Sunday Drug Store Scenerio

Here is my plan for my weekend drug store shopping:
Total Value: $100.90
Total OOP: $5.96
Total Rewards: $16.98
Total savings: 94%That is AMAZING for all that including diapers!
Lets see how it really turns out tomorrow!

Here are my scenerios:

CVS:

Crest Pro Health Rinse 3.99 [3.99 ECB]

Extra Laundry detergent 1.49 (printable coupon) -$1= .49

Extra Laundry detergent 1.49 (printable coupon)-$1= .49

Mars Valentines Candy $0.50 - $1 off 2 candies printable= $-.50

Mars Valentines Candy $0.50= $0.50

Total Value: $7.97

Total Due= $5.47 (Pay with $4 in ECB from last week)

Total OOP= $1.47 + tax

Total Rewards back: $3.99

Rite Aid:

2 Hershey Miniature Bags $2.50 each- $1.50/2 (RP 1/23)= $3.50 total [1 UP]

2 Lays Potato Chips $2.50 each [1 UP]

4 Progresso Soups $1.50 each- $1/4 SS 12/5 -$1/4 Video Value= $4.50 [1 UP]

GE Light bulk 1.99 [1.99 UP]

2 Rite Aid Plastic Wraps $2 each [1 UP WYB 2]

KY 9.99- $5 printable = $4.99 [2 UP]

2 Rite Aid Cutlery 2.99 (these are B1G1 free)= 2.99 for 2

I am using a Wellness Coupon (for signing up for their newsletter) for $5

off purchase of $25 or more.

Total Value: $34.97

Total Due: $21.47 (paying with 20 in UP and $2 in video value money)

Total OOP: $0

Total Rewards Back: $3.99

Walgreens:

I usually try to limit myself to 1 transaction- but I can’t help it this week. 

#1:

6 Maalox @ 5.50 each- $5 maalox coupon (1/9 SS)

I will need some cheap filler- often can find 10-30 cent candies!

Total Due: $3 (pay with $2 in RR from last week)

Total OOP: $1

Rewards: $10

#2

Nivea for Men 3.99-$1 coupon (there was a Nivea for Men booklet in the stores a few

weeks ago)= $2.99 [3 RR]

Huggies Jumbo Pack $8.99-$2 coupon (SS 1/23)=6.99 [2 RR]

Filler Item (.50 cents)

Total Value: $13.48

Total Due: $10.48 (use $10 RR from last order)

Total OOP: 0.48

Total Rewards: $5

#3:

Glad Trash Bags 6.99- $1 in Walgreens booklet - $3 printable (no longer

available)=$2.99

Filler Item: .50

Total Value: $7.49

Total Due: $3.49 (use $3 in RR from last order)

Total OOP: $0.49

No rewards, but left with $3 in RR (plus because I have $10 from last week I

will switch the old one and the new one out so I will keep the new one with a later expiration date)

I think it will turn out to be a great week!  Plus I will get points with my sister for getting her some free diapers!

New Kraft coupons!

Kraft has released some new prinable coupons

I would print them soon- they never last long!

FREE purse photobook from Walgreens

Walgreens is offering a free photo book with the promo code PURSE through Sat., Jan. 22.  You do have to pay S&H (starting at 2.99).

Oranges for a penny a piece @ Lowes Foods

Sunkist Navel oranges are on sale 2 for $1 at Lowes Foods this week.  I got 2 of them for .02 (ALL tax) thanks to a Blue Moon (Beer) coupon for $1 off the purchase of 2+ Sunkist oranges!  These coupons were IN the Lowes Foods store on a display of Blue Moon.  In NC no alcohol purchase is required to use these coupons! 

GREAT deal.  The coupon says $1 off 2 or MORE- so you can't use multiple coupons per visit but still 2 oranges for 2 pennies?  Not much else you can get for a penny!

A grab it NOW deal!

Get $20 credit @ amazon.com for $10 at Living Social!  This link says you will get a $5 credit to get you started!  That means it is only $5 for $20 to amazon.com!  SWEET deal.  Grab it now before it's gone!

Food Lion Deal

SO, I don't usually shop @ Food Lion- but I LOVE Coke Zero- so there is a great deal on 12 pks @ Food Lion starting tomorrow! 

Here is the deal:

Buy any 5 Coca Cola Items and Kraft Foods and save $5 instantly at check out!

Items included: 6 pk .5 L 2.99
Ritz 2.50
Planters 2.49
Oscar Mayer Beef Franks $3
12 pk Coca Cola $3

Here is my scenerio:
5 12 pks of Coke Zero= $15
minus $5 instant savings
= $10 or $2 a piece!  That is a pretty good price! 

Ways to save even + free $5!

So I LOVE places that let me "stack" deals.  Grocery stores are not the only place you can "stack" deals.  Online cash back programs are great too.  Basically, you buy something online (that you were going to buy anyway) and you use a promo/coupon code on the site.  BUT you can get even more savings if you use a cash-back program.

My favorite is Ebates.  I've gotten several checks from them for my Christmas online shopping!

You start out at the Ebates site, enter in the store you want to shop at and it opens a ticket.  THEN you get the advertised % back in cash off what you spent! Some are as high as 8%!

