Weekend Shopping

We have company coming in tonight so we were trying to get some shopping done so we don't have to bother much next week.

Sorry, no pictures it had to be brought home and put away quickly.

First Up:
Kroger - 5 Transactions (not at one time)

12 - Gatorade
12 - Fruit Roll Ups ($.50/2 MQ) dbl x6
9 - Fruit Stickerz Snacks ($.50/1 MQ) dbl x9
4 - Fruit Snacks (Gummies) ($.50/2 MQ) dbl x2
5 - Beechnut Stage 3 Baby Food jars ($1/5 MQ)
4 - Glade Oil Candle Refills (Close out) ($1/1 MQ)
4 - Pillsbury Grands Biscuits ($.25/1) x2 trpl & ($.35/2 MQ) trpl & ($.50/1 cellfire)
3 - 1lb pkgs Ground Beef (Mgr Special)
2 - Pledge Duster Refills (Close out) ($1/1 MQ)
2 - Totinos Pizza Rolls ($.35/1 MQ) Trpl
2 - Betty Crocker Supreme Brownie Mix ($1/2MQ) ($.75/? cellfire)
2 - Pkgs Huggies Supreme Diapers (Cellfire - $1) (Shortcuts $1.50) (2x $1.50/1 MQ)
2 - Glade Candles (closeout) ($1.50/2 MQ)
2 - Hershey Bars (because it was LATE when we finished, lol)
1 - Huggies Pull Ups ($2/1 MQ) ($2/1 Cellfire)
1 - Garlic Bread ($.40/1 MQ) dbl
1 - Garlic Toast ($.40/1 MQ) dbl
1 - Yoplait Dora Smoothie thingie ($.50/1 MQ) dbl
1 - Quaker Snacks (raincheck) ($.50/1 MQ) dbl
1 - Chef Boyardee (no Q's left but used it as a filler since it's still a good price)
1 - Kroger hamburger buns
1 - Kroger hot dog Buns
1 - Grillin' Beans (yuuuuuuuum)
1 - Kroger hash browns
1 - Gallon 2% Milk
1 - Valentine's Ballon (for the Little Man who was behaving so well WAY past his bedtime!)

Total OOP: $72.15
Total Saved: $107.87 & Have $7 worth of OYNO coupons
I also don't need another fruit snack for at least a year...maybe more ;)

Randall's
5 - Various Coke 12 Packs
3 - Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
1 - BC Cake Mix
1 - BC Frosting
1 - Light Bulb

Put $17.02 on GC
Saved: $19.38


Walgreens
3 - Bounty paper Towels
1 - Fusion gamer Razor
1 - Windex

Total OOP: $8.94 on GC
Saved: $12.09 & received $6 RR, $1 MIR & MIR on the Windex

CVS
1 - Benefiber ($3/1 CRT) ($2/1 MQ)
1 - Swiffer Wet Refills ($.50/1 MQ)
1 - Glade Spray ($1/1 CRT)
1 - Starbursts
1 - Energy Shot drink thingies

I used $12.58 in ECBs & paid $.55 OOP.
Total Saved (incl ECBs used) $24.30
Received $9.99 in ECBs for later. ($2 for a survey, $3 benefiber & $4.99 Energy Drinks)

Long Day!

Little Man's appointments in Houston have switched from Mondays & Tuesdays to only on Tuesdays. Long story short, we're hoping it's going to stretch out his allowable visits by doing it this way.

I had minimal time to get errands taken care of so I went by Target to see if toys (or anything else) had been marked down on clearance any further. No such luck but they did have the file folders back on the dollar wall I've been looking for. For a buck I can keep all of the medical related receipts, etc in one spot.

