Deals This Week 6/29

FINALLY! I am referring to the Safeway ad which finally has some Super Coupons! I was in there Saturday and pretty much just wandered around gaping at the non-sale prices everywhere!

Safeway (good until Friday 7/4):

Buy 2, Get 3 Free Participating Coke & Pepsi 12-packs

Super Coupons (which I might be taking to Albies to match, since I haven't gotten there yet):

.99 Heinz ketchup
2/$3 Kraft American singles
3/$3 Oscar Mayer Meat Wieners
$1.47 Cheez-Its
2/$3 Dixie Plates, Cups or Bowls (awesome that these are cheaper than the Safeway brand!)
$2 off Duracell batteries
$4.49 Safeway trash bags
2/$9 Gatorade 8-pack
2/$5 Hormel Black Label sliced bacon
$1.99 Lucerne butter (better butter deal @ Fred Meyer this week)
$5.99 lb. Jumbo Raw Shrimp (2 lb. bag, so $11.98)

Remember that the Super Coupons have item limits and you have to have a $10 purchase to use them (although I have found that the $10 is calculated off of the regular price, so this is usually pretty easy if you are buying stuff that normally would have been $10)

Walgreens:

The big deal this week is Walgreens Brand Diapers (I haven't tried these, so I can't tell you if they're good or not).

Buy 3 diapers @ $5.99 each = $17.97
Use $5/2 ESQ = -$7.50
Use $2 Q from the red pharmacy booklet = -$6

Pay $4.47 for 3 packs of diapers and get a $5 RR!!! Not bad!!!! I may roll my Planters RR on this! Thanks to Centsible Sawyer for the heads-up!

Overage possibility with the Sure deodorant Qs from this weeks inserts:
Buy 2 Sure deodorants = $5.98
Use BOGO Q = -$2.99
Use $1 Q = -$1
Use ESQ = -$3

Total should be $1.01 in overage! Give your MQ first and make sure that you have other items to absorb the overage and make it so that you don't have too many Qs! Thanks Centsible Sawyer.

Twizzlers are .99 w/ In-ad Q, The 16 oz. packs should work for the $5 ES Rebate when you buy $15 worth. I haven't checked the sizes, but this may also work with the movie tix deal.

There is also an ES Rebate for some Kraft products where you get $5 for buying $15 worth of products. Planters peanuts are included! Freebies 4 Mom found a link for new $3 Planters coupons! So you can print 2 more!

There are cleaners and air freshners that are 2/$3 after rebate. Many of them have coupons and so are very cheap after rebate and coupons (here are some Woolite and Spray and Wash coupons and there were Scrubbing Bubbles coupons in the paper a little while ago).

Scunci Hair accessories are 3/$10 with a $5 RR.

Post cereals are 2/$5 and you get a $2 RR (this includes HBoO!!) So you can make some RRs if you have the free cereal coupons. Otherwise, this is a pretty good price for Grape-nuts and Shredded Wheat which don't seem to be on sale often.

Centsible Shopper has the July FAR items. Not sure if these coupons will work on the Therabreath Starter Kit, but that kit includes most of the items.

Rite-Aid:

Oxy Face Wash or Shaving Cream is free after SCR. Use one of the $1 Qs from the last few papers to make $$

There is a 3-Day rebate on Giovanni Shampoo or Conditioner (good until 7/1), so it is free after SCR as well.

Pert Plus is 2/$5, depending on the types that are included in the sale, you can use your $2 or $3 Qs from this week's paper to get them .50 ea. or they are a $$maker.

Not a bad week, especially with the Walgreens diaper deal.

My 2nd Giveaway!

Woo-hoo! I just got some of these in the mail! So, I'm sharing the wealth. On Monday (6/30) at 8pm PST I will pick 2 winners randomly. Each winner will get 2 of the infamous $5/3 Band-Aid, Neutrogena, Carefree, Stayfree, Johnson's, Tylenol or Neosporin Target coupons!!! So fun, so many overage possibilities!

To enter:

• Leave a comment about the best deal that you've gotten this year.

That's it - easy-peasy!

Super Helpful Cashier...$3.14 total

So I made the mistake of putting down my coupons for a second and my cashier pounced on them! I had them all organized to make sure that I could get overage on my Maalox (I had read that you need to give 1 Wag coupon, then manuf. coupons, then the other Wag coupon to make this work) and she proceeded to take out all of the Wag coupons and try those first, then head to the manuf. coupons. Needless to say, I was totally thrown and had a hard time watching the coupons go through, so I don't know exactly what worked and what didn't! To her credit, she was really trying to help and she did hook me up by using the cat. coupon for the Dixie plates on this order rather than making me wait to use it on my next order (her idea, not mine!). So from what I can tell, the double ESC coupons worked for the Nutripals and the M&Ms, but not the Maalox.

Here's what I got with my $5/$20 Q:

3 Liquid Maalox (used $2 MQ and $2 ESQ)

2 Maalox Chewables (used $1.50 MQ and $2 ESQ)

2 Theragran-M Vitamins (used $4 WQ and they were BOGO)

2 Dark Choc. M&Ms (used .75 MQ and $1/2 ESQ x2)

2 Dixie Plates (used $3 Cat. and they were BOGO)

2 Nutripals Bars (used $1 MQ and $1.50 ESQ and $2 ESQ)

3 Planters Trail Mixes (used .99 WQ)

1 Listerine (used .75 MQ and $2 WQ - we really need this!)

1 Ecotrin (used .75 MQ)


All in all, I spent $11.13 oop - my total savings = $71.90! Not bad! And I'll be getting $6.99 back in rebates + I got a $1 RR for my Planters! So, that's $3.14 total!



I also did a second transaction to buy stamps, since you just can't get stamps at a $5 discount anywhere else!

Want to see how other people did? Check out The Centsible Sawyer's Drugstore Divas!

Looks Like I'm Going to Walgreens Tomorrow!

Here's to a link to another $5/$20 purchase coupon to Walgreens, tomorrow (6/27) only. Why they really want us to shop there on Fridays, I don't know, but I'll take it! It again has the wording that the minimum subtotal must be $20 after coupons, but the last one worked with manuf. coupons. It is definitely true that the $20 subtotal must be after Wag coupons. Here are some options for your purchase:

• Planters trail mix is .99 with in-ad Wag coupon and when you buy 3, you get $1 RR, when you buy 4, you get $1.50...
• Money Saving Mom has a good idea for stocking up on cheap Dixie paper plates (isn't there a coupon for this as well?)
• Finish buying your June FAR items
• This Planters nut catalina is still going on, so if you can find some cheap Kraft/Nabisco items to buy 3 of and use this coupon, you can earn some more RR. The mac n' cheese is no longer on sale, but it has been reported that the Nabisco Cakesters are a cheap option.
• Friday will be one of those overlap days for the June and July EasySaver catalogs, so there may be some good deals with that. Here's the discussion over at Hot Coupon World. I may be picking up some Nutripals and batteries!
• Do the Bertolli's/Ragu, etc., deal where you buy $15, get $5 RR and stock up on some food and a $5 filler.
• Buy some GM cereal ($3/7) and get $2 RR.
• If they will let you buy stamps or something like that, that normally isn't on sale.
• Check out Hooray for Freebates' post about what rebates are due by the end of the month.

Here are this week's deals. What are you going to do with this coupon?

More Free Coke Coming My Way!

I just pulled all the coke rewards flaps off my 12-packs (can't tell you how much my hubby hates that!) and entered them to get my double points! The mycokerewards.com site is running slowly (seems like always), but worth the wait for 5 more free 12-packs (with B2,G3 deals). Also, I just clicked on the free 12-pack redemption and it says 1 More Day! Yikes! Get on this to order your coupons!!!!

Grocery Deals 6/25

If you have the choice - Albies is definitely the way to go this week!

