Bargain Shopping

I've still been doing my "bargain shopping" and this is a picture of my latest purchase. Not a bad deal. These items average $1.78 EACH, which does include sales tax.

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I've been following this savings blog for a while now and she asked for people to send in photos of their great shopping savings skills, and she picked me and some others. I'm Pretty excited about that. This was one of my shopping trips to CVS in December.

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Shopping Trips

I had 10 50¢ coupons for these waters and Target had 'em for $1.00 each so I ended up paying $5.00 for 10. Better yet, because I purchased 10, Target was giving a $5.00 gift card. Call it what you want, but I call it... FREE!
I stopped off at Walgreens on my way to my "destination" I was there to snag some more free stuff, OK, so I had to pay tax but I still consider it free. They had these on sale for bogo and on sale price to begin with originally $3.19; SALE price: $1.99. I'm pretty clever, (if I do say so myself) I used 2 $1.00 coupons...but the scanner beeped, oh dear...The coupons exceed the price of the item, "sir can you just take 99¢ off that $1.00 coupon so It'll work?" So he did, and of course I told him to have a great day!!!


Off to my biggest bargain:
I didn't get a picture of it, but I got our new car FILLED for FREE, I'm talking like I was about to have to PUSH it, the mileage/gas indicator said I only had 23 more miles of gas left, (we planned it that way). When we purchased the car they said to fill out the survey and they would give us a full tank of gas when we wanted it. We sure took advantage of that!! We probably saved $40 bucks or very close to that maybe more:-) I didn't go to the gas station so I don't know the actual cost. (The lot tech took it.) While he did that I looked at Ford Escapes. Just let me say that after I drove about 15 miles the needle was still above the FULL mark. So we did get a FULL tank, I'm absolutely sure of that.
On my way home (finally) I stopped at another Walgreens, they had bacon 2/$6.00 and I had a $1.50 off 1 and because my printer messed up I was unable to print it again but I made good use of the other one in the Sunday coupons for JUST 75¢ off one. That's better than none (I say). So I paid $1.37 for EACH bacon, and it's Oscar Mayer, you can't beat that. When I paid, a $1.00 catalina printed out. I also noticed these Gortons Grilled Fillets which Sam and I like, they were on clearance to 75¢ EACH so I used the only coupon I had, it was for 40¢ off ANY Gortons, so I paid 35¢ for one of the 3 boxes! Then I noticed this Bertolli lasagna meal, BINGO, it was clearanced down to $2.19, I rummaged thru my coupons and found a $1.00 off one so I paid $1.19 for that bag.

That was too much fun, I wanted more, I stopped at another Walgreens to hunt for clearance items, I had to hurry I had frozen food in the trunk, I was able to snag the last Bertolli from them and use my $1.00 cat. from the previous store. YEAH ME!!!

Go visit http://www.hip2save.com/ and you'll get a million bargain/savings deal in a year, check often through out the day. And one more thing, when you see a post with an awesome deal, print the coupon RIGHT away, sometimes they reach their print pretty fast.

My Shopping Trips Lately...

This was such a fun, quick trip into Walgreen's, what makes it so fun is because Sam was with me and he got to see how I do this bargain shopping...(of course he hears about it all the time from me) This is how it played out....I had a coupon for buy one get 1 free Purex. This was great because they were running a bogo sale to begin with, so that made the other bottle absolutely FREE, so I got $12.00 in laundry detergent for FREE. Giving to my sister will be greatly appreciated by her. I also had a coupon for a FREE pkg. of Oreos when I bought a gallon of milk and an additional pkg. of Oreos(milk and cookies yum). Since the coupon didn't state what size pkg to buy I bought the small box of Oreos for 99¢ and got the BIG bag FREE. I did all the talking to the nice cashier and told him exactly how I wanted to play this coupon game out and Sam stood there quiet as a mouse taking it all in. I loved it. I had $2.00 in Walgreen's money (RR=register reward) The milk was on sale for $1.99. So I handed over just $1.35 in cash. Yeah ME!!!

Click on the pictures,you know you want to:-)This receipt is nearly as long as my granddaughter is tall!!! To get the best deal for my bucks I made 4 transactions so I could get all my Catalina's, (a paper worth X amt. off my next order, which I used to get the higher priced items: dog food, meat, toilet paper, dog treats and a jar of spice and several bags of french fries)
I couldn't even get it all in a single shot.

