Mommin' It Up!

November 1, 2008

I Coupon, Therefore I Am

This week was CRAZY. I only went to CVS TWICE!! Sunday and Friday. Now that’s just very unlike me, but I was BUSY! They were already out of some stuff I wanted on Sunday, so this is all I got:

Freestyle $39.99
Milk $2.99
Soy Joys $4
Total= $46.98
Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (My CVS takes competitor q’s)
up to $55 off Freestyle coupon (found on tearpad at CVS) – $39.99
Two B1G1 free Soy Joy coupons
Total = $-.01 The cashier added a penny “taxable item” onto the order, so it came to $0, and I got back 14 ECB!! 10 for the monitor and 4 for the Soy Joy! Yahooo!! I love making $$ shopping!

Then Friday I went back cause we were dangerously low on sippy cups!

Three Playskool Wash & Toss cups on sale for $3.59 each (I didn’t realize they were on sale so this threw my calculations off a bit! Whoops!)
Three 160 count Playskool wipes on sale for$3.99 each
Total = $22.74
Coupons: $5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (I had though it would be over $25 with the cups at regular price – cashier let it slide! Love my CVS!!)
$4/$20 CVS CRT for Playskool
$2 CVS CRT for Playskool wipes
$2 CVS CRT (expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days) for Playskool wipes
Two $1 CVS coupons for Playskool wipes
Total – $7.54
I paid with a 7.99 ECB adjusted down to 7.54, paid 35 cents cash and got back 5 ECB for the Playskool deal! Playskool wipes are my fave so I was very happy with that one!

Now, happily, KMart in our area FINALLY did the “super double coupons” thing this week! They doubled $2 coupons up to $4!! Crazy!! Here is what I got!

I paid $2.24 for all of this!! My total before coupons was $39.10. Everything in the picture I got for free, except the peanut butter, which was $1. So I paid $1 for it and $1.24 tax for all these goodies!! Thanks KMART!

I also got paid three dollars by Meijer to buy 12 boxes of cereal and 9 boxes of jello, but I was too tired to take a picture when I got home. 🙂

Hope you all did great this week! To see how the rest of the crazy couponers did, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and CVS Superstars at The Centsible Sawyer!

October 25, 2008

I Love Coupons: the Musical

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve conducted two different coupon classes (one with a part 2 scheduled soon!) and I’ve been invited to do a third. Plus I’ve given one private lesson to my friend Elizabeth. What I’ve discovered through this is I LOVE TEACHING PEOPLE ABOUT COUPONING!! It’s really fun. I look forward to doing it again soon, but I think I may need to work on my presentation a little bit. I’m thinking maybe sequins and a few musical numbers should be involved? Anyone wanna jump in and help me write some coupon love songs? No? Oh well…

Anyhoo, here’s what I scored at CVS this week! I also went to Walgreens but my #@!& Register Rewards didn’t print, reminding me again why I hate Walgreens. So once again, I have resolved to just using Walgreens coupons at CVS, since my CVS takes competitor q’s!!

Just for Men $7.99
2 Brach’s Candy Corn $1.29 each
Excedrin $1.99
Powerade $1.69
2 Funlights $.99 each
Total = $16.23

Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2 off Just for Men manu q
$2 off Excedrin manu q
$3 off Excedrin CRT
Total = $6.23
I paid with 5.29 in ECB and paid $1.11 cash and got back 14.24 ECB! 7.99 for Just for Men, 1.69 for Powerade, 1.98 for the funlights, and 2.58 for the candy corn! Plus I sent in for the full rebate for the Just for Men so I’ll get back a $7.99 check! YES!!

This one I just did to make the $$. 🙂
3 Pert Plus $3.99 each
1 Colgate scented toothbrush $2.99
Frappucino $1.99
Total = 16.95
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
3 $1 off Pert Plus manu q’s
3 $2.50 off Pert Plus Walgreens Easy Saver q’s (my store takes these)
$2 off Colgate toothbrush CRT
Total = $1.45
I paid $1.63 cash including tax, used zero ECB and got back 7 ECB!! 5 for the Pert and 2 for the toothbrush. HOLLA!!

Finally, my favorite steal of the week!

