Thread is not a notion at our Joann's. Thread is in a class all by itself. But there was a manager at the store one time that said I could use any coupon on anything as long as I told her why I considered it in that category. I used a coupon for cutting tools on a ruler because I told her I had to measure before I cut, and I'm sure she would have let one spool of thread slide with the notions coupon.