CVS + Frys 5/28

I made TWO shopping trips tonight.  No pictures this time, just trying to hurry and explain my deals and then catch some Zzzzzzz's as the Monkey will be awake by 7am. :-)

CVS

1 Revlon "PhotoReady" concealer--$10.99
2 Scott 12-pack toilet paper (1257 sq. ft each)--$6.99 each
1 Preparation H 10-count individual wipes--$3.99

I paid a TOTAL of $10.43, and have $4 ECB's in my pocket for next time.  Here's how I did it:

First transaction:  Bought the preparation-H wipes.  Ahem.  :::awkward pause:::  Actually, I bought them because I literally got PAID $2 to take them out of the store.  They cost $3.99, but there was a special where you got $3.99 in Extra Care Bucks at the end of the transaction, so essentially free.  I used a $2 coupon specifically for preparation-H wipes that I printed online, PLUS I had $2 in ECB's from a purchase last month.  So I paid a total of 18 CENTS, and then got $3.99 in ECB's.  So basically I made $2, because the $2 ECB that I used to buy them turned into $4 ECB's at the end.   So did I *need* to buy them? No.  Did they lower the price of my toilet paper?  Absolutely.  (I can see it now: "Buy Preparation-H wipes, lower your cost of toilet paper!"  Hahahaha, what an ad!  Lol, maybe I'm the only one laughing...)

Second transaction:  Bought the 2 Scott toilet papers and the Revlon concealer, using a $1/1 Scott coupon and $2/1 Revlon coupon.  I also used the $3.99 ECB's from transaction #1, plus a $4 off a $20 purchase and a $5 off a $15 purchase.  Thus my total for transaction #2 was $10.43.  I also earned $4 in ECB's for next time because I spent $10 on Revlon products.  So if you want to be really accurate, I could say I spent $6.43 total.

But even just going with the total of $10.43, AND supposing I paid that for the toilet paper alone, that's still less than half a penny per square foot of toilet paper.  And a good "stock-up" price is considered a penny per square foot.  So I got a smokin' deal (plus some prep-h wipes and concealer, lol!)!!

Phew!  Now onto frys...

FRYS

3 Wishbone salad dressings (19 cents each!)
3 Heinz catsups (40oz ea)
1 Land O'Lakes dozen eggs
5 packages Oscar Meyer beef hot dogs (FREE!)
1 Blue Bunny ice cream
1 bag Ore Ida sweet potato fries (FREE!)
3 cans Skintimate 7oz shaving cream
6 Yoplait greek yogurt (clearance for 49 cents, FREE after coupons!)
2 Kroger 16oz cottage cheese
1 gallon Milk
2 Suave lotion 18oz
2 Pantene shampoo/conditioner
1 Carefree 22-count pantyliner (FREE!)
5 Stayfree pads (14 to 18 count)
4 Kotex pads (18? count)
1 small Suave deodorant (FREE!)
4 Excedrin Extra Strength (24 count)

Total paid: $33.21
Total saved: $73.58 (71%)

And once again, my full savings is not displayed here because I used some "other store" coupons and the items were manually entered at that price rather than scanning at full price and showing the savings on the receipt.  But even so, I still saved more than 70%!  Yaaaay!  :-D

THE END.

Frys 5/22

This Week's Steals

9lbs of chicken breasts ( three ~3lb packages)
4 packages Farmer John Bacon
6 Pillsbury Grands Biscuits
20 Yoplait yogurts
3 Lawry's marinades
5 Colgate toothpastes (more than FREE!)
5 Colgate toothbrushes (more than FREE!)
2 pkgs Huggies wipes
3 Zone Perfect bars (FREE!)
2 Butterfinger candy bars (FREE!)
1 Gerber 2-pack baby food (on the clearance rack...doesn't expire until september, lol!)
2 Loreal lip gloss (on clearance rack PLUS I had coupons for each!)
2 pkgs Mission tortillas (no coupon)
1 gallon milk
1 dozen eggs
5 bananas

Total paid: $29.07
Total saved: $92.29 (76%)

I'm pretty tickled with that savings!  Especially considering I didn't have coupons for the tortillas, eggs, banans, milk, or chicken (which was $15 alone!)!!  I figured it out, and withOUT coupons, I could have bought the chicken, milk, eggs, bananas and bacon for the same price I paid for ALL of it.  OH! And I got PAID to "buy" all of the Colgate items.  They were on sale for 88 cents each, and I had a coupon for each of them worth $1...so I made 12 cents on each of them. Sweet!

And I'm making these tomorrow for the freezer.  Only I'm using bacon instead of ham (same thing, right? lol).

Last day of...

...the first half of my twenties!!  In a little less than 90 minutes I will be 25 years old!!  Okay, so I wasn't born until 2:45ish pm, but let's not get too technical. :-P

A quarter century old.  That kinda makes it sound old.  Makes me FEEL older too, but not necessarily in a bad way.  You know how at least one person asks you every year "so do you feel any different/older?"  The answer to that is usually no.  This year it does feel a little different.  Twenty-five kinda feels like a milestone.  I don't know why.  Eighteen kinda felt different (sorta).  Twenty-one didn't matter.  And every time someone asks me how old I am I have to catch myself from saying "22".  Yes, that's how far behind I am, lol! 

