Smiths has select GM cereals on sale for $2.99 each. Buy 4 and get $6 off instantly which makes them $1.49 each. Use $1/2 coupons making each box only $.99. That is pretty okay but the best part is that there are speciality marked boxes which can score you free movie tickets. For each 2 specially marked boxes you get a free movie ticket. So I bought 8 big boxes of Lucky Charms (the only specially marked boxes my store had) for just over $8 and will get FOUR free movie tickets!! That is a pretty sweet deal!!!
Then I went to Target and got the following Olay deals:
Today I was able to get all the above at Walgreens for a total of $3.72!!
(I spent $5.22 OOP, used $9 in RR to pay down my OOP but got back $10.50 back in new RRs.)
Hip2Save had a good deal scenario which I have listed below:
Transaction #1:
Buy Colgate Sensitive Toothpaste $3.49
Use the $1/1 coupon from the 10/10 SS or found here
Pay $2.49
Get back a $3.50 RR
Transaction #2:
Buy Contac Cold & Flu $6
Buy 1 Small Filler item (Laffy Taffy, $0.10)
Total = around $6.10
Use the $2/1 coupon from the 10/10 RP or $2/1 printable (no longer available)
Plus, use the $3.50 RR earned from the 1st transaction
Pay $0.60 (+ tax)
Get back a $6 RR
Transaction #3:
Buy Huggies Diapers $7.99
Buy Filler item (M&Ms single packs on Mega Saver $0.59)
Total = around $8.58
Use the $2.50/1 Huggies coupon found here or $2/1 coupon found here
Plus, use the $6 RR earned from the above transaction
Pay as low as $0.08
And get back a $1 RR
Your final out of pocket expense after all 3 transactions– ONLY $3.17! Plus, you’ll still have a $1 RR to use at a later date!
Since I had a bunch of RRs already I didn't do the above transactions, I just put it all together in one transaction but this will give you some ideas.
I actually don't have a kid in diapers anymore (YEAH!!!) but my best friend does so the diapers go to her and I still scored some great deals!
40 boxes of cereal for less then $40. Each box cost between $0.88 and $0.97. Smiths promo this week takes $6 off instantly when you buy 4 boxes of GM cereals. That takes $1.50 off each box. Then with coupons the amount drops below $1 per box. Check out the Grocery Smarts Planner to find details on the deal and coupons to use.
I went to Walgreens this morning to take advantage of the 15% off Fans & Family coupon. I used that coupon in conjunction with some other deals this week and was able to get all of the above for $20.32! Without sales and coupon this would've cost $114.04.
4 - Tide 2x Ultra Travel Size (1 Load) $0.97 each
These are on sale for $2.99 at Smiths this week but with the P&G promo when you buy four you end up getting them for $1.99 each. Since I was at Walmart I decided to price match this price. YMMV on whether you can price match to the promo price but I usually have had no trouble doing this. I price matched these to the $1.99 price and used four of the $2/1 Gillette coupons from yesterday's (8/1) P&G insert making all of these items free. Actually the one taller one rang up at $1.50 so I ended up making money on that one.
I got these 10 items for $1.42!
I really enjoyed this book and I felt like I gained a lot of perspective. "Same Kind of Different as Me" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore was written like memoirs from both men, telling their stories and how they came to be friends. Denver was a black man who although was not technically a slave, was raised in the same slave south that generations of his family had in the past. Ron was a white man, born poor but made a fortune as a high end art dealer. Ron's wife brought them together as she worked to help the homeless. I felt this book had a similar feel to "The Blindside" but the thing that I really liked about it was how much Denver taught Ron. I think we often think about how much we can give or offer to someone like Denver who is homeless and appears to not have a purpose in life. But Denver, despite his hard life and scrapes with the law, is a very spiritual man and very in tune with God. I feel like I learned a lot from him just by reading about his life. I was also amazed at how oppressed blacks like Denver were and still are, and not just in the past, but now, in my lifetime. I think about slavery as a thing of the past but my eyes were really opened to how the life that many blacks still live. This book was definitely worth reading.
