Category: Bargains

Hola Super Savings Saturday readers! If you, like me, love bargain shopping, please read the post below this one where my co-blogger Emily analyzed my baragin-hunting “addiction”. Even though she is ridiculing me mercilessly, it’s still pretty entertaining!

The CVS deals weren’t too hot this week, and there weren’t any dollar-off coupons to bed had, so I just went for necessities like milk and Mountain Dew. 🙂 But I also went there to get my hubby a Valentine’s Day gift! One of the beauties of CVS is that when they have great deals you can “make money” on, you sometimes end up with more ECBs than you really need. This week I found myself in that situation so I was able to “buy” my hubby something he really wanted for Valentine’s Day from CVS. It’s this heart rate monitor/watch that he’s been wanting to keep track of his heart rate while he’s exercising. It’s $59.99 at CVS and more than I would normally spend for a Valentine’s Day present for him! But after a couple of CRT’s and a lot of ECBs, I paid just 9 cents for the monitor, a Valentine’s card, a Reese’s cup, and some lotion (CVS brand hand lotion that I had a Free CRT for. It’s good stuff too!) Yay! This is just one of the many reasons I heart CVS!

I was really excited about my trip to Kroger this week. Joshua’s birthday is coming up and I wanted to get all the ice cream and cake mixes I would need for his party. Kroger also had the same Totino’s pizza roll deal they had last week, and I had enough coupons to get 9 boxes for close to free. The pizza rolls, ice cream, and Chef Boyardee items (all of which I had coupons for) were all part of a promotion where if you buy 10 items you get an extra $2 off your order. I bought 20 of these items total, so I got $4 off my order. My order came up to about $55 with tax, but after coupons I paid $32.43 for all of this! I was so excited to get the supplies for Joshua’s party plus our regular groceries for so little!

I also went to Walgreens a few times this week to get some FREE plus overage Chapstick Naturals! Through Feb. 23rd, Chapstick Naturals are $2 and you get a $2 Register Reward good on your next purchase. But this week, Walgreens had a coupon in their ad making the Chapstick just 99 cents…and you still got the $2 Register Reward! Woot Woot! I did this, I don’t know, approximately 4 million times (slight exaggeration, more like 4) and bought other rebate or Register Reward items with my $2 RR . It was FUN! I got all the 2 Liters for Joshua’s party also, because 7UP products were also a Register Reward deal this week. So after redeeming and receiving new Register Rewards, I got eight 2 liters for about 50 cents total. 🙂 And I put it all on my Walgreens gift card from last month’s rebates! Goooood Times!!

Allright, that’s it for me this week! For more super savings, check out Money Saving Mom!

This week I had what might be my best CVS run to date! It was oh-so-fun and I left giggling like a little girl. I got all this:

For 88 cents out-of-pocket and I didn’t use ANY ECBs!! NONE! And I got back FIFTEEN ECBs!! Not pictured are the two king-sized Twix bars I had to buy so that my total would not be negative. When my total after coupons came up negative, I asked the cashier, who is one of my favorites, a nice high-school kid, “Do I need to throw in a couple of candy bars or something?” He was like, “Yeah that will work.” Well, thanks to CVS, we have enough chocolate in our house to sink a ship, so I really didin’t want to bring home more candy. So I said, “Well, what’s your favorite candy bar?” He got a big smile on his face and said that he liked Twix, so I tossed a couple of King sized Twix bars on the counter and they pulled my total up to 88 cents! The cashier was thrilled and giddily showed his shift supervisor, who didn’t seem to see anything wrong with it. So, everybody was happy! And hopefully this will make sure he is always happy to see me and my coupons!

(I would like to note: I always plan my trips – the main reason my total came up negative was that the Johnson’s baby bonus packs rang up half off!! Normally $5.99, they rang up at $2.99 and STILL gave me 2 ECBs! Wow! So, I had expected my total to be around $60 before coupons, and to be about $3-$5 after coupons).

Anyways, here’s how I worked this transaction. The total before coupons came to $55 and change. I used:
$10/$50 CVS coupon I got in my email
$10/$50 cash register tape coupon (CRT) that printed on my receipt previously
$5/$30 CVS coupon
two $5 off Zantac coupons
two 50 cents off Hellman’s coupons
four 40 cent off Skippy coupons
four $2 off Advil PM coupons
one $2 off Advil coupon
$1 off Advil CRT that printed on my receipt previously
two $1 off Johnson’s baby care coupons
three $3 off Infusium shampoo/conditioner coupons (the Infusium was on clearance for $1.87, the coupons were adjusted down to $1.87! FREE INFUSIUM!!)

