Review: Great Info in Need of an Update for 2014
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2014
If you want to start couponing to save money on your groceries, household supplies and HBA items and you don't know where to begin, this book can be a big help to you. Rhonda Gilreath covers all the basics about where to get coupons, where to use them and when and how to shop for the best deals. The basic advice here is great.A couple of caveats:1. Not all of the things that Gilreath does herself can anyone do. Many stores, for example will allow you to use a store coupon and a manufacturer's coupon on the same product - a part of what she calls "coupon stacking". This is a legal, valid practice in most states/chains. In others, it is not.2. Another portion of what she calls "coupon stacking" varies from chain to chain and that's using identical coupons for the same products. It appears that she can shop where she is never limited in how many of a product she can buy with an identical coupon. In my area, one of the biggest chains with the best deals, limits you to 4 identical coupons. So, if you get inserts from 10 Sunday papers from the same week and cut out 10 identical coupons, you can only use 4 in a single trip to the store. You'll need to make multiple trips/transactions to use all 10.3. Stores in MANY areas DON'T pay back the overage from coupons as cash as she states but most also DON'T apply it to the balance of your bill to discount non coupon items. That's a rare practice. Ask at your store how they handle the overage when the final price, after coupon. would actually put money in your pocket.4. Finally, Triple coupons are nice but it's a very rare occurrence that most major chains DON'T practice except on very rare occasions. Too, when they do this, they don't normally triple coupons up to $1.00 as she states. If they normally only double coupons up to $.99, it's typical that on a triple coupon day or 3 day period, they only triple coupons up to $.50 cents. That's not quite the savings she touts with her coupons that become worth $3.00 each.