TSWLTH- so very true!!!

I have to agree that Joann's coupons are mostly worthless, even more now with the new policy. Just try to find anything of value that you can get a good deal on with the coupon. Maybe not completely impossible, but almost. It's very well planned to make it frustrating. Small discounts off inflated "regular" prices prevent you from using the coupon. That, along with the exemptions in the fine print, pretty much covers it. I rarely go there anymore and when I do I rarely buy anything, even with a fistful of coupons.

Iris

I know we all "love to hate" Joann's, but my coupons are plainly marked that it is not valid for anything on sale. The flyers I receive state that the coupon can only be applied to non-sale items only. I'm in the Dallas area, and it has been that way for a long time. Once or twice a year, they will let you combine the coupon with the sale price.

Sherry Starr

The employees told me this was a fairly recent change. It always worked that the coupons were used against the regular price- at least at this store..... and until yesterday for me. And, no, I did not read the fine print.... I went with assuming the policy they had in place for many, many years was still there- which was the coupon discount against the full price regardless of any 'mark down' price.

Oh well. I'm just glad I had other shopping to do or the $ 50 in gasoline to make the trip would have been a complete waste......

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

It's too bad you live so far away from them, Leslie. I had a bunch of coupons too and wanted some specific Christmas fabric, and it was already on sale at 25% off. So, I waited until the next week, and it was back to normal price, so I got to use my coupon. Good, GOOD luck with "staging" your home for the sale. That's a lot of work, but I think it's worth it in the long run.

Patti in Seattle

Hi Leslie, I sent a private message to you concerning weather. Thanks, Barbara in SC

Email answered. ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Sometimes it is just cheaper to go to Wally World and buy some cheap drapes and a bedspread.

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i feel your pain! i, too, have my house on the market. i'm sure you'll agree there are many frustrating things encroaching on your private life. i just had a huge garage sale, and even tho i cleaned out alot of stuff i didnt want, i also ended up spending that money on redoing the kitchen paint and "odds and ends". we have two Joann Fabric stores within 5 and 12 miles of my house and i will never step foot in one ever again! i tried to use a coupon last xmas for fabric, and then my AQS discount on something else, only to be told i couldnt use both on the same purchase. LIVID does not describe my emotions that day. i made the clerk void the whole sale. i then separated them into two stacks of items. one item i used the

40%coupon, then went to the back of the line ( a looooong line) and bought the other item w/my AQS discount. i was very satisfied to p*ss her off! Never went back since! I go to the local quilt stores for everything now. BTW Wally World is another one.....i was told that they sell substandard fabric. the companies they buy their fabric from uses the print patterns on cheaper weaves, so you think you're getting RJR but are really getting cheap stuff. i hope that's not true cuz i love W/W. amy

Another thing, use to be if you had the 10% card from having a subscription to American Quilter you could use it IF you told them ahead of time. they would ring up the nonsolid items, take the 10% off, then ring everything else up. now they won't even do that. What's the use of having a coupon? I'm sure glad I only shop there when I can't find my item anywhere else and it's too bulky to pay postage. (Warm Window comes to mind)......and most of the time they don't have it either. I've gotten to where I use the coupon on a magazine and pay for it with cash so they ring it up by itself. 40% a magazine that I buy once in a blue moon is worth it.

Sorry you were so disappointed, but it doens't surprise me.

Butterfly

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i know!!!! at least at my local shop, they give me a discount on class days and through the birthday club. which is about the times i need new fabric the most. LOL! BTW your salad sounded yummo! i'm going to try that tonite. thanks! amy

Howdy!

For your sake: ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH! $*^#$$%%*)

Howdy!

Coupons--I remember those. Clerks said not many customers use them anymore because JoAnn's likes to put almost everything "on sale" now, which disqualifies that coupon. Michael's Crafts store does the same thing. Amazing how alike those stores are, difference being the messy corner at JoAnns where bolts of fabric are scattered all over, dripping onto the floor, and the sewing machine "center" where no one ever is. Of course, since J-A stopped carrying Hobbs batting there is very little reason to go there, w/ Garden Ridge Pottery (more cheap decorating stuff) and Hobby Lobby w/in minutes along the same highway corridor. Dallas---I've heard of it. *snork*

R/Sandy--over here on the Ft.Worth side of the Metroplexmess

Our JoAnns don't have sewing machine centers anymore. The newest JoAnns had one for awhile, but now it's gone. Never could figure out why they put that one in there anyway. They sold Vikings and there is already a long time established Viking dealer just a few blocks from the JoAnns.

If I want rotary blades, JoAnns is just about my only choice - that is if I don't want to spend big bucks for them at the LQSs in our area. At least, the rotary blades go on sale rather frequently at JoAnns.

Donna in Idaho

Yeah, those sellers make me LOL too, Ragmop. To say nothing of the house hunters who exclaim "DATED! Must be demo'd!!" for any bath/kitchen installed before

2000! I do love HGTV. Did you follow the Design Star Series this summer? I was pleased to see Kim was the w> Howdy!

...........cut.....

Being relatively new to the US, I can precisely date when I first used a JoAnns coupon, it was August 2006, it was the case then that you couldn't use it on a sale item, no idea if it came in the week before though!

I can see why it is frustrating for you when it's so far away and your trip was wasted, but I really don't think it's as bad as you make out, I have a flier from about 6 weeks ago right here, the lowest mark down is

25% and most are 40%.

I don't use every coupon I get, but I do use a fair few, quilting fabric seems to be either 30% or 40% if it is marked down, but the same week, notions or batting or cutting equipment won't be and most purchases I can plan for, so right now I'm watching for a week when cutting equipment isn't reduced less than 40% so I can get a new pack of blades.

Cheers Anne

Leslie, someone told me (just last night, in fact!) that there is a fabric store in Springfield that has all kinds of fabric at huge discounts. Quilting fabric, home dec fabric, all kinds.

Do you know about that store and should I get the name of it for you?

Cindy

Yes, please! I haven't heard of such a fabric store- that would be very good to know.

Thanks!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Our Joann's store here is a small, dinky one. I am finding less and less that I can use there. When I first started being interested in fabric a few years ago, the store had a lot more really good stuff. But the store seems to be fading into messy oblivion. Unfortunately, it's the only place where blades, needles and thread aren't stupidly expensive.

Sunny