Speaker 1: Episode to fifty nine, Modern cupawn ing for beginners. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money,
Speaker 1: embrace simplicity right, and live with your life. Man. Here
Speaker 1: your host Jen and Jill. Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Jen, my name is Jill, and today
Speaker 1: we are talking about cupawning, but modern cupawning. We gotta
Speaker 1: add the modern word to saying I got coops, baby,
Speaker 1: I got coops, coops coops because coops are still cool.
Speaker 1: Just extreme couponing is not cool, Like relying on couponing
Speaker 1: is not cool, But walking up to a joint with
Speaker 1: a coupon that's cool. You mean, like like an establishment,
Speaker 1: not like a drug and estab publishment. Can we go here? No?
Speaker 1: Unless I got coupons. Oh, you will hear funny coupons
Speaker 1: stories throughout this episode, So even if you're not interested
Speaker 1: in cute bodings, if you're interested in funny stories, stay tuned. Yes,
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Speaker 1: what you're waiting for. This all sounds so amazing And
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway is that I'm now going to replace
Speaker 1: any time I would want to say cool as a cucumber. Instead,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say cool like a cuban, cool as
Speaker 1: a coupon. Oh that's a shirt, that's a T shirt.
Speaker 1: We are like generally opposed to like setting up a
Speaker 1: lifestyle around coupons, but it's not as if they're not
Speaker 1: still helpful and useful, and it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1: And this is where the modern comes in. Doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be like the nine nineties when our moms had
Speaker 1: like the accordion files and their purses, purses were always
Speaker 1: large and had to pull all that out and like
Speaker 1: rifle through it. Some people still do that. That's not
Speaker 1: the modern version. Yeah, we're not about that that life.
Speaker 1: And we often make fun of cupon's that is kind
Speaker 1: of the general frugal thing that people think of, and
Speaker 1: we love to poke fun at them, but we know
Speaker 1: that we also use them in contexts where they make sense.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're going to talk about today. So
Speaker 1: not too good for a cupon, I'm not too good
Speaker 1: for as a cupon? Cool as a cupon. So some
Speaker 1: episodes you might want to cue up for after this one.
Speaker 1: The last cupon episode we did, episode thirty nine. I'll
Speaker 1: just remind you we're at episode to fifty nine and
Speaker 1: our last cups which is I mean, we do a
Speaker 1: meal planning episode every like ten weeks so or last
Speaker 1: probably probably every six weeks. So if you can anticipate
Speaker 1: how important we think cupons are in the hierarchy, our
Speaker 1: last one was episode thirty nine, and this one is
Speaker 1: actually probably more important. It's episode seventy. Grocery store sales
Speaker 1: cycles to know about. We will talk about grocery store
Speaker 1: sales cycles. They are important to cuponning, but they're important
Speaker 1: to saving money in general. So episode thirty nine, which
Speaker 1: is cuponning for extremely normal people. On an episode seventy,
Speaker 1: we're going to expound on episode thirty nine. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be the same episode, but it's going to
Speaker 1: be an updated and maybe a little little deeper. This
Speaker 1: is more of a beginner's guide, So that's what we're
Speaker 1: going You want to get into our first article, Jill, Yes,
Speaker 1: This first article is from the coupon project dot com
Speaker 1: and the Art Goals title Couponing one oh one The
Speaker 1: Complete Beginner's Guide to Couponing, which is an accurate title.
Speaker 1: I think in my estimation, as I read through this,
Speaker 1: I started to get to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is a lot. This is a really exhaustive article.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna go this deep into it.
Speaker 1: So even their beginner's guide really covers a lot, but
Speaker 1: some really useful stuff to pull out of here, And
Speaker 1: of course they begin at the beginning. Even when it
Speaker 1: comes to cuponning, You've got to know your why, and
Speaker 1: I like this part you gotta know your wife for
Speaker 1: like your savings goals and financial goals. Apparently you got
Speaker 1: to know your wife for cuponding as well. But why
Speaker 1: do you want to start using coupons? And so they
Speaker 1: kind of break down some possible options, some possible reasons,
Speaker 1: like maybe your motivation is you want to save for
Speaker 1: something and so cutting costs wherever possible is what you
Speaker 1: want to do, or maybe you just don't want to
Speaker 1: pay full price for anything. Like figuring out why you
Speaker 1: want a coupon can help in how you engage with coupons,
Speaker 1: how deep of a dive you go, and maybe hopefully
Speaker 1: make the whole experience just a little bit better. But
Speaker 1: I also like the two rules that they state at
Speaker 1: the end of this section about figuring out your why. First,
Speaker 1: you need to figure out what your family regularly needs
Speaker 1: and uses, and second, find the sales and coupons on
Speaker 1: those items. I think one of the reasons that we
Speaker 1: can push back the frugal friends so much on coupons
Speaker 1: is that we have seen it tend towards a little
Speaker 1: bit of stacking and stockpiling or getting things just because
Speaker 1: it's on sale, and that is not the modern frugal
Speaker 1: way of living. So wherever we can find ways to
Speaker 1: cut costs and the things that we actually do use
Speaker 1: and we actually do value you, then absolutely that's when
Speaker 1: coupons can come into place. So I really appreciate that
Speaker 1: foundational piece. What do you need and use find the
Speaker 1: coupons on those things. Don't just be buying things because
Speaker 1: you've got a coupon for it. Yeah, definitely, So once
Speaker 1: you figure out your why. So maybe you're just doing
Speaker 1: it while you're saving for a vacation, while you are unemployed, etcetera, etcetera. Personally,
Speaker 1: I do it to buy stuff at Target and Starbucks.
Speaker 1: So we'll get into how I do that later, But
Speaker 1: that's my why for cuponding. The next is to understand
Speaker 1: sales cycles. And this also says stockpiling. But I love
Speaker 1: being prepared, but I don't love clearing out space in
Speaker 1: the garage, buying an extra shelf, buying an extra freezer
Speaker 1: and buying a whole bunch of extra storage to stockpile.
