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
My goal is to get more involved with taking advantage of couponing to decrease my grocery expenses. Thanks for providing the "Coupon Lingo" information. Some of the terms I was aware of, but Red Plum and FLIP I would have never gotten. I am adding your site to my list of "Favorites" so that I can visit it often.
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