Updated Savingstar eCoupons!

Savingstar has released a ton of new eCoupons! How does an eCoupon work, you ask? Simple! When you sign up with Savingstar, you register all of your store cards, and Savingstar loads the eCoupons of your choice to your store cards. When you buy an item that corresponds with an eCoupon, instead of coming off of your total at the register, the amount of the eCoupon is credited to your Savingstar account. Then you can cash out periodically for a check! The best part - you can still use paper coupons! It's like stacking the savings!

Here are the current eCoupons that are available:



Buy any 2 Marie's® Salad Dressings, Save $1.25.
Expires 8/18/2012.



Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Sea Salt, Save 40¢.
Expires 8/1/2012.



Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt, Save 40¢.
Expires 8/1/2012.



Buy 1 Diamond Crystal Salt Sense, Save 35¢.
Expires 8/1/2012.



Buy 1 Truvia® Natural Sweetener (40 ct or larger), Save 75¢.
Expires 8/1/2012.



Buy any 3 Healthy Choice Frozen Entrées, Save $1.00.
Expires 8/1/2012.

(Only at Dillons, Baker's, Gerbes, Fred Meyer, Fry's/Fry's Marketplace, JayC, King Soopers, City Market, Kroger, Kroger Atlanta, Kroger Cincinnati, Kroger Columbus, Kroger Indianapoli

August UPromise eCoupons!

The list of eCoupons for August has been released. For those of you who are unfamiliar with UPromise, read the tutorial here. But UPromise in a nutshell - it's a site that was originally designed to help parents save money to send their children to college but now is available to anyone just to save money. They offer online eCoupons to load onto your store cards and when the coupon is used, instead of coming off your total at the register, it is credited to your UPromise account where the savings add up and you can withdrawal the money! You can also link your debit/credit cards and get cash back at participating restaurants and stores. Online purchases made through the UPromise site also reward cash back. You can sign up here. The best part, you CAN use paper coupons at the store too!

So when you see a Upromise and a manufacturer coupon cited in the coupon matchups, it means that both coupon values are being deducted from the price of the item. If the UPromise coupon is worth 40 cents, yes, you'll have to pay (some of) that at the register, depending on how much the paper coupon takes off, but the 40 cents is credited to your account. Stacking paper and Upromise coupons is a great way to get overage.

I have only been doing it for a couple of months and am already up to $9 without even trying, and the account hasn't evne been credited yet for my cashback from dining out!

Keep reading for the coupon list and more info on eCoupons.

For the Northerners - $5 Meijer coupon

Check your Meijer mPerks account. There may be an eCoupon for $5 off any purchase of $5 or more. The coupon expires 6/19/11.
If you are unfamiliar with mPerks, go here to find out more. You sign up online with your cell phone number (standard text message rates will apply – check your plan). Then add digital coupons online and when you shop at Meijer you redeem them by pressing the mPerks button on the credit card machine or on the self checkout screen.

Thanks, Couponing to be Debt Free

Kroger Ad, Weekly Matchups + Unadvertised Deals 5/29-6/4

 

Here are the week's matchups for Kroger. Remember, these are done based on the Southeast sale circular, so verify sale price in your local ad before heading to the store.

Don't forget to load your card with eCoupons first! SavingStar eCoupons work similarly to UPromise, the coupon value does not come off the total at the register, but is deposited in your SavingStar account, which can be withdrawn as cash once you hit a certain threshold. SavingStar eCoupons CAN be stacked with paper coupons.

Kroger eCoupons come off at the register, but they do not double and can only be used on one item, not multiple like items.

UPromise

Now that all of the coupon policies are posted (for the most part), I'll be working on this week's sales and coupon match ups. But in the meantime, here's another way for you to make your coupons work for you. (Another type of eCoupon, except it puts money in a savings account!)

You register on the website, and link your store shopping cards to the website. (At Publix you can get a UPromise card at the register.) You upload the eCoupons to your cards, and as long as you scan your card at the store and purchase an item with an applicable coupon, the value of the uPromise coupon is put into your UPromise account, like a savings account. No, the amount of the coupon does not come off of your total, but you CAN use paper coupons also.

You also get cash back to your account for shopping online through the UPromise website. You can even get cash back from Groupon, just click the Groupon link through the UPromise site, and make your purchase like you normally would from the retailer, and BAM, cash back.

If you link your debit or credit card to your account (completely secure), you also get dining rewards when you eat out.

The possibilities for this site are practically endless, and you can make the program work as much or as little for you as you'd like. So, take a look and decide for yourself if the program is for you.

Kroger Coupon Policy

Kroger's coupon policy has been pretty hard to track down, but I will provide the basics. You can access Kroger's print-at-home coupon policy here.

The Kroger Policy is pretty basic, it is as follows:

Buy One Get One (BOGO)

• Each item rings up as half price and coupons can be applied to each item. You do not have to buy two items to get the deal.

Competitor's Coupons

• Kroger does not accept them.

Coupon Doubling

• Kroger doubles coupons up to $0.50 in the southeast.
• In Ohio, Kroger doubles coupons up to $0.50, and any coupons from $0.51 to $1 are doubled up to $1.

Make sure you have a Kroger Plus Card, you do not get the advertised price and coupons won't double without it. Also register your card online in order to receive valuable mailed coupons from Kroger and to load eCoupons to your card. eCoupons are available on the Kroger.com website among other sites and are able to be loaded onto your card and used automatically when your card is scanned at checkout. These eCoupons do not double and cannot be combined with a paper coupon.

There are other websites that offer eCoupons that you can load to your shopper's card that do not necessarily follow the above guidelines. More about that later.