Earn Things

These printable coupons can be used at any store! Here are a few high value coupons:
$2.50 off/1 Huggies Wipes
$0.50 off Kleenex
$0.75 Tic Tac

Okay I’m writing this as if you haven’t shopped at CVS before:

The benefit of shopping at CVS is their Extra Care Bucks (ECB) program, you basically get in store credit on certain items in the store. So for example this week Renu Sensitive contact solution is priced at $7.99 you buy it, and at the bottom of your receipt will be $7.99 in ECB or in store credit, that you can use on almost anything in the store, (not on gift cards) they do expire, usually you get close to one month to use them. CVS does put limits on how many times you can do a deal, for instance the contact solution deal has a limit of one time during this week, whereas you can do the Revlon nail polish deal up to 6 times this week.

 If youre not sure if you met the quota or not, check your reciept, it will tell you how many more times you can do the deal. Also you can use coupons when you are buying things at CVS, and you can also use ECB with your coupons, again CVS treats ECBS like in store credit, or a gift card, you can use multiple ECBS in a single transaction, the only catch is, if your ECBS are more than the items you are buying, you will either need to add some candy or filler items to absorb that overage and get your moneys worth, or simply forfeit the surplus.

The cashiers in my experience have always been really kind about warning me “You’ll be giving up $2 do you want to add something to your order to fill that” and I reach below the candy counter and put up $2 worth, now not all cashiers will do this for you, so do watch for this, or simply ask the cashier.

Although I love Tom Thumb, it wasn’t all sunshine and roses when I shopped earlier today. I actually had a slight run in with another cashier, that wasn’t our cashier, saying i could only use 1 printable coupon per transaction. I think she thought some of my coupons were photocopies because i had multiple coupons, i did reassure them they came from different computers, and sometimes my friends will even give me their coupons to use. I was able to talk to the manager, and tell him they were from different computers. He seemed a little unsure, but did allow me to use them.

Now, whenever I am in a conflict I naturally try to empathize with the other party. So in saying this, I can see the validity of the store’s concern, they want to be sure they are reimbusrt for the coupons they accept. Money is money. And I agree that stores are being cheated when people photocopy coupons. It’s illegal and shouldn’t be done. That being said, when I got home my husband actually pointed out a cool tip about coupons he noticed, and I thought I would share because this will help you explain to your own store that your coupons are not photocopies. Thereby we can advocate our own appropriate use of printable coupons when confronted.

Every coupon has a unique identifying number on them, on some coupons it is called the pin number, on other coupons, it will be typed below a special barcode on the upper area of a coupon. Now I have three cinnabon coupons that I wasn’t able to use today to prove it. They came from different computers, so two are in color, and one is in black and white, but all of them have a unique and different pin number on them in the upper right side of the coupons. So if you didn’t know this before…..NOW YOU KNOW! The top coupon ends in 7801, the second in 3002, and the third in 3402. Proving they aren’t photocopies, or else they would all have the exact same numbers.

So hip hip hurray for honest couponing! Good luck y’all!