Albertsons:

If you have vouchers from submitting your mycokerewards points, then today (6/25) is the day to go and use them at Albertsons. They are offering Buy 2, Get 3 Free Coke 12-packs and when you go home and enter your 12-pack codes today only, you get double points!!!! If you aren't there yet, make sure to ask for a raincheck for this promo, since this is the best deal for soda that Safeway/Albertsons offers.

They are running another Kraft promo - Buy $20, Get $5 off instantly! Here are the products:

.75 after the $5 off:

Jell-O Gelatin
Kraft BBQ Sauce
Taco Bell Seasonings
Taco Bell Salsa, Taco Shells or Refried Beans
Kraft Mac & Cheese
Kraft Sugar Free Handi-Snacks
Cool Whip Whipped Topping
Kraft Marshmallows (the catalina for $3 prints when you buy 3 marshmallows until 7/13)
Kraft pasta salad (many of these have .50 peelies on them)
Kool-aid Burstin' Water
Kraft Easy Mac Cups

$1.87 after the $5 off:

Oscar Mayer Bologna, Salami, Meat Weiners, Beef or Cheese Franks
DiGiorno Pizza for One (.75 coupon from the paper and $1 printable here)
Taco Bell Fiesta Bowls, Dinner Kit or Salsa Queso
Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts ($3 Planters wyb 3 products here)
Post Pebbles
Cool Whip Aerosol ($1 coupons in the last paper!)
Nabisco Ritz crackers, Oreos, and Snack Crackers
Kraft Bistro Deluxe
Kraft Bagel-fuls
Kraft Salad Dressings (.75/2 in the paper)
Kool-aid Jammers
Knudsen Sour Cream or Cottage Cheese
Kraft Miracle Whip or Mayo
Honey Bunches of Oats (woo-hoo! So many coupons to use)
Velveeta Shells & Cheese or Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese
South Beach Living Entree
Jell-O Refrigerated Gelatin or Pudding or South Beach Pudding

$2.50 after the $5 off:

Crystal Light
Country Time On the Go or Kool-Aid Singles
Yuban or Maxwell House Ground Coffee
Kraft Chunk or Shredded Cheese
Claussen Pickles
Tombstone Pizza
A1 Steak Sauce
Kraft American Singles (use the Free Kraft Singles coupon wyb 3 Kraft/Nabisco items from the Parade mag. last week)

Looks like it is time to use all those Kraft/Nabisco/Planters coupons

This could be a great week!

My Possible Scenario:

3 Marshmallows = $3
3 Cool Whips = $3
2 Cool Whip aerosols = $5
1 Planters peanuts = $2.50
2 Kraft Cheese Singles = $6.66
2 Digiorno for 1 Pizzas = $2.50

=$22.60
-$5 Promo
-$6.66 (Free Cheese)
-$3 (Planters coupon)
-$2 (2-$1 Digiorno coupons)
-$2 (2-$1 Cool Whip aerosol coupons)

=$3.94 oop and I'll get a $3 catalina coupon - Those are just the coupons that I have right now, I may also throw in some Honey Bunches of Oats since I just got those free coupons in the mail!

There is also a Buy 5 products, save $3 instantly promo:

Not as great coupon-wise, but if you need this stuff:

6/$10:
Heinz Cocktail, Chili Sauce or Ketchup

5/$10:
Ore-Ida Bagel Bites
Classico Pasta Sauce

4/$10:
Yoshida's Sauce
JD's BBQ or Grilling Sauce
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire
Ore-Ida Hashbrowns, French Fries or Tater Tots
Smart Ones Classic Favorites or Desserts

3/$10:
Poppers or TGI Fridays apps
Boston Dinner Market
Heinz 57 Steak Sauce
JD's EZ Marinader
Smart Ones Bistro, Anytime Selections or Fruit Inspirations

Bic Soleil Razors are $4.29 and there is a $4 coupon out there
Pearl Organic Soymilk is 10/$10
Kotex Lightdays are 10/$10 (if you didn't use your $1 coupons at Wal-Mart , use them now for free pads)
Totinos Pizza Rolls are 10/$10 (use this .55 coupon and yes, it would be awesome if they doubled this coupon, but that is not my world!)

There is finally a Wild Harvest promo (for all those folks who have been saving their $1 off coupons!):

Spend $25, Save $5:

WH chix breast
WH lamb loin chops
WH salad
WH organic milk
WH natural cereal
WH organic eggs
WH apple juice
WH fair traded coffee
WH organic tortilla chips

Safeway:

I'm going to punk out and link you to Mommy Making Money's great post on the scarce Safeway deals this week. She does a great job with coupon matching. Be aware that the meat prices do differ. I was really hoping for something better from Safeway this week because we're running low on baby food and the garden is taking forever to grow.

Here's the Link

Here's the official link to the new Thomas coupon (you can print as many times as you want while it is open, so print a few before you close it!) Good until 6/26!

What Do You Think?

Okay, so I actually am pretty new to this whole couponing thing (just a few months now), but I am quickly being educated by personal experience, helpful cashiers, and great forums like Slickdeals and Hot Coupon World. What I have come to realize is that you have to create your own guidelines or rules about how to use coupons. If you have been reading the frenzy surrounding the Free Thomas Train coupon (which by the way has been replaced by a different coupon that is only good until 6/26 - print the NEW coupon on the forum link), you'll realize that there are some folks who have some very different ideas about how to use coupons (I was personally a bit shocked by the folks who have used the coupon like 100 times!!!) Are you serious?! So it is time for me to sit down and think about what are my rules:

1. If a coupon doesn't beep, then it's totally legit to use it. Here's my example: The Huggies coupons that are out there, work on any Huggies product. You can use the $1 diapers, to buy wipes. It doesn't beep, so I don't see a problem with it. I guess Manager Rob's statement that "the company just wants you to buy their products" makes sense to me.
2. If a coupon states "Limit one per person" the most I will do is 2, since my daughter is usually shopping with me and she counts as a person. Also, I don't think that 2 is going to clear out stock, now if you're talking 5, 10, 15...that's when you're cutting into the fun of other couponers. How much does it suck to get to the store and none of the products that you are looking for are there? I personally had to limit myself with the recent Reynold's Wrap sale because I had lots of coupons that I had bought off the internet, but I didn't want to clear out their store. After a few trips and a few different stores, I ended up with 13 anyway!
3. If a company puts a coupon in .pdf form, then it is okay to share it. If you have a .pdf coupon, then it will not have a unique barcode (ex: The Blue Bunny $1 coupon), so it is perfectly okay to share with others. It is not okay to post copies of coupons that you get from the paper or that have unique barcodes (like the coupons that you print on coupons.com).
4. I will take extra peelies and tearpad coupons to use at other stores or at a later date, but I always try and make sure that I am taking what I will use and that I am leaving some for the person who is buying that product right now.

I guess that overall, I try and make sure that I'm not doing anything that will make it so that a company doesn't get their money back from the manufacturer. Like, I just found a bunch of $5 formula checks in my "craft" room(also known as crap room, cause it has become the dumping ground) and boy was I tempted to use them - I mean it's $5!!! But I knew it wasn't right, so I just resigned up at those sites to see if I was eligible to receive more. Yep, they just came in the mail the other day.

What are your rules? How do you use coupons and feel good about the deals that you got?

Good Money Making Day!

I checked my mailbox today - over $65 in checks!!! My Rite Aid SCR rebate check, my rebate from my Handi-Vacs and $10 from a survey that I did. So great! I also had a good day shopping - is my house clean?! - nope! But I got some great deals! Above is my Albies trip. Here is what I love about Albertsons:

1. Self-check lanes - you can make sure that each coupon goes through and you can use the coupons that print right away!




2. You can use promo catalinas on the same promo (like I used the $5 cat that I got from the last time that I did the Baby Care deal and I got a new $5 cat at the end of the transaction!)




