Monday, July 20, 2009

Staples this week!

Okay, Staples again. It takes a little bit out of pocket, but you’ll get it all back and then some…considering that they have everything in stock (ack!).

Scenario (Buy 1 of each free after rebate item):
**Electric Pencil Sharpener $10
**Zebra Cadoozles 0.7 mm mechanical pencils, 10/pack $2.99
**Zebra Sarasa retractable gel pens, medium, black, 5/pack $4.99
**Pentel Handy Lines retractable assorted highlighters, 4/pack $4.99
**Staples photo supreme 8½" x 11" paper, 50/pack $12.98 (if bought alone, it would be $1 after rebate)
**Backpack priced around $15

Total: $50.95

Use the $10 off $50 Office Depot Coupon (they take competitor coupons!)

Pay: $40.95 + tax

Rebates Received: $49.95 ($10 Pencil Sharpener, $2.99 Mechanical Pencils, $4.99 Gel Pens, $4.99 highlighters and $11.98 Staples Photo Supreme Paper Easy Rebates + 100% back in Staples Rewards for backpack)

Final Cost: $9 overage!

Terms defined:
Easy Rebate – SUPER easy, your receipt prints out all the information you need. After your purchase, take a few minutes at the computer and enter your receipt numbers, a check will come in the mail in a few weeks
Staples Rewards – with a Staples Reward card you get 10% back quarterly on all ink/toner and paper purchases, you also get $3 for every used ink/toner you turn in. Staples Rewards are mailed to your home and may be used on future Staples purchases.

Wags through 7/25

**Tylenol Extra Strength $4.99 with $3RR, use $2 newspaper coupon = free...update The only $2 coupon I had left was for Tylenol arthritis, it worked for the RR also...all those drugs are the same, arthritis, extra strength, back and body...look at the ingredients...no difference...
**Pilot G2 Gel Pens (2 pk) $1 with $1 RR = free
**Buy 3 Reach/Listerine products 3 for $9 get $3RR, use 3 - $2 off coupons = free (if the coupons don't show up, put in zip code 90210). OR use the BOGO Reach toothbrush coupon and 2 - $2 off coupons = $1 overage. This is a month-long deal, I’ve mentioned it before.
**Excedrin Tension Express gelcaps (40 ct) or Migraine geltabs (50 ct) buy one at $6.99 get one free + get $5 RR (on 2), use 2 - $1 newspaper coupons = 2 free (this is another month long deal that was not in this weeks paper, but was in others). update Tension Express comes in a sealed package of buy one get one free, 2-40 packs, so I used one $2 off an "80 ct" and 1 $1 off coupon for $1 overage!
**Lysol Neutra Air Aerosol Twin packs $3.49, buy 2 twin packs, use the BOGO newspaper coupons + $1.50 coupon from the newspaper and your final cost is $1.99, that’s just $.48 per can!

CVS through 7/25

I’ve got a lot of posting to do again this week! There are some great sales! We’ll start with CVS, because I heart CVS.

Three Days only – Sun-Tue (I shopped Sunday at a 24-hour CVS and found NOTHING, but hopefully the regular stores will still have some stock…):
**Caliber/CVS filler paper $2 with $2 ECB = free
**Caliber/CVS Memo book $.99 with .99ECB = free
**Caliber/CVS No. 2 Pencils $1.99 with $1.99ECB = free
**PaperMate 1.2 pens .99 with .99ECB = free
**Vinyl Binder 1″ $3 with $3ECB = free

