Thing 3
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