I read about The Grocery Game in the December 2005 Issue of Money Magazine … I’ve never been a coupon clipper, but this sounded like fun, in addition to saving money, so I signed up for “Teri’s List” … my first week I saved 45% on my grocery bill! Before you click, note that this service is not free (except for the Walgreens List – that one is free). The grocery store lists cost about $1.00 a week – but they’re so confident you will love The Grocery Game that they are giving away 4 weeks for $1.00 so you can try it out! AND if you refer friends to them, you can get free weeks! So if you do sign up, please list bolwebster@aol.com as the email address who refered you. Read on to find out more.

What is The Grocery Game?

The Grocery Game is a fun, easy way to save hundreds of dollars on groceries each month. TERI’S LIST reveals the “rock bottom” prices on hundreds of products each week and matches them up with manufacturers’ coupons for the best possible savings at your local supermarket. The Grocery Game has exclusive databases that track manufacturers’ coupons along with weekly sales and specials, both advertised and UN-advertised. With TERI’S LIST, the days of time consuming work required for effective coupon-ing are over. The Grocery Game does all the hard work and research, presented in a quick reference format on the internet each week, as TERI’S LIST. Members log in, spend a few minutes with a pair of scissors, and they’re off to win The Grocery Game!

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Why can’t I just do this on my own?

People who are great at coupon-ing typically spend hours each week preparing for their shopping trip. These “coupon pros” research sales in the ads, matching up their coupons to those sales. Once at the supermarket they soon discover there may be twice as many more un-advertised sales. So, after spending many hours at home with the sales ad, they spend even more hours standing in the supermarket aisles sifting through their coupon files once again, searching for even more coupons to match those sales. This is what we call making a career out of coupon-ing. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the time for this type of shopping.

In contrast, members of The Grocery Game eliminate all of those time consuming hours and usually save even more time and money than most “coupon pros”. Even “coupon pros” can make costly mistakes. Just because an item is on sale doesn’t mean its time to play your coupon. The Grocery Game databases differentiate between “phantom sales” and “rock bottom” sales, saving members even more money. Now, the best possible savings are quickly accessible to “coupon pros”, busy professionals, overworked moms, single adults and anyone who wants to cut their grocery bill by as much as half or even more.

How Do We Play The Grocery Game?

If you have your Sunday newspaper and TERI’S LIST, you will have everything you need to play The Grocery Game. Each week, TERI’S LIST matches sales to coupons from weeks or months past, along with new coupons from this week’s Sunday paper.

You can get started with our $1 TRIAL. This will give you 4 weeks of playing The Grocery Game. You will log in to TERI’S LIST each week, check off the items you want to buy, print your customized list, pull the corresponding coupons and you’re off to win like a pro!

You will want to read TERI’S GAME RULES, for all of the best savings strategies and how to get the most out of TERI’S LIST.

What does Teri’s Receipt Look Like?
My Original Total was $42.86.
I paid $1.82
That’s a 97% savings !

I didn’t NEED much because I’ve been stockpiling for several weeks. So I bought only a few choice GREEN items ( FREE ) and BLUE items ( best deals for stockpiling ).

Most members save an average of 67% each week.

What does TERI’S LIST Cost?

If you’re a first time member, you can try out TERI’S LIST for 4 weeks for only $1! After that, TERI’S LIST is just $10 every 8 weeks for one store. Most areas offer only one store LIST. But if you happen to be in an area where more than one LIST is available, for each additional store list you choose, you’ll be billed an additional $5 every 8 weeks. For example, if you subscribe to TERI’S LIST for only one store, you’re billed $10 every 8 weeks. If you subscribe to two store lists, you’re billed $15 every 8 weeks. Three stores, $20 every 8 weeks, and so on.

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by: Eddie Allen

In 1992, Becky Thane started an organization to assist at the military bases overseas. She knew there is nothing worse than finding a great coupon only to realize that it has already expired. She also knew that the bases were the answer to that problem. They accept coupons that have expired.

Military commissaries overseas accept manufacturer coupons for up to six months past their printed expiration dates. That means that coupons that are useless to you can still save overseas military families some money by your sending these coupons to them no more than 2 months expired.

Initially the OCP was run as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity under the name ‘Overseas Coupon Project’. Acts of Congress in 2001 and 2002 increased active duty military pay. Congress also commited to keep military pay higher. This has brought the vast majority of active duty service families above the Federal poverty level. Because of these changes, OCP was unable to maintain non-profit status.

We still felt, however, that many military families appreciate and need our help. So, we restructured our organization and changed the name to the Overseas Coupon Program. At that time I (Edward W. Allen III) took over the program. I had been with OCP for 5 years as an assistant running the Western USA distribution under the old program.

The program is now at www.ocpnet.org and is run fully on the internet. Most Americans have access to the internet or to someone that can access it for them. This site gives information on how to participate in the program:

To adopt a base and gives the base address.

To cut, sort and dollar total the coupons and how to ship them

To report the totals to the OCP to be posted at our web site

You can contribute as an individual or organization. A typical sunday news paper may have over $100 worth of coupons.

The base staff and the OCP staff are all voluntary. We do the best we can with our small staffs. The bases will not always be able to contact you and acknowledge receipt. They concentrate on getting the coupons out.

We at the OCP also get busy with real life at times and cannot always get back to you immediately. Remember that we do try to work on this every day but real life sometimes gets in the way.

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Find out more about sending your expired coupons to military families overseas at www.ocpnet.org.