Target & Safeway

TARGET

Well, the free Pampers at Target were a no go today. I realized the $10/1 Pampers Qs were actually for mega packs which are the boxes of diapers. I ditched the diapers deal and did this Lean Cuisine deal. I only had 4 $1/1 Lean Cuisine Target Qs, so I ended up paying $9.00 on a giftcard, instead of $5.00 as outlined by the Krazy Coupon Lady. I still think this was a great deal. Basically, each item cost $1. I dropped the 8 freezer meals and Skinny Cow ice cream off at my work freezer, so they are not pictured.

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SAFEWAY

I needed some milk and had some eQs stacked up, so off to Safeway I went...

3.00 BC cookie mix -.40/1 MQ, -.80 eQs = 1.20

2.00 BC brownie mix -1.00 eQs = 1.00

2.50 Nestle chocolate chips -.50/1 MQ, -1.00 eQs = .50

2.29 PB toaster strudels (2) -.35/1 MQ (2), -1/2 MIT SWQ, -1.65 eQs = .04 overage each

2.19 milk (2) -.55/1 Real CA milk Q (2) = 1.19 each

16.46 subtotal before Qs

5.21 total after Qs - paid with $4 OYNO + 1.21 on giftcard

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The MIT Safeway Q I referenced is from the "Make it Tonight" recipe/coupon booklet out at Safeway stores now. There are 3 pages full of Safeway coupons you can stack with MQs, so hurry and find one at your Safeway!

Free diapers at Wags & the not so mega sale at Frys

Guess what came in the mail yesterday? My BOGO Huggies diapers MQ from Recycle Bank! Perfect timing with all the diaper deals this week. I also had a BOGO Huggies wipes MQ I got from Recycle Bank earlier in the month. If you are not using Recycle Bank, check my post out here! Start now so you can start getting amazing coupons too!

Here's what I did at Wags...
8.99 Huggies diapers (2)
2.50 Huggies wipes (3)
25.48 subtotal
-BOGO Huggies diapers MQ (8.99)
-BOGO Huggies wipes MQ (2.50)
-3/1 Huggies diapers home mailer MQ
-1/1 Huggies wipes MQ from Safeway pharmacy booklet
-1/1 Huggies diapers Wags children's activity book Q (2.00)
-1/1 Huggies wipes Wags IVC - print here if not in your store (3.00)
4.99 subtotal + 1.89 tax = $6.88 on giftcard
Received $5 RR
SUMMARY = 1.88 cost!
I had 2 of the $1/1 Huggies wipes Qs, but the second one beeped and said item not on record. I don't think it was a coupon to item ratio because that usually has a different error message. Weird. Oh well, 1.88 in Wags money for 2 packs of diapers and 3 tubs of wipes is FANTASTIC!

I don't know about you, but I'm not that impressed by this round of the Fry's mega deal. I had a hard time getting 10 items together for a low OOP.

The prices listed are after the $5 discount is taken at the end...
1.49 Chex Mix .01 overage
1.49 Quaker granola bars (2) .01 overage each
1.49 Kraft dressing .50 overage
1.99 Mamma Bella garlic toast .99
.99 I Can't Believe It's Not Butter (5) .01 overage each

Not included in mega sale...
1.00 Wholly Guacamole (4) Free

16.90 subtotal after $5 mega discount
-.50/1 Chex mix eQ
-.50/1 Chex mix IPQ
-$3/2 Quaker products (home mailer Q)
-Free Kraft dressing Fry's home mailer Q (took off 1.99)
-.50/1 Mamma Bella peelie Q
-1/1 ICBINB IPQ (5) - I was able to print 5 from 1 computer!
-1/1 Wholly Guacamole MQ (4)
.20 subtotal + .21 tax = .41 paid OOP

Guess what came in the mail today? My 4 $10/1 Pampers MQs that I blogged about here earlier in the week! I will be heading to Target tomorrow to get in on the $5 giftcard deal with my free Pampers Qs - yay!

Last minute Tuesday round up!

As usual, I ran around today trying to soak up the last of the sales week. Turns out the only sale ending was at Safeway, but that's ok. I got a lot of shopping done.
ALBIE'S
I grabbed 7 free Marcal paper towels with the free MQs from 12/13 & 1/3 SS. I paid .56 in tax.

CVS
I found one more lonely clearanced Axe shower gel to finish up the $5 EB deal.
2.85 Axe shower gel
7.99 Crave NX
9.99 Glade Lasting Impressions
.33 caramel (filler)
21.16 subtotal
-5/20 CVS Q
-1/1 Axe IPQ
-free Glade Lasting Impressions MQ
5.17 - Paid with $5 EB (CVS advisory board survey)*
1.06 on giftcard (.17 + .89 tax)
Earned $13 EB ($8 Crave NX, $5 Axe)
SUMMARY = $6.94 profit
I'm so glad I was able to find that clearanced Axe - that made each one only .18!

