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Food Lions in certain areas (verified for Food Lions in North Georgia) are going to start doubling coupons $.60 or less on Wednesday.

Hopefully this is a system-wide change!

5/17/2010 2:40:31 PM

Went to food lion today and they have a new MVP machine that prints out coupons to use that day only. I ended up saving $1 for buying 10 pounds of Holly Farm Chicken, $1 for buying 2 bags of FL brand cheese, and used two $3 off a purchase of $60 since my bill was $150.

5/17/2010 5:38:13 PM

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"Assuming you live in the Raleigh area, you can go down to the News & Observer building and buy the paper I believe. You just tell the guard in the building that you want a copy of the Sunday paper and he'll sell you one. "

hah i work across the street, and couldnt find a sunday paper anywhere once, so i went there the guard was like oh we dont sell old editions but then another lady in a little room showed me there was a sunday paper only box outside

5/17/2010 9:55:20 PM

anyone have the wholly guacamole and wholly salsa coupons from 4/25?

5/18/2010 11:35:17 PM

Super doubles at Harris Teeter this week

5/19/2010 8:43:12 AM

we knew that last week

5/19/2010 9:01:26 AM

5/19/2010 9:14:02 AM

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"anyone have the wholly guacamole and wholly salsa coupons from 4/25?"

I have one. Word of advice if you are planning to use it at HT Super Doubles...it says "Do not double" up at the top. And during triples/super doubles, cashiers are more likely to pull this coupon out and manually enter it so that it will not double/triple.

5/19/2010 10:02:26 AM

DOUBLE POST but I gotta post my Super Doubles run.

2 Renuzit Odor Eliminating Sprays
3 French's Honey Mustard Dipping Sauces
4 Maruchan Yakisoba
6 Vitamin Waters
1 Carefree liners
3 Reach flosses
3 Sure For Men deodorants
3 McCormick chili powders

$41.18 BC
$1.21 OOP (all tax)

Got a $2.50 OYNO catalina for buying the 3 McCormick spices.

5/19/2010 11:49:32 AM

^ That's cool and all but you did not get enough food for me!

My haul:

$106.99 for $13.86 and I still have about $15 of FREE stuff to go back and get tomorrow!

Oh and I am new to this thread and I just wanted to point out this

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"You can get a lot of stuff for free or really cheap, especially at stores that double them, but it will be mostly refrigerated biscuits, rice, peanut butter, etc. Very little that you can really make into a meal. "

and say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if anything you be getting TONS of GOOD brand name stuff you have never had and plenty of to make meals! For example, I have got 6 bags of saffaron rice, a pack of Perdue chicken beasts individuals, and 3 packs Steamers veggies all in one trip for like 4 dollars, and thats at the very least 3 relatively balanced meals if you eat bread with it, and drank my free vitamin water with it!

And for doubters my average grocery bill is about 35% of the original price (I do the math), whether on sale or not, and on triples or super doubles it gets ridiculous as you can see above.

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM. Reason : /]

5/19/2010 12:06:06 PM

^What all did you get at HT?

My brother wants to go at lunch and use his VIC card and get some free Vitamin Water.

5/19/2010 12:44:23 PM

Multiple of the following for the food portion of the haul -

Oscar Meyer Deli Creations
Wholly Guacamole
Silk Almond Pure milk
Velvetta shells and cheese cups
Dole Fruit Crisp
Vitamin water
Yokasabi noodles
Krunchers potato chips
Activia yogurt
individual size California Pizza Kitchen pizzas



Obviously I got more stuff, like pretty much every thing you have on your list in multiples.

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM. Reason : /]

5/19/2010 2:14:11 PM

Awesome.

I just took my brother to HT during our lunch hour


We stocked up on free cat treats. Some are coming home with me and some are going to his girlfriend. Our cats are going to be spoiled.

Most Friskies cat treats are $2/package. There was an insert q for $1/1.

Friskies Party Mix are $2/package as well and I used a $1.50/2 q to get them for $.50/package. My cats prefer these b/c they are crunchy.

5/19/2010 2:32:16 PM

^where is that $1/1 q from? which insert? i used up all my $1.50/2 q's.

5/19/2010 2:33:22 PM

Cat treats are high in calories and can make them fat. Use them sparingly and responsibly!

5/19/2010 2:36:14 PM

hahahah

i have a seriously skinny kitty (because the other 2 bully her and eat all the food) so i feed her 3 or 4 cat treat pieces every morning. if she doesn't get them, she follows me around whining until she gets them. cats are smart like that, haha.

the funny thing is, as a kitten, we named her The Notorious Mrs. Bigglesworth (aka Biggie) and she turned out to be the pipsqueak of the bunch

5/19/2010 2:37:41 PM

from the 5/2 SmartSource.

Also Whiskas temptations treats are 3/$5 and there were $1/1 coupons (good on only the 2.1 oz size) in the 4/18 Red Plum.


