Mommin' It Up!

April 3, 2009April 3, 2009

My First Time at Aldi & a SwagBucks Code

There were really no drugstore deals that excited me this week. That’s right, dear readers, I did not even darken the door of a CVS!! I hear this week is going to be a little better at least. I hope so! I am starting to get nervous!

In the absence of any exciting deals at the grocery stores I frequent, and in preparation for my Once-a-month-cooking adventure, I decided to try my hand at ALDI this week! I had never been there before! That’s right, this frugalista was an Aldi Virgin. Can you believe it?? Here’s what I got:

I got all this for $19.35! I was especially pleased with the price of the milk at $1.89/gallon! The butter, minced garlic, soy milk, and mozarella cheese were all exceptionally good deals I thought. So, I was pretty pleased my first time out and I’ll definitely shop there again when they have good sales!

So that’s all the great bargains I did this week, but I now have one for you! You may have read my “Things I Love Thursday” entry last week where I featured Swagbucks (it’s here). Swagbucks is a fun way to earn prizes just by searching the internet! I use Swagbucks for all my regular Google searches now, and sometimes win bucks which I can then redeem for great prizes! I am saving my SwagBucks up to redeem for some Amazon gift certificates so I can get some books and videos I’ve had my eye on. But there are TONS of prizes to choose from. And now, if you sign up as a new user, we have a special code for Mommin’ It Up readers to get TWO additional SwagBucks! You’ll get 3 for signing up and 2 additional if you enter the code MOMMINITUP (case sensitive) – so you’ll start out with FIVE Swagbucks! Awesome! All you have to do to get started is register here.

Well, that’s all the great saving I did this week. Hopefully I’ll have more next week! To see how everyone else did, check out Shopping Superstars at the Thrifty Mama and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

March 13, 2009

Couponin’ It Up!

This was a week where once again, I two-timed CVS with Walgreens, something which, until LAST week, I hadn’t done for months! But seriously people, I CANNOT pass up practically free diapers! So here is what I got at Wags:

Three Huggies Supreme $10 each
1 Skippy peanut butter $3
Total = $33
Coupons:
Three $5 off Huggies printables
1 $8 RR from last week’s deals
Total with tax = $12.93
Got back 10 Register Rewards for the Huggies!

I used that RR and the 3.49 one I had from last week to buy the Splenda, grape jelly, orange juice, and milk and paid about $1.40 for all that! YAY!

Then I picked up some more Huggies for my friend and reader Gwen who broke her ankle recently. She was lamenting that she wouldn’t be able to get out of the house and get some cheap diapers, and I couldn’t let that happen! Because I??? LOVE my readers!!!

Next, I did of course go to CVS to get some sweet deals there as well. I needed some Garnier hair products to support my new penchant for wavy hair.

3 Garnier hair stylers $10
Palmolive $1.49
Schick Quattro $8.99
Crest $2.99
Batteries BOGO free $5.99
Total = 29.46
Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
three $1 off Garnier manu q’s
three $2 off Garnier Walgreens q’s
$4 off Schick Walgreens q
$1 off Crest manu q
total = $10.46, but the cashier missed one of my $1 off q’s, don’t know which one, but I didn’t make a fuss. I paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.37 cash including tax and got back 13 ECB! Yippee!

Well that’s all for me this week! I am hoping to hit CVS one more time on Saturday to get some of their great trash bags which are on sale but we’ll see. Hope you all did great too! To see how everyone else did, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at the Thirfty Mama.

January 31, 2009

Return to Dew Mountain

So, yesterday I got out of the house FINALLY after the huge snow we had this week, and of course I went straight to CVS. Ok, that’s a lie. First I went to drop off some jeans to get hemmed but ONLY because it’s I have to drive past that shop to get to CVS. Oh, and did I mention my DADDY drove me in his 4-wheel drive? Yes, this CVS run was that important! Can you guess what I got? It wasn’t the most profitable transaction ever, but sometimes you gotta dew what you gotta dew.

Five 12-packs of Mountain Dew $3.34 each = $16.70(I already put on in the fridge when I took this picture. Couldn’t waste any time!)
Four L’eggs pantyhose clearance at $1.25 each! WOOHOO! (Couldn’t pass those up!) $5
Two Gatorade/Propel $1.25 each = $2.50
Tostitos $3
Fusion Gamer razor $7.99
Total = $35.19

I only had two coupons! A Rite Aid $5/$25 and a $4 Fusion q
Total = $26.19
I used 24 ECB and paid $3.05 on a CVS gift card, and got back 14 ECB – 10 for the Pepsi products and 4 for the razor!

AND I GOT MY DEW! 😉

How did YOU dew (I can’t stop myself!) this week? For more couponing adventures, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer or Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.