*I signed up to be on the CVS advisor board after seeing Desert Deal Diva's post about it here. Today, they sent my first survey. It took about 2 minutes to complete and I earned $5 EB! Well worth my time. You should become a CVS advisor too! Thanks for the tip KC!

SAFEWAY
Lots of great overage on the Pillsbury cat deal, free Blistex, & major eQ overage! I love it when a plan comes together. :)

2.50 Fiber One muffin mix .50 overage
2.00 Barilla manicotti - for dinner tonight
1.49 PB Grands Jrs. (2) .59 overage each after cat
1.89 PB cinnamon rolls (2) 1.68 overage each after cat
1.69 PB crescent rolls (2) .48 overage each after cat
1.47 Lucerne sour cream .47
2.49 Lean Pockets breakfast .95
3.49 Sargento cheese .49
1.00 Blistex (5) FREE
1.66 bananas .59/lb.
$5 Safeway giftcard to eat up overage
.17 tax
33.92 subtotal
-9.25 in eQs
-2.00 Safeway in-ad Sargento Q
-.99 Safeway in-ad Hot Pockets Q
-1/2 PB products (3) from Make it Tonight booklets
-.50/1 Fiber One MQ
-.50/1 PB IPQ (4)
-.25/1 PB crescent rolls MQ
-.35/1 Blistex MQ (5)
-.50/1 Sargento MQ
-.35/1 Softsoap MQ
-.55/1 Real CA dairy product (not doubled, weird.)
2.65 subtotal paid with giftcard
Earned $4 OYNO from purchasing 6 PB items
SUMMARY = $6.35 profit!

CVS & Target

Target
I heard a rumor that Target baby clearance was going to 75% off today- Gilbert & Southern did! I was able to grab another 2 pack of sleepers for 2.48 instead of the 4.38 they were marked last week. I used a $1/1 Gerber apparel IPQ (print from either Target's site or Gerber's site) so I got 2 sleepers for 1.48 or .74 each! Smoking deal! I saw a ton of other baby stuff on clearance too. I also grabbed 2 pairs of super cute yoga pants for my daughter - they were $1 each on clearance! In total, I spent $3.48 on a gift card.

CVS
Well, in case you don't have enough soda from last week's deal, you can do one more round! I maxed out 4 deals last week and I was able to do a 5th one today.

6/$20 Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, & Sierra Mist
2.85 Axe body wash clearanced (2)
1.25 Hershey's bliss chocolate clearanced
26.95 subtotal
-5/20 CVS IPQ no longer available
-1/1 Axe IPQ (2)
19.95 + .37 tax = Paid $19.95 EB + .37 on CVS giftcard
Received $10 EB for soda & $1 EB for green bag tag
SUMMARY = $9.32 cost.... but wait! I am working on the Axe deal. They only had 2 clearanced shower gels left, so I am hoping to find a third one so I can end up paying .18 for each shower gel. My husband loves Axe so whenever I can find a deal I grab them, even if it's not always a MM.

How I got diapers for $3.64 per pack at Wags...

I knew there was a sale starting this week on Huggies, so I printed out all the Huggies coupons I could find. The best one being 2.50/1 Pure & Natural Huggies - but unfortunately, I couldn't find any of those at Wags. I don't even think they make the P&N diapers in a size 4. Oh well. I had a $5/3 Reach MQ from a free Weight Watchers magazine so that 2.03 overage helped bring my total down. Here's what I did...

8.99 Huggies (3)
1.79 Reach floss (3)
2.40 tax :(
34.74 subtotal
-2/1 Huggies IPQ available on coupons.com (3)
-1/1 Huggies Children's coloring book Wags Q - took off $3
-2.40 in-ad Wags Q for Reach floss - makes them .99 each
-5.00/3 Reach - beeped, but cashier pushed through
18.34 total paid with Wags gcards
Received $5 RR for spending $25 in Huggies products
SUMMARY: $3.64 per pack of diapers, plus free floss (before tax)

If you don't have the $5/3 Reach Q, you can still get your diapers for 4.32 per pack- not bad at all!

