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Superfresh, 7/29-8/4

July 28, 2011 by · 2 Comments

Overall, I’m much more pleased with this ad.

Eggs are $0.99

Kellogg’s-40% off, I hope you signed up for printables when I posted it!

Tropicana, 2 for 5, coupons from 7/10

Thomas Eng Muffins-$2.50, and you don’t have to buy 10 like at Acme.

Fresh Express-$2.50 (I prefer a lower price to bogo)

Fage-$1

Stouffers red box-$2

select Nabisco items-$1.99, $0.50 cheaper than Acme

Ronzoni-$0.88 (I’m enjoying their consistently under-a-dollar pasta prices)

 Cheerios-4 for $12, free milk wyb 4; if you have the $0.75/1s, you’d get 4 boxes of cereal + gallon of milk for $6, not bad.

J&J items, spend $20, get $5

Stayfree/Carefree-$2.50

Listerine-$4.95

Bandaid-$2

Clean & clear-$1.25 off

Neutrogena-$1 off

It should work on shelf price, then pay sale price minus any coupons. If you have the $.50 Bandaid coupons, that could be a decent deal. There are always $1 Listerine coupons out too.

La Yogurt-10 for $5, I hope there’s a new coupon coming Sunday, haven’t checked yet. I like this yogurt because I find that it’s really, really hard to find yogurt without artificial sweeteners in it.

Lots and lots of America’s Choice stuff on sale, my current coupons are expired. Look around entryways and stuff for coupon booklets, hopefully new ones came out. I’m very tempted to try the AC brand of Nutella.

Entenmann’s loaf cakes-$1.99; we’re going berry-picking next week, plus my freezer has tons of free Cool Whip in it, so I should get some of these.

Martinson coffee-$2.99 for 13 oz can; that’s a good price, has anyone tried this? I’ve just had it with bags of coffee that are now $9-$10 for a 10 or 11 oz bag. The New England brand is only $4.99 a bag, so that’s not bad either. I haven’t found one of their varieties that we like though.

Lawrys marinades are 3 for 5, cheaper than Acme. If you have the $0.50 coupons, only $0.67!

AC 100% apple juice-3 for 5, great price.

Don’t forget to check Superfresh’s website and load your Zavers. It was this time last year that they were sending me coupons for free notebooks & stuff.

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Acme ad, 7/29-8/4

July 28, 2011 by · 1 Comment

When I look at grocery store ads these days, I have to constantly remind myself that the days of easy freebies are over. I think. It’s a difficult concept for me to grasp, since there was a time when Acme and other stores just let us walk out the door with all sorts of product, paying for it with just coupons. Now when I see a catalina offer, for a brief moment I’m thinking “oooh, cool, what’s going to be supercheap or free?” and then I read it closely, and realize……..nothing. Sigh, and this week is no different.

As always, check your e-savings and get printables before you go. More printables can be found on the “coupons” tab of my newly redesigned Facebook page.

Procter & Gamble: Spend $20, get $5 back. Inserts were 7/3 and this coming Sunday. Should work on shelf/knockdown prices, then pay sale/knockdown price minus any coupons. What’s really disappointing is that this time, it’s all the much larger sized items, and some things–like Pampers & Olay, aren’t even discounted at all. But if you like their items and need them, it’s worth a glance. After all the $5 back instantly is giving you 25% savings, and then you can still use coupons. If I see any very cheaps or frees, I’ll do a separate post.

Save $5 instantly when you buy 10 items, prices shown are AFTER the $0.50 savings:

vitamin water-$0.50

Deer park 3L bottle-$0.50

Twizzlers-$1.38, 6/26 inserts

Kraft singles-$2.49

Klondike/Good humor-$1.99

Chichis salsa-$2.49

Angel Soft-$4.49, 5/15 inserts

Colgate-$.99, 7/24 and 7/10 inserts-might be free depending on what coupons you got

Rosarita refried beans-$1.25

ajax dish-$1.49, 5/22 inserts

7Up products-$1.99

Ritz-$2.49

Orbit-$1.99

Hershey’s-$2.29

Thomas Eng Muffin-$2.49

Nilla/Honey Maid-$2.49

Hillshire farms-$2.99

Nathan’s-$3.99

Starbucks & Via-$7.99, 7/17 inserts

Front page-Perdue & Hatfield, all 40% off

Fresh Express-bogo

GM stuff-Cheerios, Chex Mix, bugles, trix-$1.88; lots and lots of coupons for this stuff, most of it should be $.38-$.88 after coupons.

Free skinny cow wyb two skinny cow.

Save $1.50 instantly on Fresh Express wyb Red Baron Pan Pizza. Hmmm, buy two pizzas, two salads, see if you can stack the bogo with the $1.50 off?

