How I Scored Free Diapers for Life with Coupons

By Rayven Perkins

I'm a stay at home mom, successfully living off just one income, my husband's. My children are 6 & 8 years old now, but it wasn't too long ago that they were in diapers.

And boy oh boy was that expensive! Until I hit the diaper mega-load and came across enough free diapers to keep their bottom's dry for life, with several hundred extra to spare.

How? It's all about using coupons to your advantage. Forget clipping a 25 cent one for a brand of shampoo you don't even like, I'm talking about walking out of a store with two shopping carts full of goods they paid you to take.

I've gotten tens of thousands of dollars worth of free products over the last several years, but my all time favorite haul was the Huggies Pull Ups. I ended up with thousands of diapers, and stores actually paid me to take them.

Here's how it happened. A few years ago, when both my kids were still in diapers, Huggies came out with a trial package of their new design of Huggies Pull Ups. There were three diapers in each of these packages, and they cost $1.97 at Walmart, Walgreens and Toys-R-Us.

In addition to the three diapers, Huggies also had a coupon in the package. It was for $2.50 ANY package of Huggies Pull-Up Diapers. Each time I bought a package, I'd get another one.

Now, this is significant. Most Huggies coupons would specify right on it that the savings was only off Jumbo size or larger packages, but these were different. They specifically said "ANY" package of Huggies, meaning they were good for the trial sized packages.

Calculate this: You have a coupon for $2.50 for a product that costs $1.97. That means for every package I bought, not only would Huggies reimburse the store for my $1.97 purchase, they would give them an extra $0.53 cents.

I spent months combing all the Walmarts, Walgreens and Toys-R-Us stores all over the state, looking for the trial packages of Huggies. When I found them, I would explain how to do the deal to other customers and store employees, even offering to give them some of my coupons. But no one wanted them.

So I would take most of the available packages of diapers, leaving a few in case someone else wanted some. I spent the extra money on all kinds of things: food at Walmart, more baby products at Walgreens, toys for gifts at Toys-R-Us.

Since I bought 15-20 packages of diapers at a time, each time I had $8-10 to spend. In the end, it amounted to a few hundred dollars.

Rayven Perkins is a stay at home mom who has used coupons to get free stuff for years. Find out how you can use these techniques too at her website: Save With Coupons

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