Coupons for Everyting

Coupons For Everything---For Everyone!
Hello Couponeers!
One of the amazing women who has inspired me in my renewed fervor in my couponing/sales shopping is a woman named Jill Cataldo. She has a Supercouponning website: http://www.supercouponing.com.
When I elected to re-enter the confetti-like world of couponing, I purchased her couponing DVD. She is, and was, a profound influence on me , even though the “clip-less” system that she employed, didn’t work at all for me.
In her dvd (and I’ve heard it said in other books) she emphasizes, that if you look, you can find coupons for everything….yes…everything.
While am an industrious sort, given to spending hours,( sitting tailor fashion on my futon, in front of the TV set to QVC) exploring the internet, I kind of doubted that one could find coupons for everything. Maybe (my thought process went) SHE could find coupons for everything. Or, maybe SHE gets coupons for everything because she gets coupons for everything because she runs a couponing site and gets mountains of coupons sent to her. Two incidents—one a year ago and one today has me convinced that I am wrong about that. Allow me to illustrate.
After a rather surprising experience, I sent Ms. Cataldo this email titled “WOWSVILLE”
(I know I'm dating myself with that expression--sorry!)
Dear Ms. Cataldo,
I wrote to you earlier this week, but really couldn't wait for response.
I haven't had a lot of experience with "print from home" coupons and honestly, considering some of the posts regarding Dominicks, didn't know
if I could screw up my courage, but, I need to tell you this story.
The motivation for my venturing out beyond my comfort zone was 2-fold.
The first being watching your DVD and the second being, that my husband had lost his overtime and we've been struggling since.
I am on more than an average amount of prescription medications When I was at Dr's office last year, I was given a coupon for 6 months of a prescription at a certain price.
(draws a deep breath) So I thought, what the heck. I typed in the name of my prescription medication with the word "coupon" behind it in the search engine.
It came up with two, which will work for 12 months, one of which will cut the cost of one of my medications in half (even with my insurance card).
I, then, thought, “well, ok you've found them, will CVS TAKE them?”
Armed with my printouts, I trundled down to my local CVS--fortunately--or unfortunately, depending on which way one looks at it, they know me there very well.
I set the printouts on the desk at the drop off desk, and Eureka! It worked! No problems, no wrankling just the bliss of my medication costing less.
Sighs....Have I thanked you for your roll in my gaining the fortitude to give it a try?
Thank you, Jill. Very much!!
-Kim Danbert
Gypsyohara@gmail.com
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OK, it’s effusive. I was excited.
Today, I’m a bit bewildered, but stunned again. This time, my journey involves Disney.
As a resident of Central Florida, like many other residents, I have a “love-hate” relationship with Disney. I hate that the prices to get into the parks (only an hour’s travel time away) seem to be so prohibitive now. But I love that Central Florida Residents can get passes (in Fall and Winter when the parks are less-crowded and the weather is lovely) at a discount. Also, like so many people my (clears throat) age-group, I was raised watching the “Wonderful World of Disney” on Sunday nights, and I can’t pass up any opportunity to see a Disney animation feature film.
Under the “Hate” category, I hated that Disney (ever since they started to produce vhs’s) have been more expensive than films marketed by other companies, and “sales” were rare (at least I thought they were). So I had to pull it up and just deal if I needed the wonders of Snow White in my collection (and yes—I needed them).
This brings me to the actual topic of this article. Most recently, Disney , released a new version of Beauty and the Beast. You know, every so often the films emerge from the “vault” (another thing I resent about Disney, but appreciate it as a good marketing strategy—I know, the hate/love swings are giving you whip-lash).
As an a-side—Where IS this Vault? Is it under Cinderella’s Castle, as other things are rumored to be?
I had to have Beauty and the Beast again. I did already have it on an older DVD (I used to own it on vhs).
Muttering to myself that I would need to shell-out the $25 (or more) to ransom the film from the vault, I was resolved to purchase it, anyway.
But then, I learned that IF I had a “previous version” of Beauty & the Beast, I could go the website, put in my upc code and get a coupon for $10 off of the dvd. OK, not just any dvd…the Diamond Edition which includes the Blue Ray disk and some new features (which I usually find myself watching about 2 years after purchasing the disk).
What genius! For me…this is like so many things that I love coming together, I found myself buzzing like a honey-bee at a hive. Beauty & the Beast (LOVE!) plus Coupons (Love coupons) which I print off the internet (God bless you Al Gore for creating the World wide web!—joke!) I do love the internet. Ok so this was too good to let pass.
I printed the coupon and this weekend my husband (a character in too many of my coupon stories, I know) zoom to Walmart to get Beauty and the Beast. I saved $10—(the cashier was impressed—always a bonus). But the story didn’t end there (and I know you wish it would).
I have a long-neglected Disney Movie Rewards account. So when I got home, I revisited the account to post my purchase and collect points, casting aside the outer cardboard wrapper. When I was on the site, I was reminded that I have other Disney films that I had not inserted the Magic number into my account and set to doing that.
As I was doing that, I found….coupons…for Disney films. Pinocchio and Cinderella (which I purchased at full price) could have been mine for $3 less. Those coupons were expired. Six or more of my Disney animated features had this little booklets in them with coupons for Disney features. (I shake my head).
Here is the kicker. Picking up the cardboard outer wrapper of the Beauty and the Beast Diamond Edition that I had just purchased, I found one more treasure.
Couponers call it a “peelie” . It was a special deal adhered to the outside of the package. I peeled it off to find a “reward”. If one goes to the website mentioned and enter the code, you can print a coupon for free admittance to the new Disney animated Feature: Tangled. I did as instructed, and printed my coupon. I can’t wait to go—for free!
In summing up, what Jill Cataldo (and other couponeeres before and since her) said, is true. You can find coupons for (nearly) anything…if you’re actually looking for (or at) them. I’ve learned that as I’ve started actually using my coupons, I’ve developed a sort of Couponawareness that helps me to see and utilize them.
Anyone up for a Disney film?
Popcorn’s on me!

Kim Danbert