As you may know, Smiths is doing a doubling even this entire week (Wed - Tues). All coupons under $1 will be rounded up to $1. So those $0.30 coupons are now worth $1, $0.50 coupons are worth $1 and so forth. I went to the Smiths marketplace on 90th and Redwood this morning and found everything I was looking for in stock. The doubling part worked great. I did run into a couple items that didn't ring up for the sale price I was expecting but for the most part everything went really smoothly. I had a large list of not only coupon deals but also birthday party needs for my soon to be 5 year olds birthday party this weekend. I ended up spending $62 and saving $78!!
My most recent book to review for Thomas Nelson Publishing was "Love on a Dime" by Cara Lynn James. I have to be honest, I wasn't sure whether I would really like this book or not. It looked a little lovey dovey and I am not really into romance novels. However, I must say that I really enjoyed this book and was surprised how easy it was to get into it and for it to keep my interest. The gist of the book is that Lilly who is a member of the wealthy and priviledged back in the late 1800s writes dime store novels, which is completely against the "rules" of her social set at the time. Women are to depend on their husband or father for their support, not make money on their own. I really enjoyed learning more about life during that time period and found Lilly to be a wonderful character of faith and goodness even though she was surrounded by so much greed and inequality. I would recommend this book as a nice easy read, an enjoyable book with a nice message. It did kind of lag a little bit in the middle and I just wanted Lilly and Jackson to talk to each other openly but it was still a good book.
These items cost me a total of $8.75 ($3.75 OOP and $5 in RRs) and I got back a new $10 in RRs. So I got all this and made a profit of $1.25 on the purchase!!
There are some really good deals this week. Check out Hip2Save's most recent Wags posts HERE for a list of deals.
And I just saw on UtahDealDiva that there is a rebate offer on the Shick razor so that will get me a rebate of $7.99 back making this even more profitable.
I got all this for $6.46 at Walgreens this morning!! Without coupons this would've cost me $89.63!!
I got all of the above at Target this morning for $4.58!! Without coupons this would've cost $34.80.
I ran to Target this morning and got all of the above for $12. I used two $5 Target Gift cards from a previous deal so my OOP was only $2!! Without coupons this would've cost $30.54!
Check out Hip2Save's Target posts HERE for a list of current deals.
I went into Rite Aid this morning in hopes of taking advantage of their deal on Huggies this week. They never have a huge stock of diapers and so they tend to get cleaned out fast but I was happy to see that they still had some size 4 & 5 Snug & Dry diapers. Yeah! So here is what I did:
All of this cost me $13.29 but without coupons it would've cost me $49.63.
Check out THIS PYP thred for a list of great deals to look for!
**UPDATE: I bought 4 boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch this morning at Smiths and no cat printed out. I will update again if I get more info. :(
I got all of the above at Target for $13.85 OOP but I got back $15 in Target Gift Cards making this trip a $1.15 moneymaker! This was about $45 worth of products for better then free!
Here we have a little boy who didn't want to just "hold" the chocolate, but he wanted to unwrap and eat it all. :)
I got all of the above (there are 2 packs of diapers there) for $9.66 and used my rebate check from last month making this cost $0 out of pocket!
2 packs of Huggies diapers, $8.99 each
Used two $3/1 coupons
Used one $5/$25 coupon since my transaction total was just over $25.
Final cost factoring in the Rite Aid coupon = $3.49 each!!
2 NYC nail polishes on sale B1G1 50% off
Used one B1G1 free coupon from the May issue of All You Magazine
Used one $1/1 coupon from 4/18 RP on the one you are not getting for free.
Final cost a $.51 moneymaker!
8 single Hershey bars on sale $2/1
Used four B1G1 free coupons from 4/18 SS
Final cost only $.25 each.
4 large Hershey bars on sale for $.99 (stock piled for summer camping trips ... s'mores!!)
Used four $1/1 coupons from 4/18 SS (**This coupon is for the Hershey Extra Dark bars but they didn't have any of these and were fine to substitute these)
Final cost FREE!!