Speaker 1: I'm not about that, LAFE. I do love it when
Speaker 1: I see people who still do a version of extreme cuphonnting,
Speaker 1: but only in order to donate that stuff. So I
Speaker 1: love that kind of stockpile that's consistently donated. But I
Speaker 1: think the more important thing is to understand sales cycles,
Speaker 1: because most of the time you'll save a bunch by
Speaker 1: simply buying items when they're on sale, and then you
Speaker 1: can use a cup on on top of that for
Speaker 1: icing on the cake. So the article says, for example,
Speaker 1: a full price of a box of cereals three dollars,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's four five dollars, and you have fifty
Speaker 1: cent cuban. If you use the cupan when the cereal
Speaker 1: is at full price, will pay to fifty. But if
Speaker 1: you wait a week or two for a sale, you
Speaker 1: might see the price dropt to two, and then you'll
Speaker 1: get it for one fifty box, which in today's cost
Speaker 1: would be for fifty. So that's kind of usually six, yeah,
Speaker 1: depending on the cereal. Even normal cereals, I don't see
Speaker 1: them for less than four. But so yeah, no, the
Speaker 1: sales cycles. Go back listen to episode seventy where we
Speaker 1: talk about sales cycles. But also you can just look
Speaker 1: at your stores circulars and you'll be able to see
Speaker 1: what's in season, like what season are we in, and
Speaker 1: you can pretty much predict what's going to be on sale.
Speaker 1: They don't make it hard. I love that concept of
Speaker 1: following the sales cycles, kind of knowing what's in season.
Speaker 1: And I think even when we did that episode seventy
Speaker 1: on the sales cycles, there was research that pointed to,
Speaker 1: particularly when it comes to produce, that's where you'll see
Speaker 1: the most bang for your buck is getting this what's
Speaker 1: in season, and also some research pointing to the fact
Speaker 1: that that's what our bodies most need and do well on,
Speaker 1: is the produce that's currently in season for your area.
Speaker 1: So just a win win win across the board. So
Speaker 1: jumping to organizing coupons, the article also goes into how
Speaker 1: to find coupons. We're going to get into that and
Speaker 1: the next article kind of our favorite apps for coupons.
Speaker 1: But then once you are into the coupon in game,
Speaker 1: figuring out how to organize them. Now this part is
Speaker 1: where they kind of lose me because I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be the one who's clipping. But of course, if
Speaker 1: you are going to your grocery store circulars or I
Speaker 1: don't think you ever really need to print a digital
Speaker 1: coupon online, I would say keep it digital as much
Speaker 1: as possible. If you've got tangible coupons, then yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to make sure that what you've got is
Speaker 1: in date. It's for the store that you want to
Speaker 1: shop at, it's for the type of ingredients that you're purchasing.
Speaker 1: But all these pictures that are coming up, like plastic
Speaker 1: bins and drop files and accordion things, I don't know, y'all.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a little bit past that. I'd say
Speaker 1: go the digital route and keep it in a folder
Speaker 1: on your phone, pull up the digital coupon when you're
Speaker 1: at the store. So I'm just taking a hard left
Speaker 1: turn off this article and saying do it digital. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you are in our for Well Friends club,
Speaker 1: then we are doing a simplified challenge this month, and
Speaker 1: the whole first week was simplifying your stuff, and part
Speaker 1: of that was your digital stuff. And so I know
Speaker 1: a ton of people have just gone through and kind
Speaker 1: of cleared everything out, and so this would be one
Speaker 1: of those things that gets a screenshot and a folder
Speaker 1: and then you know, gets deleted. These folders get deleted
Speaker 1: regularly as they expire, so this would be kind of
Speaker 1: something to put in there and organize. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean manufacturers and stores are going digital. They all have
Speaker 1: their own apps. So a lot of the times you
Speaker 1: can go to your grocer's app and just clip the
Speaker 1: coupons there and just they scan one barcode. They don't
Speaker 1: have to scan a bunch. So yeah, keep it digital.
Speaker 1: That's the future. And anything you have to print out
Speaker 1: you can surely find online. I almost scannerante it, yeah,
Speaker 1: or it's like a picture like you're saying, and then
Speaker 1: put it into an album on your phone. There's always
Speaker 1: a way. Definitely digital. So then once we find our cupons,
Speaker 1: which Jill mentioned we will go a little deeper into
Speaker 1: in the next article, we are going to use them.
Speaker 1: So now we go into how to use cupons, and
Speaker 1: she's got several steps and this first one, I love
Speaker 1: is to choose one store, and she says, yes, there
Speaker 1: are sales available at just about every store except Aldi
Speaker 1: who if you are blessed enough to have an al D.
Speaker 1: Forget this episode, turn it off, go to al D.
Speaker 1: If you are not, which we know many of you
Speaker 1: are not, so sorry, keep listening, but choose one store.
Speaker 1: Do not store hop for a cupon. Just don't don't
Speaker 1: do it. It's not worth your time for the money
Speaker 1: that you will save. It may make you feel a
Speaker 1: little good, but I know most of the people listening
Speaker 1: are getting weight and realizing that that store hopping it's
Speaker 1: not the end all be all. So choose one store,
Speaker 1: even the cupon project says to and just prioritize that
Speaker 1: one and as you get used to the process, you
Speaker 1: can maybe add another store to your rotation. She says that,
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, do one store. Do one storeman,
Speaker 1: and then pick that store's weekly add You can look
Speaker 1: at it online and pick it up at the store.
Speaker 1: They also will probably mail it to you. That's another thing.
Speaker 1: You don't need to print out cupons, because whether you
Speaker 1: want them to or not, they're going to get mailed
Speaker 1: to you. Every Wednesday is at my house is cupon Day.
