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If you’re heading to Ikea this weekend grab your lunch or dinner for just $1. Ikea is offering their Swedish meatball plate for just $1 from Friday, March 5 through Sunday, March 7. The meal includes 10 meatballs, mashed potatoes and cream sauce (normally $4.29). The deal is good after 11:00 a.m.
This is one of my favorites -especially the lingonberry sauce!
Enjoy!
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
TheCouponLady@cox.net
Get a complete meal and shake for less than $4
If you often find yourself craving comfort food and love old-school diners, this Deal of the Day will have you drooling.
On Tuesday, March 2nd, four Johnny Rockets locations in the Valley will be whipping up their original hamburger, fries and milk shakes for just $3.99! Normally that meal would cost you $11.48, so you Smart Shoppers will really be saving some dough.
Make sure to show your Smart Shopper Card or you won’t be able to cash in on this deal! (If you don’t have one, I can e-mail it to you)
The following four participating Johnny Rockets locations:
The Shoppes at Norterra
2510 W. Happy Valley Rd, Suite 125
Phoenix, AZ 85027
623-582-9755
Hours: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Arrowhead Towne Center
7700 W. Arrowhead Center
Glendale, AZ 85308
623-487-3524
Hours: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Westgate City Center
9390 W. Hanna Drive
Glendale, AZ 85305
623-877-2977
Hours: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Gateways Pavilion
10220 West McDowell Road
Avondale, AZ 85392
623-643-9222
Hours: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Enjoy,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
TheCouponLady@cox.net
There are 3 coupon inserts today!
Red Plum: JC Penny Optical
Smart Source: EyeMasters 1/2 off
Proctor & Gamble: Thanks, Mom.
Other coupons in today’s paper
Sweet Tomatoes: Coupons on flap of comic section
Office Max: 15% off everything you can fit in their paper bag.
Michael’s: Coupon Bonanza! See ad – 11 coupon offers!
CVS: $25.00 Prescription coupon in ad (transfer only) Expires 4/3. Save these!
Other good coupons in the pages of the paper
Page A2: George Brazil – various coupons
Page A7: Macy’s Free Lancome 7 piece gift with purchase.
Page A8: Sun Devil Auto- various coupons
Page A11: Alaskan Home Services – various coupons
Page A12: Boca Bargoon’s – various coupons
Page A13: Cash Paid for Gold. Bonus coupon, $25.00 extra when you sell $250.00.
Page A17: Hobby Lobby 50% off Wilton Method Cake Decorating Classes
Page A18: George Brazil – various coupons
Page B14: Quality Home Maintenance – various coupons
NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY
On Tuesday, February 23rd, IHOP once again celebrates National Pancake Day with a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes for every visitor. While enjoying your free meal, you’ll have an opportunity to make a donation to Children’s Miracle Network
Since 1996, IHOP has raised more than $3.25 million for this amazing network of children’s hospitals, and you can help them bring the total to $5 million to reach their five-year goal!
ATTEND A FREE COUPON CLASS:
Monday 2/22 at 10am – Gilbert
Tuesday 2/23 at 7pm – Gilbert
Thursday 2/25 at 10am – Gilbert
Friday 2/26 at 7pm – Gilbert
Saturday 2/27 at 9:30am – Gilbert
Saturday 2/27 at 11:00am – Gilbert
Frugally yours,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
TheCouponLady@cox.net
www.TheCouponLady.com
Phone: 480-539-4828
I wanted to share this great information about coupons with you. This article is part of a series related to being Financially Fit.
http://customsites.yahoo.com/financiallyfit/finance/article-108816-4123-3-how-to-save-100-in-an-hour?ywaad=ad0035
Doing the Math on Coupons
They’re back in fashion, with good reason: An hour spent cutting and clipping can yield about $100 in savings.
Clipping coupons hardly sounds like the subject of high finance — or even medium finance.
Save a dollar on cat food, some detergent or a couple of boxes of cereal. Who can be bothered? Who has the time?
A growing number of people, it turns out. And they’re shrewder than it may at first appear.
The Great American Coupon is making a big comeback — thanks to the Great American Recession.
We redeemed some 3.3 billion coupons last year — a remarkable 27 percent leap from 2008, and the first year-on-year increase in 17 years, according to a report issued at the end of January by Inmar, a coupon-processing agent. (Online coupon use skyrocketed — companies issued twice as many as in 2008, but redemptions rose 360 percent.) The big upturn took off in October 2008, just after Lehman went belly up.
At first blush you can see why coupons fell out of fashion for so long — and why so many consumers still ignore them.
You have to make time to visit a coupon Web site or collect the flyers from your mailbox, the supermarket or newspaper inserts. You need to sort through to find the ones you want, cut them out, stick them in your purse or wallet — and remember to use them when you are at the cash register and you are trying to remember whether you bought everything on your shopping list and where you parked the car.
