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Common Kindness Savings & Sharing

Jennifer Chait — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:09:18 +0000

There’s a new coupon site in town called CommonKindness. Like other coupon sites, you get to clip and save through online coupons and brand discounts but unlike other sites, this one allows you to give back a little something to non-profits in need. CommonKindness gives up to 60% of its profits to charities and social causes.

Basically you visit CommonKindness, and sign in to save money by clipping valuable, free coupons and discovering free community services available to you in your local community. Various companies pay an advertising fee to CommonKindness (this site costs consumers and non-profits nothing). Then CommonKindness shares 60% of its profits with the charities and non-profits you select.

CommonKindness is completely free of charge to both non-profits and the public.

CommonKindness only asks that you tell all your friends, family and colleagues about the service because to save money for the non-profits they spend very little on advertising.

“CommonKindness is timely, because people are hard-pressed,” says Dana Valdez, director of non-profit outreach for CommonKindness and another mother of three. “People need to save money, and cannot give to charity as much as they might wish. As a result, many non-profits have seen a major decline in support this year.” Calandra Cruickshank, COO and co-founder, calls it coupons with a conscience and says consumers can save up to $1,300 in groceries per year with CommonKindness. The coupons at this site are pretty cool too – I saw some large savings offered on groceries, diapers, cleaning products and more.

What sort of causes can you support?

Your school
Find a nice home for a stray dog
Help end poverty
Help the planet
Fund disaster recovery
Support your local food bank
And more.

Visit CommonKindness to learn more.

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Free Printable Coupons from Pillsbury

Karen Weideman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:33:40 +0000

This month you can get $18.70 in coupons for Pillsbury from General Mills. To get the printable coupons, simply register to be a member of the Pillsbury community. Members will also learn about special events and offers from Pillsbury.

The coupons available this month are:

$.75 off Kix cereal
$.55 off Trix cereal
$.55 Honey Nut Cheerios cereal
$1 Pillsbury Savorings products
$.55 Pillsbury Simply refrigerated cookie dough
$1 two Pillsbury Grands biscuits
$1 two Pillsbury cookie dough
$.40 off two sweet rolls
$.55 two Totinos pizza rolls
$.55 two Toaster Strudel pastries
$.40 off Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad mix
$1.50 off Wanchai Ferry frozen entree
$.75 off Hamburger Helper, Tuna Helper, or Chicken Helper
$.60 off two Old El Paso products
$.60 off Chex Mix snack bars
$.50 off Chex Mix
$.40 Fiber One bars
$.50 off select Betty Crocker fruit snacks
$.40 Nature Valley granola bars
$1 off any Yo-Plus yogurt 4-pack
$1 off any Yoplait Fiber One yogurt 4-pack
$.55 off Yoplait 32 oz yogurt
and more!

Enjoy the savings!

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Greener Coupons Just in Time for Earth Day

Jennifer Chait — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:24:36 +0000

In my previous post, five reasons why I don’t use coupons, I noted that one of my issues with coupons was their non-green factor. It’s a lot of paper waste, especially since not all of us recycle as well as we should. Well, I recently got the heads up about a new application that eliminates paper coupons (to a point) and still saves you money.

What’s this application?

Coupon Sherpa is an application you can add to your iPhone or iPod Touch. It allows you access to hundreds of in-store coupons for tons of merchants.

Coupon Sherpa allows access to two types of coupons…

“Exclusive Coupons – This application features coupons from many retailers that are exclusive to Coupon Sherpa users. Show these coupons to at checkout to receive the discount.

In-Store Coupons from the Internet – The Coupon Sherpa staff scours the Internet daily to conveniently bring you the best in-store coupons. Find a coupon you would like to use by searching for the store name or category, then show it on your iPhone at check out, or email it to yourself to print out later.”

See a video of how Coupon Sherpa works.

Coupon Sherpa Features:

Hundreds of in-store coupons
Find coupons by category or store name
Email coupons to friends
Create your own favorites list of stores
Find the nearest store
Exclusive coupons that can’t be found elsewhere
New coupons added daily

What does this cost?

This is a pretty inexpensive application out of the box – $1.99, BUT in honor of Earth Day you can download it FREE until Friday. Visit Coupon Sherpa to learn more.

What do you think? Is this something you might try?

[images via Coupon Sherpa]

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