Our first stop was Walgreen's. I had two coupons for $1.50/1 Colgate Sensitive Pro Relief Toothpaste. It was on sale for $4.99, and you get $4.00 back in Register Rewards. I had some Register Rewards from the previous week, so I gave Andy a $3 RR. He had to add a candy bar to be able to use the full amount of the RR, so he ended up paying $1.65 for the toothpaste and candy bar (nice combination, right??? LOL) and he got a $4 Register Reward. Total savings was $5.30, plus earned a $4 RR.
In the same trip, I bought a Reach Toothbrush. It was on sale for $.99 and I had a coupon for $1 off. Then I had a coupon for $1/2 10ct. sheet protectors. That's a pretty good price, so I ended up getting 4 packages. I also got a tube of the Colgate Sensitive Toothpaste and I had to add a candy bar to bring the cost up enough to use the Register Reward I had. So, I ended up paying 89¢ for all the above, plus got a $4 Register Reward.
Next we went to Jewel. There was a deal where you buy 10 of a certain set of items and get $5 off instantly. I ended up buying 2 jars of Ragu Spaghetti Sauce, which were $1.49 each before the discount and 99¢ afterwards. Then I had a coupon for $1/2, so that brings them down to $.49 each. Then I bought 1 bottle of Wish-Bone Salad Dressing. Original price was $1.49 before the discount, 99¢ afterward and a coupon for $.50/1, bringing that down to $.49. Then I bought 2 jars of Skippy Peanut Butter. They were $1.99 before the discount, $1.49 afterwards and a coupon for $1/2, bringing them down to $.99 each. That's a great deal for peanut butter! In the same deal, I bought one 1.5L container of Breyer's Ice Cream. $3.49 before the discount, $2.99 after and a coupon for 75¢, bringing it down to $2.24. I also got a package of Heath Klondike Bars for $2.99 before the discount, $2.49 after, no coupons on this one. And to cap off the deal, I had to get 3 more items, but I didn't have any coupons for anything else, so I chose the cheapest items on the list to purchase. We don't normally get flavored or enhanced water, but they had Propel Fitness Water for $1 each before the discount and $.50 after the discount. So my total after the $5 discount and all my coupons for those items was $9.68. In the same trip, I ended up getting 4 containers of Old Orchard juice concentrate. They were on sale for $1 each and I had a coupon for $1 off 4, making them $.75 each. I also ended up getting 2 packages of sweet potato fries. They were on sale $2.50 each, which doesn't seem great, but I am supposed to be getting a rebate of $1. I don't know if that's for each or just for one, but I'll take either. And lastly, I ended up getting 2 packages of split chicken breasts and 2 packages of chicken leg quarters which were $.99 a pound. I ended up getting almost 20lb. worth. And I had to buy stamps, so I ended up buying them at Jewel while I was there, which cost $8.80. But here's the kicker - I had $39 in catalina's (money towards your next purchase) from my last Jewel shopping trip. So, my total after everything was $8.31. That's cheaper than the cost of the stamps! So, basically I paid for all my food and even a stamp!! Of course when we were done, it was torrentially raining. I waited under the awning with the groceries while Andy went and got the car and drove it around.
After that, we went home and put stuff away because we had frozen items. I put dates on the things that I buy doing my coupon shopping, because it helps me take the older things first and helps me keep track of how quickly I go through different things and what I can hold off on buying and wait for free or almost free, or what I have to find on sale and buy smaller amounts of until I can get the stock up prices.
Our next group of stores was another Walgreen's, Menards, Aldi, CVS and Office Depot. I will skip Menards for now because I have a picture of that separate from everything else, and I paid more out of pocket, but will be getting rebates.
So, on to the second Walgreen's. Andy stayed in the car and I picked up 2 tubes of Crest toothpaste. It was on sale for $2.50 each, but then you buy 2 tubes and get $3 back in Register Rewards. I had two coupons - one for $.75 and one for $.50 so, after coupons, that's $3.75 and getting $3 back in register rewards, it was like paying 38¢ a tube. I had a $4 Register Reward from the purchases we made earlier in the day, so I had to get something else to bring the total up to $4 so I could use it, and they had pencils on sale for 39¢, so I picked up one package of pencils and my total after using the $4 Register Reward was 58¢, and I got $3 back in Register Rewards.
Skipping over Menards, we stopped at Aldi so I could pick up the ingredients to make my Spicy Smoky Peach Salsa. I picked up 2 cans of tomato paste, 2 tomatoes, a lime and a package of onions. My total was less than $5, but other than Aldi just being inexpensive, I didn't get any great deals... but if you factor in that the price of making my peach salsa with the 39¢ each peaches that I bought last Friday and the fact that I had all the other ingredients on hand, the 4 quarts of the most incredible salsa I've ever had is a pretty good deal! Probably about $10 for all of it.
