ROSES
Half dozen roses are $3.99 at Aldis. For the cost of McDonalds hamburger value meal you can make that special someone happy. The flowers may last a week, but she’ll remember it forever. (If you use that magic packet of stuff attached to each bouquet it may last two weekends!)
TNT TANNING
Do your cats and dogs scatter because they think they saw a ghost when you get up at night to go to the bathroom? Perhaps it’s time to hit the tanning beds.
Through 2/14 they are running specials including buy 10 get 5 free.
Click here for their specials:
http://tinyurl.com/4pl4csq
They have BOGO coupons in the Our Town book. Click here: http://tinyurl.com/yfjkr2g
FTD
Save 25% on Florist Delivered red rose bouquet for Valentines Day.
Click here before it’s too late:
http://tinyurl.com/6axu2mz
SUBWAY
Get a coupon for a free raspberry cheesecake cookie with any purchase on Valentine’s Day at Subway. Hmmm, I wonder if I can get some free banana peppers and black olives on it. Also play to win a footlong sub sandwich for life!
Click here:
http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/menu/free_cookie_day/
HOMETOWN BUFFET
For anyone who’s been married more than 50 years, Home Buffet is offering a deal. Purchase 2 adult meals at lunch or dinner on Feb 14th and you’ll receive 2 FREE “BE OUR GUEST” MEAL PASSES, valid any time through 3/16. Be sure to bring your marriage certificate and photo IDs and a helmet for the backhands you will get f…or taking your loving spouse of 50+ years to Hometown Buffet on Valentines Day.
RESTAURANT.COM
Need dinner coupons for this weekend for Valentine’s Day dinner? Get ‘em now! Get 80% off Restaurant.com Gift Certificates! Pay only $2 for $25 restaurant gift certificates (normally $10)!
Use code LOVE at checkout.
Deal goes through 2/14/11.
Over 18,000 restaurants! No expiration date on certificate!
Click here to order:
http://tinyurl.com/yg8n8bv
EHARMONY
Still looking for a lover for Valentine’s Day? What are you waiting for? There are plenty of lonely fish just waiting for that someone to at least give them a shot. It may be worth it just going through all the pics and profiles. You may even find a neighbor or congressman. Try eHarmony or match.com. Click here to get a free personality profile.
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4urwcsj
Click here to save 20% on a 6 month subscription:
http://tinyurl.com/6x96ldy
BORDERS
Borders rewards members get 40% savings off any one item at
Borders.com for the next 3 days!
Use code: BXP8221X
Deal good through 2/14/11.
Buy one paperback and get one half off from 2/15/11 through 2/17/11.
From now through 2/28/11, buy 4 books from our extensive romance section and get the 5th free with Code: ROMB4G5AF.
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4fowzm5
VALUE CITY FURNITURE
Extra Large Backpacks for storage – $9.99 – save over 85% – while they last. From what I can tell you can fit a musk oxen in one of them.
KMART
Super doubles at participating stores (call to make sure yours is participating). Coupons of $2 and less double when you use your Shop Your Way Rewards loyalty card and purchase $25 or emore in grocery & drugstore merchandise. Limit of 5 coupons – booo.
JOANN FABRIC AND CRAFT STORES
A 10% off your total purchase coupon is in the ad – good Fri, 2/18 and Sat, 2/19. You can also shop online and get the 10% discount using code NGSE50.
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/623shwx
MICHEALS
50% off one regular priced item coupon in ad.
TOYS R US
BOGO (buy-one-get-one free) Fisher Price infant toys
Buy 2 get 3rd free Hasbro game
Click here for BOGO Hasbro card game coupon: http://tinyurl.com/46g7bft
TARGET
50% off fireplace, heating items.
75% off winter clothes
$10 transferred/new prescription coupon in ad
CVS
Listerine – 99 cents after extrabucks and $1 coupon
Colgate Total – make money after $1 or .75 coupon – limit 2
Speed Stick deodorant – 49 cents after .50 coupon and extrabucks
WALGREENS
Get the Sunday PD at participating locations for $1.25 and the daily for 50 cents through 2/27/11.