Average saving per coupon: Just $1.44, according to the Inmar report.
But let’s treat this low finance topic for a moment the way we treat high finance. Let’s subject it to the same math.
How long does it actually take to clip and use a coupon? Certainly the more you use, the less overall time you will spend per coupon, because so many of the costs — getting flyers, sorting coupons and so on — are generalized. Let’s assume you spend a minute per coupon.
Saving $1.44 for a minute’s effort is the equivalent of saving $14.40 for 10 minutes’.
Hourly rate: $86.40.
Maybe this would be as good a time as any to point out that the typical American working stiff — those lucky enough to have jobs right now — climbs out of bed each morning, goes through the miseries of commuting and endures the daily grind at the workplace for about $20 an hour.
Furthermore, money saved comes with an additional benefit. Unlike the money you earn at work, it is tax free. No payroll taxes. No federal or state income tax.
If your marginal tax rate were, say, 20 percent, you would have to earn $108 before tax to take home $86.40. If your marginal tax rate were 30 percent, you’d have to earn $123.
Very few of us ever do this kind of math, because we tend to treat low finance differently from high finance, and small sums differently from big ones. No wonder, even today, 99 percent of coupons are thrown away unused.
Yet finance isn’t a separate topic from the rest of our personal lives. For all of us, our scarcest resource is time. Putting the right value on it, and putting it to the most productive use, is a financial challenge, as well as a personal one.
And the individual amounts of money may seem small, but they prove the old adage about tiny acorns and mighty oaks. Someone who saves $25 a week will save $100 a month, and $1,200 a year. Over a lifetime that can easily grow to $100,000 or more — even after accounting for inflation.
If motivation is an issue, the next time you find yourself facing a stack of coupon booklets and flyers don’t ask yourself if you can be bothered. Try asking yourself if you’d like to earn more than $100 an hour for a job you can do, at home, while sitting on the sofa watching TV.
If you’d like to try Coupon Sense for a free month, please e-mail me at TheCouponLady@cox.net. I need your phone number, home address and valid e-mail. But hurry, as this offer ends 2/28/10.
Frugally yours,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
Phone: 480-539-4828
www.TheCouponLady.com
It’s been a few crazy weeks over at my household. Illnesses, doctors visits, chipped bones, medical testing’s, and several birthdays. When it rains, it pours, or so it seems.
And of course during this time Fry’s had their wonderful Buy 10 and Save $5.00 Mega Deal! With all that was going on, I did make it to the store several times in between all of my running around. Here’s the breakdown of my spending and savings for the last two weeks:
January 28th – Spent $40.76 and Saved $82.86 (I had to go back in and shop some more I had so many cases of water in my cart)
January 28th – Spent $33.32 and Saved $139.97
February 3rd – Spent $15.14 and Saved $29.21 (more water – I ended up with 14 cases)
February 7th – Spent $47.47 and Saved $138.13
February 9th – Spent $47.84 and Saved $233.26
I ended up getting $808.26 of groceries for $184.53. Incredible!!!
My last trip was such a blast. I met two of my couponing students and took them with me to experience this great sale. We were there for over two hours as it was a “class trip”. But in the end, it was so worth it. Between the 3 of us we saved $574.96! If you saw us in the parking lot, you would have thought we won the lottery! Here’s the breakdown:
Therese spent $64.07 and saved $161.00 – 72% Savings
Kathy spent $81.24 and saved $180.70 – 68% Savings
I spent $47.84 and saved $233.26 – 83% Savings
I would like for my readers to experience the Love of Coupons, as well. I’m giving away 20 FREE Trial month memberships for Coupon Sense. Be one of the first 20 people to contact me at TheCouponLady@cox.net and your first month is on me! This offer ends on Valentine’s Day, February 14th at 11:59pm.
Have a Happy Valentine’s Day!
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
TheCouponLady@cox.net
www.TheCouponLady.com
Hello Shoppers,
I love to get a great deal, don’t you? Don’t miss out on Fry’s Buy 10, Save $5.00 this week, ending on February 2nd. I made two trips yesterday morning. The first trip I spent $40.76 and saved $82.86, 67% savings! The second trip I spent $33.32 and saved $139.97, 81% savings. I am not done, yet either! This is too good to miss out on, so grab your coupons and head to Fry’s!

Happy Shopping,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
www.TheCouponLady.com
Not just for the football, but for the awesome deals you can score at the grocery store! Here are some of this weeks specials:
Fry’s: Buy ten (10) participating items in a single transaction and SAVE $5 instantly at checkout. Offer valid 1/27/10 through 2/2/10. These deals are AWESOME! When you pair this sale with coupons, you can get some fantastic deals! You can score some free Rotel canned tomatoes, free Quake Rice Snacks, Frenches mustard is .19, Hunt’s Diced tomatoes are .29 and Sargento sliced cheese is .49! The consumer wins during Super Bowl Season!
