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Show The Coupon Clipper . h.v.jl.m:iti.i.kk Couponing and refunding are the best supermarket "game" in town. When you learn to play this game, you will find that it is far more profitable than trading stamps, supermarket bingo or gold register tapes. Just ask the many readers who have written to me about their double-play double-play and triple-play discounts. Kim Chappell from Steelville, Pa., saw Oscar Mayer hot dogs on sale for $1.09. The usual price at her store is $1.89. She found several l;"-cen! Oscar Mayer coupons in her coupon file and looked forward to making her double- play discount. When she got to the store, she found that the Oscar Mayer packages were ''specially marked with a $1 refund smart shoppers who have become organized coupouers and rcl'unders. These readers and others whose smart shopping experiences appear in my column receive a copy of the refunding magazine, the National Supermarket Shopper. Write to me in care of this newspaper. Today's refund Offers include: - Kxlran-DM $1 refund offer. Send the required refund form, the complete com-plete outer carton from any Kxtran-l)M Kxtran-l)M and the register receipt with the price circled. Kxpiros June 1, 1!))!:!. -Kliutslones Mug Offer. Receive a l'Minlstones mug. Send the required refund form, the end flap with the brand name from Klin I. si ones Vitamins and HO cents for postage and handling. There is no limit on the number of mugs you can request. Kxpiros July :u, 19H2. - (lerilol. Receive a $1 refund or $:i in coupons. Send the required refund form, I he front panels with contents statements from two (lerilol purchases pur-chases (not the l l-lablel, 21 tablet or 4 ounce size) and the register receipt with the price circled. Indicate whether you want the refund or the coupons. Kxpiros June :), 19112. Instant Mix Melamucil Cash Refund. Receive a $1 refund. Send I he requricd refund form, the Universal Product Code symbol from the :!( count box of regular or orange Melamucil and the register receipt with the price circled. Kxpiros Dec. :il, 1 9112. -Preparation II $1 Coupon Offer. Send the required refund form, the entire refund form, from the entire outer carton from 12, 24, or 48-count Preparation H Suppositories or from I or 2 ounce Preparation II Ointment and the register receipt with the price circled. Kxpiros Sept . I9H2. -Selsun Blue Coupon Offer. Receive $1 in coupons. Send the required refund form and I Ik; front label from any I.T ounce bollle of trial-size Selsun. Kxpiros Sept. :S0, 1982. ISonus! This offer doesn't require a form : The Rayer Co., P.O. Box 1491, Walerlown, Mass. 02172, Walerlown, Mass. 02172. Receive a $1 coupon for orange juice. Send bolh end flaps from T0 tablet or larger Bayer Aspirin and bolh end flaps from Bayer Children's Chewable Aspirin. Or send four end flaps from either brand. Kxpiros Doc. 1981. 'offer for three proofs of purchase. So she paid less than $2 for $5.07 worth of quality hot dogs. "If only the store had been offering double coupons loo," she says, "it would really have been a bonanza." Good refunders are never sal isfied. Anyone who wants more proof that it pays to play the couponing and refunding game can take lessons from Carol Noeller of Round Lake Beach, 111. She found Duncan Hines cake mixes on sale for 79 cents each; they are regularly priced at 99 cents. Her coupon worth tit) cents on the purchase of two boxes brought her cost at the cash: register clown to 98 cents for both. But her savings weren't over. When she got home, she cut the two net-weight net-weight statements off the boxes and sent them in for a $1.80 refund. "After taking into account the postage, they paid me 64 cents so that my family could enjoy two delcious cakes," she says. Betty McCord of Bricktown, N.J., scored a home run on Pepsodent Toothbrushes. The regular price of the toothbrushes tooth-brushes is 89 cents each, but she found them on sale at $1 for three. She used 35 cents worth of coupons to bring the cost down to 65 cents. Then she sent in the three proofs of purchase for a $1 refund. "Everytime I brush my teeth I have to smile when I remember that I made a profit on the brushes," she Q says. You'll smile too - all the way to the bank - when you join the millions of |