Speaker 1: Every Wednesday is when we get our cupons. And no
Speaker 1: matter how many do not send me junk lists, I
Speaker 1: sign up for at this point, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: just signing up for stuff that says don't send me stuff,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter how many times I sign up
Speaker 1: or where always get cupons on Wednesday? They know they're like,
Speaker 1: but she's got a podcast, she wants the Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you can get them there in the store. And then
Speaker 1: those would be the only in paper ones that I
Speaker 1: would use, And then it's it's also the last one,
Speaker 1: which honestly is the first one. Free me is make
Speaker 1: a list, make a meal plan, make a list, and
Speaker 1: then cupon based on that, because as we'll see later,
Speaker 1: cupons are not made for you. Cupons are made for
Speaker 1: manufacturers and stores, so you got to protect you first,
Speaker 1: and that's with a list. So create your boundaries, stick
Speaker 1: to them. One store, one list, one meal plan, and
Speaker 1: again cupons are just the icing on top. Yes, I
Speaker 1: love that perspective. And the final reminder from this article
Speaker 1: is that cupons are a marketing tool. So I think
Speaker 1: you know, it can be easy to get excited about
Speaker 1: how I'm getting a special deal and on so special
Speaker 1: and I'm getting money off of something. But again back
Speaker 1: to our basic foundational rules. Only if it's something we
Speaker 1: need and typically use not going out of our way
Speaker 1: to get a deal on candy we're never going to eat,
Speaker 1: or so that we actually know we don't like the
Speaker 1: smell of you're catching my drift. So they are a
Speaker 1: form of advertising to get you to spend on even
Speaker 1: potentially things you might not otherwise purchase. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever noticed, but a lot of times new
Speaker 1: products will have a coupon associated with it, just to
Speaker 1: get you to try something new and break your typical
Speaker 1: routine and spend money where you wouldn't typically spend it.
Speaker 1: So be on guard, be aware, remember the foundational rules.
Speaker 1: Coupons our marketing tool. But we can use those things
Speaker 1: to our advantage, but we've got to be wise and
Speaker 1: intentional about it. Yes, if I know that I want
Speaker 1: a treat from the grocery store, and I have planned
Speaker 1: for that, and I look through the cupons of all
Speaker 1: the new products and I pick a treat based on that,
Speaker 1: that's great. If I know that I want to go
Speaker 1: out to dinner twice in the month of November December,
Speaker 1: and I don't know where, I use a cupon to
Speaker 1: narrow down my choices, that's great. So they can be
Speaker 1: used you don't have to plan things to a t
Speaker 1: to the penny. But if you are planning, and you're
Speaker 1: planning for a cupon and you leave kind of that
Speaker 1: flexibility open, then these can work out in your favor.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, don't allow the cupon to tell
Speaker 1: you what to buy. You tell the Cupon what you're
Speaker 1: gonna buy. Yes, who's in charge here? Yes you are,
Speaker 1: You're in charge. That's you, Jill. Let's go grocery shopping.
Speaker 1: And the last reminder is that some items never go
Speaker 1: on sale. Some will not. A lot of those generic
Speaker 1: items they ain't going on sale, they're already on sale,
Speaker 1: and you know what, they'll probably be cheaper not on
Speaker 1: sale than even brand names with the cuban, So that's
Speaker 1: another thing you gotta look at. So really really think
Speaker 1: about your cupon usage as you are, and always be
Speaker 1: reevaluating as well. I mean, they are really the icing
Speaker 1: on top. You're lucky if you get a couple, and
Speaker 1: that's great. So let's just put it into perspective that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's something you want and you're planning
Speaker 1: for it and saving for it and can afford it,
Speaker 1: you may not have to wait for Cupon for it,
Speaker 1: you can just buy it. It's okay, you have permission,
Speaker 1: it's okay. If you're not getting it for fifty cents
Speaker 1: less than the regular buyer, you're okay. You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: So let's dive a little bit deeper on like where
Speaker 1: are we finding these modern cupons? Where are the cupons? Now?
Speaker 1: If you don't want to buy the Sunday paper Sunday
Speaker 1: papers like ten bucks now, it's probably it's not that much.
Speaker 1: It is expensive for you have to think about this
Speaker 1: if you're buying a Sunday paper for the coupons at
Speaker 1: like four dollars and you say four dollars based on
Speaker 1: the coupons, and there you have lost. You've lost the game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like where's the free places we can get cupons?
Speaker 1: Is without a lot of time, especially when you see
Speaker 1: like the average amount that people are saving by cuponning.
Speaker 1: And we're not talking extreme cuponners, but kind of throughout
Speaker 1: both articles that kind of referenced overall savings for most consumers,
Speaker 1: and you're talking like a hundred to two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a year that you might save in intersecting with coupons.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about doing it in an extreme way,
Speaker 1: but yeah, a hundred to two hundred dollars a year
Speaker 1: versus is potentially spending five to six dollars weekly on
Speaker 1: a paper that math doesn't work out in the end. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So thankfully technology has really revolutionized cuponning, made it a
Speaker 1: lot easier, a lot less time consuming, but still used
Speaker 1: as a marketing tool for companies. And you just have
Speaker 1: to know anytime you're using an app for free, that
Speaker 1: app is making money in some way, and this is
Speaker 1: how their coupon apps are are making money. These companies
Speaker 1: pay to have these cupons on their app because they
Speaker 1: know people will spend more with them. So just go
Speaker 1: into it knowing and no, and be okay with that.
Speaker 1: Own it if this is important to you. If not,
Speaker 1: then this might not be what you want to engage in.
Speaker 1: But I would even go a step further that, especially
Speaker 1: the ones where they're asking you to like link your
Speaker 1: credit card to it. There for sure collecting data on you,
Speaker 1: and they're selling your data and that's why you're getting
Speaker 1: the deals and the freebees, because they're making goo goo
Speaker 1: off of you by tracking you're spending. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: not like personally identifying, it's just ambiguous data. We use
Speaker 1: all of these these four that we're going to talk about,
Speaker 1: we use all of them, and I'm totally fine with that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just go in there knowing and you decide
Speaker 1: if you're okay with it. So let's go through. There's
Speaker 1: a list of six and and we have like a
Speaker 1: top four. We'll mention all six, but we're going to
Speaker 1: dive into four. So what's our first one? Chill? So
Speaker 1: this comes from Investipedia and they're going through the best
Speaker 1: cupon apps, and the first one is the best overall,
Speaker 1: which is Josh. And essentially Josh is what you can
Speaker 1: sign up for through through this app and they kind
Speaker 1: of automatically apply cupon ones to all of your purchases.
