Score of a deal!

Last week I went to Walgreen's and got all this:

 6 Crest complete toothpaste

4 Oral B toothbrushes

2 cover girl mascara

4 carmex cap stick

6 candy corn

1 milky way

6 $0.25 candies as fillers

The total for all this: $68.26

My total: $10.28!!!

Total Saved: $57.98 Oh yeah!

So how did I do it? 

The toothpaste and toothbrushes were $5.50 for 2, with a $3.50 register reward, making the 2 items $1 each.

 Then I had $2 off one Crest complete toothpaste or Oral B toothbrush, making each item a $1 money maker! 

I also had a $8 off 2 cover girl make-up and they were buy one get one half off.

I basically had to get the other stuff just so the register didn't show they owed me money and because at Walgreen's, you can't have more items than coupons, and register rewards count as coupons.

$350.08 for $22.48

These past two weeks have been great weeks to build up my food storage again.

Albertsons is having another great sale. Pretty much the same sale as the one they had about 6 months ago when they had tons of ConArga products on sale. It was the same deal as last time. Buy $25 worth of any ConArga products and get a $10 catallina coupon to spend on your next transaction. The awesome part is that the $25 is on the regular price, so once the sale price came off at the register and you use a $10 off catallina (if you have a previous transaction) you can walk away with lots of stuff for free or next to free.

On Wednesday, even though I was not feeling well, (I could not pass up this great deal) I went to Albertsons with Shiloh (Mason and Cooper were both in school) and did 15 transactions. Here is what I got:

85 cans of Healthy Choice soup
15 cans of Chef BoyArDee ravioli
6 Hunts BBQ sauce
4 Hunts Ketchup
3 Pam cooking sprays
2 Wesson oil
2 Jars of Salsa
26 cans of green beans(on sale for $0.50)-6 to make 3 of my transactions $10 trans. so I could use my $10 off coupon and make the trans. free, and 20 cans so I could use my last $10 off coupon, making that trans. free as well.

My final out of pocket total was $22.48. If all this stuff wasn't on sale I would have spent $350.08. That is a 94% savings!

I am going to show my step mom how to do this sale later today, I just might pick up a few more things.

$60.32 for FREE!

This past week (Wed.-Tues.) Albertsons had Classico pasta sauce on sale for $2 each. Albertsons also had double your manufacture coupons coupons in their add. I found $1 off 1 Classico pasta sauce coupons on ebay. So when you double that manufacture coupon, it makes the sauce FREE! I got 16 jars of sauce, which would have been $60.32 at regular price.

And yes, I did know that Hunts pasta sauce was going to be on sale the very next day for pretty much $0, but can you say YUCK!?!?-when it comes to Hunts pasta sauce. It was well worth getting the coupons on ebay to have the better tasting sauce.

Score!

Last week Albertsons was having a big sale! For every $25 you spent on participating items (there were like 45 different items) you got $10 back on your next shopping order. Usually the $25 is calculated on the sale price, but this time it was on the regular price. So this made it an even BIGGER sale.

So what did I get?
130 cans of Healthy Choice soup
25 boxes of Swiss Miss cocoa mix
33 Hunts pudding packs
25 cans of ravioli
24 cake mixes
18 brownie mixes
17 can of frostings
13 cans of refried beans
12 boxes of popcorn
9 packages of sausage
8 bottles of oil
7 5lb bags of flour
7 mustards
6 boxes of crunch n much
5 jars of jelly
5 12 double rolls of toilet paper
3 8 roll paper towels
1 peanut butter

So what did I pay for all this?
$47.68

What did I save?
$867.83

I did all this in about 35 transactions with NO coupons! I could have saved a little more if I had done a few of my transactions with different combinations of items. The soup was a money maker, so most of my transactions had soup in them, but I really didn't want anymore soup, so I did a few transactions without soup and paid a little more for each item.

