Ever run into the grocery store for milk and bread and come out with a two-foot long receipt for your two items? So have a lot of other folks, including our friends at the Wall Street Journal who did a story on the phenomenon. It seems that retailers have found this to be the perfect [...]
I am in a lot of ways Obsessive-Compulsive, and one area where it was really bad was in saving receipts. The intention was good: to be able to track our spending in Quicken or Money. However, this goal proved elusive as I never was able to commit to actually tracking everything in Money or Quicken [...]
As sentiments about the economy continue to degrade, there is a mighty battle brewing. No, I’m not talking about fights over trillion dollar “stimulus” packages, bailouts, or tax cuts. The dispute I’m speaking of is on the surface over much smaller amounts. I’m talking about the battle between coupon shoppers and uncooperative retail store employees. In [...]
As economic conditions worsen, more and more people are getting into coupons and frugality in general. But a lot of people get overwhelmed just trying to figure out where to get started. I realized this when Shreela, a reader that found this blog from one of my posts on Slickdeals, left this comment: Hi, I’m [...]
Someone recently posted an interesting question on Slickdeals: “May I ask for a raincheck for a free after extra care bucks item at CVS?” For those of you who don’t know, a raincheck is like a coupon that is given to a customer when an advertised item is not in stock allowing the customer to [...]
CVS deals haven’t been that good recently, but hopefully the deals for the week of 10/19/2008 are a sign of improvements going into the holiday shopping season. Nothing spectacular, but free is free (lifted from Slickdeals): Pumpkin pail $0.99 FREE after ECBS Sunday and Monday only limit 2 Brach’s Pumpkins, autumn mix, Indian or candy [...]
In the final installment of our super early sneak peak at upcoming CVS deals, here are the rumored CVS deals for the week of 10/5/2008. Remember that these have not been verified with an adscan and that these specials will not be available in all areas. On to the deals: Glaceau vitamin water 32 0z. [...]
This is a second installment of the super early preview of upcoming CVS deals that were briefly posted on SlickDeals. As noted in the last CVS preview post, these deals have not been confirmed with ad scans and should be regarded as rumors. Deals are also not effective in all areas. Anyway, here are the [...]
Ok folks, I know this is a little ways into the future, however I wanted to share some information that was briefly posted on SlickDeals discussing the CVS deals for the week of 9/21/2008. I post these now because of a little bit of drama on SlickDeals where the original poster decided to have all [...]
I post pretty frequently about deals at CVS and Walgreens, and many of those deals are made better by using manufacturer’s coupons that come in the Sunday paper every week. Our friends at Money Under 30 posted about their method of couponing recently in this post. But many people think that scouring coupon inserts, cutting [...]