 Hi, during these trying times of the pandemic, the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department realizes that choices can be limited in enhancing one's physical, social, and mental well-being. The Parks and Recreation staff have been involved in developing a number of videos in which citizens can participate in and enjoy in the privacy of their own home. These videos consist of arts and crafts, gardening, physical activity, and sports instruction, with many more to come as we work through this pandemic. The videos will be available to you on a number of our social media outlets. We hope you enjoy, and thank you very much. Good morning. My name is Vicki Hemingway, and I bring you greetings from Etterstow Park, here in Columbia, South Carolina. This morning, I'm going to show you some techniques, coupon in 101, during the pandemic, different ways that you can coupon, save money, put the money toward other things that you would like to purchase. Starting off, I'm going to show you some of the different items that I've purchased, along with some of the receipts, show you some of the different coupons that I use, some of the different inserts that we use to coupon with. Here I have a six-pack case of Nestle water, a bottle of Tropicana juice, 12-pack rose dot toilet tissue, six-pack rose dot paper towel, pack of all-weather pads, tie detergent, purse seal, dove body washers, dial body washers, purex detergent, as well as some downy fabric softeners. With couponing, I know some people, when they go out in the yard, they may see some clear bags in their driveways, and those clear bags are coupons. So when you go to those clear bags, you will see inserts like these. You have your smart source, you have your retail me not, and at the end of the month, you will see Procter & Gamble. Everyone loves Procter & Gamble because it has all your paper towel products in there, all your tie, your game detergents in there, soap, whatever, mouthwash, toothpaste, all of that. So whenever you see these sleeves, those clear sleeves in your driveway, please pick those up because you are throwing away money. Some people just leave them in their driveway and let them rot, but you are throwing away money. You can be saving. We also have some flyers from the local grocery stores we have Balo, we have Food Lion. This is a Publix insert, which is called a store coupon. We use these as well as the manufacturer coupon. These right here is what we call a manufacturer coupon. When you see these for Publix, this is called a store coupon. So I'm going to give you the breakdown of the different stores. For as Publix, Publix is my favorite place to shop. Why? Because at Publix, you are able to use eight of the manufacturer coupon on a specific item, well for each item, as well as eight store coupons, which helps drop your savings down even lower. Here is what you call a tear pad. This is what you see as a tear pad in the grocery store on the different aisles. It's also a manufacturer coupon. Some of them may also be a store coupon, as well as Publix. This right here for this item, this is what you call a peeling. You will see these on different items you bought, like this one I also bought a jug of almond hammer. So this is a 75 cent off peely that I could use on top of my other savings at my local stores. Matter of fact, with this store, Walgreens have this on sale this week. Almond hammer, detergent is, you get three for $6.99, so that will be roughly $1.50, $1.58, a jug, still good. I'm going to go through. Last week, one of my other favorite stores is Kroger. Kroger, especially when they have the mega sales, they let you buy five. They also save $5 off at your total. When you total out, a dollar for each item automatically comes off. But for this item here at Kroger, Kroger had these on their mega sale. Mega sale always lasts for two weeks. This item here was on the buy five save five for 79 cents. With the 79 cent buy five save five, I was able to use a manufacturer coupon. The manufacturer coupon was $1.50 off. So with that extra percentage off, it was able, I was able to use it to cover. It gave me some overdue for other products that I also bought. Now with this product here, always pads. Majority of the time, we're going to see always pads in our Procter & Gamble. So last week on the mega sale, Kroger had these for $2.49 a pack. But in the Procter & Gamble, they had the coupon for $4 off of two. So $4 off of two for each pack of these pads. After my $4 off of two, I only paid $0.49 a pack of pads. This item right here last week, I purchased from Walgreens. Walgreens had these on sale. You buy three, you got a $5 registry reward. So they was $4.99. I used the $2 manufacturer coupon. And at the end of my total, I also used some of my points. But when I was getting ready to pay, they also gave me a $5 registry reward, which is also money. So whenever these print out, when you go to these stores, please do not throw those away because you're throwing away money. You can use these on your next purchases toward paper towels, toilet tissue, more detergent, body washers, whatever. Also last week at Walgreens, Walgreens had the Purse Seal, which is my favorite detergent to use. Purse Seal was $4.99. With the $4.99, we also had the manufacturer coupon of $2 off. When I used that $2 manufacturer coupon, it made that product $2.99. Because Purse Seal is really good, but it's expensive as well. Now, two weeks ago, Walgreens also had