3. They take competitors coupons! They took my Target $5/2 Pampers coupon and my $1 off of Colgate coupon no problem!

I paid $10.96 for all the stuff above and walked out with a fistful of new coupons and a $5 catalina for my next trip!

*While you're at Albies, take advantage of this deal that CJ found: Check out blue diamond almonds (8 oz jar like container) at Albertsons- 2/$5 with a $1/1 coupon available and you get a $1.50 OYNO when you buy 2. So that ends up being 75 cents a jar after 2 coupons! For ALMONDS! *

On to other good news - My local Toys R' Us still had Thomas trains left, so I picked up 2 of those for free. So cute!

I also picked up my free 100 ct. prenatal vitamins from Top Foods. I'm going to see about transferring it to Rite-Aid for a $30 gift card - I'll let you know!

Wal-Mart hooked me up again (oh, how I hate, yet like them) and even the cashier remarked "$3.28! That's a good day at Wal-Mart!"

Here's my loot:

3 Cascadian Farms Veggies (not $1.22 like other Wal-Mart stores, but $.98 after a $1 coupon isn't bad for organic)

2 Blue Bunny Bomb Pops (.50 after the coupon here - thanks Centsible Sawyer!)

2 Johnsons Buddies soaps (a few of my coupons were about to expire, and hello, overage!)

1 Clean & Clear trial size (again overage w/ coupon)

2 Thomas trains (my Wal-Mart accepts these coupons, they actually say MFR down at the bottom!)

3 O.B. tampon packs (free after $1 coupons that I picked up at Safeway a few weeks ago)

2 Gold Bond trial size lotions (free after $1 coupons here)

1 Oral-B Dental Floss (used $1 P&G coupon from the paper, thanks Centsible Sawyer)

I saved about $35 and paid only $3.28!

Drugstore Deals 6/22

A few things this week:

Rite Aid:

Free Crest Pro-Health Night Toothpaste or Night Rinse after SCR (use with recent .75 or $1 coupon from the paper to make this a moneymaker)

Finesse Shampoo, Conditioners or Stylers are 2/$1 after SCR (I don't know of any coupons for this)

Until the 24th, Charles Worthington Big Hair Texturing Sea Salt Spray is free with SCR (there is a Charles Worthington coupon in the Beauty the Rite Way booklet, but it is for shampoo/conditioner)

Freeman Sea Kelp Shampoo or Conditioner - .99 after SCR

This isn't free, but a good price and I've been wanting one -

• Off PowerPad Mosquito Lamp - $6.99 use this BOGO coupon and get 2/$6.99! If your Rite Aid doesn't take internet coupons, take the ad to Albertsons and have them price match!

Here is a good deal idea from Sisterly Savings:

Benadryl 2/$9

SCR get $2 wyb 2= 2/$7 after SCR

Use:

(2) $1/1 MQ (3/16RP)

(2) $3/1 (from allergy booklet--available on RA site as well as in stores)= $1 Profit

Walgreens:

.99 Planters Trail mix, spits out a $1 Catalina coupon when you buy 3, $1.50 when you buy 4, etc. (this is different from the other Planters catalina which is still going on, but the mac n' cheese is no longer on sale)

GM Cereals are 3/$7, then you get a $2 RR (there are a ton of coupons for GM cereals floating around right now - here is a link, also check Hot Coupon World's coupon database)

Buy $15 or more of these products, get $5 RR:

Ragu Spaghetti sauce (.25 coupons for this in the recent paper)

Bertolli dinner ($2.50 printable, link in the left column under "Hot Coupons")

Breyers Ice Cream

Lipton Tea (coupons in last month's paper)

Skippy PB

Hellman's Mayo

Aluminum foil is 2/$1

L'Oreal Vive Shampoo or Conditioner is 2/$9 with a $2 RR (lots of L'Oreal coupons in recent papers)

Clairol Balsam Hair Color is 3/$10 with a $5 RR (I've heard rumors of a BOGO newspaper coupon for this, but I haven't checked)

Aquafresh toothpaste (including kids' toothpaste!) is .99 with WAG coupon, use with this .75 printable = .24

Edge Shave gel is $1.99 with WAG coupon, use with this $1 coupon = .99

If you haven't bought your FAR Theragran-M vitamins, they are BOGO, use with the $4 coupon from the pharmacy and get 2 vitamins and make $4!

There was a free Kraft Singles when you buy 3 Kraft, Nabisco, etc coupon in the Parade magazine this week. Use it at Albertsons and buy 3 marshmallows, price match the cheese with the Fred Meyer 2/$4 coupon, get free cheese, pay $3 oop and get a $3 catalina!

What did I miss?

Seriously, I Walked Out With .05!!!!

I've gotten overage from coupons before, but I've never atually received it, usually I just purchase something else with my extra money. Today, I actually was given .05 to shop at Wal-Mart! I mean the manager actually came over and instructed the cashier to hand me my receipt and .05! I have been itching to use the free Thomas the Train coupon, but Toys R' Us is a bit far from here, so I decided to see if Wal-Mart would take the coupon. Yep!!!! Here's what I got at Wal-Mart today:

2 Thomas Trains - used this coupon (which they actually gave back to me) and they zeroed out the price of the item so I didn't pay tax!!! Incredible!

1 Land O' Frost lunchmeat - used this coupon

1 Gillette bodywash trial size - used the $1 off any Gillette bodywash from the paper (this is where the overage came from - read the coupon, doesn't say not on trial sizes!)

1 Kotex - used the $1 coupon from the paper (actually someone put an entire ad next to the display, so I also got a Powerade coupon!!!!

And The Winner Is........

NW Deal Mama's 1st Ever Giveaway is officially over! Thank you to the folks who left comments about my blog! The random number generator picked - #4 - Laura!!!! So Laura, email me (address is in the left column of my blog) your contact info so that I can get your prize in the mail ASAP. So fun!

WAGS Today Only (6/21)

If you want to try your hand at "rolling" your RRs at Walgreens and have some time today -

Transaction #1:

6 Boxes of Kraft mac n' cheese
4 Planters nuts (they should be $3.49 and BOGO)

At the register:

Give them 1 Wags coupon for the mac n' cheese (from the weekly ad)
Give them 2 of these Planters coupons (hit back to print 2)

Pay $5.xx and get $5 in RR (thanks to Mercedes for the heads-up!)

Transaction #2:

2 Oral-B Cross-Action Power Toothbrushes

At the register:

Give them your BOGO coupon from the newspaper last week (you can still do this if you don't have this coupon, just buy 1 toothbrush instead of 2)
Pay with your $5 RR from the previous transaction, plus .xx oop - get $5.50 in RR! If your RR beeps, throw in a filler item to make sure there are more items than coupons.

If you do this multiple times, make sure with the mac n' cheese transaction that you throw in a ~.50 filler so that you can use your $5.50 RR to "pay". Wags won't adjust down your RR, like CVS will with ECBs, so your total needs to be at least the amount of the RR, not including tax.

Good Shopping Trips $5.03 oop

I was able to stop at 3 stores the other day since they are all very close to one another (you can actually walk between them) and do some small shopping trips.

Target:

3 Baby toothbrushes (I had a BOGO coupon for the Oral B ones and a Target coupon and manuf. coupon for the Colgate one)
1 trial-sized Clean & Clear (this is a moneymaker, I read the coupon - no where does it say that the coupon cannot exceed the amount or that trial sizes are not included - $1.13 overage!)
2 Band-aids (used .75 printable and $5/3 newspaper coupon)
1 Johnson's Buddies soap (used $1 printable and $5/3 coupon)
1 Super cute froggie soap dispenser, marked down to $4.98 and perfect for my baby's bathroom!

Total: $3.94, put it on my gift card from the diaper promo, so actually $0.00 oop! If you have one of these $5/3 coupons, they are awesome!!!!