Then I went to CVS. I was only planning on getting a few things to attempt to roll my ECBs but when I scanned my card it printed a $10/$50 and since I had nearly $30 worth of ECBs that were expiring today I figured I just needed to use it. Put together more thoughtfully I could have made it stretch further and had a MUCH lower OOP. This is one of my highest OOPs there since figuring out how to play the game. Oh well. No picture but here's what I got:

2 Duracell size C 2packs. $2.99 ea
1 Duracell battery for a remote $4.19
2 Excedrin Back & Body $1.99 ($2 MQ) ea
2 Excedrin Extra Strength $1.99 ($1 MQ) ea
2 CVS Allergy stuff (like Claritin) $3.79 ea
1 Magazine for Hubby $5.99
2 Neutrogena Face Pads $8.49 ea
1 box Soy Joy Bars (ewww) $6

Total before Coupons & tax: $54.86
Total OOP: $9.43 (I used the $10 off of $50 & $29.25 in ECBs)
Total ECBs for today's purchases: $18.58

Another box of Soy Joy instead of the magazine would have been better. Only a penny more but would have had another $6 in ECBs. That's okay though, he deserves it once in a while, lol.

Total Saved: $45.43 If you include the savings of buying on sale the savings is increased to $62.94. That would be the total reflected in my savings tally since that's how it's printed on the receipt.

On the way home we stopped by Kroger to pick up a couple of things on the last day of the sale. Thanks to ZM over at Katy Couponers I found out the Act II Popcorn was only $.20 a box with coupons.

In the end I had:
3 boxes Act II popcorn $1 ($.40 MQ Dbl)
3 Horizon Organic Milk Singles $1 ($.25 MQ Trpl)
2 Deli Sandwiches $3.49 (7th one is free and one of these was the 7th one)
Smoothie $.89
Diet DP $1.39 (Free Item MQ)
Coke Zero $1.39
Kroger Brand Crackers $1.67
Bottle of Water $.50
Fried Chicken from the Deli $3.49 (was $5.99 but on Mgr Special & I knew I wasn't going to want to cook tonight!!)
Organic Baby Carrots $1

Total Before coupons & discounts: $30.07
Total OOP: $14.13

I'll take it.

Weekly Shopping

We're going out of town tomorrow to see some friends for the day so I got the weekend shopping done today. I am including the $ amounts I put on gift cards as money saved since it didn't come out of my own pocket.

First up: CVS

• 2 boxes Apple Jacks ($1 MQ ea)
• Garnier ($1 MQ)
• 1 Crest Pro Health ($1 MQ)

I also used a $5 ECB. Total put on Gift Card was $1.48 and I have $5.49 in ECBs for later. Total saved: $16.26

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Walgreens

• 1 Garbage Bags
• 1 Tylenol ($2 MQ)
• 1 Almay Mascara ($1 MQ)
• 1 Sudafed ($1 MQ)
• 1 Tylenol Cold ($1 MQ)

I used a $5/$20. Put $17.78 on gift card, received one $5 RR & will get $6.99 MIR. Total Saved: $30.78

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Kroger

• 4 Carnation Evaporated Milk ($1/2 IP & .50/2 MQ)
• 3 Scotch Brite Sponges ($1/2 & .50/1 MQ)
• 2 Betty Crocker Boxed Potatoes (.50/2 MQ)
• 2 Hefty One Zip Bags (.55/1 MQ)
• 2 jars baby food
• 1 Crisco (.40 MQ)
• 1 Shout ($1.50 IP)
• 1 Hunts Diced Tomatoes (.40/2 any Hunts tomato product)
• 1 Hunts Tomato Paste ^see above^
• 1 Peter Pan Peanut Butter (.50 MQ)
• 1 Quaker Oats
• 1 4lb Domino Sugar (.35 MQ)
• 1 Evaporated Milk (.55 MQ)
• 1 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix (.75 IP)
• 1 Cottonelle 4pk (.50 Cellfire)

I hope I have all of those coupons right, lol. Trying to do that from memory with a case of baby brain is not always the brightest idea. :) Total OOP: $11.86 Total Saved: $32.34

Totals for the day:
OOP: $ 11.86
Saved: $79.38

Super Shopping Saturday!

Poor Hubby. He really doesn't like these days too much, lol. He appreciates the savings from couponing, just not the journey.

Since we live in BFE (the middle of nowhere) it's forced me to get organized and plan ahead. That means some Saturdays are devoted to driving to the nearest suburb (45 minutes) and getting things done. I can do some of those things on Mondays or Tuesdays when I take Little Man into the city for his therapies but some errands are just a pain when lugging around 2 small children. That category would include the "quick trips." Places that I literally need to run in and grab just a couple of things.