Speaker 1: It's definitely super great for restaurants. You get a one
Speaker 1: dollar bonus when you connect your card and make your
Speaker 1: first cash back eligible purchase. You can go to Frugal
Speaker 1: Friends podcast dot com slash Josh for that one. But
Speaker 1: kind of best overall, it kind of sinks to the
Speaker 1: purchases that you're making as you go along, it finds
Speaker 1: the coupons for you and automatically applies those discounts to
Speaker 1: your account. And I believe Yeah, it ends up in
Speaker 1: cash back for you that you can eventually actually have
Speaker 1: money in your pocket. You don't have to be hunting
Speaker 1: and searching for all the coupons. It's just as you
Speaker 1: swipe your card and make a purchase. If there is
Speaker 1: a coupon available for what you've purchased, it gets applied
Speaker 1: to your account in the form of cash back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is actually less of a cupon app and
Speaker 1: it's a cash back app. And I will also agree
Speaker 1: a lot of times these articles, these are all like affiliates,
Speaker 1: so everyone it gets a kick back when you sign
Speaker 1: up through the link. Everyone gets a kickback when you
Speaker 1: go to Frugal Friends podcast, dot com, slash Josh, we
Speaker 1: get a little kickback if you sign up and link
Speaker 1: your card to Josh. Like that's everybody's doing it. But
Speaker 1: we're obviously not going to recommend ones that we don't
Speaker 1: use and recommend ourselves. And Dosh isn't the highest affiliate.
Speaker 1: These websites will usually put whatever like website or app
Speaker 1: gives them the highest kickpack, they'll usually put that one
Speaker 1: at the top. I know for a fact Josh is not.
Speaker 1: And it's also my top pic because it is automatic
Speaker 1: you don't have to think about it. And it's local
Speaker 1: business oriented. So for us, it's mostly restaurants. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how it isn't everybody's So this isn't really a
Speaker 1: groceries app. This is like if I want to go
Speaker 1: out to dinner twice a month and date night once
Speaker 1: a month, and we're like, okay, where should we do
Speaker 1: date night? I will go into Josh and see what's
Speaker 1: in there and then pick something based on that UM
Speaker 1: and you can just get five percent back pretty much
Speaker 1: is standard summer higher, some are lower, but and I
Speaker 1: just connect the card. I don't have to scan any receipts.
Speaker 1: I don't have to select any rebates. Sometimes I will
Speaker 1: get cash back from Josh out of place that I
Speaker 1: did not even know is eligible, and then it just
Speaker 1: shows up. Yeah, and you don't have to choose gift
Speaker 1: cards or anything. You really do get cash back. And
Speaker 1: so Josh, hands down is my favorite. I do believe
Speaker 1: it's the best overall, and I agree with this article.
Speaker 1: And some really recognizable brands where you can get cash
Speaker 1: back Walmart and Stacarte, Disney Plus, Duncan World Market, Thrive, Sephora.
Speaker 1: So if you're shopping at any of these places, it's
Speaker 1: definitely worth considering. Yeah, we took lift a lot when
Speaker 1: we were in Nashville and all of those rides I
Speaker 1: got cash back on Josh and I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: it until I logged in later. So highly recommend. It's,
Speaker 1: just yeah, stacking saving because if you're also using a
Speaker 1: credit card on those things, then you're getting your points,
Speaker 1: you're getting your cash back. Yeah, just stacking it. And
Speaker 1: if you don't use credit cards, and it's also a
Speaker 1: great thing too, because it's a way to get cash
Speaker 1: back without it. Yes, yes, all right. So the next
Speaker 1: one that we recommend that Investor PD also recommends is
Speaker 1: I bought A. So for many years, I've been between
Speaker 1: Fetch and I bought A and I bought It's just
Speaker 1: been there are some seasons where Fetch has been winning
Speaker 1: it for me, But right now I bought it is
Speaker 1: winning it for me. I bought A so many grocery
Speaker 1: cupans and it's got the coupons on any item which
Speaker 1: includes generics, and Fetch has just been losing it like
Speaker 1: with the variety and stuff. So I'm gonna say I
Speaker 1: bought a. Fetch isn't even on this list, which I
Speaker 1: was actually very shocked about. But you do get a
Speaker 1: if you are not already on Ibota. They have so
Speaker 1: many coupons, and I was looking at cupon tom which
Speaker 1: kind of compiles a lot of cupons, like you can
Speaker 1: search like downy and it'll tell you all the Downy
Speaker 1: cupons and where they're located, and gosh, they're just all
Speaker 1: on Ibota. Some are on cupons dot Com. But I
Speaker 1: mean this is just where the retailers are going. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're a retailer in a grocery store, you're bound
Speaker 1: to have a cupon on Ibota at some point. So
Speaker 1: that is kind of why I'm leaning towards that you
Speaker 1: do get a ten dollar bonus after you redeem your
Speaker 1: first brand name offer if you sign up through forr
Speaker 1: Girl Friends podcast dot com slash I bought a fun
Speaker 1: Then on this list, we've got Honey, which they list
Speaker 1: as best for automatic savings. I don't really know why
Speaker 1: they called it that category. It's a chrome extension. It's
Speaker 1: because Honey finds cupons online. It's similar like racketin would
Speaker 1: be cash back. Well, Honey is actually upun codes and
Speaker 1: instead of searching for the cupon codes, it just you
Speaker 1: click a button and it tries all of them, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of it's thing. Yeah, it seems like Josh
Speaker 1: is also looking for the coupons. No, Josh is not cubans.
