Mommin' It Up!

June 27, 2009

The Return of Coupon Mojo

My malaise of the past couple months and a serious lack of good sales at CVS and grocery stores has kept me from posting about my shopping excursions. There were very few to post about anyways! Mostly we were just running to the store for necessities. Until this week, it had been a looong time since I made a major grocery trip. But inspired by the fact that I was feeling better and by the Mega-Event sale at Kroger, I braved Kroger with BOTH KIDS and made a big shopping trip this week! I did great, getting a whole bunch of groceries for $54, and I got a $3.50 coupon back to use on my next order. So, later in the week I decided to go back and stock up on more Mega-Event sale items for us to take on our family vacation in a couple weeks. Here’s what I got:

All this, including the pot roast and pork chops, (which were on markdown – HOLLA!) I got for $20.96, thanks in part to another $3.50 off coupon I bought for buying the fruit snacks. The fruit snacks, cereal, and peanut butter were the 10 mega-event sale items that earned me an extra $3 off my order. Of course I had coupons for most of those items. The pop was for my hubby – it was $11 for five 12-packs.

All in all we were REALLY pleased with our grocery trip! Hope you all did well too! For more great savings, visit Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

May 9, 2009

I like Free Stuff and I cannot Lie!

One of the benefits of being crazy and having a few new prescriptions is that i’ve been able to get a couple of CVS gift cards for said new prescriptions. YAY. So even though I have been a little low on ECBs of late, I still haven’t had to fork over any $$ at CVS. WOOT. Here’s what I got this week!

3 boxes of Kellogg’s cereal $10
Zantrex 3 $4.99
Colgate $2.99
Adidas $3.99
Total = 21.97

coupons: CVS $4/$20 email q (expired but my CVS takes for up to 30 days)
$1 Coldate manu q
Two $1 off Kellogg’s q’s
Total = $15.97
Paid with 12 ECBs and put the rest on my CVS gift card and got back 14.99 ECB

Then I bought this! WE needed Coke products to drink at our Mom’s Nite Out party!

4 Coke 12-packs $4 each
3 Vitamin waters 3/$4
Total $20
Coupons: CVS $4/$20
$1 coke coupon from My Coke Rewards points
Total = $15
paid with my $14.99 ECB from previous transaction. My total was one cent, but neither hubby or I had any change, so the manager gave it to me for free. 🙂 What a guy! I got back 10 ECB for purchasing the Coke products!

That’s all the CVsin’ I did this week. Hope you all did great! To see how everyone else did, head over to CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

April 25, 2009

Hairspray Score at CVS!

As I wrote in a recent article on Blissful Style, Tresemme Tres Two hairspray is my fa-vo-RITE! So when I saw CVS had a good ECB deal on Tresemme this week I had to get me some o’ that. So here’s what I got!

Three Tresemme hairsprays, $10
Glade Soy candle $4.99
Edge Shave Gel $2.89
Crest $2.88
Total = $20.76
Coupons: CVS $4/$20 email coupon (expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days)
Glade $1 off coupon
$3 off Glade Walgreens coupon (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
$1 off any Glade CVS CRT
$3 off any $10 hair care purchase CVS CRT
Three $1 off Tresemme printable q’s
75 cents off Crest manu q

Total = $5.01

I paid with 4.99 in ECB and paid 36 cents cash and got back 5 ECB for the Tresemme, 2 for the Crest, and 2.89 for the Edge. That’s makin’ money! Woo-hoo!

That’s all the exciting couponing I did this week. Hope you all did great! To see how everyone else did, head over to CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!