If you are new to couponing, you will love to learn about the “Prescription Transfer Game”. Even if I don’t have time for too many deals, one deal I do every month is the Prescription Transfer Game.
Here’s how it works:
In the Sunday paper, Rite Aid, Target, Kmart, and sometimes Walgreen’s will offer coupons for $25 gift cards to their store, just for transferring a prescription to their store. These coupons can often be found online as well – and my site will let you know when and where to find them.
- All you have to do is call the pharmacy you want to transfer to, for example, Rite Aid, and say you want to transfer a prescription to them from Kmart.
- They call Kmart and do all the transfer work for you.
- Then you go to Rite Aid and pick up your prescription. When you go to pay for it, you give them your $25 Gift Card Coupon. You will still pay your regular co-pay for the prescription, but then after you pay they will hand you a gift card for $25 to their store! Use-able on anything!
- The next month when it is time to get your prescription filled, you call Kmart and say you want to transfer your prescription from Rite Aid to Kmart.
- Kmart does all the transfer work.
- Then the same scenerio repeats itself – go in, hand them the coupon and get your $25 Kmart Gift Card.
I transfer between Kmart and Rite Aid monthly, and Walgreen’s when they do have the $25 transfer coupons available. I make $25 per month doing this!
Valid printable prescription transfer coupons:
I noticed lots of blogs are putting Print Friendly on their sites. It’s a free plugin on Print Friendly.com that works for blogger and wordpress sites.
The problem I have with Print Friendly: it only allows to to select items from one post and print them.
I began searching the internet for a wordpress plugin for my site that would allow people to save parts of posts to a printable list for later. I didn’t find one.
I found something better: A free program that allows you to save deals from all over the web. Just highlight with your mouse any area you want saved. It will select it and save it to your ongoing list. You can come back the next day and it will still be there! Then go to 10 more sites, add all the deals you want to do, then go to your printable list and edit/delete deals you don’t want. You can print them all on one page, or save them to a pdf.
The ability to do this for every site on the internet is pretty sweet. What is the name of this program you ask? You can select exact portions of a post you want to print with HP Web Page Printing. It is free and it works with all printers – not just HP. It only works with Internet Explorer 6, 7, & 8, so if you have Mozilla Firefox I have installed Print Friendly on my site for you.
There is so much information to learn about couponing! One thing I just realized I have never have talked about is writing to companies to express dislike/problems or great news about their products.
My sister once got a bad bag of Stringster’s String Cheese. She emailed the company and complained, and they sent her tons of coupons for free string cheese!
Why would companies send you free coupons? Companies want to hear from customers. Research varies, but some studies show only 8% of people with problems with a product complain to the company directly! Most people just stop using the company’s product and/or take it back to the retailer. To the company, that 8% represents a lot of people. For every bit of feedback they get, they know a lot of other people feel the same way. Hearing from you is invaluable to them!
Whether you write to them about a great experience or a horrible dud product, they are happy to hear from you because even if you never use their product again, they want to know what people are saying about it. Most companies happily offer freebie coupons to people who write to them and tell them about the company’s products. Some companies only send out high-value coupons, but that is better than nothing!
I got an email from a reader who was upset that my site had so many deals from states outside of Utah – it was clogging up her Google Reader with deals that didn’t apply to her.
So I spent all weekend working up a solution I think will benefit everyone from every state!
FIRST: Subscribe via RSS (Google Reader is RSS) or by email for deals in your state only here! Infact, you can subscribe for lite or full versions.
- Lite state subscription- Gives you every in-store deal applicable to your state.
- Full state subscription- Gives you every in-store deal applicable to your state, plus all other online deals, freebies, printable coupons and deals that are applicable nationwide. Basically, every post on my site except ones that are for a store which is not located in your state or for deals specific to other states.
- Oddly: For some reason when you subscribe the name at the top of the feed will show a category, usually a store name, at the top of the feed. Don’t worry, if you look through the feed, it is only showing your state deals. It is just listing the first of many categories which are included in the feed. So don’t worry about it; it’s the correct feed!
SECOND: Changes to which deals are shown on my home page:
To make my home page more applicable to everyone, only store deals, freebies, printable coupons, etc… which are nationwide (or close to it) will be shown. All deals on the Cuckoo Deals Map will still be there, you just need to select your state to see store deals & state/region specific deals. This is important because I am working with other bloggers towards getting deals for every state nationwide soon on the map! If you are a interested in making money posting deals for your state, email me.
Utah readers: I started posting less Utah deals because of my national readers getting bugged. But now that they can subscribe to their state deals which won’t show Utah deals, I am going to start posting more Utah deals! Utah deals will no longer show up on my home page though. To see them, either subscribe via RSS or email to Utah deals, OR just click on the Cuckoo Deals Map and on Utah select “Utah Deals” to view my infamous in-store finds at Macey’s, Fresh Market, Utah offers and more.