I keep thinking of more deals. Using the $1.50 coupon from Sunday's paper, Snuggle Fabric softener is free (priced at $2.99).

^our kitten bullies our 2 adult cats out of food/water.

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 2:40 PM. Reason : f]

5/19/2010 2:39:38 PM

!!!!

Gosh, now I wanna shop tomorrow morning before we go to Orlando.

Cat treats and Snuggle - 2 things we actually use

5/19/2010 2:40:51 PM

I would say feed her wet cat food instead. That is what I use for a 'treat' for my cats. When they hear the can open they are OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! because they hardly ever get it.

Oh and I got 3 free things of Snuggle!

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 2:41 PM. Reason : /]

5/19/2010 2:41:20 PM

My cats have issues. They won't eat wet food. They'll sit there and lick all the juice off the plate, leaving the food!

5/19/2010 2:42:09 PM

Warm it up or mix dry food with it. If that doesn't work, get another cat!

5/19/2010 2:43:01 PM

I got 3 too. I have more coupons at home that I hadn't sorted into my binder yet.

I'll go back tomorrow and get some more.

My husband is going to freak out when he sees how much cat treats I'm bringing home.


Oh yeah, Halls cough drops 30 count are $1.89 so free with the $1/1 coupon from the 3/28 Smartsource.

5/19/2010 2:43:55 PM

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"If that doesn't work, get another cat! "

I don't like you anymore.

5/19/2010 2:45:09 PM

^^You got a binder? HAHAHAHA I just got a little thing with pockets in it that has a velcro strap on it! I see people with binders and say to myself LOSERS! Kidding

^ Muhahahahaha

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 2:46 PM. Reason : /]

5/19/2010 2:45:50 PM

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"I don't like you anymore."

My binder is AWESOME. It is a 4 1/2 inch binder. I had to order it from Amazon b/c only one company makes a 4 1/2 inch binder

5/19/2010 2:46:54 PM

I got my little thing from target for 6 bucks I think. And its pink and black!

5/19/2010 2:48:08 PM

I used to have this shocking pink binder and I'd leave my husband w/ the cart and the binder

I don't know if I've told you this before but it is so rad that you are a coupon king (instead of queen)

5/19/2010 2:50:00 PM

I'm rad like that. I think of myself as a coupon ninja, and I got like a black belt!

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM. Reason : /]

5/19/2010 2:50:47 PM

We should get a TWW coupon group together and go shopping!

5/19/2010 2:52:19 PM

Woot woot! That would be funny at HT like 3am - Free saffron rice ova hur, free yogurt ova dur!

5/19/2010 2:53:44 PM

I'm down for an early morning shopping trip tomorrow *stalk stalk*

PS I've seen her binder. It's quite impressive. Don't judge

5/19/2010 2:57:47 PM

Do yall shop at CVS and get the Extra Care Bucks? I literally have like a few years worth of toothpaste that I paid about $2 for it.

5/19/2010 3:19:39 PM

I have over 20 tubes of toothpaste. I haven't shopped CVS in 10 months.

5/19/2010 3:20:51 PM

balls. i forgot that u can only double 20coupons a day...and i had 29, but didnt think about it til after she rung me up and i didnt wanna be a pain in the ass and be like "oh ill take these 9 things off and come back for them tomorrow" hahah.....so i bought $90 worth of groceries, spent $26, but would have only spent $16 had i used those other coupons towards tomorrows trip. oh well. still not bad. i have more coupons i wanna use this week....but all the good stuff is already gone. including all the velveeta shells, that i have 4 coupons for.

5/19/2010 4:34:47 PM

You probably already know this but they will only take 3 like coupons. So you could only use 3 coupons for the Velveeta.

This is why I like Lowes Foods. They take 4 like coupons.

5/19/2010 5:20:25 PM

http://projects.newsobserver.com/taking_stock/wednesday_deals_124

5/19/2010 6:12:47 PM

http://www.harristeeter.com/promotions/in_store_rewards.aspx

I got $5 taken off my order this morning b/c I had accumulated 40 "Healthy Smile Points". For every $1 you spend on oral care items, they give you one point. Get 40 points and they take $5 off your next order of $5 or more. Best part is that they take the pre-coupon amount of the oral care item.

I was expecting my bill to be $5 or $6 but it was actually -$.07 b/c $5 was taken off.

5/20/2010 8:52:43 AM

Roommate got four $5 off $25 purchase coupons from HT in the mail...each for a different week. If anyone has used these, at what point do they calculate the $25 requirement? I assume its before coupons, but is it before or after VIC savings? Also, he very likely wont use them...are they transferable on VIC accounts?

5/20/2010 2:13:08 PM

If anyone has the $3 off Chef Michael's dog food coupons, I'd love to have them. My pup goes through that stuff like a bag a week.

I can trade almost any Q for them. Just send me a request.

5/22/2010 3:01:06 PM

Sam, and others who subscribe to the N&O: go back, and review ALL your activity with them.

