Something's wrong at HallMart!

 I couldn't resist making a couple more trips out today. 

This is all from Target.  Glade - 49 cents, Aquafresh - $1, Nabisco $1.50 each.  2 of the cat food were free and there was one more before Muffin got it.  ;)

There was also a bag of TGIFriday's Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins before I got to it, lol.

 I spent $17.82 on $34.02 for a savings of 48%.  Would have been better if they had let me use my $2 off 2 Right Guard deodorant Target coupon.  The customer service manager said it had to be the one on the picture and I was using it to get two trial size which the coupon did not say were not allowed. 
Both were priced $1 and would have been free.

I will be calling Target about that tomorrow.  Unless a coupon specifies that you cannot use it for trial size items (and many of my other Target coupons do say "excludes trial/travel size") you *are* allowed to use them for the travel or trial size items. 

 This is Walgreens today.  I bought 6 more of the Suave for 9 1/2 cents a bottle, 4 to donate and 2 for Christian.  I had coupons for the Dial SpeedFoam so each bottle was $1.49.  I got the Ramen as a filler because you have to have at least one item for every coupon and when I was buying the Dial the coupon plus the register reward I used made two coupons.

The Pepsi was again 7 cents for all 4 bottles.

In all I spent $7.72 on $35.18 for a savings of 78%.

Something's wrong at HallMart!

It's starting to look like Big Lots!!

Getting a little crowded in there!

Please, oh please, let my new house have a large pantry or walk in closet or lots of extra storage or a spare bedroom or clean and dry basement or something.....

And I just got the paper and GUESS WHAT!!!!

Albie's is doing double coupons this week!!  EEEEEEEEE!!!!

It's only coupons up to 50 cents and I don't have many but I am soooo excited!!

Til next time....

But.... that's only a penny difference...

 No big shopping trips this week, we don't need it!
LOLOLOL

I did find a couple rockin deals that I wanted to grab while I had the coupons.
Here we go!

General Mills Cereals were $1.88 at CVS this week.  I ad matched at Walmart as I was leaving work and got these 4 using $1 off 2 coupons making each box $1.38!
I had 3 more KoolAid/Kraft BBQ Sauce coupons (buy 2 of the sauce and get $2 off a canister of KoolAid).  I ad matched the Sauce to Fry's 99 cents and the KoolAid to Fry's $1.99 although the cashier said "but... that's only a penny difference..."  to which I replied "yes".  Basically I made a penny on each KoolAid.

The Almay Eye Makeup Removers were $1.14 each.  I used 5 $1 off coupons for any Almay remover making each one only 14 cents!

For all of this I paid $13.01 for $29.54 worth of merchandise.  A 56% savings which is super high for Walmart!!

 After leaving work, I went to two CVSs to get all of this.  I got 4 boxes of cereal at each CVS and one of the .... what is that crap called ... Electro Nyte Rehydration Shot.  It's supposedly some kind of hangover cure and it is free this week at CVS.  Ordinarily I would have passed on it as I don't drink, but it just so happened that I had just had a conversation with my boss on that subject so I got it for her kinda as a joke... kinda not.  LOL
Anyway, as I had two $4 CVS extrabux I only spent $4.20 total at CVS last night.

 Then I went to CVS again today.  I got 4 more boxes of cereal and these three pepperoni/cheese things on clearance for 50 cents each and spent $7.17 for all of it.

In all I spent $11.37 at CVS on $65.37 worth of merchandise for a savings of 83%.

A funny side story... the CVS I went to today has a manager that has come to know me.  Today while looking for the cereal, I found 5 boxes of Cinnamon Cheerios that were out of date so I pulled them and took them to him.
I was trying to be helpful but I think I embarrassed him.  Poor guy.  I really meant well, I'm in retail for cripes sake.  Crap happens.  I thought he was lucky it was me that found them. 

After CVS last night, I went to one Walgreens.  Suave is on a sale wherein you get $2 register rewards if you buy 2.  I bought 8.  Two at a time to make sure I got 4 $2 register rewards.  I basically paid 9 1/2 cents per bottle.  I kept a couple that I knew my son would use but the rest went into my "donate to the teen shelter" pile.  I plan on getting more later this week, IF I can still find it.  