Wal-Mart:

1 Baby Mum-Mum (these are like baby crack - so yummy for the baby), no coupons, they just have the cheapest price on these.
1 Land o Frost lunch meat (free with this coupon - it's a .pdf, so you can save it to your computer and use as often as you want!) You can easily freeze lunchmeat, by the way! Thanks to SlickDeals for putting 4 on a page, so we can save some paper!
1 Earth's Best cereal (again the cheapest price, no coupon)
1 Enfamil formula (used my $5 check, so I got overage)
1 Huggies changing pad (used $1 coupon, figured out that it is true that you can use Huggies coupons interchangeably)
2 Malt-o-meal cereals that were marked down to $1 (used $1.50 off of Malt-o-meal cereal to get overage, those coupons are gone, but these will make it free!)

Total: $4.15

Office Depot:

1 DVD+R 10-pack (free with the coupon I got for signing up for their email alerts)
1 Post-it notes (marked down to $1, I love Post-it notes!)

Total: $1.09

That's over $44 worth of stuff for ~$5!

Supermarket deals now posted

Scroll down a bit...I finally rewrote the lost post!

Free @ Buy.com!

If you haven't used Google checkout before, then these items will be absolutely free!!! No shipping, no nothing! The Google checkout offer is only good until June 30th, so just a little bit of time left!


Here's how it works:

1. Click here to go to ebates.com and sign-up (you get $5, I get $5 - win, win!)
2. Search ebates.com for buy.com
3. Search buy.com for whichever of the following items you are interested in getting for free (see below)
4. Put the item in your cart and sign up for Google checkout to get $10 off your order.
5. Buy.com ships pretty fast, so it will get to you quickly!
   

Here are some freebies this week:

Plantronics .Audio 350 Halo 2 Noise Cancelling Stereo Gaming Headset




Super Power Forever LED Flashlight

Dane-Elec 2GB SD Secure Digital Card - DA-SD-2048-R






Dane-Elec 2GB zMate Pen USB 2.0 Flash Drive - 2 GB

My 1st Ever Giveaway!

I want to help support your couponing habit! So, here's what I'm giving away - a handy little coupon organizer and the fabled Buy None, Get One Free Honey Bunches of Oats Coupon offer form (w/ the 5 coupons that you need to send in!) Pretty great, huh? By the way, the Honey Bunches of Oats coupon comes very quickly in the mail, so you shouldn't have to wait long!

Okay, so here's how this works:

1. Leave a comment on this post about what is your favorite part of this blog, be specific so that I can get some feedback.


2. On Saturday (6/21) at around 8 pm PST, I will pick the lucky winner randomly (that should give me enough time to figure out the random number generator thing that I keep hearing about - otherwise my husband will be the random number generator!)


3. I will mail the lucky winner out the coupon organizer and everything that you need to mail in for the free box of HBoO coupon!

Woo-hoo! I'm so excited! By the way, my baby is currently laying in her ball pit/pool tearing apart a coupon that I let her have (not one of the coupons for the giveaway!). So helpful and cute!

Target Today!

Today I took advantage of the $5/2 Pampers and $5/3 Johnson's/Band-aid, etc. deals at Target. Above is everything that I got for $14.xx oop:

2 packs of Pampers diapers (used above $5/2 coupon and $2/2 manuf. coupon)
2 big packs of Pampers wipes (used above $5/2 coupon and $2/2 manuf. coupon)
2 Powerades (they were .04 after the .75 coupon from the last paper)
3 OB tampon packs (free after the $1 coupon that I've been finding everywhere)
1 Johnson's shampoo (used the $5/3 coupon and $1 manuf. coupon)
1 Johnson's bar soap (used the $5/3 coupon and $1 manuf. coupon)
1 Buddies soap (used the $5/3 coupon and $1 manuf. coupon)
1 Johnson's swabs (grabbed 4 items instead of 3, wasn't thinking...)
1 Huggies bodywash (used the Target coupon that I was mailed along with $1 coupon from the paper)
1 Baby Orajel (poor teething baby, found a peelie @ Rite Aid and had a $1 Target coupon from the mail)
1 New coupon organizer - hmmm...I wonder what that could be for? :)

I used my $10 gift card from this razor deal and was able to use both the $5/2 Target coupon and the $5 gift card Target coupon (I also found the one cashier who pushed every single coupon through, so I can't tell you if this is repeatable!), so I came out with a new $5 gift card!

A little more oop than I would have liked, but still pretty good since we can always use diapers and I forgot my Band-aid coupons!

Don't forget that if you do the Pampers deal - enter your Pampers codes here and start working towards free stuff! I like the Melissa & Doug puzzles!

Mean Ol' Blogger.com!!!

ARGGGGHHH!!! I spent all of today typing up a glorious post about all the grocery deals at Albies, Safeway and Top Foods - complete with coupon links and everything - go to post it - GONE!!! Normally Blogger.com autosaves throughout your posting, but something happened (maybe it timed me out or something) and everything except 2 sentences - GONE!!! So sorry folks, but it's not that great of a week grocery-wise. So, to make up for it (and cheer myself up) I'm doing my first ever giveaway!!! Stay tuned!

Super Market Deals This Week 6/18

Okay, I'm finally over my pouting because this post went away. Looks like it's a cereal & milk sort of week :)


Albertsons:


GM cereals are $1.19 when you buy 2 gallons of milk (any kind of milk - organic, soy -do they really have gallon soymilk?- or regular). Time to use your Silk $2.25 coupons (sorry, but the link is now dead) or Horizon organic coupons, click here. GM cereals include Curves ($1 coupons were in the last couple of papers and the March All You magazine), Cheerios - all -types (click here to search Hot Coupon World's coupon database for coupons) and more.

There is a $1 off Wild Harvest coupon in the ad. The cheapest Wild Harvest products are the canned beans, baby carrots and the lemonade.

Bertolli meals are 2/$10, with the $2.50 coupon, that makes these $2.50 each.

There is a Buy $20, save $5 instantly promo for Kelloggs. What is great about this is that it includes the Smart Start cereal which has a ton of coupons out for it (on smartsource.com - $3/2 and $1/1). Also, I went there last night and this includes the strawberry kind which is marked - Try Me Free! Makes for some cheap or free cereal

Speaking of promos, Kraft and Sara Lee are also doing a promo this week: Buy 5 products, save $5 at checkout. Supposedly, the $5 comes off of your meat or produce purchase, but I can't really see the computer being that smart.

Items listed in ad for above are:

Pepsi Soft Drinks 24 pack $5.99
Kraft Salad Dressings 16oz 2/$5
Kraft Miracle Whip or Mayo (Squeeze Bottles 24oz) 2/$5
Kraft Bistro Deluxe 2/$4
Deli Creations Sandwich Wraps or Flatbreads 2/$6
Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage or Smoked Link Sausage 2/$6
Little smokies 2/$7
Nabisco Snack Crackers 7-10oz slected varieties 2/$6
Ball Park Beef Franks 2$/6
Oreo Cookies 2/$5
Frito Lay Family size Doritos, Ruffles or Tostitos 2/$6
Nabisco Ritz Crackers 2/$6
Sarah Lee bread 2/$4, Sarah Lee buns 2/$5 (Thanks Hot Coupon World!)

The nice thing about this promo is that you can possibly get some free/cheap Planters nuts. Here is a coupon for $3 off of Planters, when you buy 3 Kraft products. Also, starting today (6/20) there is a catalina deal with Planters - Read about it on this thread at Hot Coupon World.

The marshmallow catalina is still going on from what I hear, so you could buy at least 3 of those for your Kraft purchase to get the $3 off of Planters and a $3 catalina, along with 6 other items in the special that you have coupons for (maybe the free Sarah Lee buns with Ball Park purchase?) Lots of possibilities!