The Wags deal is not as great as this 3.33 per pack Pampers deal going on at Target this week but I am not a fan of Pampers (more on that later) and it looks like the Pure and Natural diapers may be contained to sizes 1-3 only. Speaking of Pampers, I used the pack I got from Target a few weeks back during this Target baby deals run and the tabs kept ripping off when I tried to put the diapers on my daughter! So irritating. It seriously probably happened to at least 10 diapers in the package. I was irritated, so I emailed P&G corporate about it. I was inspired by Born 2 Save's post here - thanks for the reminder that it pays to speak up! I received a response to my email within a few days. They apologized for the problem and they are mailing out 4 $10/1 Pampers MQs! Wow! That is great customer service and I am happy to try Pampers out again. I am praying those coupons get here before the end of the week so I can combine them with the $5 Target giftcard deal for a moneymaker!

Free fruit snacks at Safeway!

Sorry for the red tint in this picture. Between 2 different Wags stores, I wasn't able to get any more meters today, but I did grab some rainchecks.

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My best deal today (by far) was getting 24 boxes of fruit snacks & 6 Reese's candy bars free at Safeway! I feel bad posting this so late because the Betty Crocker catalina deal ends tomorrow, so if you want free fruit snacks make sure you get there by the end of the day tomorrow. They are free in conjunction with the $4 off wyb 4 deal.

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Here's what I did (6 times):

8.00 Betty Crocker fruit snacks (4)

.44 Reese's Whips candy bar - filler to keep from going negative

.08 tax

8.52 subtotal

-4.00 store discount wyb 4 participating items

-.50/2 BC fruit snacks (insert Qs & IPQs) (2)

2.52 paid with $2.50 BC cat and .02 on giftcard

Receive a $2.50 cat to roll into the next purchase

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And on and on it goes until you run out of coupons! Don't clear any shelves, that's bad coupon etiquette and it will only attract bad attention to yourself when you wheel your cart overflowing with fruit snacks up to the register.

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I ended up with 24 boxes and NO $5 DISCOVER CASH CARDS! What the heck? Oh well, free is good enough! And for those of you wondering, yes these will all get eaten at my house. I made sure to get the longest expiration dates (December 2010 or January 2011) so we can use these this summer during lake trips. However, I would be very surprised if these make it until summer.

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I also got my $10 Nabisco rebate check in the mail today! That didn't take long at all. I will update my rebates section on the right side of the blog.

More meters & Super Bowl snacks

I love this rainy weather, but trying to coupon in it is exhausting!

Imagine 6 12 packs of Diet Pepsi in this picture as well. I dropped them off at work, so they didn't make it in the picture.

WAGS
I found 8 more meters today... crossing my fingers for a few more before the end of the week. After tax (paid on a giftcard), so far I have 39.67 profit from this deal. I know some people are running into cashier problems using both coupons, but I've been lucky. Use this Wags inventory checker before you go out in this weather to see if your Wags has any meters left. Just click on "Find in Store".

CVS
Heard a rumor the Pepsi/Tostitos deal was expanded to a limit of 4! It's true! Here's what I did:
6.00 Soy Joy (3) limit 6
7.99 Crave Nx limit 2
.50 Skittles (2) fillers
.52 tax
27.51 subtotal
-5/20 CVS Q
22.51 subtotal paid with 21.99 EB & .52 on gcard
Earned 26EB (18 soy joy, 8 crave nx)
Summary: $3.49 profit

3.00 Stacy's pita chips
3.50 Tostitos (3)
3.69 Tostitos queso dip (2)
20.88 subtotal
-5/20 CVS Q
-Free Stacy's pita Q (from becoming a fan on Facebook)
-1/1 Tostitos IPQ (3)
-1/1 Tostitos dip wyb 2 Tostitos chips
8.88 subtotal paid with $8 EB & .88 on gcard
Earned $10 EB
Summary: $1.12 profit

3.33 Diet Pepsi & Pepsi Max (6)
5.99 CVS batteries (needed these & needed to get over $18 total to use soy joy $18 EB)
.39 tax
26.38 subtotal
-5/20 CVS Q
21.38 subtotal paid with $18 EB & 3.38 on gcard
Earned $10 EB
Summary: 11.38 cost

Final CVS Summary: 6.77 cost which is basically, the cost of the batteries plus tax. And, as KC at Desert Deals Diva always reminds me of, it's all paid for with EB & giftcards, so it's not real money out of pocket anyway. :) So, I am happy with today's CVS deals.

I stopped at Frys to see if I could find any more free Tostito dip Qs before I went to CVS. I didn't find any free ones, but I was able to grab some $1/1 Tostitos dip wyb 2 Tostitos bags of chips. Not as great as the other ones, but still a good deal. While I was there, I also found a new coupon booklet for "Bud Light Bud Bowl". There are some pretty good MQs in there plus some rebates with Bud Light purchase. Look for them near the coke/chips display next time you're at Fry's.