Albertsons: DOUBLE manufacturer Coupons up to .50 and TRIPLE manufacturer coupons up to .33 for a limited time.
Petite Sirloin Steak – Buy 1/Get 2 FREE: Buy one (1) Petite Sirloin Steak with in-store coupon at the regular price of $6.99 lb and get two (2) FREE.
Coke 12pk Promo: Buy four (4) 12pks of participating Coke products in a single transaction and Final Price is 4 for $10. Limit one (1) reward per transaction.
Bashas: FREE Milk with Cereal purchase: Get a FREE gallon of Bashas Milk when you purchase four (4) Kellogg’s Cereals at $1.88 each. Limit 2 FREE milks per customer.
Pepsi 12pk Promo: Buy four (4) 12pks of participating Pepsi products in a single transaction and get $2 off. Final Price is 4 for $10. Limit one (1) reward per transaction.
Safeway: QUINTUPLE coupons means all coupons are worth $1.00!
Pepsi & Tostitos – $7.99 Deal: Buy any three (3) participating Pepsi 12pk cans, 6pk 16.8 or 24 oz bottles and one (1) bag of Tostitos Tortilla Chips with your Club Card in a single transaction and get it all for $7.99. Offer valid 01/27/10 through 2/2/10.
Fri/Sat/Sun – Signature Café Pizza – $5: Friday, Saturday & Sunday ONLY! Get Safeway’s Signature Café Pizza 16” Family Size for only $5. Choice of Five Cheese Blend or Pepperoni. Serves 4 to 5.
Transferred Prescription Voucher: See the Safeway ad for an in-ad Transfer Prescription coupon for a $30 Safeway Gift card if you bring in a transferred prescription. Coupon expires 2/23/10. CVS will also accept this coupon!
I plan on shopping A LOT this week so I can stock my pantry at rock bottom prices!
Want to learn how to shop like me? Attend one of my Free Coupon Classes!
http://www.kpho.com/video/15197150?index.html?taf=pho
Frugally yours,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
Happy Sunday!
There were 2 coupon inserts in today’s Arizona Republic, a Smart Source and a Proctor & Gamble. Save these inserts in their entirety! That’s 83 coupons that you can be using for up to 3 or 4 months.
Resist shopping on a Needs Basis and start converting to a Stockpile Method. (This is explained in my free weekly classes). Go to www.TheCouponLady.com for my class schedule.
Good coupons in today’s flyers of the paper:
USA Weekend: Page 2 Cottonelle Moist wipes, $0.50/1, $1.00 off any 12 pk of toilet paper. This week Fry’s has Double 12 packs on sale for $5.99, with coupon it’s $4.99. Not a bad price if you need toilet paper.
Big Five: Various coupons
Michael’s: 40% off one regular priced item, 55% off one custom framing order
Starbucks: $1.00 off card that is good through 3/8. Applicable for their new Perfect Oatmeal and Panini’s.
Other coupons in the pages of the paper.
Page A2: George Brazil – various coupons
Page A7: Alaskan Home Services – various coupons
Page A13: Sun Devil Auto- various coupons
Page A15: Wildlife World Zoo – $3.00 off admission up to 4 people
Page A17: Total Wine- various coupons
Page A19: Macy’s Extra Savings Pass -15%
Page A21: Moon Valley Nursery – free delivery with $499 purchase
Page A24: Hobby Lobby 40% off one regular priced item
CVS Deals – There are almost 30 Extra Bucks Deals this Week!
CVS pharmacy has an excellent customer loyalty program called Extra Bucks which participants receive mailers featuring special coupon offers and health information. They also receive exclusive cardholder savings on select merchandise, and will earn “Extra Bucks” (EBs) for purchases they make during designated shopping periods.
The Extra Bucks are not rebates but actual coupons which print out at the bottom of your receipt when qualifying items are purchased. The EBs can then be used to purchase almost all merchandise sold at CVS with some exceptions including alcohol, tobacco, lottery, gift cards, money orders, postage stamps, pre-paid cards, prescriptions, and special order Home Health Care items, including footwear. The Extra Bucks can be redeemed on purchases in-store or online at CVS.com.
Extra Bucks Step-by-Step Basics
Apply for an Extra Care card by visiting the CVS website.
When you apply for the Extra Care card you will see the question, “Do you wish to receive valuable offers via email?” which you should check “Yes” in order to receive additional coupons and special offers via the Internet along with the mailer you will receive in snail mail.
At the time of purchase give the cashier your Extra Care card so that you can earn your Extra Bucks. If you forget your card you can give the cashier your phone number and she can lookup your account information.