Still got pictures to develop from the Holidays? Get 4×6 photo prints for 10 cents each when you order 75 prints or more.
Coupon Code: FIRST
End Date: 02/19/2011
Click here to order:
http://tinyurl.com/49636uu
Skintimate – 49 cents after $1 coupon and $1 register reward
Gillette fusion razor – $1.99 after $4 coupon and $4 register reward – look for some packages with some freebies
ARM & HAMMER
Get Arm & Hammer product coupons at:
http://www.armandhammer.com/index.aspx
COUPONS.COM
Get around 200 manufacturer coupons worth hundreds of dollars at (you may need to download the coupon printer installer):
http://tinyurl.com/46g7bft
RITE AID
GE CFL bulb – free after $1 coupon – limit 4
Comet – 15 cents after .35 coupon
Colgate – Make $1 after $1 coupon and UP rewards – limit 2
Degree – 2/$2 less .75 coupon on each
Maalox – make money after $5 coupon
Blink tears – free after UP rewards and $4 coupon found on some packages
GIANT EAGLE
I noticed on one of my last receipts that it hand little red strands in it like you would find on a dollar bill now. I’m figuring they are using that to make sure someone doesn’t bring in a fake receipt to get money back on something.
Get 20 cents off per gallon in fuelperks at GetGo when purchasing $50 worth of restaurant gift cards at Giant Eagle. Goes through 2/16.
Krusteaz bakery products – $1 after .50 coupon
Annie Chung Thai products – $1.50 after $1 coupon
Mentos – free after .50 coupon
Baileys creamer – 50 cents after $1 coupon
Kens salad dressing – BOGO – plus use $1/2 coupon
Rice-a-Roni – 50 cents after .50/2 coupon (look for B3G1 Pasta Roni)
Knorr packets – 50 cents after .50 coupon
Land-o-Lakes margarine – 20 cents after .40 coupon
Reynolds aluminum wrap – 25 cents after .75 coupon
Scott/Viva/Cottonelle – get 30 cents of fuelperks when you buy 2 large packs (in essence, $9 savings with 30 gallon purchase) – plus use coupons
Frenchs mustard – free after .75 coupon
Totinos pizza – 2/$1 after .75/2 coupon found at http://tinyurl.com/46g7bft
BEST DEAL MAGAZINES
I just placed an order with them. There are some great deals for magazine subscriptions for $5 and less for one year.
Weekly Deals:
PARENTS
Additional 20% off
$3.76 for 1 year
Coupon Code: WKLYSPEC
WEIGHT WATCHERS
Additional 20% Off
$3.76 for 1 year
Coupon Code: WKLYSPEC
SPORTING NEWS
Additional 20% Off
$3.76 for 1 year
Coupon Code: WKLYSPEC
Daily Deals:
2/14 – Good Housekeeping 2 Years – $15
2/15 – Elle Decor 1 Year – $5.39
2/16 – Seventeen 1 Year – $4.39
2/17 – Golfweek 1 Year – $11.49
2/18 – Oxygen 1 Year – $5.39
2/19 – Budget Travel 1 Year – $5.39
2/20 – Taste of Home 1 Year – $5.39
Take An Extra 15% Off Most Titles
Code: PXCJ220 Offer Expires February 20, 2011
250+ Magazines under $10 with this coupon!
80+ Popular Magazines – Just $3.99 with this coupon!
35+ Popular Magazines – Just $5.24 with this coupon!
TAKE AN EXTRA $5 OFF $30 ORDER COUPON
Code: MNDCJ220 Offer Expires February 20, 2011
TAKE AN EXTRA $7.50 OFF $40 ORDER COUPON
Code: MQQCJ220 Offer Expires February 20, 2011
TAKE AN EXTRA $10 OFF $50 ORDER COUPON
Code: MQPCJ220 Offer Expires February 20, 2011
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/yegw9yq
VALU KING
Coupons in ad mailed to homes:
Free Hunt’s Manwich Sloppy Joe Mix
Free Valu Time Hamburger or Hot Dog Buns
They do take coupons, just not internet coupons. Located in Eastlake and Ravenna. They are owned my Giant Eagle.