Cereal deal

It has been awhile since I've seen any really good deals at the grocery stores that I couldn't pass up. I could have passed this one up, but our cereal supply was getting dangerously low...like 20 boxes, so I figured I better take advantage of it. You too can still take advantage of this! Until this next Tuesday for every 10 Kellogg's products you buy at Safeway, a coupon good for $10 off your next purchase will print out at the register. All the items I bought were on sale for $1.99, with the only exception being the Frosted Mini Wheats at $2.99. So if you just took advantage of this deal, without any coupons, once you apply the $10.00 off coupon, you could get everything for $0.99 (or $1.99 for the FMW). That's an okay deal. But I also have kept my coupons that come in the Sunday pinch (a free paper that comes with all the coupons and some store ads from that weeks Sunday paper). I LOVE the pinch, it gives me just what I want, the coupons, while leaving out what I don't, the paper AKA the one sided, only report the bad, news. So each product I bought I was also able to put a $0.50-$1.00 off each item coupon with the product. My final bill you ask? I paid $25.29 for everything in two seperate trasactions. AND I have 1 $10.00 off my next purchase coupon, so you could say I paid $15.29 for all this, an average of $0.76 per item. 12 boxes of cereal, 5 boxes of Pop tarts (for Jeff, I find them less than tasty), 3 boxes of Nutri-Grain bars, and 1 gallon of milk.

I also ordered more coupons off ebay yesterday, so my ceral supply will soon be back up to the levels I like!

Cake anyone?

This week Safeway is having an AWESOME deal on Betty Crocker cake mixes, frosting, and brownie mixes. For every 2 that you buy, you get 3 free! I found coupons for $0.75 off for every cake mix AND frosting you purchase. I bought 10 cake mixes and 10 frosting. The total before the 12 free ones and 10 coupons came off was $31.80. My final total was $4.43. Or instead of paying $1.69 for the cake mixes and $1.49 for the frosting, I paid $0.22 each.

DEALS! this month

This has been a great month for deals! Not so great having to do some extra running around, but well worth the money I saved plus having 1-3+ years worth of each of these products for the price of just a few of these at regular price is pretty nice.

Revlon eyeshadow = $1.49
Revlon mascara = $2.49
General Mills cereal = $0.61

Kleenex tissue = $0.24
Betty Crocker frosting = $0.16
Herbal Essence shampoo, conditioner, and styling products =FREE (I just had to pay the $0.20 in tax)

Bisquick

I have always debated whether or not if I should write about the great deals I find at the grocery store or not. I finally decided to share one of these great deals. Albertsons is running a sale right now on Bisquick (40 oz. size) 2/$5. That in it's self is NOT a great deal, but along with that, if you buy $10 in Bisquick (and/or other participating items) Albertsons will give you $4 off your final grocery bill. So, if you buy 4 boxes of Bisquick for $10, take $4 off, then you just paid $6 for 4 boxes of Bisquick. OH BUT WAIT! I just found $1 off coupons for the Bisquick on ebay. So now my final price will be $2 for 4 boxes of Bisquick!!! Yup, I will end up paying $0.50 for each box of Bisquick!

OK, so here the one down fall to "buying" coupons off ebay, you don't get to choose the quantity of coupons you want to "buy", the seller does. So, I had to order 20-$1.00 off coupons, and well, I really don't need 20 boxes of Bisquick. So for anyone who is saying right now (and lives or will be in the Spokane area) "I wish I could get that same deal on Bisquick". You can! I am going to go ahead and buy all 20 boxes of Bisquick, and am willing to "sell" (probably) 10 of the boxes for $0.60 ($0.50=cost of Bisquick and $0.10=cost to ship each coupon to my house). If you are interested in buying some of the Bisquick, let me know. You can buy one box or all boxes.

***12/16/08 update**** So I went to Albertson's to cash in on my great deal and they didn't have as many of the Bisquick as I wanted, so I got a rain check and will be going back in, in a few days to get the Bisquick.

Just to give you an idea of how great a deal this is...the 40oz. Bisquick is normally $4.39.

If you take $3.89 (amount saved) divide it by $4.39. Total saved is 88%