Do You Like Kashi Products?

Awesome trip to CVS today to score a great deal on Koshi products(which are a healthier choice which is good since my husband and I are working hard at the gym to get in shape) I also got a great deal on deoderant and Betty Crocker Warm Sensations....

I paid a total of $7.97 OOP for the above items. I received $5 back in ECB for the Dove Deoderant so it was like getting all of the above items for $2.97...what a deal......

7 Bx of Kashi Cereal(glad I went early this is all they had left would have had to get raincheck)

1 Bx of Kashi TLC Bars

1 Bx of Kashi Crackers

4 Men's Degree deoderant

2 Women's Dove Deoderant

2 Betty Crocker Warm Delights

Total Retail Price: $71.13

Used $29 in Manufacturer Coupons

Used $7 in ECB from previous visit

Minus $28.27 sale price on items

Savings of 90%....I just absolutely love CVS!!!!

Do not pay the horrific cost of Razor Cartridge Refills

I cannot believe what they want to charge for razor cartridge refills...for the Gillette Fusion Razor it typically will run over $14 for a 4pk of cartridge refills...no let me tell you what I paid for the above 2 brand new razors that include a refill cartridge so you get the same amount of blades that you get with the 4pk refill.

Razors on sale for $7 each. Target had a gift card special if you buy 2 Gillette Fusion Razors you get a $5 dollar gift card. So even just at this if you paid $14 out of pocket for each razor and then took away the gift card you got back I would have paid a total of $9 out of pocket which is less than the cost of a 4 pk refill. But I did not even pay $14 out of pocket for the above...here is actually what I paid.

2 Razors $14

minus $8 used (2) $4/1 coupons from P&G insert

Total Cost of the Razors: $6.00

Tax: .63

Total OOP: $6.63

But remember that I pocketed the $5 gift card that is pictured above so when you take that away the total it cost me was actually $1.63 of which .63 cents was tax so I paid $1 for 4 blades that would have cost me $14 in the refill pack.....now that is what I call awesome savings....at 73% savings on the deal I did today...compared to what I would have paid if I had paid $14 for a 4pk refill it is a 93% savings.....I am constantly looking for these kind of deals so that I don't have gulp as I go to the register and pay $14 for 4 razor blades......

Publix Trip 3-5-2010

Publix Trip on 3-5-2010

I did not do as well as I would like but I needed(which is a problem) a couple of things that were not on sale and I did not have coupons for them but still saved 51%

Total Retail price: $103.26

-$28.63 in Special Savings

-$24.64 in coupons

(total savings of $53.27)

Total OOP: $49.09

It is still a good day when you saved more than you spent.....here is what is pictured above

1 Smuckers Uncrustable sandwiches

20 Dannon Yogurts

1 Northern 12 Pk Toilet Paper

2 Thomas English Muffins

1 Naked Juice

2 Quaker Instant Oatmeal

2 Nabisco Ritz Crackers

2 Aunt Jemimah Syrup

1 30ct Zyrtec Allergy medicine

2 Weight Watchers Ice Cream Bars

2 Jello Puddings

2 Lunchable Subs

1 Coffee Filter

1 Dishwasher Liguid

1 Loaf of Publix Bread

It is still quiet a bit of stuff for under $50.............

Really Cheap Milk at CVS!!!!!!

Okay I cannot believe the SWEET deal I got on milk today at CVS!!! I went there thinking I was going to be getting a cheap deal on milk because CVS had TG Lee milk this week for $2.19 a gallon with your CVS ExtraCare Card...which is a decent price on milk but I was able to snag a couple of $1/1 coupons from the internet so I am thinking this is really a good price because it would make the milke $1.19 a gallon......and the way our family drinks milk I wish I had a couple more of those dollar off coupons but what I did not expect to happen is what happened when I checked out........I got $2 back in ExtraCare bucks for my 2 gallons of milk so that basically means I paid .19 cents each for a  gallon of milk......

NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL A SUPER DEAL!!!!!

Free Purex!!!!!!!