When I got a renewal request with my paper, I was all "WTF this shouldn't expire til two weeks after [date they gave me as expiration date]"

While I was filing this past week, Id found an older renewal request that had some notes written on it; namely "Corrected expiration date to 6/28". I know that at the time, I'd done a CC payment over the phone, and emailed myself details of that, and so went looking for it.

On 8/31, I'd done a 1yr subscription, start date of 9/6/09.

If I hadn't caught this shit, I'd have been gypped of 25% of my subscription.

Also, don't forget that if your paper is misdelivered/wet/etc, you can report delivery problems, and either request redelivery (by 11am on Sundays; used to be noon ), or have your account credited. I ended up getting a free month way back when, because despite us having a N&O box, our carrier would always throw our paper on the ground, and 3 of the 4 weeks, it was soaked.

Also, so...my subscription is til 9/13/10. This Sunday, I leave for Colorado, for at least a couple months. If I can't convert to the mail delivery option, or they don't let me do a vacation hold for that long, is anyone interested in buying out my subscription (I'll change the delivery address to yours), or have any other suggestions?

[Edited on May 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM. Reason : sdf]

5/24/2010 3:30:51 PM

Not sure of other's experience, but currently the Nabisco products (Wheat Thins, Triscuits, etc) have $1 off coupons on them and they're currently on sale for $3/box.

The $1 off coupon says do not double, but my cashier scanned it like normal and it doubled, therefore I got the Triscuits for $1. Was the cashier supposed to do something different with the coupon to make it not double?

5/24/2010 3:36:32 PM

At Food Lion until Wednesday, there's a sale on All Detergent with "Oxi" clean stuff and it's 2.79...and there's a $2 coupon off making it 79 cents for detergent!

Here's the info about the Q
ALL Oxi LIquid Laundry Detergent (28oz+) - 05-16-10 Red Plum
$2.00/1
Expires 7/11/2010

5/24/2010 3:37:56 PM

Some cashiers will pull coupons out that say "do not double"/"do not triple" and manually enter them so that they don't double/triple. The cashiers are supposed to be on the lookout for those during triples/super doubles but some cashiers just don't care.

5/24/2010 3:41:49 PM

^I been shopping at HT for years and I've never had them do that. It doesn't matter if it says 'do not double' or not. When HT mails them in, the manufactures aren't going to give the stores anymore than face value anyway. During these promotion HT is taking a small hit on that extra dollar in exchange for getting more people into the store who may buy items that aren't on sale/coupon. So to HT the 'do not doubles' are no different than coupons that don't say that.
However this common misconception allows me to pick up some cheap/free items other folks would skip over because they don't think their coupon will double.

5/25/2010 8:33:01 PM

I've never had them pull out the coupons either BUT I have heard of other couponers that have run into that problem.


And Lowes Food actually wrote into their coupon policy that they will not double coupons that say "do not double"/"do not triple". They will pull those and manually enter them.

Quote :

"Any manufacturer coupon that states -Do not double- will not be doubled."

5/26/2010 8:21:53 AM

^^Kind of like the people that throw away expired coupons because they think they dont work anymore...Ive only had once occasion where I was denied because the coupon was expired.

Had a $5 off $25 coupon I tried to use at HT last night...my subtotal after VIC and before coupons was $27. After all of the other coupons it was down to $15, so they said I couldnt use the $5 coupon. What a crock...coupon scanner woman needs to just shut her mouth and scan coupons.

5/26/2010 2:59:37 PM

Food Lion has a promotion going on with Kraft products. Buy 5 participating Kraft products and get $5 off your order. Kraft salad dressing is included and on sale 3/$5. There is also a catalina deal going on.

Buy 2, get a $1.00 CAT coupon good on your next shopping order
Buy 3, get a $2.00 CAT coupon good on your next shopping order
Buy 4 or more, get a $3.00 CAT coupon good on your next shopping order

There are $.55 coupons from a recent insert for the dressing.

Here is how it worked out for me:
5 dressings at $1.67 each=$8.32
$5 off order= -5
=$3.32
5 $.55 coupons= -$2.75
=$.57 oop

Received $3 catalina

5/26/2010 7:39:37 PM

AHA, so I found more deals (nothing awesome like that^), but I think I'm gonna keep 'em to myself. At this point, my enduring excitement for couponing is kinda embarrassing, and I'm rambling about it a great deal without even thinking. I gotta start playing it cool, or I'm gonna start losing friends to this hobby...

5/26/2010 11:05:52 PM

Not cool.

My friends tease me for couponing and I tease them for paying out the ass for things I get for free. It works out in my favor.

5/26/2010 11:17:05 PM

^agree. If people make fun of me for couponing, I make fun of them for paying retail for stuff that I get for free. I always laugh to myself when the same people that make fun of me complain about how expensive groceries are. FOOLS!

5/27/2010 8:41:30 AM