Coupon Madness

richlevy · 01-01-2013, 06:20 PM

I love using coupons. My mother instilled this thriftiness in me at an early age. I've seen some great deals and some crappy deals. I thought I'd make a thread on good and bad deals that we've been offered.

I put this one in the 'Exclusion Hell' category. You get about %20 off (noone orders exactly $50) if you go to an Italian restaurant and you and your guests do not get pizza, pasta, or veal parm. I think that you can use the coupon as long as everyone just keeps ordering bread sticks.

I mean what do you say to everyone.

"Sweetheart, I'd love to take you and your parents out to dinner, but if your dad orders pizza or pasta, I'm going to beat the living **** out of him'.

busterb · 01-01-2013, 07:15 PM

I luv coupons also. This weeks were for hair dye, tampax and tooth paste. Smell good shit.

richlevy · 01-01-2013, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by busterb

I luv coupons also. This weeks were for hair dye, tampax and tooth paste. Smell good shit.

I don't know what you need tampax for. I know that you're past the age for menopause.

limey · 01-02-2013, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by busterb

I luv coupons also. This weeks were for hair dye, tampax and tooth paste. Smell good shit.

I shudder to think how the tampax nake Buster smell better!

Sent by thought transference.

infinite monkey · 01-02-2013, 08:35 AM

That coupon reminds me of The Jerk:

orthodoc · 01-02-2013, 09:20 AM

Exactly. 'Not valid for menu items per se, but you're welcome to spend bucks on bar drinks that are also not included.'

Coupons are nice in theory but not so much in practice; I find they're either like this one or they're for stuff I never buy anyway.

glatt · 01-02-2013, 11:01 AM

We only do coupons at the grocery store. Out of the weekly flier with like 50 coupons, there will be maybe 4 that would be useful and that we bother clipping, and we may use 2 of them before they expire. They used to be better.

Chocolatl · 01-04-2013, 08:11 AM

Michaels, the arts and crafts store, tends to do that "exclusion hell" deal with their amazing "40% off any item!!!!" coupons. 40% of any item, as long as the item is not anything that costs more than about $5.

01-01-2013, 06:20 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Coupon Madness I love using coupons. My mother instilled this thriftiness in me at an early age. I've seen some great deals and some crappy deals. I thought I'd make a thread on good and bad deals that we've been offered. I put this one in the 'Exclusion Hell' category. You get about %20 off (noone orders exactly $50) if you go to an Italian restaurant and you and your guests do not get pizza, pasta, or veal parm. I think that you can use the coupon as long as everyone just keeps ordering bread sticks. I mean what do you say to everyone. "Sweetheart, I'd love to take you and your parents out to dinner, but if your dad orders pizza or pasta, I'm going to beat the living ** out of him'. Attached Images __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama**

01-01-2013, 07:15 PM	#2
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	I luv coupons also. This weeks were for hair dye, tampax and tooth paste. Smell good shit. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

01-02-2013, 09:20 AM	#6
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Exactly. 'Not valid for menu items per se, but you're welcome to spend bucks on bar drinks that are also not included.' Coupons are nice in theory but not so much in practice; I find they're either like this one or they're for stuff I never buy anyway. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi Last edited by orthodoc; 01-02-2013 at 11:19 AM. Reason: conjunction gone awol

01-02-2013, 08:35 AM	#5
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	That coupon reminds me of The Jerk:

01-02-2013, 11:01 AM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We only do coupons at the grocery store. Out of the weekly flier with like 50 coupons, there will be maybe 4 that would be useful and that we bother clipping, and we may use 2 of them before they expire. They used to be better.

01-04-2013, 08:11 AM	#8
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	Michaels, the arts and crafts store, tends to do that "exclusion hell" deal with their amazing "40% off any item!!!!" coupons. 40% of any item, as long as the item is not anything that costs more than about $5.

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