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Lots of stuff to share today – it was a very good week 😉 
By the way – some of you have left couponing questions and I answered them here (in case you missed it).

Because I find the +Up program at Rite Aid to be easier and more user-friendly than the Register Rewards program at Walgreens, I don’t shop Walgreens much anymore.  However I was working through the lunch hour earlier this week and hopped on to one of the coupon blogs and saw a hot deal at Walgreens had just been posted so I knew if I headed out right that second, I could score it before the rest of the world knew about it.  Sometimes couponing really is all about “the early bird gets the worm”.  So here was the deal:  buy (5) Fruity Pebbles with the in-ad coupon making them 79-cents each = $3.95 and then you get back (2) $4 Register Rewards.  WHAT?!  That’s a FOUR DOLLAR moneymaker and I could not pass that up!  I went to (2) different Walgreens’ and got (15) Fruity Pebbles for $12.56 (including tax).

I left with (6) x $4 Register Rewards = $24.

And per the Walmart coupon policy you can use these there as these are manufacturer’s coupons.  However, they have changed their coupon policy twice in the last week so I need to go back again soon and see if they are still allowing this or not.

So I bought a few things that we needed…like plumber’s putty and seal tape for the fiasco that was our kitchen sink….and a few things that I had coupons for.

Before coupons and my Walgreen’s Register Rewards.

And after.

Nice, eh?

And then in another trip to Walmart I got all this free.  Again – anytime you see a coupon that says “off any Pert product” or “off any….” check the trial size section at your store and you’ll be able to score lots of freebage.  I love these things to take in the trailer and on vacation – like that Downy Wrinkle Release stuff…never heard of it, but just thinking ahead to a vacation when you have all the close folded in the suitcase…probably would have never thought of this or bought it on my own, so I was happy to see this there and score this “any Downy product” on the free.

Alright – going back to Walgreens, since I was going there anyway for the Fruity Pebbles, I read about another even more hot deal…and I had to take advantage and help all the homeless men in Boise smell good.  I say that sort of in jest – but totally serious at the same time as I’ll be taking this down to the homeless shelter.  Right Guard deodorant was on sale BOGO…and I had whacks of coupons for BOGO so when you pair a BOGO coupon with a BOGO sale at Wags and also at Rite Aid that = 2 free items.  So all these deodorants were free for this modern-day Robin Hood.

I use the Aussie hair spray and they were on sale at Wags for $2.99 get $1 Register Reward back, and I had BOGO coupons…so I ended up getting these for 99-cents which for something that I use that’s the cheapest I’ve ever gotten them for.  The Dickinson’s Witch Hazel pore toner whatever were $5 each, but there was a store coupon that I paired with an online coupon and got these for 49-cents each which I thought would make nice little gifts.

Back to Rite Aid.  And I have to tell you – the cashier from hell that I spoke of last week, was 100 times better this week.  And the thing is, she wasn’t nice or sweet – because that’s not her personality – but she was helpful, and she wasn’t mean.  So kudos to her and I hope she’s like that again today.

I worked a little Renuzit deal and was able to score all these super cheap.  They were on sale for 88-cents each, I had coupons from the Sunday newspaper for B3G3, paired that with a couple of other online coupons, a $3-off coupon I got for taking a Rite Aid survey online, and a $5 +Up back for buying $15 worth and got all these for $1.46.

These Johnson & Johnsons were free from a promo a few weeks back that I had a rain check on.  They were on sale for $2.99 get $2 +Up back = 99-cents and I had $1-off coupons making them free.  When Rite Aid does a rain check for a +Up item, they give you the rain check for the amount it will be after the +Up because after that week the +Up will not be printing out.  Pretty good policy – works out well for the customer.

The BodiHeat patches were on sale this week for $1 with a $1-off peelie on them making them free.  The Little Noses and the Chloraseptics were $3.99 get a $3 +Up back making them 99-cents each and I found $1-off coupons online which made them all free.

The gum was free…..but I can’t remember how; the snacks were on sale BOGO and then you get a $5 +Up when you spend $15 so they ended up being 30-cents each which is not the deal of the century, but they are convenient little things for the kids to take when they go geocaching with their dad.

I had a lone 50-cent off Halls coupon and a matching one from watching Rite Aid videos online which made this pack free, the Motrin PM was $3 get a $2 +Up back and I had another Rite Aid video coupon on this one which made it free and then the Dixie plates were on sale for $1.97 each paired with a $5-off (3) coupon from Rite Aid online videos which made these 30-cents each.

The Salonpas patches were on sale for $1 and I had $3-off coupons that they adjusted down to $1 getting these for free, the Puffs were on sale for 88-cents and I had just one 50-cent off coupon making these 38-cents, and then the Purex Crystals were on sale for $3.99 with a $1 +Up back which I paired with a newspaper coupon and a Rite Aid video coupon making these free.  I just used these today for the first time and man, they are potent.  I might use half of the suggested amount next time.

And then another week of Albertsons doublers.  The little McCormick packets were $1.99 and I doubled $1-off coupons from the newspaper…the Odwalla bars were $1 and I doubled 50-cent online coupons…and the Shout was $1.59 and I doubled a $1-off coupon from online getting all these things free.

A fellow couponer ordered coupons for the Fruity Pebbles off Ebay and gave me (5) of them – this was a $4 moneymaker as they were on sale for $1, coupon was for $1, and you got a $4 Catalina back!  Thank you – and score!  The Keebler bars were $1.99 and I doubled $1-off coupons I found online making them free and the pears were $1.69 and I had a $1.25 Catalina from before to use so I got them for 44-cents.

Birds Eye Steamfresh items were on sale for $1 and I had $1-off-3 coupons that I doubled making these 33-cents each.

Gorton’s items were on sale 40%-off making these fillets $2.38, I doubled $1-off coupons making them 38-cents, more free McCormick and Odwallas, and then the Ghirardelli bars were $2.29, doubled $1-off coupons from online and got them for 29-cents each.  These are my favorite sweetness to embellish and gift.

You saw some of these last week – the Glade Plugins were $2.19, doubled $1 = 19-cents, the Colgate toothpaste on sale for $1.66 this week, doubled $1 and they were free, and the Clorox wipes were 25-cents each and I had $1-off-2 Clorox items making these free without doublers.

There was a coupon at the EAS site for a free sample of their products or $3.89 off one.  It was a PDF so I printed out 100 and ordered these protein bars to take down to the homeless shelter.  I was thinking on the way out they could hand people one of these so they could have something to eat later in the day.  It’s not a hot meal, but it’s protein that will hopefully tide them over to the next meal.

No Albertsons doublers in the newspaper today, and not a ton of smokin’ hot deals at Rite Aid this week either, so next week’s post might be a snoozer. 
But we’ll see what we can come up with 😉