You can earn Extra Bucks Rewards three ways –
1) Earn two percent back with every purchase in-store and online at CVS.com. Excludes purchases of alcohol, tobacco, lottery, gift cards, money orders, postage stamps, pre-paid cards, prescriptions, and special order Home Health Care items, including footwear.
2) Earn one Extra Buck for every two prescriptions purchased in-store and online at CVS.com. Excludes purchases of pharmacy items paid for in whole or in part by state and/or federal health care programs and prescriptions purchased in-store in NJ and NY, and controlled substances in Louisiana.
3) Earn Extra Bucks on select brands advertised in CVS’s weekly ads. Your Extra Bucks will print on your receipt immediately following your qualifying purchase(s) and are redeemable in-store only. Your account will be updated with the above Extra Bucks rewards every three months and will print on your store register receipt, or you can visit CVS.com to print your Extra Bucks online.
Here’s an example of how an Extra Buck Deal works:
M&M’s Valentine Candy are on sale for 2/$5.00
Buy 2 bags and Get a $2.00 ECBs (Limit 1 EB per household)
USE: The $1.00 of 2 M&M’s Bagged Candy from last weeks Sunday paper
FINAL= $1.00 ea. after coupons and ECBs!
Is that clear as mud? CVS is one of my favorite stores because of the Extra Bucks program. They also accept competitor’s coupons for prescriptions AND their rain checks include the Extra Buck Rewards and NEVER expire. How cool is that?!!!
Have a Happy Martin Luther King Day tomorrow!
Frugally yours,
Nina Brannock
TheCouponLady
Hello Shoppers!
Safeway continues to Quintuple coupons – (everyone coupon is worth $1.00). There was a $3.00 off $30.00 coupon in the Fresh & Easy flyer. You can still use these at Albertson’s, but it is rumored that they will discontinue accepting competitors coupons.
Here’s this weeks Best Deals on The Basics:
Bread
Fresh Baked French 16oz (w/InAd Cpn) – $0.88 at Albertson’s
Ovenjoy Sandwich, white or wheat – $0.99 at Safeway
Pantry Select, White or Wheat – $0.88 at Fresh & Easy
Cheese
Chunk Cheese, Albertsons 32oz (w/InAd Cpn) 3.88 at Albertson’s
Eggs
18 ct, Lucerne (w/InAd Cpn + $10 min purchase) $0.19 at Safeway
Dozen Bashas’ Large Grade AA for $0.99
Milk
Milk, Gallon Albertsons – $1.58 at Albertson’s
Milk, Half Gallon Fry’s – $0.88 at Fry’s
Did you know that some stores double coupons up to $1.00 every day of the week? That’s right! Your $0.50 coupon could be worth $1.00. Clip a handful of coupons each week and your savings could really add up! Many of my subscribers are saving $250-$500 per month from what they used to pay before shopping the sales with coupons.
Store Coupon Redemption Policies
Albertsons: Redeems coupons at face value, accepts competitors coupons.
Bashas’: Doubles coupons up to $1.00 everyday.
CVS: Redeems coupons at face value. Watch for the Extra Bucks deals.
Fresh & Easy: Does not accept coupons other than theirs.
Food City: Redeems coupons at face value.
Fry’s: Doubles coupons up to $1.00 everyday.
Safeway: Doubles coupons up to $1.00 everyday.
Target: Redeems coupons at face value.
Sprouts: Redeems coupons at face value. Wednesday is double Ad Day.
Sunflower: Redeems coupons at face value. Wednesday is double Ad Day.
Walgreens: Redeems coupons at face value. Watch for the Register Rewards at this store.
If you would like to learn more about saving money on your groceries, please attend one of my FREE coupon classes. My class schedule is listed on www.TheCouponLady.com.
Until next time…
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
Hello,
There are a couple of Great Deals out there this week on office supplies using the Rewards Programs at Staples and Office Max. Check it out!
Office Max: Max Perk Bonus Rewards!
Boise X-9 paper, 10-Ream Case.
You pay $37.99 and earn $35.00 in rewards. Limit 2.
Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Markers, 12 pack.
You pay $5.99 and earn $6.00 in rewards. Limit 3
Ascend Recycled Peel-to Seal #10 envelopes, 50 count. You pay $3.99 and earn $4.00 Limit 3.
Staples: Easy Rebate Items. Buy any of these items and get 100% back in Staples Rewards.
•Staples writing pads, letter size, 6/Pack $7.99
•Bankers Box Letter/legal size, 6/Pack $9.99
•Staples heavyweight file folders, manila 50/box $8.00
•Staples #10 envelopes, 100 pack, $7.99
•Zebra Sarasa retractable gel pens, medium, 5/pack $3.99
•Staples small binder clips, 40/box $3.99
Frugally yours,
Nina Brannock
The Coupon Lady
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