Utah Lite Feed:
Subscribe in a reader or by Email
Utah Full Feed: Subscribe in a reader or by Email
All other states: go to my Subscribe Via RSS or Email page and select your state’s lite or full feed!
What do you think of these changes? Helpful or not? Anything else I can do to ease your time searching for deals? Leave a comment below and let me know.
Reader Question:
“Can you make money legitimately online without blogging? I always feel like making money online is a scam!”
I agree! Most ways of “making money online” require you to “sign up for a monthly fee”. I never use or recommend those. Here are legit ways to make or save money online that I use and recommend, in order of my favorites:
Cash4Books.net is super easy! I had one reader email me to say she made $90 selling old books!
- Enter books you have lying around and want to sell with their ISBN’s.
- They pay for your shipping label — which you print right from your computer.
- They pay you via paypal or check, whichever you prefer.
Sponsored Tweets: They pay you $1 per tweet you send that promotes a company. You get to choose the wording and deny any tweet you don’t want to send. The more followers you have on Twitter, the more opportunities you will have to make money. You don’t have to own a blog to be part of Sponsored Tweets.
SwagBucks: use their search engine on regular daily searches, and you earn SwagBucks. SwagBucks are redeemable for toys, clothes, airline miles, books, well just about anything. But most importantly, Amazon.com gift cards or PayPal cash, which can be used to get whatever you want. I truly love Swaggin’! Sign up for SwagBucks here.
Every week day on my Facebook Fans page I either randomly select a Facebook Fan or “Liker” and give them a prize, or just say “first person to comment wins”. Today’s is a Free Coupon for McCormick Inspirations Product ($2.39 value). I don’t announce these giveaways on my site- they are for Facebook Fans only. I just realized some of you may be missing out if you aren’t a Cuckoo for Coupon Deals facebook fan so I just wanted to let you know about it!
Let’s do a recap of new features this week:
I taught you how to Save Items To a Printable Shopping List on Any Blog!
We went mobile- now when you view the Cuckoo for Coupon Deals website on your phone, images are gone, so the site loads turbo quick! Plus, you can watch my Youtube videos right on your phone!
AND now we’re releasing another new feature! Curious yet? Head on over to the Cuckoo Deals Map and take a look around. Yes, I added 34 new stores today, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Click on any state and try to find something new that wasn’t there before…
UPDATE: Hint: Say you click on Florida, at the bottom it says “Your FL Shopping Trips & Pics” click there and anyone can upload their shopping trip pics and write up posts about what they found shopping, peelies, clearance, etc… So someone try it out and let me know what you think! There’s a different one for every state so you can browse couponers in your state’s deals and reply directly to them.
Wa-hoo! Great news, you can now view Cuckoo for Coupon Deals on your phone, complete with instant updates, easy navigation, my Youtube videos, Facebook & Twitter comments, well everything!
Bookmark this URL on your phone to go straight to my page: http://m.wbx.me/cuckooforcoupondeals
If you forget that URL, you can always go on your mobile phone to my regular URL: http://cuckooforcoupondeals.com and it will re-direct to the mobile page, it will just take longer because of the re-direct.
What other features would you like to see on Cuckoo for Coupon Deals?
You can get coupons 4 ways:
1. Printed Online:
How do I find printable coupons?
Next to each match-up on our site we list what coupon to use, and have a link of where to print it from, normally one of the following 3 reputable sites:
Coupons.com
SmartSource.com
RedPlum.com
Target.com
How many times may I print each coupon?
You can print nearly all coupons two times per computer by using the back browser (the little < sign in your toolbar). Hit the back button and then click “resend” to print the coupon a second time! Some printable coupon sites, you have to manually go back and reselect the coupon a second time.
What does IE or FF mean? These are the 2 most recommended Web Browsers for printing coupons since you CAN’T print coupons using Google Chrome (please email me if you find a way to print from Google Chrome)
IE= Internet Explorer
FF=Firefox
When printing coupons from (bricks.coupons.com) the url is different for those browsing in firefox than it is for internet explorer. Click the link next to IE if you’re in explorer or FF if you’re in firefox. You can’t print twice from both.
There’s my daughter teaching how she uses coupons 
I’m seriously swamped right now. I keep thinking of all these great features I want to add to my site and I’m busy working on those and posting deals. I also have two toddlers to entertain. So at this time I don’t have time to teach coupon courses, other then my free online training videos. and my how-to text guide.
But if you are the type of person who likes to learn in person, check out the links below for local free coupon courses.
Coupon teachers: Only list your coupon courses if they are free. In the “Name” field, type in “City, State, Date of Class” then link it to a post on your blog with more information about your coupon classes. I will re-post this list monthly if it seems like people like it.
Free Coupon Courses:
Deidre is a married mother with 2 girls, ages 1 and 3. 
