Don’t throw money in the trash
November 13, 2012 in Alexandria Echo Press
Box tops aren’t just from cereal anymore. They can be clipped from Kleenex and broccoli and soup and milk. They can even be found on underwear packaging.
Best of all, box tops mean free money for schools. Continue Reading
If brand-name prescription medicines cost you as little as generic pills, which would you choose? A few drugmakers are betting Americans will stick with the name they know. They’ve begun offering U.S. patients coupons to reduce copayments on brand-name medicines and compete with new generic versions of the drugs.
A star is born? Earlier this year the Echo Press was tipped off to a local woman who went to extreme lengths to procure coupons.
If you saw a $5-off coupon on the ground would you pick it up?
Anyone who’s ever perused coupon inserts in the weekly newspaper knows that there are coupons for everything from baking products to snacks to serve-at-once meals.
A dozen or more women gather around tables in the West Acres Shopping Center food court to swap coupons one Saturday each month. Their gathering often attracts the attention of passers-by.
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