Internet coupon codes, when you can find them and they are for real, are one of life's little gems.  I've found recently that with a little bit of effort and grunt work searching around the internet, one can usually find a workable coupon code for just about anything sold or rented on the internet.  I don't exactly advocate trying to find ways to cheat businesses out of their products or services, but if business websites are going to make it just this easy to save a few bucks, I say go for it.  My case in point comes from a coupon code that I found perfectly legally that I have used several times over the past year.  As you all know, I live in a city that isn't exactly close to a major airport without an hour long drive one way or the other.  Add that inconvenience to the ridiculous airline fare prices that we currently see advertised, and you can easily see why I've chosen to do a little bit of driving to do my traveling since I lived up in Indiana.  When I was planning a trip for my last Spring break to go back down and visit friends in the Florida panhandle, I decided that it would save quite a bit of money if my roommate and I split the cost of a rental car and drove down.  Sure, it's a long-ish trip, but the scenery is nice, and it turned out to be a great deal of just eighty dollars per person plus the price of gasoline, which in truth wasn't all that much.  The thing that saved us a lot of money was a coupon code that I found through the WalMart (yuck!) website for Budget car rental.  Although I don't exactly like WalMart or like to support that particular company, I was appreciative to find the coupon for Budget car rental, a company that I have used several times and that I knew was reliable and had a nationwide presence.  The generous coupon code was for twenty-five percent off of my total rental price, which therefore put a significant dent in the entire trip.  I was thrilled to use the coupon and then just thought that was the end of it.  Fast forward to about two months ago when I began my travel planning for my two August trips up to New York for two different weddings.  Although I knew that my family would be paying for my flight to go up for my brother and sister-in-law's wedding a couple of weeks ago, I knew that I was going to be on my own to pay for my travels to my best friend's wedding, which is consequently coming up next weekend.  I decided to be proactive and look for some coupons for car rental again, because I knew that air travel as going to be more or less out of the question.  Thinking that I would at least attempt to see if there was a similar coupon as before for Budget car rental, I returned to the WalMart website and lo and behold, there was the same coupon.  I happened to find out that Budget and WalMart have some ongoing relationship and that the discount coupon code price is always available to WalMart customers.  Very interesting, and  definitely something that I intended to capitalize on again.  I grabbed the coupon code, made my reservation for a rental car, and voila, once gain I had instantly saved a quarter of the price of my upcoming trip, just by doing a little bit of online research.  The best that I've been able to do with online coupon codes in other instances has been to find offers for free shipping and so forth.  Those types of coupons codes, depending on the place that you are purchasing from, appear to be pretty reliable.  On the down side, coupon codes for retail establishments or for online retail shopping don't really seem to work all that well...believe me, I've tried them.  I do know from talking to several other people who spend a large portion of their time online that these coupon codes are out there that work, but you just have to know where to find them.  Back to what I was saying earlier though...I don't advocate cheating businesses out of their prices, I'm not going to suggest places to look for such things.  Coupon codes that are readily available at legal and free websites sound like fair game to me, but far be it from me to pay money to purchase coupon codes from some undesirable looking website.  That just seems like it is going a little bit underground and defeating the purpose, non?!