The gum was 3 for $2 using a coupon on the back of this week's circular.  I bought 6 and used 3 50cents off two coupons making the sale more like 6 for $2.50 making them about 42 cents a pack.  This is a great addition to the gum stockpile I have for my kids!  (I don't chew gum because I tend to bite myself.  Don't Judge!)

This morning, I went back to Walgreens to get Pepsi which was on sale with the coupon in the circular for 4/$4.  I used two of my register rewards from last night and paid 7 cents for the four two-liter bottles! 

All 6 of these Walgreen's transactions cost me $11.40 on $24.60 worth of merchandise.  When I was going over my receipts I was disappointed that my savings percentage was low but then I remembered that I still have $4 in register rewards left meaning that I basically paid only $7.40 and now my percentage is 70%!

And lastly, I also went to Target today.  I had my last, about to expire, $2.25 off any Nivea men's facial care product coupon.  To stack it with, Target blessed me with another $2 off any Nivea men's facial care product mobile coupon.  This meant that the $4.89 Nivea only cost me 64 cents.  The glade was also a coupon stacking deal.  It was $2.99, I had a $2 manufacturer coupon and a 50 cent target coupon so it cost 49 cents.  With tax I paid $1.76 at Target which was a 78% savings!

All shopping trips saved me $89.85 on $127.39 worth of product, a 71% savings!!

I still have another set of coupons for the glade, a bunch of Right Guard coupons to stack with Target coupons, more Suave, free toothpaste (hopefully *cross fingers*) to get later this week.  Plus I am eagerly awaiting the grocery store circulars which come tomorrow to see what great deals I can get at Albies and Fry's.

Til next time....

Current Stockpile & Turquoise Nails

 I redid my hall closet this morning to accommodate all my recent purchases.  I was going to crack out my circular saw (which is still sitting new in its box) and build some shelves but then I got to thinking...

... the goal is to be out of Arizona in the next couple/few months.  If I build shelves in there, it's yet another thing I either leave or tear down and patch up.  As I may not be here to oversee the patching up when my house is packed and moved, I figured maybe putting in some movable shelves was a better choice.

So in went the plastic shelving unit and on went all my *stuff*.
I'm a little disappointed that the photo doesn't show everything in all it's glory.  You can't see the razors and toothbrush section or tell that there are 22 boxes of cereal but they are there.  It's mostly the angle, but that was the best I could do in the cramped hallway.


My last couple of manicures have been pretty bland.   I seem to be on a turquoise kick, completely unintentionally.  Before I did my nails today, I put the last two colors I used on my middle and ring finger and then did my index finger as I intended to do my nails today.   On the left you see my 69 cent Sally HD Spectrum, middle is Sally Blizzard Blue and as of today all my nails are what you see on the right - Revlon Radiant with a Wet n Wild White Creme base.  With work being so crazy of late, I simply have not had time to do anything major.  Maybe this week.

Wish me luck.  Big things tomorrow and that's all I want to say about it right now.

Til next time...

These coupons say "one per purchase" ma'am

 It's been a few days since I last posted but I have been shopping.  We had inventory at work on Tuesday and what that translated to for me is a lot of extra hours at work and a lot of pain and sleepless nights.

I've been positively exhausted and just too run down, or maybe it was run over by a truck, to spend time on here but that doesn't mean that I'm not totally stoked by some of my recent purchases.

Last week I went to Fry's, Albertson's, Walmart, CVS and Walgreens.  I spent $255 on $584 worth of merchandise for a 56% savings.

These Tampax I got at Walgreens for a total of $4! 

The pasta was on sale for 10 for $10 at Albertson's.

The Watermelon's are from Fry's.  I had a coupon for them which is rare for produce.  Since they were 2 for $3, I got them for 85 cents each.

Had a great coupon for the Hot Pocket Snackers so they wound up being 80 cents each.

The Takis were free!  Sent them to my niece's boyfriend.

 Both Walgreens and CVS have clearance makeup right now.  I got the Cover Girl blush for just over a dollar, the Wet n Wild lip gloss was free, so were the hair clips which I sent to my niece.  The razors were $1.40 each after coupons and register rewards at Walgreens.  The Covergirl mascara was $1.45 each after coupons.  The toothpaste was free and the hairband (under the gloss, blush, toothpaste) was free as well. 

 I picked up two blood glucose monitors at CVS.  Don't need them, but I figure they will be good to donate.  Both were a $19.99 value, both were free!

 This was my entire shopping trip last week.  I picked up all the cereal for $1.20 a box.

