Category: See Jenny Shop

So as you may know if you’ve read this crap blog for awhile, I LOVE COUPONS! But since Jonah was born, and since the show Extreme Couponing ruined ALL THE DEALS for ALL THE COUPON LADIES, I haven’t been as excited about them, or doing my best to get the best prices I can on ev-er-y-thing. I’ve found other ways to save, like shopping at ALDI a lot, but I do miss the good old drugstore whorin’ I used to do on Sunday afternoons. Soooo I decided, it being a brand spankin’ new year and all, to get with the program, hit the drugstores as best I can, and work hard at saving every dollar! I got off to a good start at CVS last week, and this week I was quite pleased with my trip there.  I think it’s time to resurrect “See Jenny Shop“! So here ya go:

Today I purchased:

Nivea for Men aftershave $4.99

Nivea for Men shave gel $2.49 (because Nivea for Men was BOGO 50% off)

Listerine Total Care Zero $2.99

total = $10.47

Coupons I used:

-$2.49 – Buy one Nivea for Men product, get a free shave gel printable coupon from Facebook

-$2 Listerine coupon that printed from the CVS Coupon center when I scanned my Extra Care card

-$1 Listerine printable from coupons.com

-$2.87 in Extra Care Bucks (ECBs) I had from last week’s shopping trip

total =$2.41 + 79 cents tax = $3.20 and I got back 5 ECBs for buying the Nivea for Men aftershave. WHAT UP!?

But wait, it gets even better! You see, there’s this cool coupon app for iPhone and Android called ibotta that has really high value coupons on it. I also had an ibotta coupon for $1.25 on the Listerine so I actually profited $1.25 on that! All you do is take a pic of your receipt with your phone, scan the product bar code, and ibotta will deposit cash into your PayPal account when you get to $5 or more. It rules! In 3 weeks of using it, I’ve already gotten back over $13 from my shopping trips! I’ve gotten over $1 coupon on things I buy a ton like Capri Sun and Cheez-Its. ibotta coupons don’t conflict with manufacturer coupons – you get to redeem them in addition to using manufacturer’s coupons! Wheeee!!! You should totes sign up here, because if you do, I get $1 and you get $5 the first time you redeem an offer. $5!?!?!?! It’s true. Wish I had signed up through someone else’s link to get the $5 but I didn’t hear about it that way.

ANYHOO.

I am shopping AND saving this year!  I’m going to hold myself accountable to posting for you all so you can see how I’m doing.

What are your goals for Lucky ’13?

Well, due to the fact that Extreme Couponing (the show) ruined EVERYTHING for people who actually use coupons ethically, I haven’t been to CVS to actually get a good deal in like, 2 months.  Sooooo, I was very excited to see a few things in the CVS ad today that were good deals, that we needed, and that I had coupons for.  I felt that old couponin’ excitement start to build as I headed out to the store.  You see, when I was at Mom 2.0 Summit in May, there were some reps from Charmin there handing out free Charmin coupons.  I stopped and told them that I sometimes blog about Charmin, when I find a good deal on it, because I buy it for my picky brother.  The Charmin PR guy apparently thought that was an entertaining story, so he gave me several coupons.  I have been waiting to use those for 5 weeks!  Today was finally the day!

I started out in my first transaction buy buying Bobby some Nivea for Men products. He loves these, and I haven’t been able to get a good deal on them in a long time.  Here’s what I did:

Two Nivea shaving products, $6.88 each = $13.76

– $4.50 two $2.25 off Nivea for Men printable coupons from CouponNetwork.com

total= $9.26 + tax = $10.23 cash, got back 5 ECBs to use on my next purchase.

So, I ripped those 5 ECBs off of my receipt and used them on my 2nd transaction:

12-pack of Bounty $9.99

Two 16-packs of Charmin $9.99 each = $19.98

Box of Puffs $.99

=$30.96

-$19.98 two FREE Charmin coupons

-$.25 off Bounty P&G coupon

-$5 ECB from first transaction

=$5.73 + $2.17 tax = $7.90 cash, and I got back 10 ECB 🙂

Every time I go to CVS, I head down the baby aisle to see if there are any diapers or wipes on clearance.  I hit the jackpot this time!  CVS had their giant refill packs of wipes on clearance 25% off.  They were asking $7.49 for a pack of 360 wipes. Yes, please!  So, I did one final transaction.

