Saturday, December 22, 2012

Publix

Believe it or not, this is nearly $200.00 worth of groceries.


I paid 46¢, including tax.

How I did it was a lot thanks to the $5/$30+ Target coupon, which most of my local stores take. Since I drive 30 miles, give or take, to the next town to shop, I make a roundabout trip back home that takes me past three more P stores.
At each store I tried to "spend" around $30.00 worth of my list. I'm not too good at it, or I would have figured I really only needed to spend $25.00, and then get $5.00 more worth of something I needed and didn't have a coupon for like the ground beef, chili mixes, pizza fixings, etc.

The vitamins and Whiskas treats gave a good bit of overage this week. My first couple of Mayo's and a few other things gave some overage also.
Visit Iheartpublix.com or Southern Savers to see the match-ups and coupons.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Shopping Day!

First we visited CVS for the diapers and candy. (There were a couple of other deals I had wanted to get in on, but apparently we didn't get those deals here in the ATL-Metro area.)


$9.99 Pampers Dry Diapers
-2.00 Pampers Dry Diapers IP
Pay $7.99, Get $4.00 ECB = $3.99 + tax

$10.00/4 Assorted Hershey's Candy
-2.00/2 Hershey's IP x 2 (Note, go to the page linked and print the coupon 2x from there. After the 2nd print, when the Summary page comes up, wait and it will forward you to another page with another coupon at the top you can print 2x more, for a total of 4.)
-2.50/2 CVS IP (Click on Watch Video to Save $1.00 on Hershey's Kisses)(Watch video, then choose Share to Save More in the little pop-up box.)(Type in YOUR email address and name in the next window.)(Choose to Share on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. I chose Pinterest, and a new Tab opened with the Pin Screen. I went back to the original page and it allowed me to print the coupon, without having actually shared the coupon.)
(You can only use 1 of the CVS coupons per transaction, so if you want to make the deal a moneymaker, do 2 transactions of 2 bags each.)(I did 4 per transaction and used 1 CVS coupon per transaction to make it go farther. In other words, I wanted more candy than profit.)
= Pay $3.50, Get $3.00 ECB = 50¢ for 4 bags of candy
(I was using the $4.00 ECB from the diapers in the 1st candy transactions, so I needed to spend 50¢ more so I bought a 2ltr Dr. Pepper on sale for 88¢.)

Next we headed to Victoria's Secret at the Mall, to spend my "Free Fashion Panty with any Pink Purchase" coupon.


I got a pair of Pink Ruched Boyshort (I think is the correct name of them). These were $10.50, but they had some as low as $8.50.
I had a $10.00 Secret Rewards card to spend, so my Pink panties cost 50¢ + tax, and then the Pink Nation Fashion Panty was Free.

I also shopped at Hallmark, where I bought a Keepsake Ornament, regularly priced $17.95.
I used a $5 off $10 coupon, and then I got a $5.00 off Total Purchase coupon for buying a Keepsake Ornament to use starting Monday, Dec. 10th.
So I paid $12.95 for my Ornament, and get $5.00 worth of something else free next time. Not bad!

We hit up both Staples and Office Max for batteries this week (Just Staples last week because I forgot to go to Office Max, booo!)


At Staples I got the Multi-use Paper with the Free After Rebate Coupon, and (2) packs of 16 ct. Duracell AA & AAA batteries, which are $13.99 each - Free After Rewards.
At Office Max I got (2) packs of 20ct. AA & AAA Duracell batteries, $16.99 each - 1¢ after $16.98 Rewards.

When I buy $100.00 worth of batteries before December 31st, I can send in for the $25.00 Gift Card Rebate.
So I get free batteries, and a free $25.00 Gift Card. Score!

Babies-R-Us is giving a Free Baby's 1st Christmas bib with Coupon. (Take the coupon to the Register for the Bib, they aren't the ones hanging on the Rack.)


Kohl's sent me a $5.00 off $5.00 Purchase coupon in my email. I was able to find this great Teenaged-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle t-shirt on the Clearance rack for $4.00!! I also found a pair of panties on Clearance for $1.80.
After coupon, my total was 80¢ + tax! Score again!



My oldest son is 25, nearly 26 years old, and the TMNT were the huge popular toy when he was a kid. He had all of them, and playsets, and themed birthday parties. This shirt will be right up his alley! 


When you flip up the front of the shirt, a Turtle is looking at you. What a stupid idea for a shirt, LOL!


The back side has a turtle shell.