Also, there is a Baby Care promo that could work well with the current Target coupons! My Albertson's is really close to the Target, so they will accept Target coupons (I just asked last night). You have to buy $25 worth of the following, then you get $5 off your next purchase:

Pampers diapers and wipes (use the $5/3 Target coupon and $2/2 manuf. coupon)
Gerber 2nd foods and Graduates foods (coupons here)
Similac (use any checks that you have along with the $1 or $2 coupons from the paper)
Johnson's Baby Care (lots of coupons out there, here, here and here)

Top Foods:

Top Foods' pharmacy is offering free prenatal vitamins and children's fluoride with a prescription. Could you possibly then transfer this prescription to Rite Aid or Albertson's for the $30 gift card???? Hmmm.

Also, they are doing a Buy 3 Post cereals (3/$8), get free milk promo. Honey Bunches of Oats are included, so if you used 3 of your $2 HBoO coupons then you could get 3 boxes of cereal and a gallon of milk for $2. Not bad.

Safeway:

Sucks this week, nothing to report unless you are dying to use your mycokerewards.com free 12-pack coupons. They are Buy 2, Get 2 Free this week. I'll wait until the next B2G3 offer.

Speaking of mycokerewards - if you haven't entered in your codes from the free 12-packs that you got with some of the previous promos - wait until June 25th! They are offering double points on 12-pack codes that day! So instead of 10 points, you get 20!

Great Deals @ Target

Check out this post over at Money Saving Mom about a few of the great deals at Target this week.

If you got the paper this weekend, there was a great $5 off of 3 Band-aids, Tylenol, Johnson's, Neutrogena, Carefree and Stayfree products coupon. This is a Target coupon so of course you can use it with manuf. coupons! The Band-aids and the Johnson's Buddies soaps are probably your best bet for moneymakers. I may throw in some Baby Tylenol, since my little one is teething.

Here are some coupons to help you on your way:

$1 Tylenol

.75 Band-aid

.75 Neosporin

.50 Carefree

$1 Stayfree

$2/2 Johnson's Buddies (you may have to use Firefox for this one)

Leave a comment and let me know how you did on this deal!

Also, while you're there, you may want to do the Pampers diapers and wipes deal - grab a $5/2 coupon here (and any other Target coupons you may want!) and bring your $2/2 Pampers coupons from the paper a little while ago and stock up on diapees and wipees.

Lastly, there was a $10 gift card for a new or transferred prescription coupon in the Target ad. The Rite Aid one is better for a transferred prescription, but this one includes a new one!

How to Work it @ Walgreens!

I got a nice comment from Samantha asking about how to play the Walgreens Game. Oh, how I love comments, especially nice ones! So here is what I know:

There are 2 big components to the Walgreens Game -

• FAR (free after rebate) items
• RR (register rewards)

Let's start with FARs since those are easier:

• Every month Walgreens offers a few products that are free after rebate. This means you have to pay for them, enter your receipts online (no stamps!), claim your rebates at the end of the month (you can only do this once, so what until the end) and wait for the money to come back to you. You can find these items in the EasySaver booklets that are always at the front of the store with the weekly ads.
• The great thing about FARs is that you can request your rebate to come back in the form of a gift card and you get a 10% bonus (this pays for tax in my area).

That's all fine and dandy, but nothing so exciting -right?! Here's how to make them work for you.

• Try and buy FARs with a $$ off your purchase coupon. If you had used the recent $5 off a $20 purchase coupon to buy your FARs, then you would have made $5!
• Find Walgreens/manuf. coupons for your FARs. This month you can make money on 3 of the FARs! The Theragram-M has a $4 coupon in the Walgreens' pharmacy coupon flyer. The ecotrin low-strength has a .75 printable here. The Multi-betic multi-vitamins have a $2 coupon here. That is $6.75 plus the 10% you are getting for putting it on a gift card! Just imagine how much if you used one of the $$$ off a purchase coupons and the FAR coupons! Free money and you aren't doing anything bad, just shopping and purchasing the products that the manufacturer wants you to buy.
• Since I am a bit of a shopaholic when it comes to deals, I've found that having a FAR gift card is like my play money. I use my gift card to pay for any oop (out of pocket) from doing the next deal. When my gift card is used up then I can't play anymore until my gift card is filled up again (from the next month's FARs). Helps keep me in check.

On to the RR -

• Register Rewards are like instant rebates that print off the catalina machine (next to the register tape machine, these are skinny and often have red stripes on both sides).
• Every week Walgreens offers some sort of RR deal - you buy these products, you get this RR. Sometimes it's great (like the P&G deal last month), sometimes it's so-so.

How to use RR to your advantage:

• Roll your RRs - use your Register Rewards to buy another deal, so it is less oop for you. The big problem is that Walgreens does not allow you to roll your RRs from a deal to do the same deal again.

Example: Last week, If I bought 2 Dr. Scholl's insoles then I would earn a $10 RR! Wow! So fun! Makes you want to do it again, right? No! If I use that $10 RR to do the same deal, then my new RRs will not print. Instead, use the $10 RR to do a Dove deal or another RR deal. That's what made last month's P&G deal so great. You could earn RRs on P&G products and there were also Venus RRs, Oreo RRs and Zantac RRs. So you could do a transaction to earn P&G RRs and then another transaction to use that RR to buy Zantac and earn RRs from that. Rolling baby!

• Remember that RRs count as coupons - even though they say "Use like cash", they are considered coupons by the register.

1. That means you can't get cash back and you can't pay for tax with them. So, if you have a transaction that is $3.xx after tax, but the subtotal is actually $2.xx, then you can't use a $3 RR to "pay". You need a filler (small item, like clearance items or candy) to get your subtotal to $3+, then put the tax on your FAR gift card.
2. That also means that they can cause you to have too many coupons! Walgreens' registers have this weird thing that you must have more items than coupons. Example: I buy 3 items, 2 of them have coupons, then when you go to "pay" with your RR, the register will beep, you need a filler item in order for the register to accept your RR.

Lastly, this is the order that I give my coupons to the cashier (and I always give one at a time!):

• $$ off of purchase coupon
• Walgreens coupons (from the weekly ad or the EasySaver catalog)
• Manufacturer's coupons
• RRs

Hope this helps and cross your fingers for another good RR week (it's been a while!) If you need some inspiration, check out this post from Jane4Girls$800AnnualBudget.

Deals This Week

There are a few things that I will be checking out this week:

Rite-Aid:

More FREE band-aids (actually Nexcare, not Band-Aid!). Children's Nexcare bandages are .99 and there are 2 different $1 coupons from past papers. I even have one from the insert that is mailed to me with my grocery ads.

There is a Rite-Aid coupon in the ad for $2 off Airborne, you can stack that with the $2 coupon here. Not sure what the final price will be, but if you use Airborne a lot... Also, you can get a free sample here.

Free after Rebate (FAR):

• Diapermate Disposable Diaper Bags
• Fujifilm QuickSnap One-Time Use Camera
• Organix Shampoo or Conditioner
• Herbal Essences Long Term Relationship Shampoo or Conditioner (try and find the specially marked ones for a free pedicure/manicure)

Walgreens:

Oral-B Cross Action Power Toothbrush or Refill - free after RR (Register Rewards). Normally wouldn't be so, so exciting, but there is a coupon for BOGO in this week's ads! So you pay $5.50 and get 2 toothbrushes or 2 refill packs and then get a $5.50 RR.

Remember - you cannot use the RR you earn to do the deal again. It won't print the new RRs. You have to pay again and then get new RRs. That is the big bummer with Walgreens - you can't roll the RRs on the same deal.

Hershey's Candy is 2/$3 with EasySaver coupon - look for the movie ticket ones!

Cottonelle Fresh wipes are 2/$4 with Wag. coupon - If you did the P&G deal last month then you probably have a ton of the $1 off catalina coupons for this making it = $1 each. Also, save your receipts because these earn money on Caregiver's Marketplace.

Beach towels are 3/$10 - that's not a bad price if they are actually big.

Buy Huggies Diapers or Pull-ups and Little Swimmers and earn $2 RR - not a great deal, but it does mean that the diapers and Little Swimmers are on sale. There are $1 coupons for Huggies from the paper a little while ago and Little Swimmer coupons here.