Not even from standing up on a chair w/ a wide lense. haha

ok, I really could have but it's too tough to see what all I have.

So I'll just "spell" it out for you.

15 boxes of B.C. potatoes FREE

12 B.C. Helpers 25¢ each

2 Macaroni Grills $1.99 ea.

2 pouches of U.Bens rice $1.16 ea.

4 cans Chunky soup 65¢ ea.

1 Barilla sauce $1.00

2 boxes of Swiss Miss 50¢ ea.

2 Welch's gr. juice $2.00 ea.

1 G-2 Gatorade FREE

3 Warm Delights 17¢ ea.

1 Louis Kemp crab delights 99¢

3 fruit cups 67¢ ea.

1 bag crappy iceberg lettuce FREE

1 bag baby organic carrots FREE

1 pkg. sliced mushrooms $1.50

3 Lunchable subs 25¢ ea.

1 Smithfiield bacon $1.58

4 Ore ida potatoes $4.00

7 Gr. Giant boxed veggies $8.?? BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALIZE ASPARAGUS WAS NOT INCL. AND THAT COST ME OVER $3.?? FOR JUST ONE BOX, SHAME ON ME. (I really splurged on that, it was really good tho, but won't do it again) ANYWAY...

2 Heluva Good Dips FREE

1 12 Big Rolls Charmin $4.79

6 pkgs. Pillsbury cookies $1.00 ea.

4 tubes Pillsbury biscuits $1.00 overage!!

6 yoplait 26¢ ea.

1 bag Chef Michaels dog food $2.99

4 B.C. fruit snacks of various kind 50¢ ea.

4 Ortega seasoning packets 12¢ overage!!

2 B.C. Supreme brownie mix around $1.17 ea.

4 Chex Mix FREE

4 toaster struddles 50¢ ea.

1 box of Tyson chicken patties $1.50

1 bag Gortons Fish fillets $2.49

1 5# box of cuties oranges $3.97

1 Kraft parm. cheese $1.99

1 shoe lace pkg. $1.59

2 different kinds of dog treats aprox. $2.49 TOTAL (one was free)

2 hershey candy bars 37¢ each, (bogo)

1 lager bag dog food $7.99

1 pkg. ground Angus beef $5.97

1 tube pillsbury sweet rolls 9¢

1 loaf bread 89¢

1 pear $1.08 OUCH!!! but it was sooooo yummy

1 pkg. Barilla pasta shells $1.98

1 small Calif. pizza $1.69

1 bag pretzels $1.34

2 bags of Joy of Cooking meals CLEARANCED out 1.99 ea.

1 jar sage $3.75

Transaction #1 Before coupons $33.98 PAID: $13.79 saved 40.59%

Transaction #2 " " $29.85 " $10.21 " 65.80%

Transaction # 3 " " $176.28 " $70.01 " 60.28%

Transaction #4 " " $49.01 " $ 6.60 " 86.53%

Combined.............. " " $289.12 " $107.01 " 63%

Target had these twin packs on clearance for $5.08 EACH. With Sam eating one just about every month, I had to tackle this deal while the getting was good. These sell for $10.35 a twin pack at Kroger!!!!
A savings of $5.49 per package and a GRAND TOTAL savings of $23.96.

CVS made a BIG woops 2 weeks ago and put ALL their Huggies wipes on sale for 2/$5.00. It was just supposed to be the little tubs but I was able to get in on the deal with a rain check. Jennifer gave me a couple coupons and so one of the 4 pkgs. ended up being free because I had a $2.00 off any Huggies coupon that printed out for me at CVS, I paired it w/ a mfr. coupon and made it free.
With all my coupons it ended up going down to $6.00 then I used part of a $25.00 gift card I had for transferring a RX. I actually gave them NO money that day! Yeah ME. These wipes come in handy for messy sticky little faces and hands, cleaning up around the counters and the bathrooms between disinfectant cleaning. I will also donate 2 packs to Blake's teacher because she uses wipes in her classroom. Donating makes me feel good.

Bargain Shopping at CVS

Can you read that receipt? OK, I made a close up bellow.

Oh and I still have $14.00 FUN money to spend.

