Target 3/14/11

This week Target had a fun week for me bc I am a candle lover and will buy candles even without coupons. Ok let me tell u first I asked my sweet target supervisor if I could do this some of you may not be as lucky This week at Target sale is buy 5 glade products on sale for 2.50 get a 5.00 gift card. This offer is suppose to be 1 per custumer per visit. I asked her if I could do 2 seperate transactions and she let me. :) I will be doing this deal 1 more time this week also like I said I like my candles and this deal is basically buy 3 get 2 free :)

coupons can be found www.rightathome.com

Trans #1

1 glade candle holder

4 candle refills

=12.50

-1.00 coupon

-1.50 coupon

1.50 coupon

=9.03 + 5.00 giftcard

so 4.03 for 5 glade products

Trans #2

1 glade candle holder

2 glade candles

2 air sprays

=12.50

-1.00

-1.00

-1.00

-1.00

=9.03

- 5.00 gift card from trans #1

I paid 4.03 and got back a 5.00 gift card

so techincally I paid 10 for 10 glade products which equals 1.00 a product :)

or bought 6 and got 4 for free however makes u feel better at looking at it

so trans #3 will look like this

buy 5 for 12.50

-2.00 on 2 products

-2.00 on 2 products

-1.00 on 1 aersoal

=7.50

-5.00 gift card 2.50 = tax

and I should get another 5.00 gift card

so I made 2.50 by doing this again ( and I should be stocked up on candles and spray for a couple of months or at least till another sale goes on unless I go overboard)

Rite Aid 3/14/11

First off today I did a big no no and used all my register bucks(ups) to pay lower cost out of pocket so Next week I will have to start from square one.. I always tell others to try and save some bucks for next week but I didnt do this and you will see in my final out of pocket. So do it however you want but remember if u use all your bucks one week you will not have them the following week as will be my case next week.

Trans #1

Floss 1.00x2

-1.00 coupon printablex2 =free

Therma Care 6.99

-3.00 printable coupon from their site

-1.00 store coupon in ad

=2.99 +3 ups = +.01

chloraspetic 3.99

-1.00 coupon

=2.99 +3 ups =+.01

used 5 ups from last week

Total 2.89 and got back 6 ups

So I paid 2.89 and saved with sales and cupons 16.00

Trans #2

6 renuzit adjustables .88 x6 5.28

-b3g3 coupon 2.64 = 2.64

2 finish quantumatic kits 10.99 on sale b1g1

-3.00 coupon x2

-1.o0 rite aid coupon

=3.99

-6 ups

=1.77

so I paid 1.77 for 30.89

Total 4.66 for 46.37 so I saved 90%

CVS 3/13/11

I will be going back to CVS later on in the week I just wanted to go in and get the pads that were on sale before they sold out.

Tena Pads on sale 9.99 get back 9.99 ecbs = free

I had a 2.50 off coupon 7.49 before tax ( so I made 2.50 by buying)

2 gain on sale for .97=1.94

-1.94 coupons ( I had 2 -100 coupons but guess cvs doesnt like u make money off coupons) so = free

I used -5 ecbs from last week

paid 3.33 and got back 9.99 so cvs paid me 6.66 for shopiing this week so far and I still have 4 ecbs left from last week.

Walgreens 3/13/11

First off if you live in Newnan I would recoomend waiting till the truck comes in on Wednesday or just making your list for rainchecks.. I remember why I dislike the Walgreen's in Newnan everytime I go in there Im going to my gmas today in Mcdonough so I may che2ck out the Mcdonough Walgreens tonite if I have time

So I got 2 rightguard body washes ( i wanted 6 but I got the last 2 on the shelf and they didnt have any in the back

3.99 on sale b1g1

-3.99 b1g1 coupon= free

2 right guard deodrants 4.49 ( would not have gotten these if they had body washes) b1g1

-3.99 b1g1 coupon (but staes on there not to go over 3.99) didnt realize that till after I paid

total after sales coupons and tax

.70 cents

sitll a good deal but not as good of deal as I wanted and of course the other items I went in there for they were out of :)

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Trans #2 no pics too tired 2 right guard body wash 3.99

used b1g1 coupon = free

clairsol face ance treatment 2.99

-2.00 coupon .99 + get back 2.00 off coupon

dial hand soap .99

-.35

paid 2.22

Note : Mcdonough Walgreens is very more custumer friendly nice staff sales were labeled so no questions asked after talking to the manager there I came home and emailed cooperate about the store in Newnan .

Drug Store 101

Click links for tips on the particular store you are looking to learn from all links are from www.southernsavers.com unless otherwise noted and this one of the best coupon blogs that I have found and u can even printout your own shopping list from her site, Just make sure you check your own Sunday add to make sure they match so u know what u are going to spend most sells are nationally but sometimes u ran into a region only sale :)

Rite Aid

CVS

Walgreen

http://www.simplycvsshopping.com/ ~another great blog for beginners to read about cvsing

Out of the 3 drugstores Walgreens may be a bit confusing so I would try cvs and riteaid first to all newbies

Walgreens 3/11/11

First off I normally dont do Walgreens much but couldnt pass up on free kids fever medicine.

If I had the correct pedia care coupons my total would have been 4.71 but I grabbed 2 1.00 off instead so total = 6.71 got back 3.00 off coupon

I saved 29.22

Heres what I did. This week walgreens ad is spend 10 get 3 back

(Many different products look at ur ad sale ends tomorrow)

2 swifter wet jets on sale 3.74

used b1g1 coupon from pg 2/27

2 frebreeze set and refresh 2.50 each

used 2 1.00 off coupons

2 ped infant drops 5.99 each

-2 5.00 walgreen coupon (1 coupon is good for 3 items)

-2 1.00 man printout coupons ( equal free +.2 would have been =2.02 if i had grabbed right coupon)

1 ped care for kids 6.99

-5 walgreen coupn

-2 man printout coupon ( free +.01)

Coupon Organization

Everyone always askes me how I organize my coupons. This is going be a picture turtioal of how I organize my coupons.. This is only one of the many ways to organize coupons I know alot of people that love the binder method.. but with 4 kids the binder method doesnt work for me.

1.This is a small coupon organizer. This stays in my purse at all times. This is where I put the coupons that are fixing to expire soon so I can look for deals at the stores and for items I buy on a regular basis that I need whether they are on sale or not.

2.This is accordion type file folder this what I used when I started couponing until I outgrow it. Now I use it when Im prepareing for the weeks I can place each stores sales ad and printable shopping list in each divder and Im ready to go to the store. If I am doing multiple stores in one day this is what I take with me along with my mini coupon organizer. If im just going to 1 store I will just slip out my coupons and place them in the mini.

3. Now on to the file system. Its kinda of hard to tell in this picture so I will go step by step. Here you have the file box, with hanging folders (dated for date of inserts) and file folders seperated by RP,SS, PG inside the hanging folders.

4. The files.

6. The first hanging file in my file system. I a folder with file folders labeled with store coupons, printable coupons, expired coupons ( to send to miltary) and resturant coupons.