My local Newspaper has been having a contest called the COUPON CLIPPER BOARD GAME.
Basically, you send them a grocery receipt showing how much you saved using coupons from the Sunday inserts. They pick the highest 4 coupon receipt totals each week that folks submit.
The winners get to go to the newspaper offices and pick an envelope off a board. Inside each envelope is a Gift Card to an area grocery store. The amounts range from $25, $50, $100 to the grand prize of $500.
This is the last week the Contest is running. I had sent in 2 different receipts over the course of the month.
They called ME on the phone the other day....I finally won!
I ran right downtown to the office to claim my prize. I did pretty well & got a $50 Gift Card. No one so far has found the $500 GC, unless one of the 3 other winners this week got it.
I really didn't think I had a chance of winning. You see, I don't do "big shops". I don't use my coupons all in 1 receipt. Instead of buying everything in one trip at one store, I do smaller transactions at lots of stores each week. So, in TOTAL, I DO save tons with coupons, but you don't see it by just looking at ONE receipt.
Remember all those bags of Iams Dog Food I got at Walmart w/the $5 Qs last month? Add in the Wheat Thins I also bought on that receipt with $2/2 Qs and I had a $48 Coupon Savings, which was good enough to be a Winner....yippee!
I'll post the article from the newspaper after it comes out on Sunday. The bad part is we all have to have our photos published in the paper.
I just hope mine doesn't come out looking anything like this.....not that there's anything wrong with being a bag lady.....
Sluggy
