Diaper Sales/Prices this week, March 27

Need diapers? Going to try a new weekly feature where I highlight diaper prices at the big stores. Going to focus on Huggies & Pampers, will post Luvs or store brands if there is a deal. If it says “no ad” behind it, it means that there is no special advertised for the week, and unless we see otherwise, should assume they will be regular price.

Current coupons:

Huggies- Printables (high value ones too, $2 & $3!); 3/20 inserts, also many home mailers & such listed in database

Pampers-P&G hardly ever ever does printables; 2/27 inserts

PRICES

Kmart-advertising both brands-Pampers Cruisers value pack or Huggies Supreme 72–116-ct. diapers for $29.99, through 4/2

Genuardi’s (Safeway)-big box of Pampers/Huggies, $17.99 with $10 minimum purchase and in-ad coupon

Walgreen’s-store brand jumbo packs on sale for 5.99-use the $2 coupon from the Baby Booklet, get them for $3.99-remember, ask if you can have the coupon back after they scan it, they are allowed to hand it back to you for re-use, but it’s still very much YMMV (your mileage may vary) as far as whether or not they’l give it to you. Ends 4/2.

Walgreen’s-Big Packs, no count listed, both Huggies & Pampers-$19.99, through 4/2.

Walgreen’s-Huggies tubs of wipes, 2 for $5, through 4/2.

Walgreen’s-big refill packs of store brand wipes, $4.99, through 4/2.

Target-no diapers in ad, through 4/2.

Superfresh-highlighting several baby items, including a $5 catalina offer when you spend $50 on Pampers/Luvs diapers & wipes; also lots of e-savings on Zavers to stack with mfr coupons, through 3/31.

Pampers big packs-19.99, Pampers wipes refills-5.99; America’s Choice Jumbo pack diapers-6.99, wipes 1.99; don’t forget to check your e-savings for additional offers-I frequently get Pampers/Kandoo items on there, through 3/31.

Big Lots-none advertised, they don’t take mfr coupons but generally run a dollar or two cheaper than the other stores, so if you don’t have coupons, I’d buy them here. No end date listed.

Giant, through 4/2: Pampers jumbo packs listed for $8.99, these are also a part of a “Buy 4, save $.20 per gallon” gas deal.

Acme- Big boxes of Huggies & Pampers, all varieties-19.99; Huggies & Pampers wipes refills 5.99

CVS-no deals/sales listed.

Diapers can be one of the most expensive household expenses for a grocery budget. Bring a calculator to the store with you (or if you have one on your phone) and see what you’re paying per diaper. From this Extreme Couponer’s point of view, these are the prices I aim for-

Anything under $0.10 per diaper-that is my stock up price and I would max out on the deal.

$0.10-$0.18 per diaper-good price, I’d get pretty many at that rate, depending on how many I had in my stockpile and what I needed.

Higher than $0.18-only if I absolutely needed them, and would get just enough to last me until I find a deal.

Wipes-I really try to stick to a penny per wipe or less. A penny to 1.5 cents per wipe, I’ll get some if my stockpile is running low. Any higher than that, only if I absolutely need them. To put it into perspective–your average tub of 72 wipes, I really don’t want to pay more than $0.75-$1.00 for it.

Amazon diaper deal-Old posts here and here, if you want to learn how to do that offer. Or ask! But from what I’m reading, it appears that the newer issues of the various parenting magazines that carried the diaper codes, they are not in the new issues. So this deal may be ending 3/31. Get what you can at those low rates–I know that via that offer, I paid about $0.04 per diaper, shipped!

Clearance Finds at Acme (& some other things)

I had to run in for milk & a few things, and I always stop & check the clearance shelves.

There were lots & lots of powdered drink mixes-Crystal Light, 4C, Propel, on clearance. A whole side of a fixture. I didn’t look too closely because I can’t have artificial sweeteners so I never buy them.

Tampax, the big boxes, on clearance for $4. There are $2 coupons from the last P&G inserts–I think $2 for a big box is a good deal. I got two and left plenty. But at the Avondale store, they are on the bottom shelf, and I pushed them against the back of the fixture. If you’re just standing there at the fixture, kinda hard to see without bending down. Yes, I hid them so that only my readers could find them! Of course, I know that Acme Markets reads this too, so maybe they’ll be moved, lol.

Deli- Dietz & Watson ham is on sale for $5.99/lb. That is an awesome price for that! Almost half off. Good lunch meat deals are hard to find.