Speaker 1: Josh is cash back, just cash back, but on the
Speaker 1: things that you buy. Okay, I mean it kind of
Speaker 1: all ends up being the same for us as the
Speaker 1: user getting money back for purchases. Capital one Shopping is
Speaker 1: its closest competitor, which is the next on the list,
Speaker 1: But I for sure like Honey more than Capital one Shopping,
Speaker 1: and they have Capital one Shopping down here is best
Speaker 1: for price comparisons, which sure, but that's not a cupon,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I definitely prefer Honey. Honey. You add it
Speaker 1: to Chrome, so it's a Chrome extension that kind of
Speaker 1: automatically searches for these coupons when you're shopping online. So
Speaker 1: that digital component, just like a lot of these other apps,
Speaker 1: is fantastic. So you can apply it to to a
Speaker 1: lot of the online shopping. And then the article states
Speaker 1: that you can only get cash back in the form
Speaker 1: of gift cards, but you can get it in money.
Speaker 1: Honey is operated through PayPal, so you can get cash
Speaker 1: back as it searches for the coupons for the things
Speaker 1: that you're buying online. Yeah, so you get every time
Speaker 1: you It's ambiguous now that PayPal is pot Honey, I
Speaker 1: don't fully know how it works anymore, but for making
Speaker 1: certain purchases using Honey, I don't know. You end up
Speaker 1: with these rewards, and it used to only be you
Speaker 1: could redeem them for gift cards. But now that PayPal
Speaker 1: owns Honey, you can cash out via PayPal, so that
Speaker 1: is nice. Capital one Shopping you can still only get
Speaker 1: gift cards. So if I'm going to download one, which
Speaker 1: I do only have one, I'm using Honey. I'm not
Speaker 1: using Capital one, Jen. Are you aware does Honey work
Speaker 1: with Amazon? Yes? It does. It definitely does. Tell me
Speaker 1: to PayPal and Amazon play night. So no, it's not
Speaker 1: going to give you. It's not going to find you
Speaker 1: coupons for Amazon products. It is going to show you
Speaker 1: the price history of Amazon products. And that's why I
Speaker 1: love Honey. It does all the things Capital one Shopping does,
Speaker 1: it just does them better. And so Honey will show
Speaker 1: me over a six month period if the thing I'm
Speaker 1: looking to buy has been at a lower price at all,
Speaker 1: and if there is some kind of sales cycle that
Speaker 1: the seller is using, so I can maybe predict, Oh,
Speaker 1: if I just wait two weeks, this is going to
Speaker 1: be this price again, and you can go back I
Speaker 1: think up to six months of price history, or it
Speaker 1: will say, hey, this is the lowest this has been
Speaker 1: in six months. Grab it. So, yes, Honey does work
Speaker 1: with Amazon. I have. It's between Honey and Camel. Camel.
Speaker 1: Camel is another one, Yeah, that does a lot with
Speaker 1: Amazon that doesn't offer it's not like a cup on site,
Speaker 1: but if you want to do like price comparisons and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure Honey has caught up to Camel
Speaker 1: Camel Camel, So wow, Honey seems slower than Camels. But maybe.
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends Podcast dot com slash Honey. You know, we've
Speaker 1: got links for all of it. I don't think that
Speaker 1: there's a bonus, but if you want to, you want
Speaker 1: to get to Honey in the roundabout way, Frugal Friends
Speaker 1: podcast dot com slash Honey, it'll take you there if
Speaker 1: you want to type in a much longer U R
Speaker 1: L to get to Honey. That's the one, and the
Speaker 1: last one is probably it's my second favorite. It's the
Speaker 1: one that's usually at the top, and I never hate
Speaker 1: that it's at the top because it does offer the
Speaker 1: biggest bonus for both you and the refer it's racket In.
Speaker 1: And honestly, this is the time of year we use
Speaker 1: racket In. It is these holiday months November, December, and
Speaker 1: January when we're using the gift cards we got his gifts,
Speaker 1: So tis the season for Racketin. And their bonuses like
Speaker 1: vary from thirty to forty dollars after you make thirty
Speaker 1: of qualifying purchases. So essentially, if if the bonus is
Speaker 1: forty bucks and you make forty dollars of qualifying purchases
Speaker 1: within ninety days of signing up, so you buy a
Speaker 1: forty dollar gift for someone, then you get that money back.
Speaker 1: So you're essentially like you get something for free. So
Speaker 1: that's the welcome and you don't usually you don't have
Speaker 1: to do it in one purchase. If you spend at
Speaker 1: least forty dollars within those ninety days, you could buy
Speaker 1: what seven five dollar things? Eight five dollar things? I
Speaker 1: can do, man, maybe just buy two then that's good.
Speaker 1: So I had to make it to really break it
Speaker 1: down into small yeah, which is crazy because I remember
Speaker 1: their bonus used to be twenty dollars and I thought
Speaker 1: that was great, and they just keep increasing its keeping
Speaker 1: up with inflation people are buying and racketons and marketing tools.