Who said nothing in life is free.....today at Walgreens I snagged 4 bottles of Laundry detergent completely free(well ok I had to pay tax...lol) Walgreens has Purex on sale for B1G1 free and I had 2 Manufacturer coupons that were B1G1 so guess what? Yep the only ones for them to give me for free were the 2 I had paid for so I got all 4 of them for FREE!!! I picked up a couple of big hershey's bars....we love chocolate at our house....and a couple of packs of Orbit gum. I paid a total of $2.96 for the above items........I saved 91%

Shopping Trip to Publix.....including items for Buckets of Hope for Haiti

There are 2 reasons for the fact that I have 2 pictures on this post. For one there was too much to fit in one picture very well and the other thing is the 2nd picture is actually of items that I bought for the Buckets of Hope for Haiti campaign that our church is participating in. I did not have any coupons for these items. They totaled $24.12 the pasta was buy one get on free so this total includes only 1 of the pastas. So when I do my totals below I will take this out because this was a separate thing I purchased to give away and knew I did not have coupons for the items. Today I spent $39.66 and saved $83.10 which was a 68% savings. I used a $10/$50 CVS coupon......I love these they really help you bring your total down quickly....Even if you add the items I bought for the Buckets of Hope back in it would equate to a 57% savings which is not bad either...... I listed below what I got(not including the items in the 2nd picture)

4 Jars of Classico Pasta Sauce

8 Cans of Progresso Soup

4 Coffee Mate Liquid Creamers(got a sweet deal on these...had (4) $1/1 Food Lion coupons and (2) .50/1 manufacturer coupons the cost of these were 3/$5(or$1.67 ea) well I had $5 in coupons so I got all 4 of these creamers for $1.67 so it was like getting 3 free and we use a lot of creamer at our house so this was a really sweet deal.....

3 Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls

6 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

2 Coles Breadsticks

4 Mueller's Whole Wheat Pasta

2 Rubbermaid Easy Find Produce Containers

2 Green Giant Frozen Boxed Vegis

8 Cans of Green Giant Vegis

1 Gallon of Milk

1 5lb Bag of Sugar

3 pkgs of Ground Sirloin Hamburger meat

1 Dz Large Eggs

Total Retail : $122.76

Vendor and Store Coupons Used: $39.25

Total Special Price savings(B1G1): $43.85

Total OOP: $39.66

The totals with the items from Buckets of Hope for Haiti included

Total Retail: $148.17

Vendor and Store Coupons Used: $39.25

Total Special Price savings(B1G1): $45.14

Total OOP: $63.78

It feels really good to give to others!!!!

Target Trip 2-13-2010

Do you love Target Gift Card deals as much as I do.....

It looks like there are lots of folks out there that do because I was not able to use my 2 $4/1 Gillette Fusion Razor Coupons because they were completely out of them when I went to Target today. I was able to get a couple of other gift cards with the Venus Embrace Razor and the Quaker products.

Here is what I did

(2) Venus Embrace Razors (6.99 ea) $13.98

(2) Olay Body Washes (5.49 ea) $10.98

(5) Boxes Quaker Instant Oatmeal(2.54 ea) $12.70

(1) Gilette Fusion 4ct Razor refill $15.49

Total Retail Value: $53.15

Coupons Used:

-$5 (5)$1/1 Quaker Oatmeal Coupons

-$4 (2) $2/1 Venus Embrace Coupons

-$10.98 (2) Free Olay Body Wash wyb Fusion Embrace Razor

Total Savings: $19.98

New Total: $33.17

Tax:$2.48

Total OOP: $35.65

But remember I pocketed (2) $5 Target Gift Cards so it was like getting the above for $25.65 which is not too bad. 54% savings

Publix Trip

Fantastic trip to Publix today:

59% Savings

Saved a total of $102. 23 from coupons and B1G1 sales

Grand Total: $171.89

-$53.43 B1G1 sales

-$48.80 in coupons

Total: $68.34

Tax: $1.32

Total OOP: $69.33

Here is what I got:

(1) Maxwell House Coffee

(1) Publix brand napkins

(8) Kraft Sheels and Cheese

(4) Pkgs of Kraft Shredded Cheese

(4) Boxes of Special K Cereal(which were all free they cost me nothing)

(2) Marie Callendars frozen dinners

(4) Jars of Vlasic Pickles

(2) Orbit Gum 3packs

(4) 22ct Kotex pads

(2) Bags of Dorito Chips

(3) Pkgs Hillshire Lunch Meat

(2) Pkgs of Hamburger meat

(4) 16 oz bags of Baby Carrots

(2) Ranch Vegi Dips

(2) Kraft Light Mayo

(2) Frenchs Mustard

(2) Glass Plus Cleaner

(5) Coffee Mate Liquid Creamers

(1) Gallon of Milk

(Milk was free because I had a coupon for a free gallon of milk with $100 of groceries...and remember even though my total was well over $100 I only paid a total of $69.66 OOP pretty sweet

Target Trip

Target Trip!