Birds Eye-$1

Tropicana-$3, 7/10 inserts

Tues/Wed/Thurs are triple game piece days.

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2-week check in on the savings pledge

July 26, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Today marks the second full week of the Savings Pledge. How are you doing? If you haven’t joined yet, either click the button on this blog page, or there is a tab on my Facebook page.

I personally feel like I’ve bombed the past two weeks, after looking at my banking transactions. Yeah, I scored lots of very cheap and free stuff at CVS, Acme, whatever. I stayed away from restaurants and take-out, that was good.

What did me in was little trips to the grocery store. The “Oh, we really could use some fruit and some spinach” trips that suddenly turn into a $40-$60 trip. After realizing that, and my post yesterday about an envelope system, that’s what I’m going to try. I’m even going to leave my check card at home.  I think I’ll see significant savings in just a couple of weeks doing this.

Other things I’m doing, some I’ve mentioned before:

Only running washer on cold water, short cycle, line drying everything but towels.

Setting dishwasher to do short cycle, and I’m pre-programming it to run after 10 pm–I read somewhere after 10 pm, your electric rates are lower.

A/C-only using it when it is super-duper hot, like last week, and keeping it at 78-80.

Concentrating on combining errands and shopping trips to save gas.

Any special outings such as restaurants or recreation–Must be free, or we have a season pass (Sesame Place) or use a Groupon or something. No out of pocket money spent on that until all those other options are exhausted.

Also this week, I’m going to focus on ideas on how to bring more money in to our household. Stay tuned!

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Diaper prices this week-7/25

July 25, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

I’ve gotten away from this weekly feature, highlighting the different diaper prices. But, I have a friend, who is pregnant, just found out she’s having a boy (yay!) and today she told me she wants to start her diaper stockpile. So I promised her I would try to stay on top of doing this each week.

I’m often asked what I think is a good price for diapers or wipes. Get out your phones at the stores and figure out what you’re paying, per diaper or wipe. This is what I tend to go by:

Diapers: Anything below $0.15 per diaper is my stockpile price. How many I would get would depend on how low it actually is. At $0.12-$0.15 per diaper, yeah, I’d get several. Below $0.10–I’d go nuts, lol. At $0.15-$0.20, I’d get a few if I needed them. Anything over that, only if I absolutely need them.

Wipes: 1 penny per wipe and under, stock up! $0.02 per wipe, yeah, I’d get them but not go crazy. $0.03 per wipe, only if I need them. Think about your average tub of wipes that holds approximately 70 wipes–the average asking retail price, no discounts, is over $3. That’s over $0.03 per wipe!

Now, on to some deals this week.

Walgreens-the infant care booklet and the monthly booklet both have coupons for Huggies wipes. Mfr coupon for $0.50 last week, makes them $0.99 per tub, or about $0.015 per wipe.

Yesterday’s inserts had a $2 Walgreens Huggies diaper coupon, that can be stacked with a mfr Huggies coupon, and it’s good through September. Hang on to it, if Coupons.com runs another $2 or $3 Huggies printable……could be some great deals.

Huggies are on sale for 8.99 a jumbo pack at Walgreens, so even if you have the $2 coupon plus the $1.50 mfr coupons, not a bad deal, but I wouldn’t go crazy.

Superfresh-no diapers or wipes deals listed, assume full price. They are advertising the 216 ct wipes, Huggies for $5.99. That’s $0.028 per wipe–almost 3 cents. It adds up! This is one of the reasons you have to closely evaluate what you’re paying at warehouse clubs. Big packages doesn’t always mean lower prices.

Acme-Running the $5 catalina deal, but the $5 catalina is ONLY good for Pampers products, not on just anything. Still if you have Pampers coupons plus catalinas to burn from all their other offers recently, not bad.

CVS-store brand diapers are $6.99 a pack, or about $0.27 per diaper. Huggies & Pampers are $8.99. Unless you get some rockin’ coupons to go with these prices, or have Extra Care Bucks to burn, I wouldn’t do it. On the back page, there is an offer on the boxed ones. Without any coupons, that deal comes to about $0.20 per diaper, with coupons-$0.17-$0.19 per diaper. Worth considering if you need them.

Rite Aid has Luvs for $16.99 with $2 back in UPs rewards.

Target has the big boxes for $30, then a $10 gc when you buy two big boxes. So, about $60, minus any coupons, then get a $10 gc. Do the math first, maybe it’s a good deal.

Babies R Us has the ugly denim ones on sale for $5 a pack. Not bad per diaper, again, do the math as these packs have fewer diapers in them than regular packs.

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