How to sign up:  Go to ebates (click there) and sign up.  THEN whenever you are going to shop online- go there first!  You get cash back on all purchases made through there!  My last check was $12.45.  Not enough to go to Disney- but it was more than enough for my weekend drug store shopping or a splurge on Starbucks drink!

***p.s. when I tested the link above- it told me if I signed up I would get an extra $5!!!!  I already had an account- but you don't SIGN UP TODAY!  It doesn't cost anything and you could get an automatic $5!  When I signed up I got a home depot gift card so it is legit!

Are we the only ones?

As much as I LOVE saving money at the grocery and drug stores (as well as anywhere else!), we cannot seem to keep a savings account as full as we would like.  Part of our problem is that we live paycheck to paycheck.  I am a stay at home mom and my husband and I are both full-time students and we have 3 kids!

This time of year, as tax time draws closer, I keep hearing financial advisers saying "Don't give the government a tax free loan!"  Why not?  I ask.  We use it as a savings account.  It's money automatically taken out of my husband's paycheck each time that we never see.  Sure, we could have that same amount taken out and put into a savings account- but do you know what?  We'd spend it frivolously.

It's MUCH better for us to have the government hold onto it until the beginning of the next year.  Then we get a nice big check (usually several thousand) in February.  We use half of that on major projects around the house (last year it was the chimney and this year it will be finishing our basement- frugally of course!) and paying down some debt.   The rest goes into a savings account for "emergencies" (which run from an emergency dinner out to an emergency tire replacement). 

The point of my post?  Find ways to save up money for those big ticket things without adding to your debt. And just because someone says it on the Today Show doesn't mean it is the right choice for you.  Would you rather have an extra few dollars in your paycheck or a lump sum of $3000 at the end of the year?  Me- I'd like that lump sum please.  It's harder to waste it all at once, but an extra bit each week?  Grab a latte and it's gone!

Harris Teeter 1/19-1/25

EVIC- 50 oz tide 4.97
Meal Deal:
Buy 11.75" Good Cook Fry Pan @ 12.99 get:
-1 dozen HT eggs
20 oz Simply Hashbrowns
-12-16 oz HT bacon
(this is only a good deal if you NEED the pan.  The food items by themselves are only 8.37)

Buys theirs, get ours (limit 1 set per transaction)
-14.5 Post Honey Bunches of Oats $2 GET 14.5 oz HT Oats & more with honey
-dannon light yogurt .49 get 6 oz HT light yogurt
-Bryers Ice cream 48 oz 5.89 GET 48 oz HT Ice Cream

Meat:
-Porter House 5.99 lb
-Pork Tenderloin (whole, boneless) B1G1
-Whole Fryer Chicken .59 lb
-Rotisserie Chicken 4.99
-Smoked Ham 1.79 lb
-Rock Crab 2.99 lb
-Tilapia Fillets 2.99 lb (good deal- save $5 lb!)
-51-60 ct white shrimp 3.99 lb
-Tuna Medallians 4.99 lb

-Lobster tails 5.99 lb
-Tyson Entree 5.49
-Nathan's Premium Beef Franks B1G1
-Perdue funshapes chicken nuggetts 2.99
-Mama Lucia Meatballs B1G1
-Jimmy Dean Biscuits 3.99

• $1 

-Black Bean Burger Morningstart farms $3

• There is a brochure I've seen in several stores with $20 worth of coupons I know one was $1+
  off any Morningstar purchase

Deli:
Honey Ham 6.99
Provolone Cheese 5.99
Genoa Salami 5.99
French & Wheat La Brea baguettes B1G1
-24 oz Wide Pan Arnold Breads B1G1

Beverages:
-Simply Orange $3
-6 pk .5 liter Coca Cola bottles B1G1
-12 pks Bud light, miller family, coors light or yuengling 7.99
-Gatorade $3.50 6 pk
-Robert Mandavi meritage 9.99
-Reserve Chardonnay 9.99
-blue Ribbon light 6.99
-1 gallon Turkey Hill 1.99

Produce:
-Jumbo Cantelope B1G1
-Earthbound farms Organic salad B1G1
-Fuji or Gala apples 1.69 lb
-Large Red Grapefruit .99 each
-1 pt grape tomatos $3
-Cineria Plant 2.99

Canned/Jarred
-Classico Pasta B1G1
-Pop Secret Buy 2 get 3

• .50/2 RP 1/02

-Campbells' soup tomato or chicken noodle B1G1
-Chef Boyardee cups 5/$4

• .35/3 SS 1/02

-Healthy Choice Soup B1g1

• $1/2 SS 1/02

-Instant grits, Quaker $1.50

Dairy:
-Kraft Shredded cheese B1G1

• $1/2 

-Kraft singles 1.79
-Starbucks Icecream $3.50

• .75 off 

-Bestlife spread B1G1

• $1 SS 1/02

-Cracker Barrel Cheese $3

• $1/2

Other:
-38 oz  Stouffer's lasagna $5
-CP Asian shrimp Wonton Soup $2.50
-Pillsbury Grands $1