I was hoping for some Super Coupons from Safeway to make up for the super lame sale week (did you notice that I didn't post any Albies or Safeway deals this week!), but no such luck.

Fred Meyer:

If you still have your Ken's dressing coupons, they are 2/$3, so you may actually make a little $$.

Bertolli dinners are $5.99 and may be a good place to use your $2.50 coupons.

Oh, and hot dog buns are .39, may need to pick up a few to go with my Albie's hot dogs (not sure why I am loving the hot dogs right now - sorry mom!)

I Love Pants and Manager Rob

So, I had totally spaced about this deal until BeCentsAble reminded me: Buy $100 worth of Dockers clothing at Sears through 6/15 and get a $75 gas card. Pretty great return! Slyly, I asked my hubby if he needed new work clothes - yep! So, I got to run out and go shopping sans baby. Of course, I needed to make a quick stop at Rite Aid and met my new favorite manager. Here's the rewind - last week I went to my local Rite Aid and the cashier told me that they don't take internet coupons - what? Since when?!!! So, I went to another Rite Aid that is on the way to the mall and the manager was happy to take all of my coupons, even remarking "these are great coupons!" One of them even beeped and I was totally willing to veto that coupon (it was for $3 off a Similan product, but showed a picture of a different product than the one I was buying), but he went ahead and took it because "it's the same company, they just want you to buy any of their products". Are you kidding me? I love Manager Rob! Plus, this same Rite-Aid tends to employ younger kids that obviously hate their job and are pretty vocal about it. Totally cracks me up. I just love the super sarcastic teenage boy that rang up my purchases last week and said "you got a good deal" and in the same breath "I wish I wasn't working today, actually everyday I wish that". Hilarious.

Back to the pants, I went to Sears, bought 2 - $100 transactions (the limit is 1 per person, but 2 per household) worth of great work clothes for my hubby. Yes, the oop is pretty darn high, but we would be buying this stuff anyway and we can definitely use the gas cards! So spent $200, but will get $150 worth of gas cards. And yes, many of the Dockers clothes are on sale.

Drugstore Goodness!

I made $9.67 after all is said and done! Woo-hoo! This is all of my loot from my Rite Aid and Walgreens purchases this week.

Rite Aid:

Right Guard Pro. Strength deodorant = Free after rebates and coupon
Tums QuikPak = Big $$$maker with coupon and double rebate
Monistat powder = $$ after Rite Aid coupon, manu. coupon and rebate
Bonine Kids = Free after rebate
Visine = Free after rebate and coupon

My total was: $16.63, but I will get back - $23.96!!!

Walgreens #1:

4 Reynolds wrap = .14 each with Walgreens coupon and manu. coupon
Band-aid = free with coupon
Johnson & Johnson first-aid kit = .24 with coupon
Skinshield = .99 after rebate (looked interesting for my hubby)
Theragran vitamins = free after rebate (should have been moneymaker with the $4 coupon from the Walgreen's pharmacy, but I have no idea what happened to the coupon!)
Maalox = free after rebate and coupon
Bic Comfort3 Razors = free after manuf. rebate

I used my $5/$20 coupon so the total was $10.97 and I should get back - $10.98 in rebates!

Walgreens #2 (there are 2 Walgreens stores w/in 1 mile of each other):

4 Reynolds wrap = .14 each with Walgreens coupon and manu. coupon
2 Walgreens aloe gels = $5 (totally useful since I burn at least once a year)
Multi-betic vitamins = $$maker with $2 coupon and rebate
Excedrin Back & Body = free after manu. rebate

I used my $5/$20 coupon so the total was $12.45 and I should get back - $14.78 in rebates!

If you want to see how other folks did, check out The Centsible Sawyer's Drugstore Divas!

New Walgreens Coupon for Friday 6/13 Only!

Here is the link to the $5/$20 purchase coupon to use tomorrow at Walgreens (thanks SlickDeals for the heads-up). It has some new wording in it to possibly preclude us from using manuf. coupons after the $20 total. My guess is that it will depend on your store. Remember that the $20 total is always after Walgreens coupons, but not necessarily after manuf. coupons - we'll see!
Here are a couple of scenarios:

Transaction #1:

Buy 2 Dr. Scholl's insoles = $20
Use $5/$20 purchase coupon = $15
Use 2- $2 coupons from here = $11
Get $10 RR

Total oop = $11 + tax, but you get $10!

Transaction #2:

Buy $15 of Dove or Jergens & Buy $5 worth of FAR items =$20
Use $5/$20 purchase coupon = $15
Use any of the coupons that we have gotten recently in the paper = total will vary
Receive $5 RR and $5 back from your FAR item

Total oop = will vary depending on what items you buy and your coupons!

Transaction #3:

Buy 2 Nivea for Men & & $10 worth of FAR items = $20
Use $5/$20 purchase coupon = $15
Use 2 - $1 coupons here or 2 - $2 coupons here = $11 or $13
Receive $5 RR and $10 for your FAR items

Total oop = $11 or $13 + tax, but you'll be getting $5 RR and your rebate money back!

Transaction #4:
If you don't want to fight for the coupons:

Buy $20 worth of FAR items = $20
Use $5/$20 purchase coupon = $15

Total oop = $15 +tax, but receive $20 back in rebate money!

I may also be picking up some more diapers since this rebate deal ends 6/15 and I have some $1 coupons to use still.

You may also want to pick up some Hershey/movie tickets or cheap bandaids or cheap aluminum foil. Have fun and let me know how this coupon works for you!

I Love Mail!

I really love mail. It just makes me happy to have stuff in my mail box. Not sure why, it's just always been that way. So here are a few of the freebies that I have gotten lately - most came in the mail except for the undies which I picked up free from Macy's!
Dove deodorants (perfect for my purse when I leave the house w/o putting it on - oops!)
Emergen-C (love this stuff)
Yogi Tea and Celestial Seasoning teas (I don't drink coffee, just tea, so this is great)
On-the-go drink mixes (great to have in your purse)
Pedometer (not the highest quality, but it will do until I get a better one)
Hamburger helper singles (quick lunch?)
Goodnights training pants (these are expensive, so I'll save them until my daughter needs them)
Playtex nurser w/ inserts - BPA free -(great to take the place of the bottles that I returned to Babies R' Us)
Also, the Nature Made vitamins samples are really generous! I couldn't take a picture of them because they are currently one of my daughter's favorite toys.

Here are some great sites for freebies - Freebies 4 Mom and Centsible Shopper

Free Band-Aids!

Here's my haul from Albertson's today. I just couldn't let this sale end without hitting it one more time. Plus, the Band-aid coupons that I ordered showed up!

11 Band-aids - $1 each (used the $1 off coupons from Sunday's paper!)
1 Greased Lightning cleaner - $2.99 (should have been $2.50, but I had a coupon for $1.50 off from the All You magazine)
2 Kraft pasta salads - $1 each (used .50 peelies on the box)
1 Silk soymilk - $2 (totally forgot to use my coupon, otherwise I would have made money on this!)
1 Asian Sensations eggrolls - $2 (used a .75 coupon from the paper, just wanted to try 'em!)
2 Ball Park franks $2 each (used $1 coupon from Smartsource)
1 Sara Lee hot dog buns $2 (free after the coupon for buy 2 Ball park, get free buns)
1 Albertsons wheat French bread $1.99 (free after a coupon they gave me from taking a survey)

After coupons and the $3 off...........

Total: $6.97 (should have been $4.22 if everything had rung up correctly and I had remembered the coupon that was in my pocket!)

Total savings: $53.16 - Love that!

Also stopped by Safeway to get my 5 free 12-packs of Coke and picked up a raincheck for this deal so that I can do it again when I have enough mycokerewards points!

So, if you invite us to a BBQ this summer, we're bringing hot dogs and Coke!!!

