My Joanns let me use the 20% coupon off total purchase even after I gave her a 40% off coupon for an item. So that was a nice surprise for me!! Once the check out girl did a 20% off coupon from under her register on her own without me even asking. I sure said thank you!!

I was going to say this too but I was just too lazy to figure out the math!!!

Thank you to the math whizzes for pointing out the actual discount when you get 25% off something that is already 50% off. I know the principle and use it, but the store wants us to not stop and think.

Dayle

wish we had Joann stores here but done poor me could use a pair of new scissors

my store takes the 25% off even when I use coupons for other stuff.

Oh, I need your attitude, because sometimes praying for him isn't my first impulse! Thanks for the good reminder!

Figuring out the actual Joanne's discount made me remember the first time DH and I we were trading in our car for a new one. The orginial trade in price given us by the salesman for our old car was so much that I actually thought we'd be getting the new car for almost nothing. Boy were we naive because after the manager 'checked out' our old car and we practically would have had to pay them to take our old car off our hands. Needless to say we didn't buy a new car from that dealer.

I'm not trying to be a bugger here, but check your receipts when you get into your car (if you can understand them~~I find them very confusing!). As I understand it their cash registers are set up to deduct the extra 20%-25% coupon off every thing but not those coupons that were rung up on the register.

As to how I found that out, one time I made a large amount of purchases and figured I would be spending about such and such... The actual total kind of blew my mind so I checked the receipt (and did the math in my car) and walked back to the checkout clerk where it was explained to me that the total purhase coupon did not take off an additional percentage of those items purchased with a coupon. That is when I decided to shop a little more carefully and to read the fine print.

Maybe all JoAnn's don't have the new registers.

I am so glad that I took that business math class at our community college. I feel that this course should start to be taught at age 15 - when people are starting to want to buy cards and use charge cards!

I tried that with a sale awhile ago and they wouldn't give me the additional 25% off on the notion that I was getting... because it was already 50% off...