Of course even with all of this planning I still forget things sometimes...like my $5/$25 for CVS this weekend! I couldn't believe I forgot it. So I improvised.

Today I did well enough I need to post it. =0)
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Stop 1: CVS

• 2 Pampers - used 2 $1.50 MQ & $12.95 ECB = $4.38 on GC, total OOP: $0
• Total Saved: $19.93 & have a $5 ECB for later. (I've not been too impressed with CVS deals lately so I'm not worried about having big amounts of ECBs)

Stop 2: Walgreens

• 4 Wags Diapers - used $2 Wags Q & $5 RR = $5.39 on GC, total OOP: $0
• Total Saved: $22.98

Stop 3: Petco (Yes, you're right in thinking...they don't have pets...I did this for a friend because I didn't have time to mail her the Q's before the sale ended.)

• 3 Science Diet Dog Food - used 3 $5 IP = $0
• Total Saved: $41.97

Stop 4: HEB (Just about the only place I'll buy formula)

• 2 25oz HEB Formula - used 2 $10 HEB Q = $5.98
• Total Saved: $20

Stop 5: Kroger (I did 3 transactions because of limits & Mail in Rebates)

• 10 Carnation Evaporated Milk
• 6 powerade
• 3 glade oil candle refils
• 2 glade candles
• 2 Peter Pan Peanut Butter (MIR)
• 3 3liter Ozarka (So I know how much to drink every day & WOW!)
• 1 Dial Hand Soap
• 2 Hefty One Zips
• 4 Betty Crocker boxed Potatoes
• 2 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
• 1 Palmolive Dish Soap (MIR)
• 1 Desitin
• 1 Alka Selzer
• 1 Sour Cream
• 1 Gallon Milk
• 1 Betty Crocker Blueberry Muffin Mix
• 1 Peanut Butter Crackers

I cannot remember specifically which coupons I used but almost every single item had one plus I used the $4 CAT for the Glade on one of the transactions. After the store sale & coupons my total for all 3 transactions was $21.79 & my total Saved was $63.16. I also have MIRs worth $7.50.

That makes my daily total spent OOP: $27.77
Total Saved today: $168.04
If you include the $ put on GC instead of cash it would be $ $177.81

Not a bad haul at all!

The Savings Continue

The last post was getting long so I'm breaking it up.

Kellogg's had their $10 MIR form come out on Sun so many places are putting Kellogg's products on sale this week. Kroger's Mega Deal, which ended Tues, produced a few great transactions for me including 10 boxes of Nutrigrain bars that were CHEAP. Not bad and at the rate with which Little Man goes through them I can never actually have too many, lol.

So tonight at Walgreens I did their Kellogg's deal. I bought 4 boxes of cereal, 4 boxes of pop tarts & 2 boxes of cheez-it crackers. I also bought a small handful of school supplies & some of the Glade scented oil candle refills along with one Glade candle.

My receipt says I spent $18.95 OOP and saved $30.11. I also got 2 $5 RR (coupons to spend on your next order) and a $10 MIR to complete along with $4.40 in WAGS rebates coming to me.

So after all the rebates I will have profited $5.45 from this transaction. I'm happy with that.
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I screwed up at CVS in a major way tonight. Hubby & the cashier had a good giggle at my expense. However, when I came home and did the math I didn't do nearly as poorly as I thought. Now if CVS would just stock the products they advertise we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. :)

I got about $70 worth of stuff (toothpastes & toothbrushes, detergents, dish soaps, make-up and other goodies) and paid almost $20 on gift card. I left with $6 and some change in my pocket along with $12 in ECBs and a $1.50 MIR. That's basically a break even there. I got the gift cards by transferring prescriptions. Last week there was a coupon in our flyers here for a $30 GC when you transfer a prescription. I transferred 3 so I made a profit of $60 on that.
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Tomorrow is going to be LOTS of fun. We aren't going to be here for Diva's birthday party since we're leaving town that day. So instead we're taking the kids to Pump It Up again and after that we'll take them to Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate her fourth birthday. Oh I'm sure we'll have lots of pics tomorrow...if I remember to charge my camera battery tonight.............