Speaker 1: So again, they have the most robust list of places
Speaker 1: where you can shop online, and when you shop at
Speaker 1: one of their qualifying retailers, you get cash back on
Speaker 1: your purchase. Depending on sometimes there will be like category exclusions,
Speaker 1: but for the most part now so I have the
Speaker 1: racketin Chrome extension that just pops up and says, hey,
Speaker 1: there's cash back here, which is you do have to
Speaker 1: fight that. You know, if you're like on the verge
Speaker 1: of making an impulse by and you see cash back,
Speaker 1: that is something you have to fight against. But otherwise,
Speaker 1: if I was going there to make a purchase anyway,
Speaker 1: it's like dang okay, of course I'll get six at
Speaker 1: extra six percent in cash back and get that big
Speaker 1: fat check. I love that The minimum to get your
Speaker 1: cash back is five dollars and one cent. It is
Speaker 1: the lowest threshold of any of these apps. You get
Speaker 1: it quarterly, so it's the most straight forward. They will
Speaker 1: just automatically send it to you, whereas other apps you'll
Speaker 1: have to cash out. I think racketings super transparent. I
Speaker 1: think they're authentic as far as like these kinds of
Speaker 1: cash back and app like things go. So we've used
Speaker 1: it and recommended it longer than anything else on this
Speaker 1: list since day one of Frugal Friends, we've been recommending
Speaker 1: it since they were called something else ebates. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot what it was, but I'm like, they used
Speaker 1: to be called something else. You can still go to
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash ebates and get to racketin,
Speaker 1: but you can also go to Frugal Friends podcast dot
Speaker 1: com slash or racketin r k you t e n
Speaker 1: get to your forty bucks. It's usually not a lot
Speaker 1: on the cash back, just because I think it is
Speaker 1: such a robust and there's so many rea tailors. But again,
Speaker 1: like I'm always getting every I get small fat check
Speaker 1: every month from things that I didn't even plan to
Speaker 1: get cash back from. Yeah, well, I think I've said
Speaker 1: this in previous episodes, but and this would have been
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, but I used racket in
Speaker 1: to purchase a vacation through group on and got you know,
Speaker 1: it was a small percentage of cash back. But when
Speaker 1: I'm spending over a thousand dollars, I got like a
Speaker 1: hundred fifty dollars back on that, So that's real nice.
Speaker 1: I did the same on price Line. I got a
Speaker 1: hotel room via price line and got cash back there
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have gotten. I don't think if I,
Speaker 1: or more than I would have gotten it on the
Speaker 1: website because it was a Disney hotel, so I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten any cash back. But I did because
Speaker 1: I booked it via price Line. I got a lower
Speaker 1: price on the hotel room, and I got cash back
Speaker 1: via racketin. So you know what else we can stack
Speaker 1: on stack on stack and is always giving back, always
Speaker 1: gives back. We have been recommending this and stay zero
Speaker 1: of the show the that's right, it's time for the
Speaker 1: best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby was
Speaker 1: born and his name is William. Maybe you paid off
Speaker 1: your mortgage. Maybe your car died and you're happy to
Speaker 1: not have to pay that bill anymore. Duck bills, Buffalo bills,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, this is the bill of the week. Hi guys, Well,
Speaker 1: I am a Bill of the Week fan, but I'm
Speaker 1: a new listener and Originally, I'm a bill of the
Speaker 1: week avoider. I avoid them. They come in the mail,
Speaker 1: I don't open them up, especially if I think they're
Speaker 1: going to be enormous. So my bill of the week,
Speaker 1: as I had a store credit card bill that was
Speaker 1: coming and it kept coming. I thought, oh no, I
Speaker 1: must owe them. I must have forgotten to pay the bill.
Speaker 1: I was zy and I was in a financial difficulty.
Speaker 1: Oh footnote or commercial break. I'm working on debt repayment.
Speaker 1: I've gone from fifty five thousand to twenty seven thousand
Speaker 1: old in about nine months. I think it is so
Speaker 1: thank you for that that I'm really encouraged by the
Speaker 1: debt repayment stories on your podcast. Anyway, So I'm getting
Speaker 1: this mail and it's driving me crazy, and it's freaking
Speaker 1: me out. Finally I bite the bullet. I go in
Speaker 1: there online. I don't even have the card registered. I
Speaker 1: have to register it. I go in online, I find it,
Speaker 1: and I owe them one dollar. One dollar. All of
Speaker 1: that stress was for one dollar. But the reason I
Speaker 1: beat the bullet is because I kept hearing about the
Speaker 1: bill of the week, and I said to myself, this
Speaker 1: is going to be the bill of my week. So
Speaker 1: thank you ladies. Keep up the great work. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: thank you Tamarra. That was There are so many parts,
Speaker 1: There's so many things I could say, but I'm so
Speaker 1: glad the bill of the week inspired you to open
Speaker 1: this bill. Also so glad it was only a dollar.
Speaker 1: It felt like such a journey. And my favorite part
Speaker 1: is when you took your own commercial break. But during
Speaker 1: the commercial break you just announced like some massive credit
Speaker 1: card to pay off, which is amazing commercial break where
Speaker 1: there's like inspirational, motivational accomplishments. Well done and good job
Speaker 1: facing your fear. And sometimes when we face our fear,
Speaker 1: it's not a scary monster. It's just a one dollar bill.
Speaker 1: So well done paying off that store card. I assume,
Speaker 1: I assume you sent them their dollar. You know what.
Speaker 1: That's usually when we look at things, they are not
Speaker 1: as scary as we think they are going to be.
Speaker 1: It is really the anxiety of the anticipation that is
Speaker 1: scarier than the actual truth of reality. So I hope
Speaker 1: others are inspired by Tamra story. Maybe your bill is
Speaker 1: not a dollar, maybe you're not getting off that easy,
Speaker 1: But the sooner you look at it, and the sooner
Speaker 1: you can rest in reality and not anticipation or anxiety.
Speaker 1: The better you will feel. If you two are avoiding
Speaker 1: your bills or facing your bills head on, or you
Speaker 1: are a bill your name is Bill, or you know
Speaker 1: a bill. You know the drill. Visit Frugal Friends podcast
Speaker 1: dot com slash bill. Leave us your bill, We'll pick
Speaker 1: it up. We may not pay for it, but we'll
Speaker 1: pick it up. We'll look at it, we'll listen to it.
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash bill. And now it's
Speaker 1: time for all right. So this question from Goldie a
Speaker 1: time when cub hunting helped you in a way you
Speaker 1: didn't expect, and you were very quick with this answer, Jill.
