We have an old Microbee in the shed out the back. It's older than I am, has a massively fast 8-bit Zilog Z80 running somewhere between 2 MHZ and 4 MHZ (Not sure precisely which model it is), with somewhere from 56 to 128 KB of RAM, a 5.25'' floppy drive, and in-built CRT!

It also still works.

Foomer wrote:

Typically you can print two of each coupon per computer. The coupon sites have a VERY thorough process which insures that you don't print more than the specified amount per computer. Usually that is two, sometimes its one, sometimes its six or ten.

I'm not saying that its fool-proof, I'm sure there are some people who have figured out how to bypass it, and if I desperately wanted to I could probably figure it out too. However, that's also what you call coupon fraud, is illegal, and can potentially be tracked.

Hey, let me re-derail this thread - what do you actually DO with that many coupons? Is there a market to sell them? I could hardly use 1 coupon for many things, rather less 10.


~Polatrite~

Polatrite wrote:

Hey, let me re-derail this thread - what do you actually DO with that many coupons? Is there a market to sell them? I could hardly use 1 coupon for many things, rather less 10.


~Polatrite~

Progresso soup: on sale for $1.39 (normally $2.99, ouch)

On the west coast, this store is advertising a deal where if you by $15 of select items and get $5 off your next purchase (soup price just dropped to $0.94 each, yay!)

On the east coast, they also advertise a deal where if you buy a something like 10 cans of Progresso, you get $5 instant savings off your purchase. Turns out both of these deals work regardless of which coast you're on. Now the price of Progresso is $0.53 each, or $6.30 per 12. That's awesome.

From each computer I printed four $1.10 off 3 and two $1.10 off 1 Progresso coupons. End result: I purchased 132 cans of Progresso soup for $16.50

So I save over $50 with coupons, and didn't hardly have to spend any money buying tons of soup. Of course, I found out that the $1.10/1 coupons existed after I'd already bought a bunch, so if it weren't for that, I probably would have gotten them cheaper.

That was last week, btw.

You should start a blog. I'd follow it.

12 cents per can of premium soup is a pretty great deal.

But what do you do with 132 cans of soup? In the event of a nuclear war you'd be all set, but in the more likely event of everyday life - do you donate a bunch to organizations, resell them, etc.?


~Polatrite~

Radical Designs wrote:

I can barely make bills meet and I usually just eat ramen noodles, so I could have totally used 130 cans of good soup.

I can totally understand the usefulness of 130 cans of soup.

That's 2000 ounces of soup goodness - enough to eat nothing but soup for almost 2 straight months.

My question is: if you're unmarried with no kids (which is Foomer, last I recall), there's only so much food you can consume on a daily basis.

If you're getting 1000-2000 ounces of food every week, what happens to all of it? At some point your pantry becomes a neverempty plate and there's not much point in having more food because you've got the next 4 years covered, and you've lost 300 square feet of storage in your house.

Is there an alternative motive? :P


~Polatrite~

Foomer wrote:

So I save over $50 with coupons, and didn't hardly have to spend any money buying tons of soup. Of course, I found out that the $1.10/1 coupons existed after I'd already bought a bunch, so if it weren't for that, I probably would have gotten them cheaper.

That was last week, btw.

No offense, but you kind of sound like a hoarder...
GET HELP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

Can you actually eat all the stuff before it expires, though?
Also, didn't you say you sometimes get paid for buying groceries - how does that work? You may be onto a gold mine here! =P

A lot of stores have special coupon policies, like doubling coupons that are for $1 or less- so if you have a $1 coupon on an item that costs $1.50, you get $0.50 back.

And canned stuff lasts forever, so I'm sure Foomer isn't having trouble.

Airjoe wrote:

A lot of stores have special coupon policies, like doubling coupons that are for $1 or less- so if you have a $1 coupon on an item that costs $1.50, you get $0.50 back.

And canned stuff lasts forever, so I'm sure Foomer isn't having trouble.

I prefer to buy items in mass when they'll last a long time. Packaged tuna, for example, has a shelf life of three years. Progresso is at least a year, I'm sure. Occasionally I'll get things that don't last very long, and I just give those away ASAP. Make lots of friends that way.

As for how you get paid - while I've occasionally encountered stores that will actually give me money back for having too much money in coupons, they're generally not supposed to do that. Most money is made through catalina coupons. At most stores, next to the machine that prints out the receipts, there is another little machine called the catalina machine. It spits out these long skinny coupons called catalina coupons. Most of them aren't anything special, but for some deals it'll give you a catalina coupon for money off your next purchase.

Now, if I buy a bunch of stuff and with coupons only spend $5, but I get a $10 off my next purchase for buying it, I now have $5 that I didn't have before. Sometimes these can be used to purchase gift cards, other times they just get used over and over to buy the same thing. Once we had a deal like that where I ended up with $120 in gift cards. A friend of mine special ordered a load of the product and did the same deal dozens of times, and he ended up with somewhere around $500 in gift cards. We both spent about $20 out of pocket to do it.