Rest of the week:
**Speed Stick Pro Deodorant $2.99 with $2ECB print a $1.50 off coupon (if you don’t see it, put in zip 33907) = $.50 overage
**Kodak Picture Movie DVD $9.99 with $9.99ECB = free
**CVS Pantiliners .89 with .89ECB = free
**Sobe Life Water $1.79 BOGO, use this BOGO coupon and get 2 for free (I printed 2 earlier, I’m not sure if all the coupons are gone, or if just my coupon limit is reached)
**Johnson & Johnson/Band-Aid/Neosporin, buy $10 get $5 ECB. You should have lots of $1 off coupons for these products! In the travel-size section there are J&J To Go Kits for $.99 and there is a $1 off J&J newspaper coupon. If you happen to have 10 of these coupons, you would make a good profit, but I do not – I used it as a filler to get to $10. I bought $.99 J&J To Go Kit, $3.59 Transformers Band-Aids (there are Hello Kitty for your girls out there) and $5.69 Neosporin, used 3 - $1 coupons. My overall cost was $2.27. I think that’s pretty good for the name brand stuff!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Target through 7/18

Look at me posting for the 2nd day in a row! I don't know how I'm going to get to all these great deals this week, but I think it will be worth it! I haven't posted about Target before, because CVS, Walgreens and the other random stores in between keep me pretty busy, but Target has some super sales this week. I usually get in trouble at Target because I love everything there and it’s difficult to walk out empty handed. These are food deals though, so if I stay close to the food section & not wander, I should be okay…

I was originally only going to post about the Kellogg's Fuel for School Rebate, but digging deeper there are a TON of great deals this week. So I’ll start with the rebate and branch out. Get your coupon printer ready, we’re going to give it a work out!

If you didn’t pull the Kellogg's rebate out of the paper Sunday, you may print one here (sign up/in to get it). In order to receive the $10 rebate you must buy 10 Kellogg’s items in one transaction. There are a TON of Kellogg’s items that qualify, and I’m sure there will be lots of sales over this next month that would be quite fruitful.

I first posted about Eggo’s BakeShop products that are $1.50 each at Target and had numerous sites offering $1 off coupons…but all those coupons have disappeared. There are still some options though…
**Keebler Fudge Shoppe Cookies, buy 5 at $2.54 each, print 5 - $1 off coupons. Pay $7.70, get back a $5 Target gift card AND it counts for 5 of your 10 rebate items ($5) so your overage would be $2.30 on these 5 items!
**Kellogg’s Mini Wheats and/or Raisin Bran Crunch $1.88 each, use $1 coupons from the paper = $.88 out of pocket, submit for the rebate and you get $.12 overage on each one after the rebate. If you used or lost your $1 coupon, here is a $1.50 off 2 which would make it cost $.13 each ($1.50 off for coupon and $2 off for rebate)
**You may fill in with the Eggo Bakeshop products at $1.50 each, after the rebate they would be about $.50 each, which isn’t bad. Just be sure to get all 10 Kellogg’s/Keebler products in one transaction.
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Some other deals to check out:
**Buy 10 Sobe Life Waters at $1 each get a $5 Target gift card, print 5 BOGO coupons. Pay $5 out of pocket, get back a $5 GC = 10 for free!
**Crystal Light, 3 pack (probably by the registers) $.99, print $1 off 1, $2 off 2 = free

****Target printable coupons****
Target posts coupons on their website almost every week. They often have lengthy expiration dates, but Target usually doesn’t leave the coupons on their site for that long. In comes “Target coupon generators.” A Full Cup has great generator on their website (under the coupons tab) but I think that you have to sign in, in order to see them, it looks like Organic Grocery Deals also has a generator and may be easier to access. These generators are often more printer friendly and easily accessible when you forget to print them when they first appear. Target coupons may be used with manufacturer coupons.You can print as many Target coupons as you want, so look through them and see if you see anything else exciting!

Options for Target + Manufacturer coupons:
Select Kashi Cereals $2.66. Buy 2 boxes of Cereal and use one Target BOGO coupon along with one $1 off coupon. Then print 2 $1.50 off manufacturer coupons. Your total overage would be $1.34, and that is AT the register, so be sure to buy other items with these...

MorningStar Farms Garden Veggie Patties (9.5 oz.) are 1.64. Buy 2 boxes for a total of $3.28, use $2 off 2 Target coupon and this $1 off coupon and you get both for $.28

Edy's Slow Churned ice cream (small 6 oz containers) $1.19, use the $1 off Target coupon and final cost .19!