Then, since my total was a couple bucks negative, I threw in the Twix and 88 cents and walked out with 15 ECBs! Woohoo!! I was so excited I could hardly stand it!

Another good deal I scored at CVS this week was toilet paper. They had 20-count packages of Cottonelle, previously $9.99 (giving back 2 ECBs) marked down to $4.99 and still giving back the 2 ECBs! I had $1 off coupons for these so I got 4 packages. That’s right – we now have 80 rolls of toilet paper! So we will be good for awhile there!

This week I also got to show another mom friend the beauty of CVS…always a lot of fun for me, even when I don’t buy anything! So welcome to the CVS club Amelia!

My final good score of the week was at Kohl’s. Emily and I had a little dinner-and-shopping date Wednesday night and I was thrilled to find three nice pairs of corduroy adjustable-waist pants for Joshua for $3.60 each! He has always been tall and then had a growth spurt this fall so he needed new pants, but he is such a skinny boy, he can only wear adjustable-waist in the sizes that are long enough for him. So I was really happy with that find. If only they had had some jeans!

Well that’s it for me this week. I also picked up some free-after-rebate items at Walgreen’s and Rite-Aid, but nothing too exciting (well for anyone other than me that is)! Check out all the other great savings at Super Savings Saturday over at Money Saving Mom! To get on the road to saving TONS of money on your grocery and household items, check out her Supermarket Savings 101 course here! You’ll be so glad you did!

I had a great week at Kroger, Rite-Aid and CVS this week! I have taken to calling CVS “FREE-VS”. It’s so great getting everything we need for next-to-nothing! I started out my week there. I went in to get diapers for a baby gift, and to see if my store would let me stack a $10 off $50 cash register tape (CRT) coupon that had printed at the bottom of my receipt last week with the $$ off CVS coupons. Well, they did, and this is what I ended up with:

3 Pampers Swaddlers size 1 (for a gift) $8.99 each
1 Cottonelle wipes tub $5.98
2 Glade Scented oil candles $6.99 each (Come on, now! I NEEDED another one to send the rebate in for my Grandma!)
2 mennen deodorants (FREE after ECBs!) $3.99 each
My total was $58 something.
I used $10/$50 coupon
$10/$50 coupon that printed on my receipt last time I was there
$5/$30
$4/$20
B1G1 Free mennen deodorant coupon (thanks Karen!)
B1G1 Free Glade candle coupon
$4 off Glade candle coupon
50 cents of cottonelle
3 $2 off Pampers coupons
Used $5 ECBs and paid $1.51 cash and I got $15.98 ECBs back!!

Unfortunately, this must’ve been the straw that broke the camel’s back, because the next time I went into this store, they would no longer let me stack $$ off CVS coupons! 🙁 So, I won’t be going there anymore unless I have a small transaction. It’s too bad because it is the one closest to my house. Oh well…there are still a couple of others that DO let me stack.

Next I was off to Rite-Aid for Freebies and Freebates! This week Rite-Aid had Lansinoh wipes for $3.99 but they had a $3.99 off coupon in their ad, making them FREE! They also had these DiaperMate diaper disposal bags free after rebate, and I love these things! Finally, this Citre Shine hair stuff was $3.99 and also free after rebate, and I had $1 off coupon, so they paid me to take this out the door!

I love Rite-Aid’s Single Check Rebate program because you can enter your receipts online – you don’t have to mail anything in or fill out any forms!

Next I hit up Kroger’s for our grocery shopping. On my first trip, I took advantage of two specials Kroger was running. One was a promotion to buy 9 items of Kraft/Pepsi products, and get $6 off your total order. So I bought 9 Kraft items that I had coupons for (total was $9.96 for these items) and that we will use, and got $6 off the rest of my order! I also got FREE MILK because Kroger’s other promotion was if you buy 3 General Mills Cereals (on sale for $2.49) you got a free gallon of milk. I bought 3 boxes, all of which I had $1 off coupons for, and got the free milk. Then after I paid for my order , I got a coupon on my receipt for $1.50 off 4 General Mills cereals. So I thought, “Hmm, I think I need to do this FREE MILK things again!” I came back to Kroger the next evening and got 4 of the sale General Mills cereals, used 4 coupons that were either $1 off or doubled to $1 off, got the FREE MILK and got an additoinal $1.50 off with that register receipt coupon! I also got 8 jars of Ragu pasta sauce on this order (on sale for $1 each, I had 4 $1 off 2 coupons) and paid a total of $8.85 for all of this!

I can’t wait for this week’s deals! To see what great deals other bloggers scored, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom! And if you haven’t purchased her Supermarket Savings 101 course, DO IT!! You will be so happy you did! You can check it out or purchase it here!