living in the dark ages with coupons Help !

There's a link where you go sign up but I don't remember where it is. It's been posted several times here at HT over the past few years.

Maybe someone will post the link here.

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How about we shut this puppy down? thank you ladycat and squashnut and the many others who encouraged us in our search to use coupons more than the average person.
Lord knows I have wasted countless hours on stuff that was of no value to me what so ever, so if I "waste" some time trying to use coupons it won't be the first nor the last I am sure.

Right now, I have the time to invest, who knows how long I will? I will make hay while the sun shines.

For sure some people should not even come close to a coupon, I wouldn't even click on any topic that has coupons in the title.

But I am brave and courageous! I dare to go into this treacherous and dangerous world and see what I can accomplish!

May the force be with me!

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For the feed coupons, this is the first link I pulled up.

http://www.purinamills.com/rewards/register/

I feel like that wasn't the one I used to sign up though, so there might be a different one out there.

Kayleigh

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Go forth and conquer the world, brave knight! Godspeed!

Well, actually go forth Dame. That's a female knight.

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That's definitely not the one where I signed up. Whichever one I signed up at wasn't a rewards program.

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Lady cat, I went to your links, there are no coupons for fresh produce. And frankly it's ridiculous when a coupon for brownie mix with cherries in it is listed as a "Produce" coupon.

Again all I find are endless coupons for processed foods. If you have a link for a coupon that I can use for un-branded produce without having to buy anything else along with please throw it up here, I'm NOT wasting any more time looking for them.

Sure there are coupons for free lettuce when I buy a bottle of salad dressing(that I don't want...)--store coupons at OTHER stores like Safeway/Albertsons, which Safeway etc has absolutely ridiculous prices, even with the card savings blah blah (again, processed food, never the scratch stuff).

Our local farm supply store(Wilco, which is right next to the Winco, haha) has a rewards prgram and has sales/pallet pricing on feed.

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I have posted pics of meat and produce coupons and I've posted instructions for finding coupons. That's as much as I can do.

The majority of meat and produce coupons come from home mailers, winetags, tearpads, and peelies. Once in a while they are in the Sunday inserts (but I've posted all that before).

Here are the coupons I received in today's mail:

$0.55 off 2 avocados (DANG, what's with all the avocado coupons lately! Good thing I like them).
$2 off any beef purchase of $4 or more.

Those do not require additional purchase of anything.

I very seldom use meat and produce coupons that require the purchase of something else. On those rare occasions I do, it's because I needed the other "something" anyhow.

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If I had a coupon for $2 off produce and I had to buy salad dressing and the salad dressing was $2. I would use it and donate the salad dressing. I would also hope to use a cents off coupon on the salad dressing.
LC and my self want to get the low cost and free items for the food bank. Kind of a pet project right now, as so many need help right now. I currently don't care if i get much so called profit. As long as i stretch my food bank money ($20 a month) a bit. I hope this explains why we might use it, where as you think it doesn't have much value.

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squashnut & bassketcher

Champagne D Argent, White New Zealand & Californian Cross Rabbits

I googled smartchicken and in 3 minutes I had a coupon for $1.00 on any smart chicken product.

whoo hoo!

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I would have definitely used a coupon on the salad dressing too. In the best scenario, you would get the salad dressing for free with coupons, and then you would get the $2 worth of produce for free because you bought the salad dressing (even if you paid for the salad dressing with coupons).

That's called piggybacking. (See the piggybacking "lesson" in my coupon tutorial topic).

I get tons and tons of free stuff by piggybacking and stacking. Of course, much of it I don't use myself. It goes for food assisitance, the shelters, etc. But it enables me to get a lot of free and nearly free stuff for my own use.

That's what you call killing 2 birds with one stone.

Man oh man, the other day there was a $2 printable for Perdue brand chicken. We don't have that brand here.

What we have here is Tyson's and Pilgrim's Pride. Coupons for one or the other of those comes out 2 or 3 or 4 times a year. That's when I stock up on chicken. I get whole chicken, leg quarters, thighs and drumsticks. I seldom get breasts because even with sales/coupons breasts are too high. But you can get the whole fryers, and the dark meat parts for pennies on the dollar.

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I was looking on E-bay to buy some coupons, they have prepaked lots of 100, but you have to becarefull they seem to be fairly short dated.

Well we would use the salad dressing, but it was a good example.

LC do you buy many coupons from e-bay or do you have a place to buy them for a small fee?

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squashnut & bassketcher

Champagne D Argent, White New Zealand & Californian Cross Rabbits

I buy very few. When I do, it's for insert coupons that I need a lot of quick (like the chicken coupons, for example), or for coupons I need that I can't find anywhere else.

Mostly I trade, get 2 papers a week, I have 2 subscriptions to All You, I get several RIBs each quarter, subscribe to all the womens/family magazines for free (using 2 addresses), I'm on the mailing lists of all my favorite brands and all the major companies.

And I have radar for tearpads, blinkies, peelies, winetags, etc etc. Even if a coupon is hiding on the back of a shelf behind cases of goods, my trusty radar leads me straight to it.

Amazing thing about that radar. My Target story is an example.

I wasn't doing Target until fairly recently. But I kept seeing people post about all these free deals they were working at Target. Finally one day I went hmmmm, I've got to check that out.

