The Paper Store is currently showing a Friends & Family promo: the 20% off promo code at the top of this page, which takes 20% off your entire online purchase. That code is best if you have a mixed cart of items or several smaller purchases because it discounts every eligible line. If you are buying a single full priced item or a marked sale item that already has a larger percentage off, one of the single-item or sale deals can be better.
Under $50 or buying a single low price item. If your cart is around $50 and you want the free beach tote, the free Beach Tote Bag with orders over $50 applies when you use that specific code. The tote code cannot be combined with other offers, so use the tote code instead of the 20% code if the tote is the priority and your precode cart meets $50.
$50 to $60. Spend $60 or more and the Strawflower Market Tote free gift becomes available with its code; compare that to 20% off the whole purchase. If your $60 cart contains items you would buy anyway, 20% off reduces $60 to $48, saving $12. The free tote is roughly a fixed free item; if the tote’s retail value is less than $12, use the 20% promo code.
Around $100. Orders over $100 qualify for the free Nora Fleming mini wristlet with its code. The 20% code on a $100 cart saves $20, lowering total to $80. If you value the wristlet more than $20, use the wristlet code; otherwise use the 20% code. Note the wristlet offer requires its own code.
Buying pajamas or sleep sets. If you buy PJ pants plus a sleep tee, the Buy 1 PJ Pants Get 50% Off Sleep Tee code can beat a flat 20% off on the same two items. For example, a $60 pair of PJ pants and a $30 sleep tee: with the 50% tee deal you pay $60 + $15 = $75; with the 20% off code you pay $72, so 20% is slightly better here. Check product eligibility because the 50% tee deal is for selected styles only.
Buying one expensive full priced item. Several codes give 30% off one regular or full priced item, but some of those state they cannot be combined with other offers. On a cart with a $150 full price item plus $50 of other items: the 20% code makes the full cart $160 (saving $40). A 30% off one full price item applied to the $150 piece takes $45 off, leaving $155, so the single-item 30% code saves $5 more than the sitewide 20% in this example. Use the 30% one item code if your largest item is full priced and the code’s terms allow it.
Buying sale or clearance items. Many sale deals already apply automatically, like 30% off selected sale items or up to 50% off sale items. Extra 20% off clearance stacks only where the site marks it; do not assume those sale discounts combine with the sitewide 20% promo. Several single-item 30% codes explicitly say they cannot be used with other offers.
Our records show 139 offers listed for The Paper Store in the 12 months to October 2026, with 28 codes among them. Percentage codes have ranged up to 40% in that year and the typical percent code was 30%, and our team tested 32 checkouts across 28 offers in the 12 months to October 2026. That history means larger single-item percentage codes do appear occasionally, and sitewide percent codes like the current 20% are reasonably frequent.
When choosing, compare the final totals: apply the 20% code to the whole cart and work out the final price, then total the result of any single-item percent or gift threshold you can use and take whichever leaves the lower total. Only rely on combining offers when a code or the terms explicitly allow it; several 30% one item codes say they cannot be combined with other offers.