I went to Target today because Steve went to the dentist this week and he was a new patient so they were offering $30 in Target gift cards to new patients(how about that even dentists know people want to save money) There were several really good printable Hasbro coupons out there to be able to score some really cheap card games to be able to keep(I am planning to keep some of them to the side for a quick gift Tyler might need for a Christmas gift exchange etc that periodically come up throughout the year) The tostitos were 2/$5 and a free dip. The Purina Party Mix cat treats were on sale for $1.25 per pack and I some really good coupons for them. I also snagged a copy of The Green Mile on DVD and a ream of copy paper(always need it around when you are printing coupons like I do)

Grand total: $65.63

-$36.92 in coupons and sales

New Total: $28.71

Tax: $3.83

Balance Due: $32.54

- $30 in gift cards

Total OOP: $ 2.54

It was a 56% savings before the gift cards.....not to bad....with the gift cards I scored a lot of stuff for less than $3.....

Winn Dixie Meal Deal

Winn Dixie

Gotta love those meal deals they offer

Here is what I got at Winn Dixie today for total OOP of $18.67

(2) Red Baron Pizzas $11.98

(1) Tyson Anytizer(free with meal deal)

(1) Hillshire Lil Smokies sausges(free with meal deal)

(1) 2 liter Diet Coke(free with meal deal)

(1) Edy's Ice Cream(free with Meal Deal)

(4) Crystal Light boxes to go packets(B1G1)$7.18

(2) boxes of Cheerios Cereal 2/$4

- (1) $1/2 Red Baron Pizza Coupon

-(4) $1/1 Crystal Light Coupons

The total amount saved on the meal deal was $15.12

This was a 62% savings at Winn Dixie today

CVS

CVS Savings Today

Well I am going to have to get out there a little faster starting this week. I had to get a rain check on the Dove's Men's body wash they were all out because it was an awesome ECB deal for this week but I did get the above deal. 4 jars of Ragu spaghetti sauce and 2 jars of Skipp peanut butter for a total OOP of $1.60 and got $3 ECB back Here is how I did it:

(4) Ragu Sphaghetti sauces(on sale for 3/$5) $6.67

(2) Skippy Peanut Butters (on sale for 3/$5) $3.34

used (2) $.60/2 Ragu Sauce coupons

used (2) $.60/1 Skipp Peanut butter

- $6 ECB

Total OOP was $1.60

The ECB deal on these items were spend $10 in certain products(ie Ragu, Skippy, Hellman's mayonaise) and get $3 back in ECB.

This was a 92% savings for me.....

Kmart

Kmart Trip

Ok....so I don't usually shop at Kmart but I saw in the sale paper this week that they have a loyalty program they are offering that can be used at Kmart, Sears and Lands End....so I said what the heck I will just stop in and sign up. You get 1% back in rewards for qualified purchases at the above stores, a plus to this program over the one at CVS is that the rewards are stored on your card so no having to keep up with pieces of paper like the extra care bucks. You have a chance to win great prizes with K Ching surprises at checkout in Kmart stores. Earn bonus rewards during exclusive promotions throughout the year. I will start looking more closely at the sale papers on Sundays to see if there are good deals that I can get there and earn reward points. I will keep you posted on my success in the Kmart rewards program...While I was at Kmart today I picked up 4 bags of Hershey's Pieces Candy...they were on sale for 2/$5 and there was a mail in rebate for a $10 Kmart gift card good for the purchase of Hershey's chocolate. I had (3) $1/1 coupons for the Pieces candy so my total OOP was $7.70 so by sending in the mail in rebate this was a money maker!!!!