Coupon Lingo and some general rules…

For the most part you can’t use a digital coupon and a paper coupon on the same item. Now if you buy two items tell your cashier, and use a digital for one item and a paper for the other (unless the digital coupon is use for up to 5x. Then it’s automatically taken off.) If they scan your paper coupons then your card you shouldn’t have any problems. If they scan your Kroger card and then your coupons they may tell you that you’ve already used a digital coupon. Usually if you tell them you bought two of the same item, they will take the paper coupon also. 

If the coupons say LIMIT 4 items per household per day, some places will take only 4. (it means you can buy 4 of the same item and use 4 coupons.) Some places don’t care about that rule, meaning you never know until you try. Manchester Wal-mart will absolutely not use more then 4 ever. Kroger in Tullahoma it honestly depends on the cashier. I buy 5 copies of the paper so I use 5, most the time, they just override the coupons. ( I don’t try to use 20.) There’s one girl who won’t. If you get 8 copies of the paper take someone with you.. let them cash out behind you. They use 4, you use 4. Problem solved. 

 

When looking at coupon websites some of the lingo can be confusing, so I’m going to try to explain some of the general acronyms and such. 

Catalina- Prints out at stores when you check out. catalina

Sometimes they are coupons on certain items. Sometimes it’s so much money off if you buy a certain item, and sometimes its just so much off your next purchase.

SS- stands for smart source and it’s a type of coupon insert from the newspaper. (most of the are on smartsource.com) SS is usually paired with the date from the sunday it came out. SS 7/27.. SmartSource from July 27th.

RP- stands for redplum. It’s also a type of coupon insert from the newspaper. (redplum.com) 

PG- stands for Proctor Gamble. It’s also an insert from the paper. 

Checkout 51- an app that you can download on your phone. It has about 10-20 different food products and you take a picture of your receipt and it puts money in your account. After you’ve earned $20 they mail you a check. (it’s like .25 for milk and bananas and sometimes $1.00 or $2. for certain products.)  You only get to cash in prizes once. So even if you buy 5 you only can claim it once. When figuring out the prices for your next trip, this is important to remember. 

checkout 51

Up next is Ibotta. It’s also an app you can download for cash and prizes. It’s slightly different bc it is listed by store and you have to take a picture of your receipt and the barcode of the item. So it’s a little more time consuming, but it’s free money. It looks like this..

 ibotta-app

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