If you enjoy fine dining and want to do it relatively inexpensively, you’ll definitely want to check out the Table 301 “Stimulus Package.” You may remember this being offered back in January, but it was too late for most people to take advantage of this. Well, it’s back! This time the coupon is good through June 30.

The Table 301 stimulus is a $25 off certificate (that you don’t have to pay for!) to any of the Table 301 restaurants in Greenville: The Lazy Goat, Soby’s, or Devereuxs. There is no minimum spending requirement, but you must use it for dine-in for two or more guests. You can choose your first restaurant, and when you pay and use the certificate you will receive another certificate to a different restaurant.
Since January, my husband and I have been participating in this. We started out at the Lazy Goat, and only had to pay a tip (on the price before using the $25 off) by ordering a combined total of $25. It is the least expensive of the 3 restaurants. Our favorite experience was when we visited Soby’s to celebrate our anniversary and combined the $25 certificate with our $50 truck test-drive Visa! We typically eat out once or twice a month (unless there’s free food!), and have really enjoyed visiting these three restaurants. Both the food and service is amazing, and I love the artistic culinary inspiration! Go here to get the certificate.

Special thanks to my sister for passing this along via her friend, Matt, of Dapper Ink (who you might want to check out if you ever need t-shirts printed or designed).

Hooray to Bloom for making this week a triple coupon week. Unlike past triple couponing events, though, the coupon tripling begins when Bloom’s new ad does: Wednesday, June 23!

The triple coupon rules are the same as before:

• Limit 20 manufacturer coupons per visit, per day
• Coupons up to and including $0.99 will triple
• You can check the weekly circular here.
• Hot Coupon World has several matchups here. (Lots of free stuff and great deals this time!

Thanks, Katie, for the heads up!

If you’re planning to make some larger purchases at Lowe’s ($50 or more–guess that’s really not that “large” for Lowe’s though), you might want to scout out the Gatorade.

Lowe’s currently has 15-packs of (20oz. bottles) Gatorade on sale for $9.97. Specially marked packages come with a $10 off $50 purchase coupon, making the Gatorade essentially free. With no food tax in South Carolina, my Gatorade actually turned out to be a 3-cent moneymaker, since my ceiling fans made it a purchase of $50 anyway.

The $10 off $50 coupons are good through October 31, 2009.

Of course, you can either view the Gatorade as free or view yourself as paying for it, but getting $10 off another purchase. Either way, it’s a great deal if you’re going to be doing work during these hot summer months! Most likely this is a nationwide promotion; I remember my parents doing this last year.

Just a note to Greenville readers: the Woodruff Road location is currently out of the specially marked packages, but there are still packages remaining at the location off Poinsett Highway headed out to Furman/Traveler’s Rest.

Top three internet printable coupons sites?

1. Coupons.com (also available on the sidebar of this site)
   
2. Coupon Bug
   • Shhh!! This is one of my couponing secrets :), because it has the same coupons as Coupon.com, but when the print limits are reached (not individual limits, but the limit of the number of coupons the online site has over all) I can still find them on Coupon Bug! Another place where you can sometimes print additional coupons is BiLo Foods coupon subsite)
3. SmartSource Online Coupons

Printable coupon tips:

• These online coupon sites install software on your computer (with your permission) in order to make sure you are limited in the amount of coupons you can print. Normally you can print 2 per computer.

• It is almost always illegal to copy coupons, but it is perfectly fine to print multiple copies using these sites if you have more than one computer (assuming they don’t have special limits printed on them).

• “One per purchase” means one coupon per item you are purchasing. If you have 2 tubes of toothpaste and 2 coupons for them, you can use both (barring there are no other restrictions.)

Top three “deal” and couponing sites:

1. Hot Coupon World
2. A Full Cup
3. Slick Deals
   • This site can be particularly confusing. But to find deals for the stores you’re looking for, just search by store name.

If this is all really confusing to you, you’re new to couponing, or you’re wanting to get started with couponing, stayed tuned! I hope to do a series on how to start saving with coupons, both printable coupons and coupons you can find in newspaper inserts.

At $15 to $20 a month, our internet subscription is one thing we haven’t cut out. This is one reason why–it’s how I find most of my savings and coupons. And it saves much, much more than $20 a month. (As a full disclaimer, we don’t count internet cost into our food budget because we also need it for other things, especially our online freelancing business.)

Are you an experienced couponer? Are there sites you’d like to include that aren’t listed on here? (There are a few other “deal sites” I know of, and feel free to include yours in the comments, but I thought I’d just list the top 3.)

Update: Apparently, Greenville area Bi-Lo stores no longer accepts competitor’s coupons.

Bloom currently has a $10 off $40 coupon here, but you can also use it at Bi-Lo and Publix. Good through Tuesday, May 26. You need to have $40 worth of goods pre-coupon, so if you have a lot of coupons you can get $40 worth of groceries for very little! Yay!