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I thought you might like to come along with me on one of my Adventures. 
To enjoy my trek in thriftiness right along side me.  Are you ready?  Let’s roll.

First stop is Wags (Walgreens).  Where I bought all that Sinex that I showed you the week before last. 
$21.20 for (4) boxes of Sinex.

 

I used (4) $4-off coupons which took off $16 and made my total $5.20. 
I paid the $5.20.  Note my coupons in the cashier’s hand.

After I paid, my $10 Register Reward printed.  This is a manufacturer’s coupon for $10 that you can use for everything except for like booze and smokes and lottery tickets.  Speaking of smokes – notice the cigarettes behind her are all stocked upside-down?  What is that about…anyone?

I did this several times as I was netting $4.80 on the deal – (5) boxes of Sinex for free and then making $4.80.  Then because the Register Rewards are manufacturer’s coupons, I can use them at the Walmart: our next stop.  I took other coupons there too.  Like this 75-cents off any Sensodyne toothpaste one.  And bought the trial size one for 97-cents which makes it 22-cents for me and a great little toothpaste to keep in the trailer.  Any time a coupon says “on any…” – be sure and check your trial sizes as you can often score things super cheap if not free, and sometimes you make money on the deal.  Also notice that I am showing you an internet printable coupon that I got from Coupons.com.

This is my total before coupons.

And this is my total after coupons.  I cut my bill down over half.  This is without doublers by the way.  I know not everyone has doublers in their area like we have here, but isn’t cutting your grocery bill in half still a good thing?

Here’s what I got for that $35.59 – (4) things of meat which I have to admit this was my first time buying meat at the Walmart because I’m kind of a snob that way, but I mean it has to meet government standards and everything so it can’t be like bad, right?  I bought discounted meat too – we always shopped the discounted meat when I was a kid and I still do that today.  The original price on the (4) meats was $34.  So essentially for what it would have cost me for the meat alone, I got the meat plus everything else you see here.  The little tubs of Country Crock were a fun find.  The coupon is for “any” Shedd’s Spread Country Crock and these little guys are Shedd’s Spread Country Crock honey butter.  They were $1.12 each and I had a few coupons for $1-off and some for 60-cents off – – this is regular ol’ non-doubled coupons…still a score.  I got some Christmas clearance stuff….little puzzles for 25-cents each, ribbon for 50-cents each, that pink hair spray was on clearance for 10-cents…my daughter is going to love that in her Valentine bucket!  The Excedrins were free as I registered online when Excedrin was giving these away every day – thought I’d just get one but I got one for every time I went back and I still have them coming in!

After the Walmart I headed over to Target to see how they were coming along on their Christmas clearance.  90% off.  I can dig it.  Now that I look at this picture though I am bummed that I didn’t get those big kraft bags – always need bigger bags like that and I’m not sure why I didn’t snatch ’em up.

I like these big colorful tubes of ornaments – shatterproof;  50-cents each.  And remember the Christmas party we had for the soccer team?  This year I’ll be filling up these pink stockings I scored for 10-cents each!  A Christmas shirt for my daughter for next year was 69-cents.  And then some ornaments to top gifts for 20-cents each and some ornament sets for my mom for 80-cents each.

So that’s how I do it.  This was what I did on a Friday morning while I was off work last week.  It’s fun.  Like a hobby, entertainment even, and it serves a greater purpose for my family.
What about you – have you scored any after-Christmas deals?  I’d love to hear about it. 
I’m all about the deal as you know 😉

Speaking of great deals.  I can’t believe I’m doing this…I just really cannot believe that I am doing this.

But do you see that there ad?  That there ad shows that Rite Aid is giving away (2) kinds of toilet paper and facial tissue.  Starting today.  Giving it away.  You buy (1) pack for $1 and they will give you back $1.  You buy (10) packs and they will give you back $10.  Repeat.  Go to another store and do it all over again.  Stock yourself up for years – LOL  My husband and I are brand-loyal to our toilet paper.  However the kids?  They could care less.  They aren’t old enough to know any different.  And half the time the toilet paper in their bathroom is in the tub, in the sink, in the toilet…the entire roll, yeah.  So I am not spending a fortune on their little-butt paper.  Anyway, y’all might remember this post where I said, and I quote:  …Rite Aid sucks.  But when I got wind of this deal last night, I called a family meeting and we decided to head on down to the Rite Aid this morning and stand in line at the door before it opens and go and score us some free toilet paper and kleenex. 
It’s either going to be a hot score, or a hot mess – LOL 
I’ll update you on this one tomorrow along with my crafty post.