I Actually Eat Pretty Healthy

I'm sure that many of you think that I live off of Honey Bunches of Oats and Chex Mix, but I want to make sure that you are aware that I actually eat quite a few fruits and veggies. We have an organic veggie delivery service that drops off yummy fruits and veggies biweekly. It is true that most coupons are for snack food and cereal, but there are ways to use lots of coupons and still feed your family well. I believe in saving money where you can - using coupons, playing the drugstore game, getting free-bates, etc., but there are a few things that are important to me:

• Organic milk - especially as a woman with a young daughter, I think that buying dairy products from cows treated with large doses of antibiotics and hormones is a bad idea. So, we spend some of our money that we save to buy organic milk. Although, we drink a whole lot of soymilk instead of milk.


• Organic fruits and vegetables - I make a lot of the baby food that my daughter eats and so it is very important to me that I use organic whenever possible. We love our delivery service - Terra Organics. We pay $25 every other week for a ton of fruits and veggies. Chances are there is a local farm that offers a farm share or a delivery service in your area. Try the CSA site for more info.


• Organic/natural meat - Our local meat shop, which only sells natural beef (no hormones), has packages available for a discount. Many of the items in the packages they sell did not interest me, so I asked if I could make my own package with the things that we wanted. Yep! So I am supporting a local business and stocking my freezer with good meat for a very good deal.

It's A Lean Week For Deals

I may be skipping most shopping this week, since there is not a lot that I'm super excited about. Here's what I see:

Walgreens:

• Band-Aids are .99, so if you use the $1/1 coupons from last week's paper = free. SmartSource just put up some .75/1 coupons so then they are only .24. I will probably be getting my free band-aids at Albertsons since they are $1 there (until Tuesday) and thus, the cashiers don't have to adjust the coupon. If the coupon beeps and your cashier won't take the coupon because it is over the price of the item, your best bet is to ask the cashier to adjust the Band-aid price to $1, then scan the coupon.
• Hershey's Chocolate is 2/$3, so if you can find some of the movie tix bags, this is an okay deal. 3 bags = 1 movie tix, so your best bet is probably to buy 6 bags and get 2 tix.
• Reynolds Wrap is .89 and there are coupons out there for .55/1
• Nivea Men skincare is 2/$10 w/ a $5 RR, here is the link to $1/1 coupons
• Buy $10, get $2 RR or Buy $15, get $5 RR when you buy Dove lotion, hair and skin care, deodorant, soap, Walgreens sun care or sunscreen, Jergens Natural Glow, etc. There are lots of coupons for Dove and Jergens from the last few papers, but nothing is jumping out at me for an amazing deal!
• This may be a good one: Samy Hair Care - buy 2, get $5 in RR. There are $2 from a super old paper (I don't have these), but there are also coupons for $2/1 in the Beauty the RITE Way booklet at Rite Aid. The coupons say manuf. coupons, so you could potentially use them at Walgreens. Then, with coupons, you would spend $3.98 for $5 in RR.
• If you need insoles - Dr. Scholl's Insoles are 2/$20, then you get $10 RR. Here's a $2 off coupon for the massaging gel kind.
• Here are the June FAR items - pretty random.

Again, nothing that I'm racing out to get.

Rite-Aid:

• Grab the $30 prescription Gift Card coupon
• Free Bonine for Kids after rebate
• Free Monistat Soothing Care after rebate ($2 coupon when you sign up for myriteaid.com and $2 manu coupon here = $4 profit)
• Free Itch X Lotion after rebate
• Free M Professional Hair Care for Men after rebate (3-Day rebate)
• .99 Sally Hansen Nail stuff after $1 rebate ($1 coupon when you sign up for myriteaid.com = free)
• .99 Right Guard/Dry Idea deodorant after $5 rebate (there are coupons out there to make this free)

I will be heading there to double dip on a rebate:

• Tums Quik Pak is free after Rite Aid rebate, then send in for this rebate as well. Also, there are coupons for this out there - here is a $2.25 coupon = lots of profit!

Thanks Sisterly Savings for some coupon links that I wasn't aware of.

Michaels:

A great post by Mommy Making Money started me thinking about cheap birthday gift ideas and I love the caddies, cases and bubble totes that Michaels has on sale this week for $1.99-$2.99. They would be super easy to decorate and fill with art supplies, baby stuff, or small toys. Cheaper than a gift bag in some cases and totally cute!

I'll Be The Guinea Pig With Really Nice Hair...

Speaking of Target - I picked up 2 bottles of the specially marked Herbal Essences conditioner that you can redeem for a free manicure/pedicure using a Target coupon and a manuf. coupon = .99/both. They don't list the participating salons on the bottle or on the website, you just have to wait for it to show up in the mail (I especially love the part where it states "may require driving a long distance". So, being the super nice blogger that I am (note: 3 more bags of marshmallows that I didn't need, just wanted to see if the catalina still printed) I put in all my info and I'll report back when I receive the list of salons. This offer is valid until 12/31/08, but you have to buy the specially marked bottles.

New Target Coupons

If you haven't visited A Full Cup's Target coupon generator, you are missing out! You can print multiple copies on one piece of paper and save some trees. The best thing about Target coupons is that they are store coupons, so you can use them and a manuf. coupon = great savings!

A few highlights:

• Free $5 Giftcard when you buy Pampers diapers and wipes
• $5 off when you buy Pampers diapers and wipes (there were coupons for $2/2 Pampers products in the last paper)
• $1 Colgate Total (there are a ton of $1.50 off coupons for this product, so it should be free or almost free)
• $2/2 Morningstar Farms products (again, there are coupons out there for this too!)
• $5 off a $25 toy purchase (great for buying birthday presents)

Thanks Money Saving Mom!

I Heart Albies!

Amazing times at Albertsons:

Transaction #1:

2 - Ball Park Turkey Franks $4 (used 2 - $1 coupons that I had saved)

1 - Ball Park Hot Dog Buns $2 (used the free buns blinkie found at the Turkey Franks - note: they were out of the Sara Lee buns which were supposed to be used for this coupon, but they let me substitute!)

1 - Kraft Pasta Salad $1 (used the .50 peelie on the box)

3 - Jet-Puffed Marshmallows $3 (I know I said I was stocked up, but I thought I would try for the $3 coupon - yep!)

1 - York candy .50 (needed a .50 filler, so that I could get my total to $3)

After the automatic $3 off from the promo, my coupons, and the $3 off from buying 3 marshmallows the last time I was there, my total was .............. $0.00! So awesome and I got another catalina for $3 off my next purchase, which was...

Transaction #2 (I love the self-scan lines):

1 - Clorox Everywhere Spray $2.50 (No coupon I just love this stuff and I couldn't find the other cleaner that I did have a coupon for)

1 - LiveActive Cereal $2.50 ($3 printable, that they had to adjust down to $2.50, but still a moneymaker with the automatic $3 discount)

2 - Kraft Salad Dressings $5 (.75/2 coupon from the paper, plus a tearpad coupon that I had found last trip for $1 off of produce when you buy 2 Kraft dressings)

Bananas $1.43 (used $1 coupon from above)

After the $3 off promo, my coupons, and the $3 catalina that I just got in the 1st transaction = $1.40

• I also remembered while I was there that Albertsons has their Band-Aids on sale for $1, so you can get free band-aids with the $1 off coupons in the last paper! Walgreens will have them on sale next week, but they will be .99, which causes the coupon to beep and the cashier to have issues.

• I also seem to remember that Silk soymilk is on sale, so it may be the time to use your $2.25 coupons.

Happy shopping!

Return Your BPA Bottles - It's True!

I was waiting to post about this until I made sure that it was true - yep, you can return your used baby bottles to Babies R' Us for store credit! In an effort to phase out BPA-laden bottles, Babies R Us is taking your bottles back! I just went today and they rang them through and handed me a gift card - awesome! I did not have a receipt, but I did have the original box, so that made it go a little quicker. I had called first because it is a little bit of a drive from my house and they had said yes they will take them back. See Freebies 4 Mom's post for more info. The bottles that I returned were Avent brand.