Check out Hip2Save's current Rite Aid posts HERE for more available deals this week.
These co-ops are non-profit organizations who are able to "Use collective purchasing to get high quality food at prices usually reserved for grocery stores and restaurants."
There are many co-op organizations out there but the one that I use and LOVE is Bountiful Baskets. The cost for a "basket" is $15 and you get a variety of fruits and veges. You never know what you will get and so it's always a nice surprise to see what you get that week. I then plan my meals around what I received. I also always keep a vege tray in my fridge for Eric, my vege eater so that when he is hungry for the 50th time that hour he can go and get out his vege tray and feed himself.
Some details you might need if you want to try this out:
The cost for a basket is $15 but you can order multiple baskets. The site will let you order up to three baskets per order. They do charge you a $1.50 handling fee per order so I always order with two other friends so that we can split that fee.
They often have add-ons like bread, granola, or additional fruits and veges (ie. a case of mangos, a a case of strawberries, etc.) that you can add on to your order.
The pick ups are on Saturdays. I pick up at the West Jordan location which is at the West Jordan police station on Redwood and 80th South but there are pick-up locations all over the valley.
Some locations, such as the one that I pick up from only have pick-ups every other week, some you can pick up at every week. I do the WJ pick-up the two times a month and then if I feel we need a little more I will buy a basket from one of the SJ pick-ups on the off weeks.
Pick up is really easy. You can access the Site List HERE which shows you the locations you can pick-up at and the time of the pickup. Then you just go there, give them your name and pick-up your produce.
Ordering is done online on Monday's (the Monday before the Saturday pick-up) for my location. This organization covers 5 states so the times that you can log-on and order depend on your location.
Because of high demand some sites fill up really fast. In my case, my area can log on on Monday's at 4pm MDT and I make sure that I do it right at 4pm so that I can be sure to get my basket. The site is slow because so many people log on but it's certainly worth it!
I have really loved doing this. I find that we have fresh fruits with almost every meal and I am often going onto recipezaar and finding recipes for ingrediants that I wouldn't have thought to have bought otherwise. And the nice thing is that you can do this year round so even in the winter you can eat fresh fruits and veges.
Let me know if you have any questions. I also included some pictures of the things we got on other weeks. Thanks to my sister-in-law Alisa who does it with me and is much better at taking pictures ... I stole some of the pics from her. :)
There is also a $1/1 Oatmeal coupon HERE or a $1/1 Quaker True Delights Oatmeal coupon HERE. If you can print off 5 of these coupons you would get 5 packs of oatmeal for FREE!!
#1: Two Shick Hydro Shave Gels $2.99 each, get back a $3 RR = FREE. Reports are that it is rolling but I didn't try it because I had other RRs to use and I only got a couple since we don't go through it very fast.
#2: Four TGI Friday's Snacks on clearance for $1.39 each (weren't marked that low, be sure to price check). Used four $1.50/1 coupons from HERE making them an $.11 moneymaker on each!
#3: Four boxes of Kashi Cereal 2/$5. Get back a $1RR on each two you buy making them $2/4. Used three $1.50/1 vocalpoint coupons as well as one Free Box vocalpoint coupon making all four boxes only $1.30 total or $.33 each!!!! 
All this cost me $6.09 at Target today PLUS I can mail in for a $5 rebate from SC Johnson for the Scrubbing Bubbles cleaners making the cost only $1.09! Without coupons and rebates this would've cost me $33.05!
There are caselot sales going on at AFS (Macey's) right now as well as Smiths. Thanks to UtahDealDiva for THIS post that compares some of the prices. Personally, there wasn't any great deals at Macey's this time around that I wanted to take advantage of. So I went to Smiths today and took advantage of a the case lot sale (2 week sale) for a few things that I was low on.
I went to Wags (104th South & Redwood) this morning and the Dove RR was indeed rolling there as posted on many blogs. This happens occasionally and when it does it is a really great way to stock up.
I got all of the above for $18!! My savings were $41.18!
