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Normally I do my Adventures in Couponing posts on Sundays, but with the holiday season I am all off on my schedule.  Not to mention that the dining room table was Santa’s Workshop so there wasn’t even the place to take the pictures.  But last night, we got it together and here we are with some more smokin’ hot deals.

Rhodes rolls.  Ever had ’em?  They are insanely good.  The only thing better than these rolls is homemade rolls.  But since those are out of the question for me, these are hands down the best rolls on the market.  Regular price $2.99.  On sale at Albertsons for $2.50.  I had $1 off any Rhodes product, doubled that, and got these for 50-cents each.

Philadelphia cream cheese is so holiday, isn’t it?  I love me some cream cheese too.  The only thing that makes cream cheese better is when it’s free.  Everything tastes better when it’s free – heh.  Regular price on these was $1.99, they were on sale for 99-cents each, I had coupons for $1 off (2) which I doubled and got (2) FREE per coupon.  That’s (6) free cream cheeses right there, my friends.

How do you follow free cream cheese?  That’s tough to do.  But free Cool Whip and Nestle Tollhouse cookies can beat free cream cheese.  The Cool Whip was on sale for $1, I had coupons for $1 off (2) which I doubled and scored (6) free Cool Whips.  The Nestles were on sale for $2, I had coupons for $1 off (1) which I doubled and got (2) for free.

I had more of these Cranberry Sierra Mists, like (10) of them, but we drank a bunch of them before taking the pictures last night.  They were $1.99 on sale for $1.25 and each bottle had a peelie on it for 50-cents off.  Doubled the peelies for $1 off each bottle which made them 25-cents each.  The Bayers were NOT on sale – they were at their normal price of $2.49.  I had coupons for $1 off each, doubled them and got these for 49-cents each.  That’s a great stock-up price.  Nothing worse than someone being sick in the house and having to run out to the Walgreens or wherever and having to pay $6 for something. 

Ohhhh the Zoo Pals!  This was a sa-weeet deal because I got a deal on top of the deal.  So these cute lil’ kiddie paper plates are normally $2.99 each.  They were on sale for $1.50 which is not a bad price at all; not a stock-up price, but not a bad one for a little something fun for the kids’ lunch time.  I had coupons for $1 off each which I doubled and got them free.  And THEN I had coupons for buy 2, get 1 free.  So for every 2 that I “bought” (even though I doubled and got free), I got a 3rd one for free.  I got (9) of these bad boys for free – big score!

And how do you follow a big score?  With an even bigger one – ha.  We’re callin’ this one the Great Tillamook Haul of 2010.  I don’t “do” Facebook.  My feeling is that if I wanted to be friends or keep in touch with all those people from back in the day, we would still be in touch 😉  That being said, there are a lot of companies that have coupons and contests on their Facebook pages.  So I did create a dummy Facebook account just to be able to log in and print out coupons on manufacturer sites.  The Tillamook Cheese folks had a $1 off coupon on their page.  Do you have Tillamook cheese where you are or is it just a PNW thing?  It’s good cheese…really good cheese.  And when I went to print out the coupon, it was a PDF and not a normal 1-2 time print.  PDF to me means happy days are here again! – LOL

 

I printed out (40) coupons ONLY because the cheese was on sale this particular week.  Regular price was $4.19!! but on sale for $2 each, double the dollar = free; cha-ching-ching-ching!!  I gave (10) coupons to a coupon lady at work, got me (20), and then sent my husband to another Albies for another (10) – sometimes it’s nice to not wipe a store out of all their sale product and leave it there for the poor fella that’s going to come by and pay full price for it – heh.

And just a little follow-up to last week’s Adventures in Couponing post, I took a boatload of coupons, and my Walgreens Jingle Cash – see last week’s post for explanation – and this was my total before…: 

….and after coupons and Walgreens Jingle Cash….:

Fun stuff, eh?  And guess what – next Sunday the 2nd there are going to be FIVE coupon inserts in your local paper.  If you don’t subscribe to the Sunday paper, now would be a good time!