A BIG DEAL

The other day I was at the mall and stopped in one of my favorite stores, The Children's Place. I couldn't believe I was able to snatch so many good finds. The fleece top/jacket for Jayde was just $2.99 both pj's were $2.99 each, (one has snowmen and I just know Jayde will enjoy them, not sure if they are boys but she won't mind) but my favorite finds (and ONE of my weaknesses) mittens, gloves, and hats were just 99¢ EACH. I ended up with the lion set for a friend who just had a baby he'll be warm next year (I think ahead) and I'm sure the striped mittens will go with whatever color coat Jayde has next winter. The gloves are for the following winter, maybe even the one after that, we'll see how long we can get them on her. Kids need lots of mittens when they play in the snow and a pair at grandmas house too. I would NEVER pay FULL price but w/o sale it comes to $71.50 and I PAID $14.82 and that includes tax, yeah ME.

SHOPPING TRIPS

Here are all my envelopes and I'm ready to walk out the door. My fantastic savings trip to Meijer, (I made a caption at the bottom of the picture)

I had a successful trip to Walgreens, YIP I only paid 9¢ for EACH candle; and I'll be getting $5.00 back in a rebate too!

This is from 3 different stores it wasn't much alone so I put them all together. The dishwasher tabs came out to just 6¢ a load so I got 5 boxes. Both canisters of wipes ended up costing me ONLY 25¢/ 12.5 cents each waaaa hoooo! Oh and the tide was FREE . Lean Cuisine was 79¢ and the shrimp was just 69¢.

Bargain Shopping

This was just a quick trip to Kroger:

It only cost me $1.63

4 B.C instant potatoes w/2 pouches each

4 Del Monte diced tomatoes

2 Colgate toothpaste 6.4 oz size (we don't even use this, but it was free) Food Pantry item, indeed

2 Twix candy bars (Free)

+ I used my own burlap bag so -3¢

Bargain Shopping

As you can tell, I like to get the best deal I can on everything I buy, and I would say I achieved it very nicely, I'm going back to get another 10 items and get an immediate $5.00 off and use more coupons I've printed and cut out from the newspaper. I may even post the shopping trip photo. Before coupons and sale prices $26.16 after coupons and sales and promo $3.82 YIP, I'm good!
The other day when I was at Target I came across another weakness of mine, I love M&M's and I got three bags @ 74¢ ea.

I opened all the bags and look at all that candy!

To make eating easier, I mean to conserve on space, I opend each bag and filled this 41/2 cup bowl nearly all the way, and oh BTW, you get 16-18 pcs mostly 18 though in each FUN size bag.

They came in handy when Jayde went on the potty, REWARD time! She's getting the hang of it.

Bargain Shopping

I went to Biggs the other day and look at the stuff I got for just $44.10. I saved 64% because my beginning total was $122.57. I could barely believe it, I knew I was good but wow!

Super Double Coupons at Kmart

Because Kmart is setting a limit of just 10 coupons I asked my husband to go along with me and he willingly came along:-) Shopping is not his idea of "FUN", I think he was amazed at how well I did. The 2 packs of diapers ended up costing a total of $12.00 and the 2 pkgs. of Purex added another $4.00 of course that is after coupons, the spaghetti sauce added another total of $4.00 ($1.00 each). That is $20.00 right there and there was at least $2.?? in tax, so really not a bad shopping trip, another one I'm proud of.

THEN:

Just like that, I started to spend I mean waste the profits on ONE loaf of bread for Sam's lunch tomorrow costing $2.89! It has to be cheaper than eating out, but it hurts when that happens. Never buy bread at the gas station because your definitely paying convience charges!

Bargain Shopping

I went to Meijer the other day and you see what I got and how much I paid! Click on the picture. Of course I used a ton of coupons and sale prices.

I didn't take a picture of the 2-24packs of Aquafina water and the FREE rotisserie chicken that I paid just $7.00 which I actually didn't pay for (read on) I had separate orders because I had another $15.00 coupon(I used it on my big order above) I got it from my daughter because I transferred my RX there. I used a $10.00 coupon on THIS order. They don't allow you to use 2 on one order so I also added some chips to the order because if they're taking $10.00 off you want to be over or at the $10.00 mark. Hope this makes sense.

Michelle, I am sorry for chopping everyone but the girls heads off in the picture.

Tippy Tuesday

I pulled the above food out just for picture purpose.

A partial view of my stock.

