2/27 - Freebie Sunday

Rite Aid

Nivea Lip Care
on sale for $1
use $2 / 2 lip care from facebook
= FREE

Lays Stax
on sale for $1
RiteAid rewards $1 coupon prints out
=Kind of free

Another Finish Quantumatic doo dad
on sale for $3.99 with rewards card
$1 off coupon from Rite Aid Videos
$3 off Finish coupon from Finish website

= FREE

Butterfinger Snackerz
on sale for 2 / $1
mfg coupon for $1 off 2
=FREE

Walgreens
Kleenex & Colgate
Total together: 5.78
Discounts / Coupons: 4.70

Paid $1.08
Walgreen bucks that printed: $3
Profit: $1.92

CVS
Crest Pro Health
on sale for $3.29
mfg coupon $1
paid $2.29
CVSs bucks back: $4.29
Profit: $2

CVS has a green tag program, where you use no bag or a reusable bag.
Every 4 trips you get a buck back :-). Pretty sweet!!

Target Clearance and a Rite Aid Deal

Elroy making a mad dash by our spoils

Target Clearance:
Vaseline Sheer Body Lotion -  $2.99 to $0.54
Clearance: $2.54 (yeah.. a whopping $0.45 discount)
Target Coupon: $1
Mfg Coupon $1
= $ 0.54

Loreal Clean Artiste -  $9.49 to $0.37
(removes waterproof makeup)
Clearance Price: $2.37
Coupon from lorealparisusa.com: $2
=$0.37

Covergirl Wet Slicks Amaze Mint -  $4.94 to $0.23
Clearance Price $1.23
Mfg coupon from paper $1
=$0.23

Almay bright eyes - $5.95 to $0
Clearance Price: $1.74
Mfg coupon from paper $2
= $0

Rimmel 5x Volume Mascara - $4.99 to $0.48
Clearance Price: $3.48
Target Coupon $1
Mfg coupon $2
=$0.48

Cat treats $1.79 to $0.29

$1.50 Mfg coupon from paper
=$0.29

Rite Aid Deal:
Finish Quadramatic doo dad $10.99 to $0.99
Reg 1 / 10.99
Sale 1 / 3.99 with card
Coupon $3
=$0.99

Overall, we forked out $0.33 at Rite Aid and $3.99 at Target... Not too shabby :-)
Oh and a one-time 10% shopping pass at Rite Aid printed out with our receipt!

Another Great Sunday Shopping Trip

February 6 - $94.13 of product for only  $6.29 out of pocket

Today we hit up the three Rite Aids in our vicinity and the token Walgreens. Highlight of the day.. the checker gave us our 'salary' after one of our transactions. Above are our scores of the day, our coupon photo book and the cat. Sir Elroy struck a pose after checking out our deals.

Rite Aid Deals: 

Betty Crocker Cake mix & frosting:

Regularly: 1/ $2.49
Sale:  1/ $2.00
Coupon: $1 / Cake mix and frosting combo (from newspaper)
Or $0.50/ Cake mix and frosting combo (from BC online)
Rewards to use next time: one $2 for Betty Crocker combo AND two $1 food purchase (+UP Rewards)

So.. In other words buy for $3, earn $4 = $1 profit.
We used former rewards bucks.... so we pretty much got them for free and made some for next time.
Now I'm hunting for some fun recipes that need cake mixes....

Welch's Grape Juice:
Regularly: 1/ $5.19
Sale: 1/$3.00
$2 off 1 coupon from Welch's Family Vine Tool
Get $1 +UP Reward on 2
Since we got the buck back and spent +UP rewards to get it... we saw it as a $0.50 purchase for each.

At Rite Aid if you spend $100 worth of product you get $20 back in rewards for the month of February. At our last stop we picked up some shades for our trips... that put us above the $100 line. Pretty fun to see a $20 coupon print out with the receipt :-D . If I did my calculations correct -- and I'm 99.99% sure I did -- we spent a whopping $5.08 out of pocket to receive that glorious $20.

Walgreens Deals:

FREE Excedrin 8-count:
On sale for: $1.49
Use $1/1 Excedrin Product
PLUS Use $1/1 Excedrin Walgreens Coupon in February coupon booklet
Free after coupons

Right Guard Total Defense 5 Body Wash 
On sale for: $3.99
Look for $1 off peelie sticker
Get $3 Register Rewards
= Free after coupon and RR

January 2011

Being the spreadsheet lover that I am, I utilized another deal hunter's yearly savings tracker to see how much Jacob and I were actually saving. We never had set budgets before, but guessed we would probably spend around $250 on groceries and other household items.  (Wish we knew what we were really spending before!)
Here's to hoping February ends just as well or better than January!

January Spending & Saving Details

Monthly Budget			$ 250.00

Total Shelf Cost:			$ 812.15
Total Mfg Coupon:			$ 200.45
Total Savings:			$ 592.15
Amount Paid:			$ 220.00
January Savings Rate:			72.91%

note: total savings =  mfg coupons, store coupons, store bucks, & store discounts

Snow storm = Dead stores

Jacob's sash of $$$ back

Today our office was closed. Jacob got the day off while I worked from home. Thus, he spent his afternoon scoping out the latest deals around.
Tonight we hit up RiteAid, Walgreens, and Target.

Stop 1: RiteAid

Total = $66.38

Paid = $0.14
Savings = 99.79%

3 Afrins, 2 Toothpaste, 2 Betty Crocker cake mixes,and some other odds and ends not pictured. We combined store coupons, store deals, mfg coupons, & store bucks. The best part is that we received $23 store bucks back! Gotta love being paid to shop!!

Stop 2: Walgreens
Arnicare pain relieving ointment 5.99, $2 coupon, $6 store bucks back = Profit :-)
Butterfinger Snakerz: Store coupon + mfg coupon = FREE

Stop 3: Target
Total = $50.10
Paid = $2.91

Savings = 94.19%
Here we bought our lunches for the next week, raisins :-), chips and dip, 2 Reeses, bananas & cheeeeese. We saved on boat load here by finishing up our free gift card Expedia gave us for vacationing in NYC.

One of Several Small Mountains in Target's Parking Lot