2 Huggies Jumbo packs $9.99 each
2 Huggies wipes $2.79 each
Total = $25.56

Coupons
$5/$20 Walgreens q (thanks for putting this out Friday, Wags!)
$2 off Huggies manu q (home mailer)
$1.50 off Huggies q (home mailer)
$3/2 Huggies wipes q (home mailer)
$3 off Huggies diapers and wipes Walgreens q (sent to me by a friend)
Total – $11.06
Paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.14 cash and got back 10 ECB! Now that, my friends is the way to buy diapers and wipes!!

Hope you all had fun with coupons this week! For more great savings, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

October 11, 2008October 11, 2008

Getting Paid to Shop Never Gets Old!

It was a great week for deals at CVS AND Walgreens this week. And then, whaddya know, Kroger decided to jump in and play! Crazy! Here’s what I got!

I got this at Walgreens. The cleaners were 2/$5 and there was a $1 rebate back on each. I had $2 off printable manu coupons for the Scrubbing Bubbles and Windex (I LOVE Windex Antibacterial!) and $1.50 off for the Fantastik. I also bought some Chewy Spree for 89 cents cause I loves me some Chewy Spree. My total with tax was $21.94, after coupons it was $5.94. I put $3.99 on my rebate gift card and paid $1.95 cash. With my 10% bonus, I will get back $6.60 in rebates. Woohoo! The rebates covered tax and the Spree, so it was all FREE plus a little bit of overage!

Also at Walgreens this week, I spend some register rewards and used my gift card to buy this stuff:

I had a $2 off q for the Rimmel and for the L’Oreal, both of which were free after rebate. The Energy shots were also free after rebate, and the Huggies wipes were clearanced to 74 cents! (Sadly, I had coupons for these AT HOME! D’oh!) Anyhoo, I used a $5 register reward and put $12.35 on my rebate gift card and will get back $18.47 in rebate PLUS a 10% bonus! Yay!

Ok, now on to Kroger! Thanks to Glade and P&G for this great deal!

The Glade Plug-in Scented Oil warmers were $4.49, but if you bought one you got a $4 catalina to use on your next order. I had TWO b1g1 free coupons for these. So, I bought two, paid $5.12 including tax, an got back $8 worth of catalinas. I then did the same transaction again, and used one of those $4 catalinas to pay. So I paid $1.12 including tax, and got back another $8 in catalinas. CRAZY! Then, I bought the other stuff:
Febreze Noticables $6.89- minus $5 coupon from P&G BrandSaver insert and minus $5 e-coupon loaded on my Kroger plus card = $3.11 OVERAGE!
The Huggies baby washes were clearanced a $1.65, I used three $1 off manu q’s.
The Pantene was $3.34 each. I used two $1/1 manu q’s from the P&G insert and the B1G1 free e-coupon loaded on my Kroger plus card paid $1.67 for both. (of course the overage from the Febreze took care of this cost!)
The Suave body washes were 3/$5, and I used two B1G1 free manu q’s
The Pampers wipes were $2.59, and I used a 50 cents off manu q (doubled to $1) and the 25 cents off e-coupon loaded on my Kroger plus card.
I used one of the remaining $4 catalina’s to pay and my pre-tax total was 18 cents!! With tax it was $2.09 for all that, bringing my out-of-pocket total to $8.33…BUT I still have $8 in catalinas I haven’t spent yet! OOT OOT!!!

CVS was very good to me this week, too! Since I’ve already bored you to death with savings, I’ll just show you one transaction.

Let me just say before you ask that MY CVS ACCEPTS COMPETITOR COUPONS!
Breeze 2 Glucose meter $14.99
Milk $2.99
Bic Soleil cartridges $5.99
Vitamin water $2.29
Nutripals bars clearance $1.50

Total = $27.76

Coupons: $5/$25 Family Dollar competitor coupon
$3/$15 CVS q
up to $30 off Breeze manu q (adjusted to $14.99)
$1 off Nutripals manu q
Total = 3.77

I paid with 3 ECB and 77 cents cash and got back 16.29 ECB! 10 for the meter, 2.29 for the Vitamin water, and 4 for the Soleil cartridges. Wootie hootie! I loves getting paid to shop!!

Well that is all for me this week, for more great savings, head over to Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!