Randall Road going South has been closed since April, and it was finally open today. It could have opened a day or two ago - who knows. But we just noticed it today. We didn't have to go out of our way to get to CVS.
When we got in CVS, we couldn't find the Bounty that was on sale for $9.99 or the Puffs with Lotion that were on sale for 2/$3. They did have a deal to spend $25 in Charmin, Bounty and Puffs and get $10 in Extra Care Bucks. Since they didn't have some of the things in stock, they price adjusted the Bounty and the Puffs so that we were given the advertised price, and the cashier had to manually produce the $10 ECB. While we were trying to figure out if they had the out of stock items in the back, the cashier told me that I could scan my CVS card a second time, as CVS card holders can scan their card twice a week, so if I only come in once a week, it will let me scan it twice. I did so and I got a coupon to buy 1 package of Skittles and get one free. This was for the 14-16oz. size. They were $3.59 each or $3 each if you buy 2 or more. So, it gave me the $3 price. Then gave me $3 off. And I had recently printed two $1 off Skittles coupons, and since I had two bags of skittles, I was able to use one on each, even though the second was free. So, I ended up paying $1 for two 14 oz. bags of Skittles! I also got 2 20-count packages of Finish Dishwasher Powder Tabs for $2.99 and I had two 75¢ off coupons, so I actually got them for $2.24 each. They also had a sale on Orbit gum, which was Buy 1 @ 1.37, get 1 free, but I had two $.50/2 coupons, so I got 4 packs of Orbit gum for 44¢ each. And when the cashier had voided our original transaction when we were having problems getting the items for the first deal, a coupon came out for $3 off batteries, and batteries were on sale for Buy 1, get 1 free. We ended up getting 2 10-packs of AAA batteries (actually, each pack contained a bonus 2 batteries, so 2 dozen) for $3.79. Probably not the greatest deal, but not bad. So, I asked the cashier if I could use the $10 ECV that I had just gotten. I could have used it another time, but she let me use it today, but I was about $.25 short, so I had to buy a filler to be able to use the $10 ECB. I ended up getting a lollipop, and my total for all those things was $0.96.
So, get this! Everything shown in the picture below cost me a grand total of.......................... (sorry for the bad picture)............................................................................................................................
Okay, I'll include what I got at Menards. I did spend $86, and I'll be getting back $26 in rebates, so I did spend $60. But I am stocked up on some things that I won't have to buy for a while, and some things that were just good deals. Pictured below - I got 6 bottles of Dawn Dishwashing Detergent for $1.88 each. Aldi's is about $1.69 for their same size, but I feel like I have to use more of it to clean the same way that Dawn does. I did have one $.50 off one coupon for Dawn, so that brings the average down to $1.80. I know I'll get to a point that I can get even Dawn larger sizes for less than $1, but I was willing to stock up on this, since I feel like I'm always using Dish Detergent. I wash my pots and pans by hand so I do use quite a bit. I also ended up buying 3 32ct. packages of Cascade Action Pack Dishwashing Tabs. I have started using them, and have found them to work so much better than the powder or liquid dishwasher detergent. At $5.98 I'm not sure that its the best deal, but with a $1/1 coupon and two $.50/1 coupons, I got $2 off the 3 packages, which ends up making this about 17¢ per load. I've seen that 16¢ per load is a pretty good price, so I will take 17¢ for right now and now I have enough to hold me over until I can find things cheaper than that, and then start stocking up on that. I also got one bottle of Lysol All Purpose Cleaner. We just use it for the kitchen floor. It was $1.99, no coupons or anything like that. It was just a decent price. I also got a hand soap and sanitizer caddy which was $6.99, but after a $5 mail-in-rebate it will be $1.99. They had Chef Boyardee pasta on sale for 4/$3. I had a coupon for 35¢ off 3, so 66¢ each isn't great, but not bad. We also needed to get a level for our camper when we go camping. They had a 9" magnetic level for $2.50, but free after a mail-in-rebate. We got 2. You never know when you'll lose one, or if we want one for home and one to leave in the camper. You can't beat something that is free, so we might as well get 2. They also had batteries on sale, and we got two 20-packs of "AA" and two 20-packs of "AAA" for $1.99 after a $4.00 mail-in-rebate. That's a lot better of a deal than we got at CVS! And there was a limit of 4, so we got the limit. We will go through them, I'm sure! Other than that, we ended up getting 2 packages of tarps at $2.99 each (we needed some for our camper, and the price was very good), two T-Shirts for Andy for work at $1.99 each, and we got 6 2-packs of decorative light bulbs for 39¢ each. Again, not the same kind of sales that I've been seeing at CVS, Walgreens & Jewel, but we did get some good prices. Here's a picture of what I got. The most expensive thing was probably the Cascade Action Pack Dishwashing Detergent Tabs.
What kinds of savings did you get today?
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