the Dove Body Washers on sale. Buy one, get one half off for like $6.99. We had the Buy One, Get One Free coupon. After the coupon, the coupon was Buy One Men, You Got the Women free or Buy the Women vice versa. You got one of the other free. With these, I used points, lowered my out of pocket. I still only paid like a dollar and something for each bottle. And we know how expensive Dove can be. Also, last week, we also had at, no, it was at Kroger. Kroger had dialed body washers for $2.49. You have the men, you also have the women for $2.49. We had the $2 off coupon, which after the coupon made the product only $0.49 a bottle. Now, whereas Publix also had the great deal, with that same coupon, Publix had the deal, Buy One, Get One Free for $4.49. Used two coupons for two products, only paid a quarter for each item, which was good. That's why I say Publix is my favorite store to shop. On this morning, coming here, I stopped to Buy Low. Buy Low have this product, Purex, detergent on sale for $1.99. We have the dollar off coupon, as well as the 50 cent off coupon. Buy Low doubles coupons up to 50 cent, which is really good. So if your 50 cent is going to double to a dollar, so either way you put it, I could have used the dollar off coupon or I could have used the 50 cent coupon, which would have doubled to a dollar. So after my dollar off coupon, I only paid $0.99 for this product. Downing, last week, and you're going to hear me say Walgreens over and over, because Walgreens have some good deals. Walgreens also had this product for $4 for $8. $4 for $8, we could have do a mixing match. I could have got four Downing fabric softeners. I could have got four of the yellow Tide Simplies or the Bounce Dryer Sheets. I could have mixed it up, long as I got four. So with this product, in that Procter and Gamble, once again, we also had a $2 off coupon for this product, which made this product free. Here, I did this deal Saturday at Dollar General. Dollar General had these, as you can see the price, $5, regular price, $5. But if you shop Dollar General, every time they print out your receipt, you are going to see a $5 off a 25 coupon at the bottom of your receipt. That's money you are throwing away if you throw this piece away. So what I did with this product, I bought six packs, which came to $30. And on the Dollar General app, they have digital coupons. So I downloaded the $5 off a 25, as well as the $5 off a 30. So I bought six packs of these, which came to $30. I also added another item, which we call a filler. Something else for maybe a pack of candy, a slim gym at register for a dollar. And once I put in my number at the register, it automatically took $5 off. So six packs of Scott Toilet tissue, and we know we're in this pandemic, this is an essential item. So for six packs of toilet tissue, I only paid $19 and some candy. Now, I'm going to give you another scenario. With this, this week right here, Walgreens also have this on sale, as well as the Scott paper towel for two for $10 this week. But you would need to download the Walgreens app. They have digital coupons on there. They have a $2 off coupon on there, as well as an extra $1.25 off coupons. So with that, Sunday morning when I got up, I went to Walgreens before. My service for two packs of these after my digital came off, I only paid $0.30 for two packs of paper towels. Another scenario with this last week, Walgreens also had Scott on sale. They was 20% off. So versus paying $5 back, I got them for $4 a pack. Now, the different stores that I shop at, Kroger, they have digital coupons that you can download to help bring your costs down. I said Dollar General, they have digital coupons that you can use to bring your costs down. Now for most coupons, when we do coupon classes, we also tell them, if you're going to be a true coupon in the first app you need to download, it's called the Flip App, FLIPP. That's your first app. It's going to give you all of the stores in your area that you shop at on Tuesday. They update the app. It gives you the preview of what sales starts tomorrow. Most grocery stores sales starts on Wednesday. The sales runs from Wednesday through the following Tuesday. Most stores like Walgreens, Dollar General, Target, their sales run from Sunday to Saturday. So what I tell most people, download the Flip App, preview it on Tuesday. Once again, when you get your sale ads, or if you just prefer just looking, I do both. I look at the Flip App as well because I'm a visual learner. I also have to have a flyer to map out my coupon runs. So I can circle what I plan on getting from the grocery store, and I go with a plan in mind. How much money I'm planning on spending, how much everything's your cost. And when you're a couponing, once you get to that register, make sure you try to block out all distraction, whether it's other people checking out, someone calling your name, that's your time to focus on making sure all your coupons comes off at the register properly. Now I know some of us, we also see the show called Extreme Couponers. I just want everybody to know the show is rigged. They rigged the show because no grocery stores will allow you to go into the store and come out with $2,000 worth of stuff. They only rigged the show to show coupons how you can get these items at a low, low cost. And feel free to reach out to me. Once again, my name is Vicki Hemingway. I'm at Edistor Park. Feel free. If you ever want to go on a coupon run, I'm available.