I haven’t had a nice freebie trip in a long time. It was nice to leave the kids with dad and just wander the aisles, doing matchups.
Here are the items & coupons I had that were either free, very cheap or overage:
Bic Shavers, 4 pk-$2.88, $3 coupon from 6/5
Tic Tacs-$1.04, $1 coupon from 6/12
Reach Floss-$0.88, $1/1s or $2.50/2s from: 1/9 and 4/17
Dial Bodywash-$0.97, $2 coupon from 6/12 inserts
Rayovac batteries-$0.97, $1 coupons from 6/5; sometimes printables on Facebook too.
I had read on hotcouponworld that there was some Purina One ringing up at $0.75 and $1.25, to go with the $2 coupons from 5/22. I had six of those coupons, but I scanned darn near every bag, and I couldn’t find it.
And that was really it–I just had at least six or eight of every one of those coupons, and then I used the overage to get some other cheap stuff. The Walmart brand oatmeal, 12 pks, is on rollback to $1.68. The way they run hubby’s food drive contest at work, they count items. So he’ll get 12 points for each box of oatmeal I got him, 4 points for each pack of four razors, and so on. I also got cheap cans of tuna, found bags of pasta for $0.50, a few dozen of the $0.12 packets of koolaid mix, some tortillas that were $1 for 12 (not positive he’ll get 12 points for that, though) and so on.
When I checked out, I felt like I was on tv. See, when I do this, I don’t write everything down on paper and figure it out to the penny. I wing it. So if I picked up ten packs of razors, I knew that meant I had $1.20 in overage. Went to the Dial, got eight of those, mentally added another $8.24 to my overage. Then, hopefully as I’m adding in fillers, I’m subtracting correctly. I knew I wasn’t going to come to zero, but I honestly had no idea what my total was going to be.
My pre-coupon total came to $90.xx! Ouch! I really didn’t think it was that high–dental floss doesn’t take up a whole lotta space in a cart, so it didn’t look like much. But my very friendly (and I’m being serious!) cashier scanned and scanned and scanned, people behind me were tuning it to what was happening…..and it came down to $9.78. Whew! Actually my totals were $87.62 + $3.16 in tax, then down to $6.62, still had to pay the $3.16 in tax.
But hey, I was pleased! Hubby said that the team’s goal is 175 items per person, he had 140 boxed up before I went tonight. I haven’t counted exactly how many items I got, with counting packets of oatmeal and individual razors and all, but I know he’s probably at 250 by now. Plus, I’m picking up some stuff from a fellow couponer tomorrow, plus I have to hit Acme and Walgreen’s still for more freebies.
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