Duncan Hines Cake Mix $.97, use $.50 off Target coupon and get it for $.47!


Disclaimer: Posting on this blog is a way of organizing all my thoughts and I have not been to Target yet this week. Hopefully the items are accurately marked on the aisle! There were a lot of links in this post, so if you find any that are incorrect, please let me know!!!

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Post #4 today

Don't let the other posts from today get buried, there are some great deals going on this week.

My last one for today is a magazine deal, it's not free, but I love magazines. I flip through them and tear out pages and have great aspirations to fulfill the ideas in them...I have about 5 binders (which I bought from Staples last summer for about $.10) full of articles that I've torn out ranging from crafts to food to gardening arranged in order in page protectors just waiting for a day to accomplish just one of those fancy ideas...some day...anyway...

Real Simple is on sale on Amazon for $5 for a year subscription. Cover price is $54! I love it!

Restaurant Deals! **updated with new coupon code**

Arby's
If you didn't get a free BBQ Bacon Cheddar RoastBurger coupon from Arby's last week, they're giving more away! Click here for the coupon, free with any drink purchase (small drink costs a little less than $1.50!)

Smokey Bones
If you have a paper route and can grab as many of the $10 off $20 coupons (that only come in the daily paper) for Smokey Bones that you want, then you've got a pretty awesome job, but for those of us that don't get up at 4am daily, that coupon is now available online. The Smokey Bones on Hurstbourne has 1/2 price appetizers before 6pm on weekdays, so Liz and I have been there quite a few times getting the sampler app as a kid's meal and using the coupons for us, usually paying less than $25 (after tip) for all four of us to eat a ridiculous amount of food.

Half Off Depot (Max & Erma's & more)
I decided I wanted a Tomato Mozzarella Chicken sandwich pretty soon, so I ordered two (I'm paying shipping, just go ahead and order multiples) $20 gift certificates for $10 a piece from Half Off Depot. The website mentioned a 1-2 weeks shipping time, but I ordered on Thursday and they were in my mailbox on Saturday! I am so excited to use them! Check out their website for even more deals!

Wendy's
I love Wendy's $.99 menu. I also love that when I'm not in the mood for fries, I can substitute a salad or baked potato or whatever else in my value meal. Last week I saw an TV ad for there new saucy chicken things (I don't know if they're wings or legs or what) and they looked so yummy. Here is a $1 coupon off those chicken things in case you want to try them!

Restaurant.com (bd's Mongolian Grill)
If I haven’t mentioned enough how much I love Restaurant.com, let me start by saying, I love restaurant.com. I can’t even count how many times Jeremy and I have visited restaurants that we would have never gone to before, or that may have been too expensive to visit without this website. There are currently 49 restaurants in the Louisville area offering great deals. If you live remotely close to a medium sized city, you’re going to have great luck on this website.

**Restaurant review...
This weekend we visited bd's Mongolian Grill on Hurstbourne. You grab a bowl, fill it with anything from the meat bar (chicken, scallops steak, etc.), veggie bar (anything you can think of) and then sauce bar (you can stay inside your comfort zone or go crazy here). It was $12.99 per adult. 2 and under (Jacob!) get the same meal but it’s free! In addition to the ridiculous amount of food you get, they have $1 draft beer everyday all day. Jeremy was dumbfounded. The drink he got (I couldn’t name it now) would have been way more than $6 for a 6 pack in the store…and was $2 less than the Dr.Pepper I was drinking! We had a $25 gift certificate which required a $35 purchase, so after our meals and drinks we both had to get dessert to reach our minimum! I bought the certificates at 70% off a few weeks ago, so after food, drinks, taxes, tip and the certificate we got out paying $18. Isn’t that crazy! Jeremy and I high-fived when we got our bill…

Once you buy a GC from them you'll get updates and coupons codes almost weekly (if the GC you want is already sold out check the 1st of next month). Use coupon code "kitchen" to get 60% off any gift certificate(s) + one free $10 gift certificate! I think you would put two GCs (at least) in your cart, one being a $10 one and after entering the code everything would be discounted.