Coupon Shopping with Mom

So my time here in Yuma is coming to a close.  This time next week, I will be staging the boxes, suitcases, etc that I will be loading in the car next Friday morning.  I am super nervous about this move.  Primarily, it is that I have no place to stay yet when I get there, I am worried about something going wrong along the way, I don't want to be by myself, without my family, without my pets, etc.  For those of you reading this, please do me a favor...
Please think of me, please send me some positive thoughts as I make this journey.  I'd appreciate it and I'll do the same for you if you ever need it, okay?

My mom came for a couple days and went coupon shopping with me.  I got her CVS card set up on the CVS Beauty Club and showed her how to scan her card multiple times to get all the coupons at the Red Machine.  I found out, well I knew but finally tried it, that you can print your CVS Red Machine coupons at home on your computer so KEWL!  No more after work trips only to scan my card now!

This was my mother's coupon purchases.  I did Harbor Freight for the first time.  I had seen their Free Item coupons in their ads but I had never taken them up on it before.  This time I saw that there was a free flashlight to be had and I want one for my trip so off we went.  Mom got a flag (on sale for $6) and a free flashlight and the Candy was all from Walgreen's.  Milky Ways were 9 cents with the coupon from coupons.com.

This is my Walgreen's purchase from that day.  The tuna is on sale for 79 cents with an in-ad coupon.  I almost bought the 88 cent tuna last week at CVS so I'm glad I saw this sale on iheartwags.com and waited.
I had $1 off Wonderful pistachio coupons so with their sale these were $1.99 each.  The Right Guard were all free with $1 off coupons from coupons.com and Register Rewards.  ZzzQuil was $1.99 after Register Reward and coupon.  Milky Ways (16 of them) were 9 cents each with $1/2 coupon from coupons.com (wish I'd have waited for CVS this week as they are 2/$1).  The body wash I have been waiting for a sale, I love the scent and didn't have a coupon.  The Coke were 3/$10.  My receipts disappeared somewhere, I think my son threw them away, but I spent about $22 for all of this.

This was my first (yeah "first") trip to CVS.  Starbuck's Refreshers are FREE this week after ECB.  The Crest cost me 24 cents each after ECB and coupons.  The Revlon was 99 cents after ECB and coupon.

This is my purchases from Harbor Freight.  My daughter did the first transaction and bought the screwdrivers and safety glasses.  Total cost?  86 cents.  We used a coupon they have in their ad for the screwdrivers for free and one for the glasses for 79 cents.
I bought the electrical tape and flashlight.  Flashlight was free with coupon and I used a 20% off any regularly priced item on the electrical tape.  My total was 44 cents.
Altogether, all of this was $1.30 which is less than the glasses are regularly!

I went to CVS 3 times this week.  The Milky Way coupon kept resetting, so I kept printing out more.  It was 75 cents off 2 instead of a dollar but still a great deal.  Also, the Red Machine gods are bestowing their love upon us this week in the form of multiple $1 off 2 Mars candy bar coupons making them FREE!

My freezer is full of candy.  I know my kids though, they will get sick of them and there will be a ton left that they wind up moving to Wisconsin.  Which since they will (hopefully) be there right before Halloween, could come in handy. 

Arizona drinks are $1 for 2 this week.

One of my CVS trips missed its' photo op.  :(

 These two photos are from Walmart.

There is a coupon for these Dial SpeedFoam body washes on target.com for $1 off.
Oddly, they are on clearance at Walmart right now for $1.50.  Strange, because they are fairly new.  With my $1 off coupon, I paid 50 cents each.

The Stayfree were free after ad-matching Walgreen's $1.99 and the $2 coupon from the paper a couple weeks ago.

My cosmetics Department Manager got more of my Almay in so I picked up 12 more.  I told him I was wiping him out again and he said "I don't care.  I have 18 more coming!"  LOLOL
With my $1 off coupons they were 14 cents each.

I also got a coupon from ecotools.com for $1 off any product.  If you go to their website and sign up for their newletter/club thing they will email you a coupon within about 24 hours.  Three of us did this and I was able to print the coupons twice each.  The eco-tools bath poufs are 87 cents each so that made all six of them 13 cent moneymakers!!
This entire transaction was 61 cents!!!

Next up is my absolute favorite of the week, though.  I am super stoked about this one!!!

I found some great coupons at target.com this week!  First, they have Buy One Get One Free coupons for Glade twin pack oil warmer refills.  Stacking this with my BOGO manufacturer coupons netted me 2 free twin packs in each of three Target trips this week.

The Covergirl eyeshadow was a great deal also.  The blue one was on clearance for  $2.18 so with one of my $2 off coupons I paid 18 cents for it.

 The other two Covergirl were I think 64 cents after using a $2 off 2 mobile Target coupon and a $3 off 2 manufacturer's coupon.

For those of you that don't know, you can get Target coupons sent to you via text on your smartphone.  Just text OFFERS to 827438 and they will begin sending you the text at a time of your choosing.  Occasionally, there are other offers as well.  This week you could text "dragon", "honey" or "teamusa" to the same number to get Pepsi or Coke and other coupons.  The cashier just scans the bar code on your phone.

I also found, on target.com , $1 off Papermate pen coupons.  These are on sale for $1 this week so FREE!!!

I also found an ap for my phone this week called Shopkick.  There are several stores on Shopkick and Target is one of them.  If you turn on the ap in some of these stores you can earn points.  You can also earn points for scanning certain items in the stores.  "What's the point?" you may be asking.

Well, the really awesome part is that Shopkick also has coupons for some of these stores, of which Target is one.  The Market Pantry Strawberries up there... I used a $1.50 off coupon from Shopkick on those.  Just like the Target mobile coupons, the cashier just scans the barcode from Shopkick off of your phone.  But that's not even the best part.  Those points I was talking about... you can trade them in for gift cards!  In two trips to Target I had over 500 points.  They weren't hard to get and didn't take much time and those 500 points are worth $2.  Which doesn't sound like a lot but money is money, right?
You can even donate your Shopkicks points, which are called "kicks" by the way, to charities like Feeding America.

That wraps up this week.  I'm not doing a lot next week except some Olay that's on sale.

Til next time...

We tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk.  It didn't "fry" so much as "congeal".