While you're there use this $5/$25 coupon - good through 6/8.

My friend Kate reminded me of this freebie (pictured above), which I actually just received in the mail - super nice bottle! It's a Playtex BPA-Free Drop-In Bottle w/ 5 inserts! So replace your old bottles with a nice, free one!

A Good Grocery Week!

I was a bit bummed with the ads on Sunday, there were a few good deals, but Walgreens especially has been holding out! So, I was pretty happy when I got the grocery ads in the mail today - Safeway and Albertsons have some good stuff!

Note - I added some links to some great coupons on the left hand side of the blog - this would be a great week to use those Honey Bunches of Oats coupons! The coupons work on any kind of HBofOs, not just the chocolate kind.

Safeway:

• You can still use the Super Coupons from Sunday's ad (they are good until 6/7) and make money on your HBofO!
• Tava - Super coupon and coupon here and here (must buy 3) = .48/3
• I will be using my 2 free Coke 12-pack coupons since this week is Buy 2, Get 3 free = 5 free 12-packs!
• I am also excited about their organic produce deals: $1.99/lb for organic tomatoes and $1/lb for organic broccoli.
• There is also a small thing about buying 3 Hallmark cards and getting a 12-pack of Pepsi or Mtn. Dew bottles, not as good as this deal - but keep your eyes open for an overlap!

Check out Mommy Making Money for more Safeway deals.

Albertsons:

I really like it when Albertsons has one of their buy x$$$, get x$$ off instantly. This week it is buy $10 worth of products, get $3 off instantly at checkout - here are few of the ones included (Kraft, Post, Glad products mostly):

• HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS! - after the $3 off and coupons on the sidebar = you make .25! (Not as good as Safeway's super coupons, but there is no limit to this deal)
• LiveActive Cereal - after the $3 off and the coupon on the sidebar = you make $1.25!
• Zatarain's Rice - there is a coupon in the insert with the ads - .75/2 = okay deal
• Ball Park Franks - I printed off some $1 off coupons from smartsource.com, but didn't see them anymore when I went to check for this post.
• Marshmallows - are .70 after the $3 off = pretty good deal so you can make some HBofO treats! Try buying 3 of these at a time - there may be a catalina for $3 off your next order that prints. I'm not sure that this deal is still active and I'm totally stocked up on marshmallows right now.
• Clorox Anywhere Bleach Spray is $1.75 after the whole deal, I love this stuff for cleaning Fiona's toys. Yes, I know that I could probably make it myself, but I don't.

The Thrifty Soaper has the whole list of items if you didn't get an ad this week.

See anything else? Leave a comment!

Free Fishing This Weekend (WA)

Here is a link to the free fishing days schedule - looks like an early Father's Day present for us here in Washington! All the states are listed - so check out the dates for your neck of the woods!

If You Need Razors

I went to Target to try out the razor deal that they have advertised: Buy 2 Venus Embrace or Gillette Fusion razors and get a $10 Target gift card. There are $4 coupons off of the Fusion razors in the P&G insert this week, pretty good deal then. There are also $2 off Venus P&G coupons and $2 off Venus Target coupons so I used a few batches to do the following:

Transaction 1:

2 Fusion Razors = $15.98

2 - $4 Fusion coupons = -$8

= 7.98 + tax oop and a $10 gift card

Transaction 2:

2 Venus Razor gift packs = $18.88

2 - $2 Target Coupons = -$4

2 - $2 P&G coupons = -$4

Used $10 Gift card to pay = .88 + tax oop and another $10 gift card

Transaction 3:

2 Venus Razor gift packs = $18.88
2 - $2 Target Coupons = -$4
2 - $2 P&G coupons = -$4
Used $10 Gift card to pay = .88 + tax oop and another $10 gift card

So with tax, I paid $10.60 oop, but I still have a $10 gift card to use! Would have been the best deal if I had a Target gift card to start with (maybe from transferring a prescription?) Thanks to Mommy Making Money for the heads-up.

What I Got for Free @ Safeway

This is all coming from previous posts here and here:

I used my 2 BOGO coupons with Safeway's B2G2 promo = 4 - 7up free

Used 2 Honey Bunches of Oats coupons and the Safeway super coupon = made $$

Used the $1 that I made on the cereal + 2 - $1.50 coupons and Safeway super coupons = 2 free toothpastes!

Also, both the toothpaste and cereal counted at regular sale price towards my $40 needed to get 2 free movie tix. So, after a lot of baby food (we like the O Organics kind) I got 2 free movie tickets!

Rite Aid Run

Here's what I picked up at Rite Aid today for a profit of $1.20:
Clairol hair dye - FAR and P&G coupon
Samy mousse - $$maker after rebate and Rite Aid coupon
Pantene conditioner - FAR and P&G coupon
2 Head and Shoulders - FAR and P&G coupon
Glade flameless candle - FAR and coupon
Aquafresh toothpaste - $$maker after rebate and internet coupon
Huggies diapers - Free from previous rebate through Rite Aid (and a slightly slow manager who pretty much just gave them to me, the cashier just laughed)

So the $1.20 that I will make back after the rebates is after tax! Pretty good for stuff that I will actually use!

Almost Forgot...

Grab the $30 gift card with a transferred prescription coupon from the Rite Aid ad. Even if you don't use it at Rite Aid, other pharmacies will accept it. I mean $30 for picking up a prescription - awesome! Collect these and leave them in your car for your next pharmacy run. Great way to get free money.

Did You Get Today's Paper?

Some good deals today in the paper:

Rite Aid has a bunch of free/$$making deals -

• Pantene Shampoo - free after coupon from the paper and rebate
• Samy - free after rebate and $$maker by registering here for tons of free coupons: myriteaid.com
• Glade Flameless Candle - free after rebate and coupon here
• Head and Shoulders Shampoo - free after rebate and coupon from the paper
• Aquafresh toothpaste - $$maker after rebate and coupon here
• Natural Instincts Hair Color - free after rebate and coupons from the paper

Walgreens has a few okay deals -

• Colgate toothpaste is .50 after this coupon
• You can get 3 boxes of Walgreens Ibuprofen or All Day Pain relief for $12, then submit a rebate for $10 = $2 for 300 tablets (I have so much pain reliever after the free Excedrin that this isn't a great one for me)
• There is a moneymaker on shave gel if you have a lot of coupons (AKA you ask all your buddies for their coupons this week):

Buy 10 Gillette Series or Satin Care Shave Gels = $20, this qualifies you for the $5 RR
then use the Walgreen's $1 off coupon in their June coupon book = -$10
then use 10 of the .55 coupons from this Sunday's P&G insert = -$5.50
so you spend $4.50, but make $5 in RR (great deal if you can get this many coupons and really need shave gel!)

• Free Glucose monitor with mail-in rebate/possible money-maker if you use the coupon from this week's paper

There are quite a few random Free After Rebate items this month, read this post for more info - I'm not too excited about these items - so I will not be picking them up unless I can make money on them and then I'll just donate them to the food bank.

Safeway -

They are still running the Flicks for Free promo (buy $40 worth of specially marked stuff, get 2 free movie tix)
Some of their super coupons are part of this promo, so they should help get your total up to $40 which you can then knock down using some of these coupons:

• Colgate toothpaste is 2/$4 use 2 of the Colgate coupons and pay only $1/2
• Prego is 2/$2 with the super coupon, but is probably more like $2 each towards your $40 total

Other good deals:

• Use your Honey Bunches of Oats coupons with the Super coupon on the back and make .50 with each box!
• Nature Valley Granola Bars are 4/$6 use with this .65 coupon

What else did you guys notice in the paper this week? Where are you going shopping? Leave a comment so that we can all take advantage!