Sidenote - I now have 34 boxes of cereal in the house.  Tomorrow we are building shelves in the hall closet to store my stockpile.

I got 4 bottles of Pantene for $1.50 each and 4 Garnier products for 98 cents each. 

This is one of my favorites.  This Sally Hansen HD is originally $7.99.  Both CVS and Walgreen's have it on clearance for $1.69 so with my $1 coupon was .... a killer freakin deal!!!

 This is today's trips.
Smart Balance butter, First Aid bag, 8 bottles of Tresemme shampoo, gallon of milk, all the white Kotex - all of them FREE!  There was also a canister of KoolAid I got free but I think it got put away before the photo.

Haribo candy - 70 cents each!  The ThermaCare - $1 each!!!  Gum, IHOP meals, ProFusion razors and cartridges, Rimmel mascara - $1 each! 

 This is my favorite from today.

I had some $2 coupons for Magnum but figured I wouldn't find a sale in which to use them.  They expire soon and I nearly tossed them yesterday.

But then the paper came and in the Albertson's ad I saw this deal: buy 8 of the mix-n-match items and save $4 at the register.  This meant that each item would get a 50 cent deduction at the time of the discount.

The Magnums were on sale for $2.99.  Minus 50 cents for the mix/match deal, minus my $2 coupon off each =
o. m. g. they were 49 cents each!!!!

I finished off the Kotex coupons I had today.  I now have 28 packages ready to be donated to the teen shelter here in town.

I built Scar a little castle out of the boxes but she knocked it down.  She is Queen of the Kotex, lol!

And I'll end with a little lesson in couponing:

When a coupon says "one coupon per purchase" it does not mean that you must use one coupon, pay for your stuff, put more on the belt, pay for that, put more on the belt, pay for that, etc.

I had 5 coupons for the Kotex today, meaning that I bought 10 boxes.  I have had a problem with this Walmart every time I go in there.  Today, I had to run my debit card 5 times to buy them; once for $38 plus, then four times for six cents.  Rediculous.

Why?  Because they saw that the coupon said "one per purchase".  I hate going in there to be made to feel like a criminal.  Then the CSM said "well, all the extreme couponers try to take advantage of us.  They get the wrong sizes and try to pull one over on us."

Um, hello?  You are talking to a woman with an extremely large, bright pink binder full of coupons that you can't help but see.  Then I got to hear all about how the cashier couldn't afford to mess up because "one more and he's gone."

wtf

When the CSM left, the kid told me that he had gotten written up for taking care of a customer.  I told him to call our market manager.

I know I have a lot of Walmart friends and who knows how many of you read this, but I am begging you to learn the coupon policy.  Please don't treat us like shoplifters because the resounding majority of us are grateful for the opportunity to use our coupons and don't want to do anything to jeopardize that privilege.

And also, purchase refers to an item (or two or three  depending on the coupon) not a transaction.

Thanks for listening.

Til next time....

Nails - Zip it Up!

This is a prime example of what has been going on lately with my nails.  A great idea that I just wasn't able to pull off in the end.

Sally Hansen's Blue Lagoon with Wet & Wild Black Creme zipper stamped on top.  Yes, the little notches at the top were planned.

Now back to kickin ass on Mario Cart....

June 1st, New Month, New Coupons!

This morning I woke up to find new coupons at coupons.com and couponnetwork.com which included some great FREEBIES!!!

A lot of the deals were for Walmart, so after a session with my printer and a shower (lol) we were on our way.

Let's start with the milk... I ad-matched to $1.57 at Fry's (which is our local Kroger store) and one of the coupons I found through my blogs was for $1 off Oreos when you buy a gallon of milk.  The shelf label was $2.28 but it scanned $2.98 so I made sure I got it for the $2.28.  The coupon should still be available through Nabisco's facebook so you can get your own as of this writing.

The lightbulbs were another find through cuckooforcoupondeals.com that was a killer deal.  Marked at $2.43 a box they were less than a dollar for both packages with my $2 off coupons from coupons.com !