I dunno, maybe it's the Mom thing.  That alone makes me feel a little older, but again not in a bad way...just in an accomplishment sort of way.  Turning 25 kinda feels the same as when I made it to 30 weeks pregnant.  No, I don't mean I feel 30 weeks pregnant (HA!), I just mean that when I got to that point I felt like I was actually getting somewhere, lol! 

Bring on the next 25 years!! :-D

So tomorrow I will be 25, and this little girl will be 8 months old.  I know, I can't believe it!!    

Frys 5/15

Aaaaaaand, I did it again. :-D 

Got 4 newspapers at Dollar Tree today (plus the 1 in our driveway, plus the 1 from Scott's parents...thanks!) and made up my grocery list...

This time the picture first...

Everything

 From left to right:
3 Trop50 Orange juice (59oz each)
1 Sunny D
5 Totinos party pizzas
2 Bagelfuls boxes
1 RedBaron Singles pizzas
2 packages chicken breasts (buy 1 get one free, so $6.09 for both)
1 Gillette for men bodywash
1 Nivea lotion
3 packages Huggies wipes
6 Butterfinger candy bars
3 50ft rolls Reynolds Aluminum Foil
1 22ct pkg Carefree pantyliners
5 boxes Ronzoni Garden pasta (3 boxes spiral pasta, 2 boxes fettuccini)
3 boxes Hamburger Helper
2 Pillsbury Grands biscuits
2 Dannon greek yogurt
2 bags Boulder chips

What I spent: $24.70
What I saved: $60.18 (72%)

My percentage saved should be even higher, though, because I used two coupons for almost every item: a competitor store coupon AND a manufacturer coupon.  The cashier had to enter the price of the competitor coupon by hand.  For example, the Trop50 orange juce was $3.49 at Frys, but the Albertsons flyer had a store coupon for $1.99, which Frys honors.  So instead of ringing it up at $3.49 and then showing my discount of $1.50, the cashier rang it up at $1.99 by hand to start with.  So the savings from that coupon and all the others like it are not shown.  (THEN I added a $2/3 manufacturers coupon on top of it, so I got the 3 jugs of juice for $4 total). 

And here are the totally FREE items!!

FREE!!!

Sales plus coupons made all of these items free. I put the wipes and the chicken in this picture because they were essentially free.  I used $8 worth of Fresh and Easy coupons ($5 off a $25 purchase + a $3 off a $30 purchase), and the chicken + the wipes cost a little under $8, therefore I'm counting them as free.

And Frys was out of the other kind of Nivea lotion that I was supposed to get for free, so I got a raincheck (this time the raincheck IS worth it!).

So yeah.  43 items...all of which we will use...for less than 25 dollars.  I'd say I earned back the cost of my newspapers PLUS some.  I win!

(I know I know, most of you don't care about this stuff...you just want baby pictures!!!  They're coming!!)

Frys + Target

Scored some more great deals tonight using a few coupons that expired today. 
 

The Loot

Frys:
4 packs Huggies baby wipes
1 3-pack of Ivory bar soap
1 Infant toothbrush
What I paid: $6.79 (including tax)
What I saved: $6.55 (52%)

Target:
6 Nivea bodywash
2 bags Hershey's Bliss chocolates (on clearance!)
What I paid: $5.28 (including tax)
What I saved: $26.30

The Nivea bodywash would have been free at Frys, but both of the Frys by me were completely out of stock, and since my coupons expired today I went ahead and shelled out (HAHA) the $0.19 a bottle at Target. :-P

 

Grocery Game Fun!

I FINALLY got started on my couponing and Grocery Game again!!  I've spent the last few weeks resurrecting my coupon binder (with several improvements!), and went on my first shopping trip tonight after Avi was in bed.

Here's what I got:
15 bags Quakes rice snacks
8 boxes Rice Krispies (for making rice krispy treats, yum!)
8 Pure Protein bars
8 Power Bars (4 were FREE!)
6 boxes CapNCrunch
6 Dannon Greek yogurts
5 Garnier Fructis shampoos and conditioners
5 Garnier Fructis styling products (3 hairspray, 2 mousse)
4 Nivea mens shaving cream
4 pounds 93% lean ground beef (no coupon, just on sale)
3 Desitin diaper cream (2oz tubes)
3 Johnson & Johnson baby oil gel
2 Laughing Cow cheese wheels
2 French's mustard
1 KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce
1 Silk Chocolate Almondmilk
1 Frank's Red Hot sauce (FREE!)
1 Nivea women's bodywash (FREE!)
1 Sally Hansen nailpolish (shiny silver, lol!)
1 Halls coughdrops
1 Mentos 15 piece gum (FREE!)
1 bag Boulder BBQ chips
1 box Uncle Ben's rice
1 Yakisoba noodle meal (FREE!)
1 bag American Beauty shell pasta (FREE!)
1 Philadelphia cooking 'creme'
1 Kraft Mayo

Total spent: $89.17
Total saved: $187.60
Which is 68%!!!  

Not my best ever, but not too shabby!  Several of the items I was going to get for free were out of stock.  I wanted to get 7 more Nivea body wash, several toothbrushes, listerine pocket packs, Sunny D, and a few other things.  I could have gotten rainchecks I suppose, but that's a pain.  SO since I wasn't able to get these items, that drove my "percent saved" down.  Oh well.

Overall, my first shopping trip back-in-the-game = SUCCESS!

The spread...