• $1/2 SS 11/14, 11/21, 12/05

-Crest Pro health or 8 oz Plus Scope 2.99
-Chili or Taco Mccormick seasoning B1G1
-170-260 ct Kleenex tissue $2

• $1/4 SS 1/02

-12 oz Nilla Wafers B1G1

• Lookout for a tear pad for $1 off

-24-26 oz Milkbone B1G1

• $1.50/2 RP 12/12

-Pasta roni or rice-a-roni B1G1

• Free Pasta Roni WYB 3 Rice-A-roni RP 1/02
• Be aware HT will probably require you to purchase 7 items.  You will get 3 of them "free" (according to their crazy math) and then you will only get 1/2 the value of the coupon.  Here's the math:
• Buy 1 : 1.49, get 1 free. Buy #2 1.49 get #2 free, Buy #3, get #3 free.  Get Pasta Roni Free (.75 since it is already B1G1 free).  Total: Purchase 6 Rice-A-Ronis: $8.94.  Get Pasta Roni (already @ 1/2 price) free: .75.  So you pay $8.94 for 7 items.  
• IF you are lucky they might not require you too- here is the math for that way:  $2.23 for 3 Rice-A-ronis.  Get Pasta roni free. THAT is a good deal. 

-Healthy mixers or Marie Callenders B1G1
-16 oz Emerald Dry Roasted Peanuts B1G1 ($1.90)

• $1 

-Single Snickers B1G1
-14 oz Cheerios or 10.6 Total $2.50

• $1/2 SS 1/09 Cheerios
• $1 Total printable

Lowes Foods 1/19-1/25

Here is the small ad of Lowes Foods deals starting tomorrow:

-90% lean ground beef B1G1
-Boston Butt B1G1
-Beef eye of round roast B1G1
-Pork Ribs B1G1
-Boneless chicken breast B1G1
-Breyers Ice cream B1G1 5.99/2
-85% ground turkey B1G1
-Strawberries 1 Lb B1G1 4.99/2
-Lance snack crackers B1G1 2.59/2
-Pepsi 2 liters B1G1 1.69/2
-Lowes 2x laundry detergent B1G1 4.99/2
-12 ct bakery cookies B1G1 2.99/2
-6 ct Kaiser rolls B1G1 2.99/2
-Alpo Dog Food B1G1 10.99/2
-Ruffles chips B1G1 3.99/2
-Quik n eat angus burgers B1G1
-Pork Sausage B1G1
-Bulk italian sausage B1G1
-Thomas' english muffins B1G1 3.69/2
-LF mac & cheese B1G1 .85/2
-Mr. P's pizza B1G1 1.19/2
-Pictsweeet deluxe steam'ables B1G1 2.19/2
-Keebler sandies cookies B1G1 3.99/2

• $1/2 

-Stax sticks B1G1 1.89/2
-LF bath tissue 4 double rolls B1G1 2.89/2
-Tidy cat litterl 20 lb B1G1 4.99/2

• $1 

-Ken's salad dressing B1G1 3.59/2

• $1 SS 1/9

-Popsecret B1G1 4.99/2
-LF facial tissue B1G1 1.39/2
-Paws cat food B1G1 3.49/2
-totinos pizza 4/$5

• $1/2 

-Heinz Ketchup 1.98
-Doritos $2.50
-Orville redenacher $2

• $1 All You Magazine January '11

-Chex Mix or Bugles B1G1 2.65/2

• .50/2 SS 12/5

-Hungry man dinners B1G1 3.99/2
-Mccain potatoes $2
-Betty Crocker Brownies $2

• .75/2 

-Lea and perrins 2.49

• $1 

-jack daniels BBQ sauce 1.69
-Heinz 57 3.49

• $1 

-alka seltzer 3.99

• $2 SS 1/02
• $1 RP 12/5

-Plumrose bacon $3.50
-sweet dark cheeries 3.97
-Hass avacados $1.50
-Large rotisserie chicken 5.99

Minute Maid Printable B1G1 coupon

Be sure to "like" Minute Maid on facebook to print a B1G1 free coupon for a carton of their OJ!

Sunday Drug Store Shopping

Just got back from going to Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens.  Here is my trip:

Here are my trips:

Rite Aid:

Total Value:  $42.58
OOP: $3.85 ($2.65 was tax)
Total Rewards Back: $11 + $20 Resolution Rewards
Total Savings: 97.1%
(I got 18 rolls of TP, 3 facial tissues, 4 bags of M&Ms (to hit my $100), 2 Ricola drops, a nail polish and a clearasil product!)

CVS: I got 3 packages of rechargable batteries, 2 crest pro health rinses
Total Value: $55.95
Total OOP: 9.85 (2.79 was tax)
Rewards back: $14
Total Savings: 87.3%

Walgreens:

Total Value: $43.46 (I got 2 Pantenes, 1 package of markers and an appetite control spray)

Total OOP: $5.86 (1.36 was tax)

Total savings: 89.6%

Rewards back: $12

TOTALS:

Value: $141.99

OOP: $19.56 (tax was 6.80)

Total savings: 91%

Did I mention I got $57 in rewards $ back?  AWESOME