The barbeque sauce was on clearance for 75 cents and had I printed the Sweet Baby Ray's coupon out last week, I probably could have gotten it for much less.  Lesson learned: If I will use it all, I need to get the coupon, add it to my binder and wait for a sale.  "Always be prepared" is the Boy Scout's motto but also applies to couponers!  LOL

Okay, now for the best part....
See all the Kotex?   The black ones cost me 24 cents a box and the white ones cost me.... drumroll please.... I made money on those!!!!  I made 36 cents by purchasing all 6 boxes.  For all the Kotex, I had $2 off 2 coupons, meaning that by buying the smaller packs (94 cents for the white and $1.24 for the black) I only paid $1.44 for all of them!  That's almost like buying one and getting 11 FREE!!!!

After a go-round with the cashier who said she couldn't take printed coupons (grrrrr "Wrong, Sweetie") I only paid $8.90 for $29 worth of merchandise which is a 69% savings!!  Woot Woot!!

Looking forward to all the CVS sales in the coming week!  50 cent Starbucks Refreshers, Venus razors for $1.45, 99cent mouthwash, another free toothbrush, free Speedstick.........
... til next time

Farmer John Bacon! Go Me!

Muffin checking out the popsicles

Starting last night, right after I got off work, I began shopping!  All stops, yesterday's and today's, have netted me $144 in merchandise for just $65!!

First stop, Walmart.
I ad matched the Cherrios to Kroger's (Fry's) price at $1.66 and used my collection of 50 cent off coupons to pay $1.16 for each box.   I also ad matched the milk to Kroger's price of $1.57.  The Hot Pocket snackers were on sale for $2.40 and I used my $1.10 off 2 coupon to get them for $1.85 each.  The Jello's (on top of the Cherrios) were on Rollback for $2 and I used two coupons for $1.10 off so I got them for 90 cents each.  I saved $9 by ad matching and my coupons.

This morning, after spending some time checking my coupon sites and following up on the couponing blogs I read, we hit Walgreen's, CVS, Albertson's, Fry's (which is the name of the Kroger stores here) and Target.

At Walgreen's, I picked up three more of the First Aid Cream (all three FREE after Register Rewards), the Wet n Wild nail polish (buy 2 get one free), the Irish Spring deoderant which was on clearance and gave me a $3 register reward so I got both of them for 50 cents each.  I also got 14 more Arizona Teas for 50 cents each.  I spent $19.03 on $60.85 worth of merchandise.

I went into CVS to take advantage of the Crest money-making deal.  (Buy Crest toothpaste for $2.87 and get extra bucks of $3.  My store didn't have the Crest though.  Boo.  BUT- silver lining time!  When I scanned my CVS card I got a second $1 off any toothbrush coupon so I bought the fourth toothbrush in less than a week for 18 cents and got another $2 extrabucks for next week!!  Colgate toothbrushes are on sale for $2.99, add my dollar off and add in the extrabucks I got for purchasing it and voila!  4 toothbrushes in less than a week for a total of under a dollar!! 

Then we went to Fry's.  This is what's frustrating, Kroger owns Fry's.  MOST of Kroger's ad prices are also Fry's ads and prices.  Only when I really want something do I ever find a difference.  Like today.  I had two coupons for a dollar off two Hormel Chili.  Kroger's sale price is 89 cents, that's 39 cents a can.  So of course... no Hormel sale at Fry's.  I did pick up a package of King Hawaiian rolls for $1.03 though so all was not lost.

Off to Target.  I had printed this morning 4 coupons for a dollar off Pure Leaf tea, sale price $1.  Our Target is currently getting remodeled and they didn't have the tea.  Dang.  Coupon is good 'til October though so hanging on to it.  They did have Ken's dressing on sale so I got two with my $1/2 coupon which wound up being an even better deal when they mistakenly put the wrong price on the larger size of Honey Mustard.

Then the big one of the day, Albertson's.  They had a 10/$10 sale and I picked up 6 Hamburger Helper (I also had two $1/3 coupons), two boxes of popsicles, a pack of hot dogs and a carton of eggs on that sale.  I also happened to find Kool-aid on clearance for $2.80 for a large canister of mix, so I used my Buy two Kraft bbq sauce and get $2 off kool-aid coupon.  I also found Caramel Milky Ways for 75 cents and bought four with my buy-one-get-one coupons making them 39 cents each.  Then I found an instore coupon for free eggs when you buy Farmer John bacon.  I've been carrying around this Farmer John bacon coupon for a while figuring I wouldn't use it but when you couple that with the free eggs it was worth it so SCORE!!!

In all, I saved $78.78!! A 55% savings average for all trips!!! Go Me!!!