FRIENDLY COUPONING!

Friendly Couponing-Practical Couponing

 

It has been brought to my attention lately by others and I have seen it myself since the airing of Extreme Couponing that Friendly Couponing is getting harder and harder to come by. Extreme Couponing is now a fad, what happened to PRACTICAL COUPONING!

 

What is Friendly Couponing?

 

Well it is kind of like a "girl" code or "guy" code, its a "coupon" code.  Here is a few HIGHLIGHTs of Friendly Couponing that needs to be addressed every where, especially in Dubuque, Iowa.

 

There is no need to clear the shelves.  If you really feel the need to buy more than a few of one item at a time here are a few options for you

•  PRE-ORDER, PRE-ORDER, PRE-ORDER!  I know that Walgreens is very good about doing this! If you order on Sunday, day of the sale it should be there with their next shipment by Friday! Just ask for the store manager and they will give you more details. I have heard Walmart is good at it too.  
• Buy a few at a time, once at the beginning of the sale, once at the end.  This way everyone gets a fair chance. 

Some people donate, yes, I get that, I do too, a lot, but I always get my donation products at the end of a sale or pre-order! I go at the beginning for my family and at the end of the sale for my donations.  When I say at the end of a sale I mean if the sale ends Saturday at 9p.m.(close) I go at 7p.m. Saturday night.  Some people NEED these deals to survive!  If I didn't PRACTICAL COUPON, as I like to call it, I would not be able to be a stay at home mom, this is my job to budget my husbands income to make our family work, I am PRACTICAL! I am a PRACTICAL COUPONER!  Yes I have a stockpile, yes I stock up when I find a great deal but I promise a few items at a time does add up after a few months!  Lets try and really help others the best way we can, let them benefit from great deals also! 

NEVER COPY COUPONS!

• Not much to say but just DON'T DO IT!  There are unique codes on coupons, they will not reimburse the store if they get more than one with the same code.  If you are coping coupons you are hurting not only the store but everyone that uses coupons and shops.  It is stealing.  What happens when someone steals products from a store, the prices go up, same with coupons the manufacture and store are loosing money so prices rise. And soon if people don't stop coping coupons there won't be printable coupons and a lot of the time they are the top coupons! Coping coupons is punishable by law with hefty fines and jail time!

DON'T BE RUDE!

• We all know that Extreme Couponing on TLC has made using coupons a lot harder, almost a competition.  We all also know sometimes it is frustrating, well NEWS FLASH it can be very frustrating to the cashier also! Yes it is their job and they are getting paid but they are people to and get frustrated!  I know the cashiers can be rude but how about us PRACTICAL COUPONERS stick together, lets be the bigger person, lets kill them with kindness as my parents taught me. 
•  Why be rude back? There is no reason it just makes the situation worse, let try and change their minds about coupon users and make them enjoy seeing the savings too!
• If a coupon isn't going through and they don't want to even talk to you about it double check the coupon...expiration date, product, wording, ect  if you feel you are still right.....SMILE and just ask for the CSM.  It can be frustrating not having a coupon scan and even worse when the CSM is rude and won't put it through but really try it another day with another cashier, it isn't going to kill you not to get one deal!  ALWAYS HAVE YOUR COUPON POLICIES ON HAND!

Lets not be Extreme lets be PRACTICAL!