Questions?
Ask away! Read my training guides below, or leave a comment – I reply to all comments.
- 4 Ways to Get Coupons
- Coupon Lingo 101
- Each store’s detailed coupon stacking/acceptance policies here.
- View my Coupon Training Videos (including my most-viewed Coupon Binder Organization fast and the furious style) and view my categories in my coupon binder here.
- How To See All Available Coupons – My Coupon Database
- The Prescription Transfer Game – how to make money every time you transfer a prescription!
- Sales are seasonal; click here to view the month-by-month breakdowns of when to stock up! I listed everything from cars to peaches!
- Ways to Legitimately Make Money Online – tested by yours truly!
Other Coupon Questions:
How do you calculate your final prices on Cuckoo Coupon Deals?
Final Prices can get confusing when the items listed are part of a store promotion. Here’s an example of a typical store promo: Buy 4 participating items and save $4.00 instantly at the cash register. Final price would be after the $4 is taken off.
Here is another common store promotion. Spend minimum of $30.00 on participating products and receive a catalina coupon worth $15 on your next order. We report final prices based on the assumption that you will do more than one transaction while ‘rolling’ your $15 off catalina from one transaction to the next! On the below scenario, your first transaction you will actually pay more ($1.25 out of pocket) for the Nature Valley Granola Bars. But you will complete your first transaction by receiving a $15 coupon good toward any next purchase (excludes alcohol and lottery tickets). The savings we report on Cuckoo for Coupon Deals factors in the $15 catalina coupon. On your second, third, etc transactions, your actual out of pocket will match our reported final price because you’ll be redeeming your $15 catalina in addition to manufacturer coupons.
What does it mean to “roll” a catalina?
This refers to the practice of separating your purchase into multiple transactions in order to use register catalina coupons from your first transaction to pay for your second transaction. Another catalina prints from the 2nd transaction that pays for the 3rd transaction and so on.
When a store promotion specifies Spend $25, save $10, does the $25 have to be my total after I present my coupons?
No! You only must reach a minimum of $25 before tax. You may pay with as many coupons as you have. Even if your total after coupons is only $11.00, you will still save that advertised $10.00.
Deidre is a married mother with 2 girls, ages 1 and 3. 
I have a question. When you use your Smith’s Rewards card and have loaded coupons on them from Shortcuts and Cellfire if there is an identical coupon on each site will both of them come off or just one? Right now there is the BC Warm Delights listed on both sites and I have a printable coupon, I am wondering if all of them can be used?
Sometimes randomly all of them will go through, my experience lately is usually only one eCoupon will come off per item. For example, if you buy a Warm Delights you will get the Shortcuts coupon used but not the Cellfire. However, ecoupons CAN be stacked with manufacturer’s coupons. Make sure to login to Upromise and load their grocery coupons on your card too! Those won’t come off your bill but they will be added to your kids/grandkids college savings accounts.
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hi, i love your site and it has quickly become my favorite. i tried to use my coupons for the hungry hungry hippos and the connect 4 travel games at walmart and the computer would not accept them. since i was holding up the line and the manager was not responding to the cashiers call for help, i told her to take the items off of my bill and i took my coupons back. how should i handle this next time? also, i had printed a coupon for 95 cents off of one pillsbury cinnamon buns. but im not sure if that was on your site or not. would you know where i can find this coupon again? thank you for any help you can give me. debra
I searched several coupon databases and can’t find that coupon, so it probably isn’t available anymore. Walmart can be stinkers with coupons. I like to tell people right when they get behind me in line that I will be using a lot of coupons, and often they go to another lane and are glad I let them know. If someones already there, and I’m having problems, I feel bad but also remember what feels like forever is really on 5 minutes in the grand scheme of things. Another option is to have them take the items off your bill, then take the items and the coupons to Customer Service and try again. Sorry I don’t have a quick-fix solution for ya!
I have used coupons for quit some time now, but have never gotten as good of deals as I got today at Rite Aid, K-Mart and Wal-mart, by using your helpful hints of course. I have a question about the Single Check Rebates offered by Rite Aid, the J&J one in particular. Does the $50 have to be spent before coupons or after coupons? Thank you so much for all of these helpful hints and tidbits for stretching a dollar!
BEFORE coupons, that’s why Rite Aid usually has my favorite rebate programs!
Hi Diedre,
First let me say a BIG Thank You for your site. I have been trying to use coupons over the past few months and learn all I can about the most effective ways to save. I don’t even remember where I got linked to your site from but I am glad I did. It has been helpful all ready, especially the video showing how to cut and organize them and this weeks Rite Aide items. I came back today and tried to access the Rite Aide and Walgreens videos and several attempts only got a message that that site didn’t exist. Have those been too long ago for me to view?
Thanks again.
Walgreens video:
Rite Aid video
Hello. I absolutely love your site!!! Question… can you use two MFQ on one item. For example:
Pampers Jumbo Pack Diapers $8.99
-$2 SCR (limit 1)
-$2 +UP Reward (limit 1)
-$1.50 MFQ (P&G 8/1)
-FREE Wipes MFQ wyb Diapers (P&G 8/1)
Final Price = $3.49 for diapers & wipes!
Looks like you are referring to Rite Aid – Kinda a trick question because in this example you’d be buying two items – wipes and diapers. So it is a tough one, usually depends on your store. My store allows this.
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I’ve seen people referring to “buying” JUST the coupon inserts instead of the entire paper…I am new to couponing and would LOVE to do that! I hate wasting all those papers every Sunday! How do I get my hands on these? Thank you!
You can go to MyCouponHunter.com and select individual coupons you want.