Here is your weekly Tuesday Tip. If you know me or anything about me you would most likely know I like to "stock up" when I see a bargain. How do I keep all my bargain/sale food from going out of date it's so simple, I mark the top of the can with the month and year I bought it and rotate "stock", just like they're supposed to do in the grocery store.

Tippy Tuesday

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

This is how I keep my coupons and store bargains together till I get there and pay: I have several envelopes marked with the store name and stick my list and coupons in there. Most of my coupon hunting is done for me before I step in the sometimes crowded stores, I get these envelopes from the bills that I pay online and if I'm going to their store I pay it while I am there, sure beats a postage stamp:-)

Grocery Shopping Bargain

I was at Meijer a few weeks ago and I keep thining of showing off my terrific bargain I got so I am doing it finally. Like I wrote all this for just $1.99 and with out coupons it would be $11.06!

Bargains From Last Week

I think the pictures say it all, so I will let them speak.

As you can see, I was able to snatch up a bunch of yogurt and then 2 bundles of 216 ct. wipes all for a grand total of $7.52. I like yogurt and it's good for a snack anytime of day.

Below you will see 8 packs of Cheetos I even picked up a couple bags for my son-in-law, Jim, he enjoys HOT tasting food so the flaming hot ones are for him. I did try them and can not eat more than 2 at a time, so at that rate, they will be stale. I didn't want them anyway, just needed a sample. Then with Blake wanting fruit snacks I threw in a box and yahoo, my total was....drum roll please...44cents, FOR EVERYTHING IN THE PICTURE. To make things more exciting I used my gift card I got when purchasing the razors in a previous post. I just may take up shopping for others, oh, wait, I already do that for my church food pantry.

P.S. I just couldn't keep my hands still they had to have their 2 cents.

Bargain Shopping

I went to Target last week and bought 4 of these

I sent one with Jennifer to Erie

total cost: 56 CENTS or 14 Cents EACH

They'll be great for a sweet addition to Sam's lunch or a healthy snack for me.

Next bargain I show is from Target also:

These razors each came with 2 blades.

What a Trip (shopping)

You can ALWAYS click on ANY picture to enlarge it.

I paid Kroger a visit last Saturday and look at the list of things I got:

5 packs T.P.

10 bags vegetable steamers

1 cr.cheese

4 bags shredded cheese

1 brick of cheese

2 Armour meatballs

4 frozen pizzas

2 giant candy bars

1 box of Taquito's

2 bags of cheetos

1 box kleenex

1 cantaloupe

1 snapple

1 daisy sour cream

1 1/2 gallon milk

2 Fiber One bars

1 1/2 gallon Tropicana O.J.

1 box Orville R. popcorn

3 packs of Kool-Aid

I did not pay the regualr amount which would of been $114.69

Instead after coupons and sale prices I paid....ready? $39.53

I saved 65%!

Bargain shopping AGAIN...

Sunday we went to Kroger. I needed eggs and of course they come in Styrofoam so I won't touch the carton, therefore, Sam got to see how well I do this coupon shopping task.

The toilet paper were both FREE

veggies 50 cents each

Kashi cereal 1.00 EACH

Danactive 1.00 EACH

Activia 1.00 EACH

00p cost: $6.06

my TOTAL SAVINGS were $17.51

Bargain Grocery Shopping

Last Saturday I went to Meijer and stocked up on some stuff I had coupons for and that was on sale. How do you like my haul?

I got:

1Bisquick (99 cents)

3 loaves of bread(bog2f)

1Chex Mix (I just made umteen batches to take to Erie for Christmas gifts and we didn't go yet due to too much snow fall) (FREE)

1Turkey bacon (not on sale)

1 Green Giant veggies (FREE)

2 Fiber One poptarts (FREE)

6 Fiber One bars (I hope they're good) (1.00/box)

12 yogurt (39 cents EACH)

2 boxes of potatoes (20 cents each)

1 pouch of potatoes(9 cents)

2 boxes of snackers (1.00 EACH)

2 pizza rolls (FREE)

2 pepperoni packs

1 Hunts spaghetti sauce

1 can of pudding (FREE)

1 Snapple drink (29 cents)

3 biscuits (FREE)

4 cans of soup (not sure but I had coupons and Sam was needing soup)

2 Yoplait drinkables because Blake enjoys these (50 cents each)

I paid $29.78 for it all. But I saved $60.67!