There were a few other things I saw but didn’t get……….and now I can’t remember what they were! One was on clearance in frozen foods. If I remember, I’ll add it.

Any Sunday must-do deals? March 27

This morning at the coupon swap, the general consensus is that there really aren’t any must-do deals this week.

The Skintimate/Edge Shave gel is a good deal at both Walgreen’s & CVS this week. Cheaper at CVS if you have the Extra Bucks to spend instead of cash, but I believe it’s limit one. At Walgreen’s, it comes out to $.50/can after coupons, but there is no limit. Remember to purchase them separately if you go to W’s, no matter how many you buy per transaction, you’ll only get one RR. And RRs DO NOT roll on same items. If you want to roll them, you have to alternate brands/manufacturers.

Axe is bog50% this week at Walgreen’s, with bogo coupons coming out tomorrow. My friend Sarah explained it to me this way, I still get very confused trying to stack these two deals–I’m going to C&P her message to me-

“Okay if there is a bogo 50% on axe theoretically one should be able to use a bogo coupon on the one you’re paying full price for. I say theoretically because walgreen zealot cashiers will make this impossible…but if you have good ones…you should be good to go.

Now

If there are any coupons out for example $1.00/1 or $1.00/2 theoretically again you should be able to use those in conjunction as long as the bogo coupon doesn’t have a 14 in it.

if you use a $1.00/2 you want 2 bogo coupons and buy 4 products.

I should note..that you may want to wait to post until after Sunday because occasionally it ends up showing up as bogo free and/or instead of one showing up completely free it deducts the price down for both.

My assistant managers at my local walgreens are under the zealot type so I don’t try bogo coupons with a bogo sale.”

I’m going to take her advice, wait until Monday and recheck the Walgreen’s forum on hotcouponworld, see what’s happening. I’ll post what I find out.

I tried to renew an Rx this week at CVS and I was 3 days too early, per my insurance company, stupid. So I have to go there anyway and may get the Skintimate. Otherwise, I’m going to sit this week out. My Almay RRs from Walgreen’s don’t expire for 2 weeks, so I’m going to hold out & see if there is a better deal next week to roll them on.

For my groceries this week, I don’t need much. I’m going to go to Superfresh for my dairy items, and to get some of the $1 cheese. $1 for 8 oz of shredded cheese is a great price and something I use quite a bit in cooking. The 8oz bricks are also $1, so I’ll get a few of those for my little guy who is on a cheese kick lately.

I’ll go to Acme just for the Danimals-$1.49 each when you buy 10 items. I have several of the $1 coupons and a friend spotted $.55 peelies on some of them-so that brings them down to $.39/box. Hopefully on Monday or Tuesday when I get there, there is still a decent supply with long exp dates and plenty of peelies.

We interrupt this post to bring you: Juicy Juice Printables!

On sale at Acme this week, part of the buy ten items, save  $5. You can print two per computer, does require registration. So that’s what I’ll do, pop into Acme to get 6 Danimals, 4 Juicy Juice & some produce.

I’m glad for a slow week, gives me a chance to catch up on things. And who knows, maybe Kmart or DG will have something to offer.

Kmart Superdoubles

Thanks to the couponers at HCW for pointing this out–I never get Kmart ads in my paper anymore.

Starts tomorrow-superdoubles, up to $.99. No minimum purchase, no limit of how many coupons.

List of participating stores. For those of us with Acmes, Superfresh & ShopRites, this isn’t such a fantastic deal, with the $.99 limit. For a brief moment, until I read the fine print, I was really tempted to call some of my couponing friends & schedule a trip to Kmart together!

But, if you live in the land of no doubles, or doubles only up to $.50, check it out–here is the list from hcw of some current coupons you may have that would be valuable for this deal.

viva- .60/1 .85/1
loreal kids .75/1
colgate .75/1
crest .50/1, .75/1
halls .50/1
ludens .55/1
vitamin water .75/1
simply juice .50/1
powerade .75/2
propel .75/1
brawny .50/1
cottonelle .50/1
coke 20oz .50/1
sobe .50/1
kc masterpiece .50/1 .55/1

As always, I’ll update & repost if I learn anything new. For one thing, I want to compare the coupons I have for the catalina deal I posted about last week, as well as wait for tomorrow’s ad to see what’s on sale that is a part of that deal.