Speaker 1: So I don't use coupon is very often. The way
Speaker 1: that I engage with coupons is usually when I'm in
Speaker 1: line at a store and I think, huh, I wonder
Speaker 1: if there's a coupon for this, and I'll quickly look
Speaker 1: it up. Same at this merchant. Same. I think you'll
Speaker 1: all recognize this. Joe Anne Fabrics. You guys, they never
Speaker 1: let us down there. You You should never ever pay
Speaker 1: full price for anything at Joanne Fabrics. If you are,
Speaker 1: you're doing it wrong. And if you shop at Joanne Fabrics,
Speaker 1: you already know you know the drill. Nothing is ever
Speaker 1: full price. Literally, by the time you get in line,
Speaker 1: you get in line, by the time you get to
Speaker 1: the counter, you can find a keep on up. I
Speaker 1: don't even think you gotta download the app and you
Speaker 1: just like the internet is just like here, here, here,
Speaker 1: here's a bar code for what you want. So here's
Speaker 1: everything you want. Yeah, I think I had bought We
Speaker 1: were buying fabric for the Frugal Friends party are when
Speaker 1: we were celebrating for you years and two million down
Speaker 1: loans and or deal with I Heart and YadA YadA.
Speaker 1: We just wanted to have a party and we were
Speaker 1: trying to turn our garage into extra seating. And so
Speaker 1: I had found inexpensive white fabric that I am keeping.
Speaker 1: I'm not just like willy nilly with my purchases. I
Speaker 1: still have it so I can continue for years to
Speaker 1: come converting my garage into a party space. You know,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the only time that's going to happen. And
Speaker 1: the fabric was already inexpensive, But then I got this
Speaker 1: like fifty percent off coupon, literally sliced the amount I
Speaker 1: paid in half. I mean, I got that fabric to
Speaker 1: cover my entire garage for less than I could have
Speaker 1: bought used curtains at the thrift store. I mean again,
Speaker 1: shopping secondhand is still always a great idea, but also
Speaker 1: cutting costs for a party was of high importance to
Speaker 1: me too, and we looked in our defense, we looked
Speaker 1: I did that second hand from Yeah, there were not
Speaker 1: a lot of curve. I had chopped for like a
Speaker 1: few months and had gone to five different drift stores
Speaker 1: and could not find it. So that's when I then
Speaker 1: went to Joanne got their Cuban last minute. She had
Speaker 1: a girl that was unexpected and a pleasant surprise. What
Speaker 1: about you, Jen? So I actually I had to text
Speaker 1: Travis and be like, I have no idea because I'm
Speaker 1: not a big Cuban user either, which is why I
Speaker 1: love Josh, because I don't have to think about the cupons.
Speaker 1: And he reminded me of when we got married. We
Speaker 1: got and I've talked about this before. There are some
Speaker 1: things you do to save money that aren't the most ethical.
Speaker 1: I don't share them all, but this is what I
Speaker 1: did share. I registered for like things for my wedding
Speaker 1: that we're twenty dollars, even though I didn't want those things,
Speaker 1: but I knew that was the price range people would
Speaker 1: be willing to spend on me. They didn't love me
Speaker 1: enough to spend like a hundred or three hundred, but
Speaker 1: they did love me that I know, but you didn't
Speaker 1: go to my wedding. So I registered for all these things,
Speaker 1: was absolutely right on the amount people were willing to spend.
Speaker 1: And then I returned all of them and got the
Speaker 1: big hundred three sets and things that I really wanted
Speaker 1: and really needed. And it was when I returned all
Speaker 1: of these things and got so much in gift cards,
Speaker 1: and when I bought these bigger sets, they gave me
Speaker 1: more discounts and coupons, and then I had the bed
Speaker 1: Bath and Beyond off cupon for everything. Oh they always
Speaker 1: have that, so bed Bath and Beyond always has off
Speaker 1: and so not only so I had the cupons, I
Speaker 1: had extra money from from these returns. And then they
Speaker 1: were giving me like hundred dollar gift cards because I
Speaker 1: had bought like something special that had a special like
Speaker 1: by this set and give you a gift card, and
Speaker 1: which I didn't even know that was the pot and
Speaker 1: pants set I wanted so I bought. So we spent
Speaker 1: a good two years spending all that money, so I
Speaker 1: still got everything I wanted, still had money left over.
Speaker 1: For sure made money on that deal. And a lot
Speaker 1: of it came down to whenever we went to make
Speaker 1: a purchase, there was always twenty percent off, so we
Speaker 1: were always like, oh my gosh, we still can't spend
Speaker 1: all of his bed Bath and Beyond money. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: It was. We were buying Christmas gifts there for two Christmases. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you just hacked it. That just sounds like
Speaker 1: wedding advice to me. Part of it was purposeful, but
Speaker 1: I really thought that the amount that I got back
Speaker 1: would equate exactly to the amount I would spend. And
Speaker 1: there was just all this stuff like bed Bath and
Speaker 1: Beyond just kept giving us money, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you should not do this. I mean, maybe my moral
Speaker 1: compass is misaligned, but I don't truly see a problem
Speaker 1: with that. You're keeping all of the money there like it.
Speaker 1: It would be a different story if, yeah, you were
Speaker 1: somehow taking money or returning it to maybe a different
Speaker 1: store to get more money back, but you're not. You're
Speaker 1: keeping it all within bed Bath and beyond you knew
Speaker 1: you were going to take the things back, but or
Speaker 1: if you had used the item and then returned it,
Speaker 1: but just having brand new items that you decided you
Speaker 1: don't want returning them, keeping the money within the store. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only unethical part is like accepting gifts I know
Speaker 1: I'm going to return. I did the same thing for
Speaker 1: my baby shower because like, nobody's going to get me,
Speaker 1: you know, like a hundred fifty stroller. But they all
Speaker 1: want to get you some much I wanted. They're not
Speaker 1: putting cash into a pot for you to get a
Speaker 1: stroller or car seat. Yeah, they want to wrap something
Speaker 1: or put something in a bag, which we should also
Speaker 1: be getting away from cash. Is king? Stop it not
Speaker 1: even thank you all for listening. We die Grass. Many
Speaker 1: of you know we have a private community where we
Speaker 1: do monthly money challenges. We love just having fun and
Speaker 1: gamifying things, and we also offer accountability groups because we
Speaker 1: love community and learning from one another, and we want
Speaker 1: to congratulate one of our members for a big win.
