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Finding Coupons Part 2
Kelloggs Cereal Boxes
Shreddies and General Mills
Food Boxes
Brand Sampler Boxes
Inside the Box of New Product
Frequently done with diapers
Example Arm and Hammer Toothpaste
Magazines
Magazine Tips
Best magazines for couponers
Magazines for free
Which magazines?
Canadian Living
Chatelaine
Homemakers
Today's Parent
Rouge Magazine
Many health and beauty coupons, similar to p&g
4 issues per year
Free https://www.rougemag.com/en-CA/- see link to subscribe in footer
Glow Magazine Shoppers Optimum Point Coupons
Free for VIP members (members who accumulate 1500 Optimum points per year);
Subscribe with 7500 optimum points
http://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/Beauty-And-Body/Magazine.aspx
Tip: Most coupons are online sosave the pts
Tip 1. Get Magazines Free
Free subscriptions - cereal boxes; other products
Air Miles redemption
Rogers reduced price
Tip 2: Waiting Rooms spell Opportunity
Optometrist, doctor, dentist, hair dresser, waiting rooms
Grocery store take a book, leave a book
Coffee shops
Tip 3: Free giveaway mags
Superstore Viva
Cineplex (movie)
Rexall
Pharmacy, cosmetic counters
Tip 5: Commuting & Couponing
Go Train Magazine
Tip 4: Community
Ask friends
Ask co-workers
Coffee room
Local recycling groups: freecycle;
Classified: kijiji free section
Condo/Apartment Buildings
Food coupons from newspapers, flyers from papers with coupon inserts can be left near mailboxes or in recycling bins in laundry rooms etc
Other Places to Find Coupons
Clip n Save booklet
Comes with some magazines
Calendars
Rexall, Safeway, ...
Varies from year to year
Usually free in store
Newspapers
Examples$3 off Robin Hood flour (last year)
Coupon inserts
Superstore Coupon Zone
In the right hand corner the coupon will say:Coupon zone (only Loblaws)
Manufacturer's CouponFlip over to see which stores accept this coupon
Dentist's Office
Tear pads
Contests/Coupons
Advil you spin, you win
Maple Leaf
Mail In Rebates
High Five Quaker
Tostitos/Gatorade /Pepsi - $20 coupons MIR
Stouffers Rewards
Ticket Stubs/Cash Register
Printable Shoppers Optimum
Usually sent an email
Thread on Smart Canucks
SDM Bonus Point offers! Check back often!
Coupons from Companies
There's a thread dedicated to this on SmartCanucks
Which companies were contacted and their response
Here's a few of the best companies Feb 2011
Wild Card Coupons
Can be used on any of the products listed
Request 2 coupons every month contacting Johnson and Johnson
$1 Brown J&J coupon
Sorry no photo
For baby products
Blue coupon for Huggies, Crest etc.
Sometimes you'll see this posted in a coupon wish list
They are usually obtained by phoning and complaining about a defective product
Johnson and Johnson Replacement Coupon
This is a coupon you can request one time as a (new?) parent
Can be used to buy anything including a baby gift basket (value ~ $20)
Most stores take it for a gift basket (and J&J has confirmed this use is okay some months ago, posted by SCer on a thread) but some stores refuse
Chapman's Ice Cream
One $5 coupon per year per household
Playtex
Will send a few $1 and sometimes $5
**States** on coupon may be combined with other coupons
Be a Joiner
Company Newsletters/MailoutsSign up on the sitee.g. Huggies for Huggie Coupons
Sign up rewards program
Tip: Create a separate email account just for signing up for offers and newsletters etc.
Facebook Craze
Like a fan page on Facebook, get a coupon or free product
Sometimes they mail it, sometimes printable
Free Sample+
Many companies offer free sample of new product
Kashi does this often
Request the sample and coupons usually come along
Loyalty/Rewards Programs
coke coupons, free movie passes (coupons)
Send barcodes - Whiskas
Free Huggies coupons
Credit Card Statements
Frequently with HBC statements bonus points codes
In Store Demonstrators
Usually demonstrators have coupons out for the products that they are offering for samples
Take one for you and ask for a few for friends
Welcome Wagon
New to community
New baby
Memberships
Repetoire movie theatres
Community radio stations
....
Advant Guard Coupon Hunting
These next methods are done by some coupon hunters
The Love of Zero, a 1927 film by Robert Florey.
Advant Guard Coupon Hunting
Blue Box WalkLooking in recycle bins
Be sure to know your local rules
See posts on SmartCanucks about blue box walks
P.O. Box Offices
Often extra Rouge magazines are tossed in the blue box or garbage on the days they arrive
Coffee Time
Some restaurants and coffee shops have copies of the newspapers for customers
Have coffee at three of these places and collect the coupon flyers on insert day
I have heard McDonalds have papers but the early birds get the inserts I
Ask at Store for Extra Inserts
You can ask a store if you can take out the coupon flyer for papers they have set aside after the weekend is over
Note: I have heard that the store is supposed to return unsold papers in tact including the coupon flyers
Befriend a Newspaper Carrier
Often the newspaper carrier inserts the flyers and there's extras because people have signs posted no flyers on their mailbox
So they have extras
free auction site
FPCs / huggies / pampers / disney codes
Icoke pinsSite: www.listia.com
My referral link: http://www.listia.com/signup/341704
What's a Referral Link?
A referral link is has an extra tracking piece that says who sent you to the site
Usually, when you use someone's link they receive a few extra points
Many SmartCanuckers' include a referral link(s) in their signatureTry Zoombucks
Join Irazoo or Swagbucks
Buy on ebay.ca
Develop your eagle eye
Other places to find coupons?
Share your tips on our team's thread