MARCS
Asparagus – $1.49/lb
Roma Tomatoes – 89 cents/lb
MR HERO
50% off Romanburgers on Fridays.
DOES EDUCATION PAY?
The unemployment rate in 2009/2010 for the following:
Around 15% for those with less than a high school education.
Around 10% for those with a high school diploma.
Around 8% for those with some college.
Around 5% for those with a 4-year college degree.
EATING HABITS
There was a story about the states with the worst eating habits. Ohio was ranked 8th. Sure, there are times when I spread out like Jabba the Hut across my couch and eat junk all day. Sometimes I’m so lazy to even pick up the food. I try to reach it with the least amount of effort by jabbing my sticky tongue at nearby chips or cookies like a chameleon launching it’s tongue to capture it’s meal. One time I got a mouthful of beverage coasters with one errant flick. I think I tasted some leftover coffee on it.
And my choice of food isn’t always the best. When you shop like I do and have 15 variations of each snack food available to mankind it can be tempting to eat poorly because of all the tasty treats that are all around.
Couponers tend to buy what is on sale and that usually means buying a lot of processed foods, but I always temper it with making sure we do eat healthy. I try to counter it by buying tons of fruits and vegetables. We have a Noah’s Ark of food at our house. There always seems to be two of everything. Usually one is fresh while the other is getting ready to rot. Two bags of carrots (I’m not sure if one is male while the other is female), two bags of oranges, two sprigs of green onions, two beets, and so on.
Sometimes I buy stuff that is healthy not knowing if I will even eat it. For instance, if I buy beets they may just be for show since I may not whip up a hearty batch of borscht with them.
The best deals I find for produce are at Aldi’s, Sav-a-Lot, and Marcs. Valu King is ok, but I have noticed that the produce deals there and even Marc’s aren’t as good as they used to be. Here’s a rule of thumb about finding the best produce deals. If the produce section is in the back of the store, the store will have good deals on produce. If the produce section is in front of the store as you walk in, the deals aren’t so great. Why do stores do that? They know that people don’t want to spend the time running around for deals, so they know people will commit to buying the produce at their store if it is the first section that the see. If it was expensive and in the back of the store then people won’t buy as much and might even decide to go elsewhere for the produce deals. All the big grocery stores like Heinen’s, Giant Eagle, Buehler’s have their produce sections as you walk into the store.
If you look at their ads they have the least amount of produce items on sale, usually only two or three. Even their BOGO deals on produce aren’t so hot since they price them so high initially. For instance, the other week I got blueberries at Aldis for $1.69 while at Giant Eagle they were BOGO which made them $1.99 each – at BOGO prices! Still much cheaper at Aldis.
The quality is good for the cheaper produce too. At times I think Aldis does freeze theirs so sometimes you might get a bad batch if they keep it too cold for too long. But it’s usually great quality with name brands like Dole and Driscoll. And the family that owns Aldi’s also owns Trader Joe’s!
Convenience is worth something. But most stores with low priced produce like Aldis’ Marcs, and Sav-a-Lot are a stones throw away from the grocery stores. To me it’s worth saving $20 for the extra 15 minutes to go there. In essence, that equates to making $80 an hour on your job!
Speaking of Sav-a-Lot, there are four $5 off a $20 purchase coupons in the Our Town and All Around Book. If you are interested in purchasing one they are $28 with free shipping at
Limited supply left. There are tons of other coupons in it – around 1,000. You can get it at http://www.joethecouponguy.com/merchandise/index.htm.
What I found interesting in the article is that Ohio has one of the worst ratios of grocery stores to people. It was ranked 45th with .18 grocery stores per 1,000 people. Less competition means higher pricing.