Speaker 1: This comes from Corey and they shared, Hey, all, I
Speaker 1: wanted to share because I have been focused on paying
Speaker 1: down my student loans. Originally, when I started this process.
Speaker 1: I took the higher of the two lower balanced loans,
Speaker 1: and my goal was to pay it off in a year.
Speaker 1: I started focusing on that loan, but when there were
Speaker 1: talks about rates increasing, I pivoted to my only loan
Speaker 1: that has a variable interest rate. When I joined this group,
Speaker 1: which was June of two, my rate was two point
Speaker 1: six two percent and my balance was four thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred eighty eight dollars. As of today, my balance is
Speaker 1: two thousand, one d seventy six dollars and my rate
Speaker 1: is five point three percent. I am so glad I
Speaker 1: made the change to my plan because who knows how
Speaker 1: high that is going to climb. I should have paid
Speaker 1: it off by April at the latest. I pay on
Speaker 1: average towards the loan an additional Thursday in the month.
Speaker 1: That ends up being six twenty for that month. Small
Speaker 1: efforts become big results. Holy smokes, Corey. You just made
Speaker 1: a good decision and you paid off half of that
Speaker 1: loan knowing that the interests could climb. Well done. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of you, Corey for like taking a critical look
Speaker 1: at what's going on in your life and what's going
Speaker 1: on in the larger environment and making a decision, and
Speaker 1: I'm even happier that that decision worked in your favor, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just proud of you for making your own decision
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that yes, you predicted right. You're
Speaker 1: not an expert on the economy, you just kind of
Speaker 1: sol where things were going. And yeah, so great job, Corey.
Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for listening. If you want to check out
Speaker 1: this monthly Allunge community had to Frugal Friends podcast dot
Speaker 1: com slash club and you can see what challenge we
Speaker 1: have coming up next and jump in on it. Yes,
Speaker 1: and if you are interested in all the links that
Speaker 1: we mentioned today, again, if you're on our email list,
Speaker 1: they're coming to your inbox now ish see if I.
Speaker 1: Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirian Jen. I was
Speaker 1: watching a show last night and it was kind of
Speaker 1: highlighting cultural differences, particularly when it comes to food. And
Speaker 1: this one person was asked to go shopping for Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: items and he was not from the States, and the
Speaker 1: woman who asked him to go shopping for Thanksgiving meal
Speaker 1: gave him coupons, is like, be sure that you use
Speaker 1: these coupons, and he's like, so, I show pictures of
Speaker 1: the food and it makes the food less money. I
Speaker 1: spend less money on the food if I show pictures
Speaker 1: of the food. What a dreams Just like yeah, that
Speaker 1: is how coop works. What a dream Just pronto pictures,
Speaker 1: just so show pictures. Americans are so weird. We are
Speaker 1: so weird. I have to tell you this story. It
Speaker 1: cannot wait until the next episode. So I was on
Speaker 1: Facebook Marketplace last week and shopping for furniture for our
Speaker 1: rental and I am getting this coffee table, you know
Speaker 1: how like people won't send them. They won't send their
Speaker 1: address until you're like all on the way, which is smart.
Speaker 1: So I'm on my way to this place to get
Speaker 1: this coffee table and I'm like, what's the address? And
Speaker 1: they give me the address and I'm like no, no,
Speaker 1: So I pull up and I was like, surely this
Speaker 1: can't be right. I pull up. This is a house
Speaker 1: where I met Travis. My friend used to own it.
Speaker 1: I lived there for like the several months before we
Speaker 1: got married, Like my engagement slash birthday party was there.
Speaker 1: Like I literally this is the house where I met
Speaker 1: Travis Jen That's amazing. So it was owned by my friend.
Speaker 1: That's how I was at the house, Like I know
Speaker 1: my you know this guy for years and he rented
Speaker 1: it out to people and that's how I met Travis.
Speaker 1: Travis rented it from my friend, a room from my friend.
Speaker 1: So my friend sold it three years ago because he
Speaker 1: moved to North Carolina, and so this person at the
Speaker 1: house bought it and they are selling it again. So
Speaker 1: they're selling all their stuff. My gosh, even weirder. I'm
Speaker 1: already freaked out. Like I pull up to the house
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, no, this is so weird. I
Speaker 1: opened the door. No, I think he opened it for me.
Speaker 1: I think I'm walking up and he this dude opens
Speaker 1: the door and he's like, don't I know you? And
Speaker 1: I was like, no, you do not know me. I
Speaker 1: do not know you, but I used to live here.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. It isn't that bizarre? So no reason
Speaker 1: that he should know me. And we tried to figure
Speaker 1: it out, and there's like, no reason he should know me,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know him, but I mean, you're a
Speaker 1: popular podcaster. My face is everywhere. So that happened. Wow,
Speaker 1: last week. I dare anybody to have a weirder Facebook market,
Speaker 1: not weirder, but like more like coincidental. Did you. I
Speaker 1: take it you told him that you used to live there,
Speaker 1: had an engagement party there. Yeah. He's like, what's your
Speaker 1: husband's name? And I was like Travis. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was like, well, my friend Jordan
Speaker 1: used to own it. And he's like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: still get his mail. Oh that's funny. Yeah. Wow, wow, wow,
Speaker 1: So you got the coffee table. Did you get anything else?
Speaker 1: I got the coffee table. Know, it was just bizarre,
Speaker 1: like standing inside of the house. Yeah, the only thing
Speaker 1: that had changed is the back splash in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Going back to a significant place in a place you
Speaker 1: used to live to purchase purniture for your new place. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's why more people should do Facebook Marketplace, because
Speaker 1: you might get to go back to a place where
Speaker 1: you used to live and have a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: be weirded out, and be weirded out. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: like every first memory the drafts, and I have even
Speaker 1: memories before I met Travis, because I would hang out
Speaker 1: at that house before I even knew him. Wow, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: how fun? Well done. I can't wait to see that
Speaker 1: coffee table. It's a good one.