So I started reading the Target threads and learning all the tricks.

BT (Before Target), I saw a Target coupon once in a while, but never paid attention.

After I started working the deals and getting into it, Target coupons were suddenly EVERYWHERE. Inserts, magazines, printables, peelies (in the store), you name it. I had to get another accordian organizer JUST for the Target coupons!! In the very few months I've been doing Target, I have accumulated stacks of them! I never knew they were there before! It's amazing!!

So, between stacking TQs with MQs on the sales PLUS rolling the GCs (it all works kind of like CVS and Wags), now I'm getting tons of free stuff there too! They even have lots of moneymakers like CVS and Wags. Some people work it hard enough to get free bicycles and electronics stuff and furniture etc, but those people live in the cities where they have a dozen Targets within 5 miles. They can make the rounds. During a single week with a real good MM deal they can earn $300 or $400 in GCs.

I can usually only go one day a week, and there's only 1 Target here, and they limit you to 6 like coupons per transaction. So I'm ahead only about $50 or $60 a month in GCs without trying too hard. But hey, that's nothing to sneeze at!

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Ladycat, thanks for the info on Target. I need to check that out as there is a Target right beside the Meijer that I shop. I do most of my shopping at Meijer, Kroger and CVS. Today's coupons got me 12 Crest toothpaste and 6 Oral B toothbrushes for free. I was getting low on toothpaste so I will keep 6 and donate the other 6. I always say "Thank you Lord".

http://www.totallytarget.com/

Site that gives the lowdown on Target deals. I get a lot of freebies at CVS, but sometimes Target is even better.

KC

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Pattycake, do look at the link Jokarva posted. That's a good one to get started with for Target when you're already good with the coupon basics. Totally Target is what I would call an "intermediate" couponing site.

If you decide later to step it up to an advanced level, let me know. I just have to give fair warning that the advanced site I hang out at can be very harsh with newbie couponers (too many of them have no patience and no desire to teach the basics), so I'm careful who I send there.

I follow that one on Twitter. It's the best way I know to really keep up. Kerry's blog gets overwhelming because she posts so MUCH every day, all in different posts.

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Thanks for the info LadyCat!! I am more than an intermediate, LOL!!

By request, I'm posting my coupon wishlist here that I have posted at the coupon forums.

The way it works is, people look at my have list to see if I have something they want. If I do, they look at my wish list to see if they have something I want. If so, then we make the trade. Then I get valuable coupons I need for the cost of a stamp, and the other person gets what they need.

The following is a copy/paste:
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Ladycat's Wishlist

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Cannot use expireds, stores here do not double. Also no health food or whole food stores here, so organic brands are limited. I do not need coupons for milk or eggs.

Looking for:

Fresh Express salad coupons
Dole salad coupons
Frees- just about anything.
Coupons for fresh meat and poultry.
Coupons for produce.
Welch's juice that can be used on concord grape variety (100% juice only) (0.75/1 or better)
Mahatma Rice that can be used on 1# bags of brown rice (0.75/1 or better)
Kraft Cheese
Allen's frozen vegetables
Whole grain flours
Whole grain bread
Tortillas

Organic and natural foods.
Some of the organic coupons I'm always watching for:
$1/1 (or better) Knudsen juice
$1/1 (or better) Lundberg's rice that can be used on short grain brown rice.
$1/1 (or better) Cascadian Farms that can be used on frozen vegetables
$1/1 (or better) Muir Glen that can be used on any tomato sauce/canned tomatoes
$1/1 (or better) Bear Naked cereal
Alexia frozen products (potatoes and sweet potatoes)
Free organic products - for brands I can get here. Let me know what you have and I'll let you know if I can use it.

Target C9 coupons

Coupons that make cat and dog food free or really really cheap.
The only current insert one I know of that I can use is the one for free kitten chow.
Other than that, the good ones are probably high dollar home mailers.

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Thanks for posting.

I don't buy cereal.
We eat the fruit instead of drinking the juice. Etc. but thanks anyways. Everyone is different.

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Bear Naked is yummy. (and baked, not extruded or processed at high heat). I also add extra nuts to the Bear Naked.

And I've never seen concord table grapes. Besides which, the medicinal antioxidants are in the seeds and skins of the concords. During processing, the seeds are partly crushed, and the skins are used. It's almost equal to red wine antioxidantly* speaking (*is that a word?).

Concords (American native) are a different species from the other grapes (European). European grapes are processed differently for juice and don't have the same antioxidant value.

For the Knudsens, I drink the Very Veggie when I'm feeling tired and run down. And my mother drinks a glass of juice every day into which she mixes her liquid supplements and powdered fiber.

And when either one of us has a UTI, we drink tons of the 100% cranberry, or the cranberry-pomegranate. It makes sense to use organic juice rather than pesticide-laden juice when you have ailing kidneys.

And during this horrible heat that's killing us, we're drinking extra fruit juice to help replace electrolytes (gatorade is a joke. Flavored salty water. Ha. I'll stick with the juice, which is loaded with electrolytes plus many other nutrients). Fruit juice poured over ice sure is good when you're dying from the heat. Yum.

Other than that, we eat raw fruits and veggies almost every day.

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Anyone needing coupons feel free to check my mail box a time or two a week. They stuff enough in there to supply a good size town with coupons.