Here’s the story about the states with the worst eating habits.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112083/10-states-with-the-deadliest-eating-habits
GAS PRICES
Look for gas prices to lower with the crisis in Egypt settling down. A gallon should fall back into the upper $2 range. Find the best gas prices in your town at: http://www.gasbuddy.com. You can also find up-to-date Speedway gas prices on their sites at http://www.speedway.com.
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
In this past weeks Red Plum insert including a BOGO coupon for .4 mil plastic dop cloths and CS 9″ soft woven covers. Another was for 25% off paints and stains and 15% off painting supplies. You can also print the coupons from: http://tinyurl.com/46g7bft
NAYA BISTRO
Look for a $5 off $20 purchase coupon and a $15 off a $50 purchase coupon in the recent Valpak mailer. Good Sun to Thurs.
PANINIS MAYFIELD
Get $5 off a $25 or $10 off $50 or $1 off panini sandwich purchase coupon at http://www.valpak.com/coupons/searchCategory/Dining-and-Restaurants/44124
WENDYS
Get the new sea salt fries at Wendy’s for free! I’ve had ‘em and thems good eatin’.
Click here (hit the backspace button a few times to print a second coupon):
http://tinyurl.com/2897oxd
Get $1 off their new Asiago ranch chicken club sandwich coupon here:
http://tinyurl.com/5sc2ek7
PENN STATION
Through February 23rd, you can enter once a day for a chance to instantly win one of three Prizes: A Buy One Get One Free Reward, a Free Drink or Free Small Fresh Cut Fries with a sub purchase. No Purchase Necessary – Game ends 2/23/11.
Click here to play – 5 chances a day!:
http://www.penn-station.com/slots.php
OPENING
A Phiner Bistro – 2199 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights
Tuesday Morning – Great Lakes Plaza
Shoe Carnival – Great Lakes Plaza – on March 21st
Rockefellers – in the Rockefeller Building on Superior in downtown Cleveland
Match Works Tavern – Mentor – where Cabanas used to be.
Cabanas – Mentor – the restaurant moved to the old Avenue location
Thirst and Ten Sports Grill – Berea (at the old Front Street Tavern location)
CLOSING
Pufferbelly restaurant – Berea
Flower Factory – Brookpark – 15% off now – closing in 5 to 10 weeks
EL CAMPISINO RESTAURANTE MEXICANO
$10.99 For 2 Dining Spectaculars and 8 Buy One, Get One entree in Twinsburg and Streetsboro.
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/49fjttv
PUFFERBELLY
Today’s Deal: $10 for $20 of Specialty Cuisine, Seafood, Steak & More at Pufferbelly in Kent
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4njk9zj
MALLONNS
Mallonn’s Grill & Bar in Akron/Canton – 50% Off Burgers
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4epwuq5
FINGERLAKES
Bagdon House B&B in Geneva, NY – $265 for 2 nights – includes bottle of wine and wine tasting tickets.
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4epwuq5
BAGETTES
$19 for Medium-Sized, Personalized Bagettes Photo Bag ($41 Value)
Click here:
http://tinyurl.com/4bqn6dt
CHARDON LIBRARY
I’ll be at the Chardon Library teaching a class at 2:00 PM on Sunday, Feb. 20th. I cover a multitude of ways to save on a variety of topics and not just about couponing. Stop on by and learn some new ways to save. Call the library at 440-285-7601. They had a lot of people signed up already so there is a chance they may cut off registration.
BROOKPARK LIBRARY
I’ll be at the Brookpark Library teaching a class at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 23rd. Contact them at 216-267-5250.
RANDOLPH LIBRARY
I’ll be at the Randolph Library (east of Akron) in Randolph on Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 PM. 330-325-7003
LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
I’ll be teaching a class at Lakeland on Wednesday, March 2nd at 7:15 PM. It’s a 2 hour class so I get to cover more – $29 fee – Call 440-525-7116 to register.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Check out my upcoming class speaking engagement schedule at:
http://www.joethecouponguy.com/schedule/index.htm
If you’d like to book a class, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com.