<p>I had an amazing experience at BBB last summer. I did basically all my college shopping in one go, so it came out to be quite a lot of money. I handed the guy the “20% off one item” coupon and he said to me, “Wow, lucky you… looks like you have a 20% off EVERYTHING coupon” with a little wink. He applied the coupon to my entire purchase rather than just the most expensive item… AND he gave my friend (who was in line behind me and chatting with me) the same deal, even though she had no coupon at all… I guess he just scanned mine again or something!</p>
<p>ILB,
What a cutie you must be or how lucky you were to have a disgruntled employee angry at his boss! Either way win/win for you and your friend.</p>
<p>BBB owns Harmon’s, which is a discount drug store (not prescriptions, just toiletries and stuff), and they will take unexpired BBB coupons. My daughter saved a bundle on a hair straightening iron!</p>
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The Charlottesville store is equally strict. If anyone knows a student on their way to UVA, you might want to give them a heads up.</p>
<p>By the way, the change of address booklet you get at the USPS used to have a coupon in it (I think it was for 20% an entire order at LNT).</p>
<p>Re the “great store near you” concept vs. some stores which won’t accept extra/out of date coupons: I think it might be worth questioning this. I don’t <em>think</em> the stores are independent franchises, although I certainly could be wrong. It was a staff person in Maine who told me I could take all my expired coupons to New Orleans. In fact, that Maine staff person knew about this because she had been on loan to a Boston area store during the deluge season when so many students arrive in the Greater Boston area. As mentioned above, I also had the “use 'em all” experience in San Diego. Seems like a pretty widespread policy to me.</p>
<p>I’m also surprised to hear about different policies re: use of coupons from one location to the next.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how much of it is actually different policies, and how much of it is different workers and what kind of mood they’re in on a given day… at least that was my impression from my experience.</p>
<p>have there been coupons coming out in recent newspapers? i looked through the entire sunday dallas morning news and I could not find one.</p>
<p>They send them in the mail… we get one every couple weeks.</p>
<p>Bed, Bath and Beyond, and Linens n Things coupons are on the back of their sales flyers. Both print a color glossy magazine type sales flyer usually for the Sunday paper or mailed to your home. Ones you order online or give your address at the store you should beging receiving flyers in the mail. Check each Sunday’s paper. I know the Atlanta paper had them last week, and I haven’t even read todays paper yet!</p>
<p>The BB&B store near my house is semi-strict. They’ll take expired coupons, but they take the “20% off ONE item” line to heart. But it was the most expensive item, so I did get the best deal possible. I’m not sure about using multiple coupons at once. I figure if I have a few big items and I ring them up one at a time, I should get 20% off each one. We’ll see. I feel sorry for you mothers with sons who aren’t interested in college shopping. I know shopping for sheets and towels isn’t the most exciting thing, but getting new stuff if always fun, right? I think it is, but I’m a girl who has shoppong in her blood. My college shopping scenario has been that I’m having a blast and my mom waits in the car, wanting to be done as fast as possible. I don’t really get it, especially since it’s my money and not hers. Oh well, happy shopping!</p>
<p>I’m a shopping-hating mom of 2 shopping-hating sons. But I still understand that sometimes, you can’t do it online. You need to feel the plush of the towel… see the dimensions of the bookcase relative to the bed, etc. As long as we’re purposeful – not browsing, my college-bound son was ok. Hte other one will be trouble in a few years. He’ll be the one to just send me off on his errands.</p>