Two 360-count packs of CVS baby wipes, $7.49 each = $14.98

total =$14.98

-$10 ECB from P&G deal

= $4.98 + 1.05 tax = $6.03

So, I spent $24.16 for all that stuff! Without coupons I would’ve paid $59.70!  I was pretty happy!  Maybe I’m back!  If they have any good deals at CVS next week, I’m there!

Did you make any drugstore scores this week??

 

It’s been SOOO long since I’ve hit a good diaper deal, that I just HAD to post about it!  Rite Aid totally came through for me this week!  I am now 5 jumbo packs of Pampers richer.  And not that much poorer!  Check out this post on Southern Savers for the easy version of this deal.  Mine was of course more complicated. 🙂

I did three total transactions over two days.  Because, I realized I could go back for more!  I’ll explain.

My first transaction was pretty straightforward:

2 packs Pampers $19.98 ($9.99 each)

2 packs refill Pampers wipes $11.98 ($5.99 each)

total = $31.96

-$2 Pampers coupon from P&G mailer

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$1.50 two 75 cents off Pampers wipes coupon from coupons.com

-$2 +UP Rewards from last week’s visit

= $24.96 + tax, and I got back a $10 +UP reward for buying $30 worth of P&G products

NOW – the fun part.  The diapers also counted for a promo where you buy $25 worth of baby care products, you get back a $5 +UP Reward.  So I had $20 towards that reward. Sadly the wipes didn’t count for that one, but I needed wipes so I got ’em.  Therefore, I did another transaction to get this reward and some other things. I bought:

1 Pampers jumbo pack $9.99

1 Playtex Winnie-the-Pooh cup $4.49 ($4.99  but I got my 10% wellness + discount on it since it was “regular price”)

1 Colgate 360 toothbrush – clearance $1.99

4 Cadbury creme eggs $2.36 (you know, because I needed some FILLERS, not because I am obsessed with them)

total = $18.83

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$4 Playtex baby item Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$2 Colgate toothbrush Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$.75 cents Colgate printable coupon from coupons.com

-$10 +UP Rewards from previous transaction

= 58 cents + tax, and I got back the $5 +UP Reward for buying $25 worth of baby products

THEN, I realized from my receipt that the limit on baby product deal was TWO.  SO I could do that again.  I had $5 credit toward that because I’d bought $30 worth of Pampers and you only needed $25 to get the reward.  So, if I bought 2 more jumbo packs of Pampers, I’d get another $5 +UP Reward.  BONUS – I’d also gotten a $2 off Playtex coupon in my email by signing up for Playtex’s newsletter. So, I planned to get another sippy cup and get overage.  Also, my Rite Aid had another clearance Colgate toothbrush so I planned to get another one of those as well and get overage.  My plan worked ALMOST perfectly –  I somehow lost one of my Pampers coupons! So I cost myself $1.50 with that mistake but it all still went pretty well.  I got:

Two more jumbo packs of Pampers $19.98 ($9.99 each)

Playtex Winnie-the-Pooh cup $4.49

Colgate toothbrush clearance $1.99

total= $26.46

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$4 Playtex Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$2 Playtex manufacturer’s coupon

-$2 Colgate Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$.75 Colgate manufacturer’s coupon from SS insert

-$5 +UP Rewards from yesterday’s transaction

=$11.21 + tax, and I got back another$5 +UP Reward

So, all in all I spent $36.75 + tax for 5 jumbo packs of Pampers, two refill packs of wipes, two Playtex sippy cups, two Colgate toothbrushes, and 4 Cadbury eggs.

And I have $5 +UP Rewards for next time. I. AM. HAPPY!

Please Note!!!!! The baby care deal where you get the extra $5 +UP, is over TOMORROW, March 6th.  The P&G deal, where you get $10 +UP, is good all week.

One  other note: We REALLY needed wipes and we only had 1.5 packs of diapers left. I was getting nervous about both of these situations.  Also, just yesterday morning before I saw this deal I was complaining to Bobby that we were low on sippy cups.  I see this deal as just another way God meets our needs and honors my attempts to be frugal.  And I want to make sure I say that loudly!

Happy Shopping!