• Quick and easy changes you can make today to have more money in your pocket.
• It is NOT about depriving yourself and making depressing cut backs.
• It IS about making sure you're not wasting money, enjoying what you have, and looking for ways to have more fun!
• Be sure to check your email for the bonus surprise freebie!
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Walgreens is definitely a couponing goldmine. It’s absolutely where I get my best deals on a regular basis. I figured this out in part because it’s the closest general goods store to where I live, but even if it wasn’t at this point I’d make the extra drive. The goal when you’re couponing is to stack as many different deals up on one product as you possibly can. This is how you score free things, and sometimes even moneymakers.
Before I started couponing I assumed that those free/better than free deals were some sort of once a year unicorn special moment things. But now that I’m more experienced, I’m able to find very cheap (less than $1) deals or better almost every week. When you count points, I get paid to shop fairly often. Couponing at Walgreens was the first place I got really good at, and I would recommend it for anyone who lives near one!
Your Walgreens discount toolkit needs:
A Walgreens Balance Rewards Membership
You can sign up for this in store with a cashier, or through their website. This will give you some discounts just by entering your phone number at the checkout.
Walgreens Weekly Ads
You can find these on their website, in their app, or in your local paper.
Walgreens Digital Clippable Coupons
You can find these on their website, and are available when you ‘sign in’ with your phone number.
Walgreens Receipts
ALWAYS save your receipts and any other paper coupons that they hand you.
Sunday Newspaper Inserts
Find your manufacturer coupons for thing sold at Walgreens here.
Ibotta
Get some extra cash back on things you buy at Walgreens through the Ibotta app. (I mentioned you should save your receipt, right?)
Finding Deals

This list might seem like a lot, but even if you only get the Walgreens rewards going, you’re going to save over full price fairly often. Don’t let it stress you out, it’s pretty easy once you’re used to the system.
Once you have your Balance Rewards membership, go to their website on your phone or computer, and go to the Weekly Ads & Coupons section.
Clipping Digital Coupons
Sign in to access your clippable coupons by entering the phone number associated with your account. Find the “10 points per $1 on almost the entire store— every day” coupon and clip it. Don’t clip any others yet!
Now sort by “coupon value”. When there is more than one coupon that applies to a product, Walgreens seems to use the lower value coupons first. So as you’re scrolling through and clipping coupons, try to remember what you’ve already clipped, and not clip the lower value coupon on the same product (unless you’re planning to buy a bunch.)
Then switch over to the weekly ads, and see how many coupons you just clipped also line up with products that are on sale, or have register rewards with them. This will take some focus, and you might have to switch back and forth a few times. Make a list (I usually do this on paper) of things that you want that have a good sale, a good coupon, or, ideally, both. I typically notate the amount of discount/bonus or whatever on my list, that makes it faster later.
Paper Coupons
Now go through your clipped Sunday coupons, and see if anything there lines up with any of these deals. If you can stack a coupon on some existing deal, you’ll get an ever better price, so these can be gold. Also go through any register coupons or rewards you have from shopping at Walgreens recently.
Then pull up your Ibotta app and check Walgreens for any cash back offers that match up with your list.
Stack Those Deals
The things with the most offers attached to them should be your highest priority. On a regular basis I find things that are on sale, have a bonus digital coupon, get bonus points or register rewards with purchase, have a manufacturer coupon from the paper, and have cash back on Ibotta all at the same time. It’s common for those things to end up paying you to take them away in the end, and the first time you do that it’s the most amazing feeling.

Why is this possible? Because the companies that make these products will promote on product through lots of channels at the same time. In the end all of these discounts and coupons and cash back are paid for (at least mostly) by whoever made the product, not the store where you bought it.
Their business model is the same as the scary neighborhood drug dealer you learned about in DARE classes back in elementary school. They’re hoping that if you try their product for cheap, you’ll like it enough to keep buying it even when it isn’t cheap, and maybe you’ll even tell your friends to use it, too. That’s it. (It probably works better on drugs than laundry detergent, but if there was a better way I’m sure they’d be using it.) That’s the whole business model of these major multinational conglomerates. But you might as well bank on it!
A few warnings:
Start slow. Don’t try to buy 30 things on deals and discounts your first time. It’s so easy to get swept up in the fun of couponing that you can sort of shoot yourself in the foot. By warming up with a couple items a week you can be sure that you’re really understanding how to coupons work, and not missing some small print that will cost you money. After every trip take your receipt, go through it line by line and make sure you really got all the deals you were expecting to. If you didn’t, re-read the ads, or coupons, or whatever you didn’t get and see if you can figure out why. If you still aren’t sure, use the Walgreens website chat feature or customer service line and ask.
Take a picture of your coupons before you redeem them. This will help you figure out what happened if your transaction didn’t work how you expected.
Get Those Discounts
If you really think you should have gotten a discount, or one of your online coupons didn’t work, or you didn’t get a register rewards coupon that you were supposed to, use the Walgreens customer service. If you’re nice and respectful they’ll usually correct the error for you, or explain why you didn’t actually qualify for what you thought you would.

Be super ridiculously nice to the cashiers and store managers. They have total control over your fate and whether your coupons work. Being a cashier can be a stressful and underpaid job, and they don’t have any sort of connection to corporate to help you out. If you’re unclear on something ask them questions, if they can’t figure it out, go to customer support. Never, ever, get angry with a cashier. Through being friendly I’ve gotten lots of register coupons meant for the previous customer, who didn’t take a receipt.

Register coupons are just like money and you should treat them that way. They are often either discounts on things you buy, or opportunities to earn bonus points, which are basically cash in the Walgreen system. Keep them safe, read them, and remember to use them on future trips.
If you’re careful and smart, Walgreens can save you SO MUCH money on household goods and food. I’ve built up a nice stockpile of free and nearly free things just through them. If you’re still struggling to figure out how these deals work, there are lots of you tubers who post weekly shopping trip videos that break down the current week’s deals, and that can help you get your head around how to get going on your new, deep discount shopping style!
• Quick and easy changes you can make today to have more money in your pocket.
• It is NOT about depriving yourself and making depressing cut backs.
• It IS about making sure you're not wasting money, enjoying what you have, and looking for ways to have more fun!
• Be sure to check your email for the bonus surprise freebie!