code GRAD to get an additional 60% off until May 31.

If you ask anyone that has used coupons, inevitably one of them will tell you that they forgot their coupons at home.  So make it a habit to keep your coupons in your car.  In order for something to be a habit, studies show you'll need to do it 26 times.  Then you will do it subconciously.  If you forget the coupons while you are in the store, then just leave your cart and then go out to your car and get your coupons and then come back to the store.

Another method is to punish yourself every time you forget your coupons.  So if you forget them, then lick the cart handle, smell the shoes of the person closest to you in the store, or pluck a mole hair.  You will more than likely remember them next time.   

I've found that many people in my classes that I teach aren't aware of double coupons.  The stores could do a better job of advertising it, however Dave's Supermarket and Giant Eagle double coupons here locally.  They do them 24 hours a day and, 7 days a week.  The coupons must be 99 cents or less.  So for instance, a 75 cent coupon will double to $1.50 off.  You must have a store card in order to get the discount.

Stores in the Columbus area have also doubled $1 coupons at times.  They are called super doubles.  They have more competition so they have better coupon promotions.  Tops, when they were here, doubled $1 coupons last year for a week in September. 

One thing about double coupons - if the UPC starts with a 5, it will double automatically.  If it starts with a 9, it won't.

 

 

DISCOUNT DRUG MART

Electrasol - 2 for $5 - use $2.25 off coupon to get it for .25 Armour Hot Dogs - 69 cents

MARCS

Bag o Spinach - $1 Sugardale Hot Dogs - .69 Mushroom package - .89 Red Delicious Apples - .69/ pound

GIANT EAGLE

Maxwell House coffee cans - BOGO (buy one get one free) Turkey Hill half gallon ice cream - $2.50 - use 2/$1.00 coupon French's Mustard - $1 - use .50 coupon to get it free Swanson TV dinners - $1 Bic Comfort 3 razors - BOGO Philly Cheese steaks - BOGO McCain Fries - BOGO Country Time Lemonade mix - BOGO General Mills cereal bars - $2 - use .75 or .50 coupon Vlasic relish - $1 - use .50 coupon to get it free Open Pit - $1 - use .35 coupon to get it for .30 Ekrich kielbasa - BOGO

- for the items listed above without coupons - wait until this Sunday to see if there are other coupons for the above products - check refundcents.com to find out what coupons will be in this Sundays paper.

TGIFRIDAYS

Their appetizers are $4 during happy hour -normally they are at least double the price - until 9 PM during the week - and usually after 10 PM also - check your Fridays though since it may vary - at the bar only.  You can also use the coupon in the Entertainment book to get the one of the appetizers free.

D'VINE

During Happy Hour until 7:00 PM - Half off flights on Wednesdays.  Half off a glass of wine on Friday - (glasses priced at less than $7 - used to be $8, so it must have been popular)

 

 

 

 

PRICE MATCHING

I bought flowering baskets as many of you probably did this weekend. What I also did was have the store price match a competitor's price. You'll need the competitor's ad with the price advertised in it to do this. I had Sear's price match a Marc's ad ($7.95). And then I had Lowe's price match an Aldi's ad ($5.99). The have to be 10# containers. No troubles. The Aldi's ad is from this past Sunday. The price for the flowering baskets would otherwise have been about double the price.

GAS

Many of you have received the e-mail on the gasout that is to happen May 15th. Most of what the e-mails say won't have the intended effect. The one way we all can help lower prices is by using less gas, not delaying the use of it. And by that I mean getting a hybrid car, riding a bike instead of driving, turning your water heater down, or darning your socks in the river.

Check out snopes.com to spell out what really will happen with the gasout:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasoline.asp

CVS

$4 off $20 purchase coupon found on the couponcabin.com site: http://www.couponcabins.com/images/wow_22047435.gif

GIANT EAGLE

Tabasco sauce - $1 - free after .50 coupon

OUR TOWN

Be sure to mail in the postcards in the OurTown coupon book. They are sending additional coupons next month to those who sent them in.

Another good site to check out is farecompare.com.  They tell you what month, day, or week, it's cheapest to fly.  Also they can notify you when a price fare hits a certain pre-defined amount.

Here are some great travel sites to check out:

vacationstogo.com - got a Hawaii cruise at 80% off on it and no problems with it.  Lots of last minute cruise deals, but many aren't last minute deals too.

megabus.com - can get roundtrip bus rides to Chicago for $2 total.

skybus.com - cheap flights out of Columbus

kayak.com - comparison travel site

yahootravel.com - comparison travel site

Sign up with airlines, rental car, or hotel sites to get exclusive deals.  Sometimes southwest.com will send $29 one way flight deals to it's e-mail members.  Wyndham.com sends half off deals for certain hotels every so often.  Continental will send $99 roundtrip deals to many cities (sent weekly).

Try this: If you rent a car, get the cheapest one.  Typically the rental agency won't have the car in it's lot.  I booked an economy car at $12 a day and got upgraded to a convertible since they didn't have any 'cheap' cars left in the lot when we went to Vegas.

Don't wait to get gas to fill up rental cars near airport gas stations when returning the car.  The airport gas stations charge out the wazoo.  Most don't even have a sign showing how much they charge. 

 

 

 

If you subscribe to magazines, be sure to re-subscribe now.  Magazine companies will more than likely charge more for subscriptions to cover upcoming increases in their delivery rates by the Postal Service.

