If it were possible to be in love with a couponing event, I would be in love with Super Doubles. Harris Teeter has some wonderful coupon policies. I know I've bemoaned the couponing limits locally, and yes, HT has couponing limits that I wish would go away, but they are the only chain locally that allows the use of an electronic coupon and a paper coupon on the same item. If it's a current ecoupon, you can even reload it and go back in and use it again.
Very recently, they removed the BOGO Philly Cooking Cream ecoupon. That's OK, I scored that deal several times last SD, and that it was still do-able at the beginning of this one was awesome.
The Philly Cooking Cream deal went like this: ecoupon for BOGO Philly Cooking Cream, buy 2 at $2.99 each, use 2 $1.50 coupons, that double to the cost of the item making them free AND get $2.99 off from the ecoupon. $2.99 overage, every day.
This SD, there's a deal on Jello Temptations 3 packs. There's a BOGO ecoupon. There's a printable for $1 off 1. There's a catalina deal when you buy 2 or more. HT will only accept 2 identical internet printables per day, which is fine. Print 2, load ecoupon, buy 2. They're $3.19 each, so $6.38 for 2. Take off 2 $1 off coupons, doubled, and they're $2.38. Take off another $3.19 for the ecoupon, and there's 81 cents overage AND a catalina prints for $1 off your next order.
Printing extra copies of this coupon from additional computers is nice, but not necessary to keep the moneymaker Jello flowing. In many packages (and it says so on the back of the carton) there are 75 cent off coupons. So, when you buy your first 2, make sure you grab cartons that will yield coupons. Go home, take the individual cups out of the package and cut the coupon from the carton. Reload the ecoupon.
Let's do the new math. 2 Jello Temptations are $6.38, minus 2 doubled 75 cent coupons, and we're at $3.38. Take off the BOGO ecoupon, and were at 19 cents. Pay 19 cents plus tax, get a $1 off your next order catalina. You're ahead 81 cents.
The catalina gets higher with 3 or 4 Jello Temptations in your order, but the math works out that doing it 2 at a time is a better deal. HT will only double 3 identical coupons, so if you used 4 they'd double 3, give you face value on the 4th, take off the BOGO and issue a catalina for $3 off your next order. It would work out $12.76 - $4.50 - $0.75 - $3.19 = $4.32 and get back a $3 catalina. They wouldn't be free if you bought 4 using 75 cent coupons. If you used 2 printable $1 coupons (remember, you can only use 2 printables at HT) and 2 of the 75 cent coupons, you could make money on them, but you make more just buying 2 using the 75 cent coupons ($12.76 - $4 - $3 - $3.19 = $2.57 and you'd get back a $3 off catalina, you're only making 43 cents).
You can just take my word for it that buying 3 is also not as good a deal as just buying 2.
Today I hit HT, and spent a fair bit more than I wanted. I got some meat at the deli and a piece of salmon at my husband's request. Those two were more than half my $22 total. I grabbed a few things for the price of sales tax, and swung by the teen shelter to drop them off. I really have no need of more free dental floss at this time, and my family has been appropriately equipped with free electric toothbrushes, so the free toothbrushes weren't really needed either. I didn't need the free milk, and I'm pretty sure I didn't have room in my fridge for the free yogurt. I shopped at a slightly further away HT than usual because that one is very close to the shelter, and it would be collectively less driving.
I've dropped off at this shelter 3 times so far, and I've not seen the same staff members twice.
I played coupon fairy again today, which was fun. A 20-something male with his girlfriend, and he got really excited at the 67 cent Classico pasta sauce, the girlfriend just seemed annoyed. Then there was the hippie in the coffee aisle buying Starbucks coffee. I offered her $1.50 off Starbucks coupons, explained to her how SD works, and that with the coupons she could buy 3 today for $2.99 each. She took 3 coupons, which is the limit for identical coupons, complimented my binder, grabbed 2 more Starbucks from the shelf and thanked me.
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