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Happy Sunday, Girls!

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of my Sunday coupon posts.  I got a little behind when I went to California last month, but now I am back on track and in the game.  And it’s been an exhausting week.  Albertsons went from having doublers for 3-days and then immediately after they had an entire week of round-ups.  I was skeptical about the round-ups at first, but I stand corrected and can say now that I {heart} the round-ups bunches!  Alrighty – – so here we go with the breakdown…..

I’m starting with this Rite Aid deal.  I don’t shop Rite Aid.  It’s not convenient for me, and I just don’t really care for that store – I prefer Walgreen’s.  However, this deal was too good to not get in on, and there is a Rite Aid close to my office, so I ran over there at lunch one day and scored this.  They were having a promo where the candy you see below were each 2/$5.  Buy (10) total and it’s $25.  There was a coupon on their website for $5 off a $25 purchase.  That takes your cost down to $20.  For every (1) bag, a $1 reward PLUS a $2 reward printed out.  Yeah.  So for spending $20, I got THIRTY DOLLARS back.  HELLO!!  So I did it again – LOL  So I got (20) bags of candy….for nothing, and I still have $10 left to spend there.  Is that a hot deal or what?  As a side note – I went back with my $10, (2) more times, and both deals that should have happened did not.  A complete train wreck.  So unless it’s another smokin’ hot dealio, I will not be going back to Rite Aid.   I’m a hassle-free-coupon kinda girl 😉

Which is why I {heart} me some Albertsons.  We’ll start with what I am calling “the money shot” – because it was all free.  Yup.  I had coupons for $2 off any (2) Kotex products, the liners were on sale for $1 each, so I got (32) boxes for free.  {I’m taking these all to the women’s shelter by the way – – I love it when a deal like this comes along and I can pay it forward.}  The new Yakisoba boxed ramens were on sale for $1 and I had 50-cent off coupons that were rounded-up to $1 making them free; think I got about 12 of those.  The toothbrushes were 99-cents, and the popcorn was on sale for $1 – – and I had 40-cent off coupons for those which were rounded-up to $1 making them free too.  Love me some free. 

More Halloween candy.  Can you ever have too much?  I guess you can of the good stuff because then you end up eating it, right?  And that’s bad…in a good kinda way – heh.  These were regularly $3.99 (rip-off – seriously, who pays these prices??), and then there was an in-ad in-store coupon making them $1.99 each.  That’s a decent price.  But then!  There were 50-cent off peelies on each bag that were then rounded-up to $1 making each bag 99-cents.  Now that’s hot.  I got (22) bags.  I think I’m good on Halloween candy now for both home and goodie bags for the kids’ classes.  And on the cheap no less.

New pasta that cooks in 3 minutes.  Seriously?  I might start cooking if they’re gonna make it that easy for me – LOL  They were regularly priced at $1.99, on sale for $1.59, and then I had 50-cent off coupons to round up to $1 making them 59-cents each.  A good deal, but not a hot deal.  But I’m all about convenience.  And the thing that gets me is that now they are on sale for $1 and doublers are out again today so these would be free – GAH!  Aren’t those lil’ Sponge Bob soaps cute?  $2.99 each for cuteness.  But they were on Bonus Buy for $1.29 each and I had 35-cent off coupons that were rounded up to $1 making them 29-cents each.  That’s a 90% savings on cuteness right there.  And then the yeast.  Regular price on these is $2.89 – for real??  They were on sale for $1.69 and I had 35-cent off coupons that were rounded-up to $1 making them 69-cents each.  But then! – because my Albies workers {heart} me as much as I {heart} them, the girl told me that if I waited ’til tomorrow, a 50-cent off Catalina prints off for each one…and it did.  So I scored (19) packs of yeast for 19-cents each (a 94% savings).  Oooo….fresh, hot baked bread in the fall and winter is coming soon to a house near me!

And last but not least….we’ve got a roll of Bounty that I only had (1) coupon for.  Not sure where that one came from because I usually have multiple sets from the Sunday papers.  (1) coupon?  Really?  Odd.  Anyway.  It was a lowly 25-cent off one….rounded-up to $1 so I got this one roll of paper towels for 25-cents.  The Palmolive was regularly $1.99 on sale for $1.29 and with my rounded-up  25-cent off coupons, they were 29-cents each; I got 9 of them.  Tylenol liquid – it’s that season, girls.  This stuff costs $7.99.  It was on sale for $4.99.  I had $2-off coupons making them $2.99 each AND I got a $2 Catalina on each one making them 99-cents each.  That’s an 88% savings on wellness right there. 

Whew.  A busy 10 days.  And as I mentioned:  doublers are in the paper today!  I’m tired.  But here’s a little tip – if you don’t subscribe to your local newspaper, you should.  You will pay for your subscription several times over with the money you save on your food and grocery bill.  A lot of papers have a Sunday-only subscription if you’re one of those people that doesn’t have the time to read the paper every day.  The Idaho Statesman has a deal where for just a few bucks per week you can get (5) Sunday papers delivered to you week in and week out.  That’s 5 coupons for each item that you can score a good deal on.  My number one tip for couponing:  subscribe to the newspaper…at least the Sunday paper if nothing else.