I’m sure you’ve come across a coupon that says “no expiration date”. Have you ever wonder if it really means no expiration date? Well, I can tell you it does. No register beeps, no questions asked. Really, no expiration date!
My mom was a couponer. When I got married, she gave me a handful of coupons she had been hanging on to that had no expiration dates. Mostly General Mills and Kelloggs cereals, Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines cake mixes and frostings. I’ve wondered recently just exactly how old these coupons are. If you’ve been a reader of my blog for long you know my mom is not around for me to ask her about these coupons. I’m sure she would be proud of my coupon blog and money saving achievements.
This coupon is one of the ones she had given me. I was trying to figure out exactly how old it was. It looks like it might have been cut out of a magazine. When I turned it over there was some writing that looked like the bottom part of an article. I tried to take a picture but it’s too blurry to make anything out. But what I found at the very bottom was a date….1986! This coupon came out of a magazine from 1986! So I put it to the test. I used it last week at Winn-Dixie….and it worked! A coupon that was 24 years old (almost as old as I am!) still worked!
So see….never throw away a coupon especially if it doesn’t have an expiration date!
I too have a lot of coupons with no expiration date but haven't tried to use any lately so I'm glad to know they still work! I have one REALLY old P&G coupon with no expiration date that I'll never use. It's for Charmin and the amount of the coupon is 5 cents! It's an old "punch card" type coupon. If you're too young to remember punch cards, they had holes punched in them, and early computers would read the holes, similar to reading the bar codes now. Below is a link to a similar one I found for Secret deodorant. There's no date on it, but today's coupons 8 cents handling for this coupon, and this coupon offers only three cents!
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I love it! Thanks for sharing! You should start a coupon collection of those really old ones!