Coupon Lingo

Coupon Lingo and Abbreviations

Reading the Grocery Store Deals can be like learning a new langauge if you are new to the game! Well, here's a list of the most common abbreviations used on coupon blog sites. I hope this helps...consider me your professor of coupon lingo! Have a new one you don't understand? Email me and I'll help and add it to the list!

• ECB - Extra Care Bucks - CVS "money" printed on receipts to be used like cash in store
• OOP - Out of Pocket - actual cash paid
• Peelie - Peelable coupon located on merchandise packages
• RR - Register Reward - Walgreen's "money" printed on receipts to be used like cash in store
• BOGO: Buy One Get One FREE!
• 2/$5: This means 2 items for $5 (of course there could be other numbers like 3/$10 means 3 items for $10).
• $1/2: This means $1 off of 2 items, in other words you must buy 2 items and then the coupon will work (of course it could be different numbers like $2/1 means $2 off 1 item).
• wyb: when you buy
• Catalina: thin paper coupon that prints out from a seperate machine (like at grocery stores)
• Blinkie: the little (usually red) coupon machines that are in the grocery store aisles. You can take a coupon and a few seconds later it spits another one out just like it. They sometimes have a little red light "blinking" - this is why they are called blinkies.
  
• MIR: Mail in Rebate
• SS: Smart Source (coupon insert in the newspaper)
• P&G: Proctor and Gamble (another coupon insert in the newspaper-once monthly)
• RP: Red Plum (coupon insert in the newspaper)
• exp: expires (usually followed by the date of expiration - like on coupons)
• FLIP: Food Lion Internet Printable Coupon