Adventures in Couponing.
Posted by Michelle on February 23rd, 2014 . Filed under: Couponing .There’s been a lot going on with the Philippi family lately, but we still gotta eat! Today I’m sharing some of my recent deals.
Fred Meyer (a Kroger store) had buy 3 Neutrogena soaps, get $5 back. I had coupons for $3 off 2. So I bought 4.
$2.09 x 4 = $8.36
– (2) $3 coupons
pay $2.36
get back $5 = $2.64 moneymaker! (I did this twice.)
They also had a deal on cereal. $1.67 each. I had coupons for $1 off 2 which make them $1.17 each. Then I paid for 4 of them with my $5 from the Neutrogena. Did this deal twice. The Snapware was $7something, marked down to $6something, with an additional % off clearance making it $2.37, and I have $2 Snapware coupons = 37¢
I mentioned before that Fred Meyer has digital coupons that you can load to your store card. And there is a free item to download each Friday. The yogurt was free last week, and the diet bars were free this week. They had a $1 digital coupon for the popcorn which made it $1, and a 50¢ coupon off 2 pounds of pears, so I paid $1.26 for 5 pears.
My son called me at the office to tell me that he had called up Target to see how much their Valentine clearance was going for and since it was 90%, could we go when I got home. 90%? Oh yeah, we’re there.
I came across a slick little deal on cake mixes while we were there. Buy 10 at $1.13 each = $11.30, use (4) $1 off 2 coupons = $7.30. And then you get a $5 Target gift card back. Do this deal again, and pay with the Target gift card. 23¢ a box.
Ragu was on sale at Walgreens for $1.50. I had coupons for 50¢ off 2 = $1.25 each. Not a bad price. But I also had $8 in Register Rewards to use – so that made them 25¢ each. I needed to add 6 extra items to my order (you have to have more things than you have coupons for when you are using Register Rewards) so I found these Angry Bird freezer pops for 50¢ each. A bit much for a filler item, but we will use them up in the summer time for sure.
Last stop was the Walmart. I made $1.02 on each protein shake pack, and 7¢ on the nail polish. So I had $3.13 to play with. Soy sauces were $1.52, and I had 55¢ coupons making those 97¢ x 2 = $1.94. The biscuits were 58¢ each, and I had coupons for $1 off 3, making it $1.48 for 6. That takes me to $3.42, less my $3.13 overage = 29¢ for all.
February 23rd, 2014 at 6:44 am
Nice love The Walmart buys!! What a great deal on cake mix!! Happy Sunday!!
February 24th, 2014 at 5:32 am
Great deals! We don’t have a Krogers up in the north. I know they are down south though from vacationing down south we shopped there. We have a Weis store where we live. You can get some good deals there too. It always feels good to get good deals and save money.
March 2nd, 2014 at 9:21 am
Always my favorite posts. Love to see you making the money. never seems to work for me but I love to see you do it.