Tips For Beginners - Abbreviations

For those of you who are starting out with couponing or following couponing blogs, you may have hard times with abbreviations. One of my readers asked that I post a special post all about their meanings. Hopefully this will be helpful to a lot of you.

• WG = Walgreens
• WC = Walgreens Coupons
• ESC = Easy Saver Coupons from the savings booklets at Walgreens that you can pick up at the front door. These booklets change monthly.
• ESR = Easy Saver Rebates which are also found in the savings booklet at Walgreens.
• Catalina = seperate printer at the registers that prints coupons or register rewards.
• RR = Register Rewards that print from the catalinas at the register. They are basically in store credit.
• Tearoffs = These are coupons that you can get off tearpads in the stores. They are offered on various items from time to time. (NOTE: Whenever I see them, I grab 4 coupons even if I don't need those items. You never know when there may be a great deal that comes along!)
• Blinkies = These are the mechanical coupon machines that you see from time to time in the stores. You grab a coupon and another gets ready to come out. (NOTE: I always grab these also!)
• Coloring/Activity Booklet = Walgreens has these in their kids coloring isle. It has jungle animals on the front and 1 sheet of small coupons on the inside when you open the front cover. See example in my post here, scroll down to picture 4. These come out yearly.
• CVSC = CVS store coupons.
• ECB = Extra Care Bucks which are like register rewards that print out at the register. They are basically in store credit.
• TC = Target in store coupons.
• TGC = Target Gift Card. These get issued if you purchase a certain number of things or can be purchased in store.
• KC = Kmart in store coupons.
• IGAC = IGA in store coupons.
• MFG = Manufacturers coupons.
• TS = Trial size.
• B1G1 = Buy one get one.
• $/$ = You get so much money off if you spend so much. For instance $3/$15 means if you spend $15, you will get $3 off.
• RP = Red Plum coupon circular that comes in the Sunday paper, local journals or in your mailbox in select areas.
• SS = Smart Source circular that comes in the Sunday paper, local journals or in your mailbox in select areas.
• P&G = Proctor & Gamble coupon circular that comes out 2 times per month in the Sunday paper.
• P = Parade Magazine that comes out in the Sunday paper. This has coupons on occasion so it is always good to check it before throwing it out.
• MIR = Mail In Rebates that you purchase the item and fill out a form and mail in to the companies for reimbursement. I always try to use a coupon when purchasing these items so that I get my stamp paid for. :)
• ct = count or number of items in the package.
• Sz = Size.
• B$G$RR = This means that you spend so much and you get so much in register rewards. For instance, B$25G$10RR means that you have to spend $25 worth and you will get a $10 register reward at the register.
• Mailer = These are coupons that are sent directly from the manufacturer either in booklet or seperate form.
• OOP = Out of Pocket.
• J&J = Johnson & Johnson products.
• $/# = This is a coupon value of so much money off if you buy so many. For instance, $1/3 means you will save $1 when you purchase 3 of the product.
• Printable Coupons = coupons that you can print at home. Some have a limit of how many times you can print them (usually 2 per computer) others do not (usually PDF format which means they can be saved to your computer and printed over and over).

I think I covered them all. Check back here periodically. I will add new ones here when I think of them. I will include a link to this post on my left side bar. If there are any that I missed, please comment here and I will add them to the list.