Showing posts with label My All-Time Best Shopping Trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My All-Time Best Shopping Trips. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Walgreens Trip--They paid ME this time!

**EDIT:  I forgot that I also receive a rebate!  See revised totals at bottom**

New to Walgreens?  Read my How To Do Walgreens post here.
Need this week's deals?  Read about them here.

Today was a great trip mainly because of my accumulation of rain checks.  We had a great time.  Here's what we came home with:



  • 3 Scotch mailers
  • 5 Gain Dish Detergent (rain check for .89.  Coupon made overage)
  • 8 Ricola Throat Drops
  • 1 Blistex Lip Care
  • 2 Oral-B CrossAction toothbrushes
  • 1 Schick Hydro (rain check making razor $2.99.  Coupon made overage)
  • 3 Nivea Lip products (rain check making it $1)
  • 1 Morton Salt
  • 4 Bufferin Low Dose aspirin
  • 1 Thermacare patch (rain check making it .99)
  • 2 Oreo Fudge Cremes

Coupons used:
  • (5) $1/1 Gain Dish detergent (totaled .55 overage)
  • (4) $1/2 Ricola Throat Drops AND the .50/1 Ricola from the October Savings booklet)
  • B1G1 Free Oral-B CrossAction
  • $1/1 Oral-B CrossAction toothbrushes
  • $4/1 Shick Hydro Razor (totaled $1.01 overage)
  • $2/2 Nivea Lip products
  • $1/1 Nivea Lip products
  • (4) $3/1 Bufferin Aspirin AND $3/1 Bufferin from the October Savings booklet)
  • $1/1 Thermacare 
  • (2) $1/1 Oreo Fudge Cremes printable (no longer available) (totaled .82 overage)
Regular Price:  $84.89
I paid: .65
I left with: $2.60 RR
I will also receive a rebate of $2.99!
THEY PAID ME $4.94 to take everything home!!


Saturday, July 31, 2010

AMAZING Kroger Trip #2!!!!

As if yesterday's deals weren't amazing enough, Kroger started their 50% off of General Mills, Betty Crocker, and Quaker products sale today!! Go here for more information about this sale.

Here's what I got today:


4 boxes Fiber One cereal (Buy 4, get $4 back Catalina deal)
3 big boxes Cheerios
1 big box Honey Nut Cheerios
1 box Total cereal
1 bag Nature's Valley Nut Clusters
1 Olay Quench lotion
1 Olay Regenerist cleansing wipes
2 Frank's Hot sauce
2 Weber Grill seasonings
1 box Crayola markers
3 Cover Girl mascara
3 Cover Girl eye shadow
3 Cover Girl makeup puffs

Coupons I used:

Regular Price: $94.70
I paid: $8.60
I receive: I purchased enough Olay and Cover Girl items to submit for this rebate (Purchase $30 worth of Olay, Venus, Covergirl, Secret, or Pantene, and receive $10 back). Now, to sweeten this deal, I'll get $10 back!!

Soooo.....I GOT PAID $1.40 to buy this stuff!!!!

Friday, July 30, 2010

AMAZING Kroger Trip, July 30, 2010

New to Kroger? Go here.

I'm beyond thrilled about this trip! There are not enough exclamation points to convey my excitement! Kroger is having its Procter & Gamble sale this week. Buy any 4 participating P&G products, get $4 off of your order instantly.

I did 2 transactions. The first is mostly my P&G items.
I got:
2 Ronzoni pastas
1 Downy fabric softener (Fragrance Free!! This is hard to find. We have to have it because of Kevin's breathing troubles.)
12 Crest toothpaste
2 Old Spice Body Red Zone body washes
2 Old Spice regular body washes
1 Febreeze Air Effects room spray
1 Covergirl nail polish
3 Covergirl eye shadow singles
2 bars Olay body soap
4 Oral B Indicator toothbrushes
2 Lady Speed Stick deodorant
2 Softsoap hand soaps
1 A&W dessert topper (prints a $2.50 store coupon!!)
1 large box Bounce Dryer Sheets (again, fragrance free!!)

Coupons used:
  • (2) $1/1 Ronzoni pasta (I find these in most of the magazines I subscribe to)
  • (1) $1/1 Downy Fabric Softener (from the $100 Year of Savings coupon booklet) AND the $2/1 Kroger e-coupon or P&G e-coupon
  • (4) .75/1 Crest toothpaste
  • (8) .50/1 Crest toothpaste
  • (1) $1/2 Old Spice body wash coupon AND $1/2 Old Spice body wash, deodoarnt, or body spray P&G e-coupon
  • (1) $1/2 Old Spice Body wash coupon AND $2/1 Old Spice Red Zone body wash Kroger e-coupon
  • (1) $1/1 Febreeze Air Effects spray AND $1/1 Febreeze Air Effects Kroger e-coupon
  • (4) $1/1 Any Covergirl Product
  • (1) $1/1 Olay Bar, Body Wash, or In Shower lotion AND $1.50/1 Olay Bar, Body Wash, or In Shower lotion P&G e-coupon
  • (2) $2/2 Oral B Indicator toothbrushes AND (1) .75/1 Oral B Manual toothbrush P&G e-coupon
  • (2) .50/1 Speed Stick or Lady Speed Stick
  • (2) .35/1 Softsoap Handsoap
  • (1) $1.50/1 Bounce Dryer sheet coupon (received in mail)
  • (1) .75/1 Dessert Toppers Cellfire e-coupon
I paid with the $5 store coupon that I got from the Kraft Deal last week and $1.82 cash. I then received the $2.50 coupon for the A&W dessert topper!

Regular Price: $102.99
I paid: 1.82 OOP
I received: $2.50 back!!!!
It was like getting paid .68 to take everything home!


For my 2nd transaction I got things that we needed:
1 gallon milk (reduced to $1.25)
2 BIG boxes Post Raisin Bran (on sale for $2.50 each)
1 package of pretzels (didn't need these, but the children were about to wither away from starvation right there in the store. It was a sad, sad thing!)
2 bunches bananas (one reduced because I want to make banana bread/muffins)
1 Feta cheese (reduced to 1.50)
1 Cherub grape tomatoes (B1G1 Free)
1 Sunburst cherry tomatoes (B1G1 Free)

Coupons used:
  • Get $1.50/1 milk when you buy 2 Post Cereals
I paid with the $2.50 coupon from my first transaction and $10.76.

Regular Price: $23.04
I paid: 10.76 OOP

Sooooooooo,
In the end, I got $127.43 worth of stuff for $11.44!!

Yay for coupons!!!!