Slow Weekend

This weekend our only purchase was snacks for work from CVS. And of course there were some sweet deals on nail polish so we hopped on that train. :-D

Tonight we headed to Walgreens and RiteAid to see if there were any fabulous deals. Jake found some funky garlic mayo spread for a couple of quarters after coupon at Walgreen.

At RiteAid we picked up some Progresso soups, some excellent Cetaphil soap and a cereal. All that jazz for $0.48. Not too shabby. Then we got $6 RiteAid bucks back. Yahoo! We used $2 off Cetaphil coupons (times 2), $1 / off 4 Progresso (times 2), $1/2 Progresso (times 2) coupons. It's pretty fun watching the bill drop down to an outrageous low price!

Sunday = Funday

Today's Haul

Stop One: RiteAid
Total Value: $65.88
We Paid: $0.61

(99.07% savings)

And we received $7 worth of RiteAid bucks for next time!! Yahoo!

The Christmas goods are now on sale for 90% off. We'll have enough paper & tissue for next year :-)

Stop 2: CVS
Total Value: $78.89
We Paid: $21.65

(72.67% savings)

And received $12 back for next time.

The floss, Halls, and toothpaste were FREE!!

The makeup was 75% off paired with coupons they were between $0.37-$0.75 each.

We needed batteries and bought enough Puffs to give us a $10 coupon back

Dreams of Fish Oil

Reorganize time

Our coupon flip book was becoming a bit unorganized, so this AM we laid out all our coupons and reorganized the categories.

Jacob of course had to count them -- his final count was around 600 coupons.

We are now officially ready for the Sunday coupons! Yahoo!

Freebies and more

Stop One: 
Family Dollar
Free Toothbrushes:
$2 off any 2 Reach tooth brushes
On sale for $1 each
We picked up 8 toothbrushes for FREE

Red Tablecloth was on Christmas clearance
Picked it up for $0.30.

Stop Two:
RiteAid
2 Motrin PM on sale for $3 each
$6 off of 2 coupon = FREE
And it prints off a $2 in-store coupon for each when using the Wellness card.... So we made $4 on that

Qtips = Not on sale. But we believe in clean ear hygiene (I know you're thankful), and could not wait for it to go on sale. However we had some in-store bucks so it was $0.98. Yahoo.

Stop Three:
CVS
4 Kleenex's
3 pack on sale for $3
1 mini pack for $0.89
$1 off coupon = $2.89
I'd say that was an okay deal. It's pretty sad when it makes us cringe to fork over cash instead of just coins!

Stop Four:
TargetHalls cough drops
On sale for $1.22
$1 off manufacture coupon
$0.50 off in-store coupon
Thus it's FREE

Cat treats
On clearance paired with a coupon = Free

Other things we picked up - Yogurt, Draino, Trashbags -- all with some awesome coupons
Came to around $13 buckaroos. However when we booked a hotel through Expedia in NYC we received a $50 gift card to Target... So no money out of pocket for this stop!

Laser Printer = We Mean Serious Business

Last night Jacob hit the town and picked up a wireless printer to support our coupon printing habit. He got a pretty good deal on it too (fancy that!). Now we'll be able to print 1000 sheets or appx 3000 coupons before changing cartridges. Yahoo!

Here's what we do to find our deals:

We follow these blogs to see coupon experts do their thing:
www.athriftymom.com
www.thekrazycouponlady.com
www.fatwallet.com

We signed up for RiteAid's and CVS's shopper rewards cards. These are what give you store credit back for some purchases.

We've found the best luck getting coupons from:
www.coupons.com
www.redplum.com
www.smartsource.com
www.target.com
And the Sunday and Thursday circulars. 

Oh and if you watch videos on riteaid.com, you get coupons and some store bucks.

We currently use a 4X6 photo album for our coupons separated with different categories.Jacob wants to upgrade... we'll see what we can come up with.

Super Sunday Deals

RiteAid

Special K Cereal:
On sale for BOGO
Coupon BOGO
= FREE

Motrin PM:
Sale 3.00 Each
Coupon $6 off 2
= FREE

Stay Free:
Coupon 50% off
$1 off coupon
=$0.50

Bonus: 
$1 for  Special K (x6)
$2 for Motrin PM (x2)
$1 for Stayfree (x2)
=$14 in RiteAid cash for next time. 

Walgreens

After many coupons and using previous 'store cash', this transaction came up to $0.20 Jacob no longer has an excuse for smelling bad with his new shampoo and deodorant! We also received a $1 store credit coupon for our next purchase!!

CVS
Elroy snuck in for his glam shot.
We bought the Maalox because it is a money maker. For the paper products: if you buy $25 worth of product you get $10 back in coupons for next time. So we bought the Maalox first followed by the paper products. Thus we ended up w/ pretty darn cheap paper products. Woot woot.

Target

On target.com we received a 50 cents off coupon. 

Combine that with the manufacture coupon of 35 cents.

We bought these bad boys for 32 cents.

Ace Hardware
Freebie!!!
On sale for $1.00
Coupon for $1.00
=FREE

We would've bought more... but this little cutie was the last one on the shelf.

Cheap Shampoo, Free Hot Cocoa, Free CoffeeMate

Stop 1 RiteAid
Pantene Shampoo:
Originally 6.28
On sale for 75% off original price
Coupon - $3 off of any 2 Pantene products
$0.07 Each

Xtra Detergent:
On sale for $1.88
Coupon $1 off
$0.88 Each

Stop 2 Walgreens
SwissMiss:
On sale for $0.99 each
two $2 off coupon
= FREE

CoffeeMate:
2 for 2.49 with two coupons we received these for FREE

End of Holiday Clearance and Steals of Deal

We took a trip to the Christmas Tree Shop (kind of like Big Lots, but owned by BB&B).

Here they had all their xmas goods at 75% off. With all the soaps, napkins and plates at $0.25 each, we'll be prepared for next year's festivities.


Next we stopped by RiteAid.

AirWick kits orginally 13.99 each were on sale for BOGO. Since we were purchasing 2 items, we were able to use 2 coupons; each of which were $4 off. Making the price for both 5.99. They had another deal that if you bought $10 worth of AirWick, you receive a $3 rewards. Confusing? yes.

Then we have 3 Xtra laundry detergents on sale for $1.88 each combined with 3 $1 off coupons = $.88 each.

Our First Deal

We recently found the fun in coupon hunting - this is our first haul.

This was from 1/2/11 - all for $0.57!! Between coupons, discounts, and cash back, we're learning to coupon like the best of them.

In future posts we'll try to share our mega scores.