Saving Moola at Meijer and CVS deals!!

It’s time for another edition of Super Savings Saturday! This week I was REALLY excited to get some great deals at Meijer! I usually do my grocery shopping at Kroger, but if Meijer has some great deals, I’m there! I posted here about the deal Meijer was running with Colgate/Palmolive. If you bought 5 Colgate/Palmolive products, you got a $5 off coupon to use on your next order. I bought 2 Colgate toothpastes (2/$4) and 3 Palmolive Scrub Busters (3/$5). I used 50 cent off and one 40 cent off coupons for the Palmolive (all doubled by Meijer). I also used a $1.50 and a $1 off coupon on the toothpaste. With tax, I paid $4.80 and got the $5 coupon. Then I turned my cart around and finished my shopping! I got all this in the picture for $22.87!!

(That’s Sophie’s hand on the chicken nuggets. She wouldn’t leave them alone!)

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I got two 4 lb. bags of chicken tenderloins ($14.98, but they were B1G1 free), 11 boxes of Totino’s pizza rolls, two packs of chicken nuggets, a dozen eggs, and two small tubs of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” for $17.07. I used one 55 cent off coupon, (doubled to $1 by Meijer), two $1.10/2 and three $1/2 coupons for the pizza rolls. I had a 50 cent off coupon for the (not) butter – it was on sale for $1, and since Meijer doubles coupons it was FREE. I can’t remember how much the eggs were, but anyhoo, after using all those coupons and the $5 off, the total was $17.07. I was elated!

Now, on to CVS. There were SOOO many CVS deals this week and SOOO many CVS coupons, I went to CVS many, many, mnay times this week. TOO MANY. I am gonna have to cut back this week cause thanks to CVS I am behind on my laundry! But here are a couple of the great deals I got. These were actually both engineered by me but executed by my hubby! Go Bobby!

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Not pictured is a $4.99 gift bag that we got for our buddy Owen’s first birthday party. So mentally add that to the picture! Bobby spent 45 cents on this transaction after coupons and ECBs!! He spent $13 ECBs but got back $13.99 ECBs! Woohoo!

This transaction I think of as the “mmm…chocolate” deal:

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On this one Bobby spent 74 cents, used $14 ECBs and got $15 ECBS. ( $2 for the big Hershey bars, $1 for the Reese’s Whipps, $2 for the Colgate and $10 for the Sambucol)…PLUS there is a full rebate on the Sambucol so we are getting $12.99 ACTUAL DOLLARS back in the mail! If there’s anything I like better than getting ECBs, it’s getting CASH back for something I GOT ECBs on!!

Ok, I am exhausted from GETTING these deals and BLOGGING about them…for more great deals, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom! And if you haven’t purchased her Supermarket Savings 101 class yet, do it! It is very affordable and will pay for itself in a heartbeat. You can check it out or purchase it here!

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Yes, this IS My Life.

Yesterday at 10 a.m. the city water meter-reader knocked on my door. “Kee-rap.” I thought to myself. Why? Well, for one, a huge bill always shows up about a week after he’s been here, but the REAL reason is that I was still rockin’ my pajamas and bathrobe, unwashed face, and crazy bed-hair ponytail. It’s not that I want to impress the meter-reader, but I’d rather NOT be the funny story he tells at dinnertime. So, I cheerfully showed him the meter, thanked him, and wished him a nice day as if it were the most normal thing in the world for me to be dressed that way (which it is, unfortunately). Then I closed the door behind him and had a good laugh at myself!!

A few minutes later, Joshua, who was still rockin’ his Spiderman sleeper, wandered up to me. He was fingering the bottom of his sleeper leg just below his calf. What he said baffled me. Are you ready? Here goes:

Joshua: Mommy, I have a little piece of poop in my pants. Would you like to see it?
Me: What??? Did you poop your pants?
Joshua: (very indignant!) No, I said I have a little piece of POOP IN MY PANTS!

I hustled him to the bathroom, peeled off his sleeper, and discovered he did indeed have a very small, hard turd in the leg of his pants. How it got out of his underwear, I do not want to know. After giving him the “tell-mommy-when-you-need-to-poop” lecture and stripping him and washing his hands veeeery thoroughly, I got him dressed and quizzed him on what exactly had transpired. He seemed as confused about the event as I was.

Ah, well. Scaring the meter-reader and solving poop mysteries. It’s all in a day’s work around here! Can’t wait to see what today holds!

(P.S. Emily text messaged me last night that she is safely in Florida!)

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A Deal I had to tell you about!

If any of you have a Meijer store in your area, this week is a good week to go! They have a special where if you buy any 5 Colgate or Palmolive products, you get a $5 coupon to use on your next order. There are LOTS of coupons out for the qualifying products (and printables too!!), and Meijer (at least in our area) doubles coupons up to a dollar. Products in this promotion include selected Colgate toothpastes, Palmolive dish & dishwashing liquid, and SoftSoap and Irish Spring products. You can see all the included products here on page 8 (bottom of page) of the weekly ad at Meijer.com. I bought 3 Palmolive Scrub Busters dish soap, a Colgate Total and a Colgate Luminous. After coupons, I paid $4.70 plus tax, then I turned my cart right back around and went back and bought the other groceries that I needed and used the $5 off coupon to do so! (Like any good CVS shopper, I need more toothpaste and dish soap like I need a hold in the head…but I’ll just give it away if Meijer is ALSO willing to pay me to buy it!)

Go to Colgate.com and click on “special offers” to get coupons to use on this deal!

Also, they have Totino’s Pizza Rolls $10 for $10 and the 11th one free, and there are coupons for those on coupons.com and Bettycrocker.com. So you can get a lot of those for cheap!

Allright, happy shopping! Back to the Mommin’!!

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