CHANNEL 8

They repeated last Friday's segment this past Tuesday on their 8:00 show. They'll probably do the same the next few weeks when they air more segments on Fridays at 5:00. On that rebroadcast Wayne Dawson commented that he wouldn't want to be behind me in line. Of course he was referring to all the coupons I would use and the time it would take for the cashier to go through them. That's understandable. I know I wouldn't want to be behind me in line sometimes too. Some cashiers are good about zipping through the coupons while others aren't.

There are some options though to quell their frustration. I usually offer the people behind me in line a bite out of the sausage chub that I bought as a peace offering. Sometimes I will tell them that the line is closed now. Or if they seem like the angry type, I will tell them that the 'give out samples' lady in aisle 8 is pouring free shots of Cognac and if they hurry she was also throwing in free back massages using her elbow.

POSTAGE

Postage rates are going up starting May 14th. Send out all your mail now. Better yet, pay your bills on-line or pre-pay them to avoid paying for postage. The letter rate will go from 39 cents to 41 cents. Shape based packages, rigid mail, and flats will increase in price significantly. They are also offering a 'forever stamp'. The cost is 41 cents and it will last forever. So you can buy 1,000 of them now and 20 years from now it will still be good. Next year the cost will go up depending on inflation triggers, so next year's forever stamp may cost 45 cents. Get 'em now!

MARCS

Buy 5 produce items for $5 - items included are:

3 lb bag of apples (makes it 33 cents a pound!)

1 lb grown on the vine tomatoes

Bag of potatoes

Mushrooms

Bag of carrots

Plus others

SUPER K-MART

Kraft 8 ounce block cheese - $1.00

Swanson classic tv dinners - $1.00

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS

COMPUSA

Beachwood/North Olmstead

up to 70% off today.

up to 80% Fri - Sat

up to 90% off Sunday

 

JC PENNEY SALON

Great Deal! They have a buy $10 get $10 off coupon in their ad this past Sunday. Salon only.

CVS

Free after extra bucks:

Oral B G.U.M. toothbrush

Oreo, Honey-Maid, Nutter Butter - 3 for $5 after extra bucks

BASKIN ROBBINS

31 cents scoop night on May 2nd - 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

GIANT EAGLE

South Beach Diet Pizza - $2 - use .75 coupon to get it for .50

Vlasic relish - $1 - plus use .50 coupon to get it free

Eggs - 85 cents - large A

K-MART

Kraft 8 ounce block cheese - $1.00

Swanson classic tv dinners - $1.00

WALGREENS

Free after rebate:

Softsoap body wash

Irish Spring body wash

Soy bar

and many more free after rebate items this month.  Get the booklet where you find the ads in the store.

Lean Cuisine - 4 for $5

 

RITE AID DEALS

The Rite Aid rebates can be completed on-line or mailed in.  The information at the top of your receipt can be entered on-line in order to redeem your rebate.  UPC's don't need to be cut out.  New rebates begin each month.  The rebates are done as a whole each month and not on each individual item.  Rite Aid will give you back the cost of the item, irregardless if you used a coupon.  For instance, if the item costs $5 and you used a $1 coupon, Rite Aid will still send you $5 back in a rebate check, so you will actually make money shopping!

Free after rebate:

Heel Balm

Addidas Anti-perspirant Deodorant - plus use recent $1 coupon

Advil PM - plus use recent $1.50 coupon

Citre Shine hair products - plus use recent $1 coupon

Neutrogena Hair Care

Salon Grafix

The Doctor's Night Guard 

Oral-B Cross Action Power Toothbrush - plus use recent

Nutra Cal Calcium Supplement

Soy Joy Bar - free after coupon in ad - plus use buy one get one free coupon

Reach toothbrush or dental floss - 99 cents - free after $1 coupon

Oral-B Cross Action Power Toothbrush - $1.99 - plus use recent $1 coupon

** Also, there is a coupon in the Rite Aid ad for a $20 gift card when you transfer a prescription to Rite Aid.

Buy two 12 packs of Bud and $100 worth of patio furniture or grills and get $30 back in a rebate check.  Rebate forms found on Bud beer displays.  Beer rebates can be found at Speedway, Giant Eagle, Dave's Supermarket, and Marc's.

 

Joe

The Coupon Guy 

Normally what I find is that people have a multitude of excuses why they can't spend time saving money by cutting out coupons.  Fire away and let me know them and I'll see if I can help you break the excuse habit.

 

Joe

The Coupon Guy 

RITE AID

The Rite Aid rebates can be completed on-line or mailed in.  The information at the top of your receipt can be entered on-line in order to redeem your rebate.  UPC's don't need to be cut out.  New rebates begin each month.  The rebates are done as a whole each month and not on each individual item.  Rite Aid will give you back the cost of the item, irregardless if you used a coupon.  For instance, if the item costs $5 and you used a $1 coupon, Rite Aid will still send you $5 back in a rebate check, so you will actually make money shopping!

Free after rebate:

Heel Balm

Addidas Anti-perspirant Deodorant - plus use recent $1 coupon

Advil PM - plus use recent $1.50 coupon

Citre Shine hair products - plus use recent $1 coupon

Neutrogena Hair Care

Salon Grafix

The Doctor's Night Guard 

Oral-B Cross Action Power Toothbrush - plus use recent

Nutra Cal Calcium Supplement

Soy Joy Bar - free after coupon in ad - plus use buy one get one free coupon

Reach toothbrush or dental floss - 99 cents - free after $1 coupon

Oral-B Cross Action Power Toothbrush - $1.99 - plus use recent $1 coupon

** Also, there is a coupon in the Rite Aid ad for a $20 gift card when you transfer a prescription to Rite Aid.