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Dollar General matchups-Jan 30-Feb 6
January 31, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
I would have done this earlier, but I don’t get my inserts until Mondays, and that’s where the ad is.
First, they are offering another $5 off $25 for this Saturday. This is after mfr coupons. So get what you need, deduct all your mfr coupons and aim to come in just over $25, then hand over the IP. Pay $20 for all your stuff, which hopefully will be a lot!
Pepsi 12packs-$3; use the $3 off 3 coupons from Safeway booklet
Charmin/Bounty/Hefty-$5; Hefty were 1/2 inserts, Charmin & Bounty were just yesterday plus home mailers
Era/Tide-$9; Tide was yesterday or home mailer, I don’t know of any Era coupons
Downy-4.50; yesterday’s paper or home mailer
Dawn-$3.75, yesterday or home mailer
Cascade-$6.25; home mailer
10 for 10: Top Ramen, Yoohoo, Manwich, Hormel chili, spaghettios, campbell’s soup
Manwich-$1 off 4 home mailer, Campbell’s 1/9 inserts, spaghettios $1 off 5-12/12 inserts
Welch’s-2.35, if the variety with the $1 coupon out on 1/16 matches, great price!
Kellogg’s pop tarts-1.75 (lots of in package coupons for $1 off 2 or 3)
Malt o Meal- 3 for 5, it looks like bag is big enough to qualify for the $2 off 2 coupon from 1/2/11.
Nature Valley Granola-1.75; 1/2 inserts and I think yesterday too
Capri Sun/Kool Aid jammers-$2, no known coupons, I even wrote to Kraft & they won’t send me any!
Scott & Cottonelle big packs-$10, use the $2 IP I posted about last week. TP=18 rolls, PT=10 rolls
Purina dog & cat food & Tidy cats-$4; yesterday’s inserts plus I got a ton of hits when I search for printables
(idea: if you have the $1.50 Tidy cat litter coupons from yesterday-get seven bags, 7X3.50=24.50. Grab a Valentine’s something for $0.50-1.00 to hit $25. Use the $5 off $25, pay just $20.50 for 7 big bags (20lb) of litter!)
Mighty Dog is 5 for $3 if you have those coupons.
Cover Girl sale-3.50-6.50; use the $1 and $2 coupons from yesterday
Olay soap/Pantene/Olay wash/Scope-3.50; use yesterday’s coupons or home mailers
Ivory body wash-3.25
Olay skin care-$6; yesterday’s paper, home mailers
$5 Nice & Easy-yesterday’s paper
$4 H&S-yesterday’s paper, home mailers
Secret Clinical-$5, yesterday’s paper, home mailers
Secret-$2.75, yesterday’s paper, home mailers
Oral B-$1.50; ditto
Crest-$2.50, ditto
Coke 8 pks bottles- 3 for 10, use $3 off 3 from Safeway booklet
Gm cereals-$2; 1/9 inserts or use many printable links on BTFE resource page at top of blog
Maxwell House-6.95
Oreo/chips ahoy-$2 (tearpads, or try facebook)
Velveeta-$3 a lb-great price! coupons in Kraft/Nabisco booklet I found at Acme, has that guy from Travel channel on cover–the Diners, Drive Ins and Dives guy.
Planters peanuts-$3; check 1/2 inserts
Lay’s/Doritos products-$2.50
Clorox wipes-2.50, 35 ct
Glade automatic sprayer-$6
Whiskas-$0.50
Ha ha…Kmart, take that!
January 31, 2011 by · 2 Comments
I vented a little bit this morning about some other blogs that I’m finding annoying because they’re advocating coupon fraud. One of my commenters, Amy, said she prefers the challenge of trying to do it by the rules. Me too! Couldn’t agree more! I mean, if you’re just going to try talking a cashier into accepting a coupon that isn’t for the product you’re purchasing, where’s the deal? Why not just try to talk them into accepting Monopoly money?
The best deals are those that are honest, although they may not be the easiest to come by. Let’s flash back…it was just two years ago, that Kmart had superdoubles and it was unlimited. Look at this post from 2009, and this one and this one from 2008, with photos. Then they cut it to 75 coupons per customer, then 50, then 25. Now it’s 5! Five! And only 4 of those can be the same coupon. And now they require a $25 purchase to accompany it. Still I was up for a challenge this week.
Here are the deals I wanted to stack:
$5 off $50 I got for registering my email (link in yesterday’s post)
$10 back wyb $35 worth of P&G products (I may have incorrectly reported this yesterday as 10/25)
$5 back wyb $20 worth of All/Snuggle
$5 back wyb 4 of the Hershey’s drops (these are yummy by the way!)
Superdoubles! Limit 5
Ok, had all those deals in my head, and evaluated my coupons. I scored several of the $8 off ANY Iams dog food coupons, and they are a P&G product. Time to use some of those. This is what I did:
$28-two bags of Iams Dog Food, minus $16 for two $8 coupons
$9-Pampers, minus $4, had $2 coupon from yesterday’s paper, doubled
$10-4 bags of the Hershey’s things, minus $4, had two $2 off 2 coupons which doubled
$6.58-two Snuggles, minus $4, one $2 off 2 coupon, doubled
$17.37-3 Alls, minus $4 in coupons, only one of my $1/1s doubled, the other two, just face value
$5 off $50 coupon
Delaware-no sales tax!
Paid $31.26, got $20 back. $10 for P&G, $5 for Hershey’s, $5 for All/Snuggle.
It’s a much better deal if you do all Snuggle (3.29/bottle) and no All. But remember, great deal vs great price. Only a great deal if you really need it, and I needed the All more than the Snuggle.
Eight bottles of Snuggle=26.32, if you have four of the $2/2s, they’ll double, so minus $16. Pay 10.32, get $5 back.
Personally, if you want to make it better (darnit, now why didn’t I think of this while in the store!) I would do the Hershey’s deal by itself first-4 bags=$10. Minus $4 in coupons (no $25 threshold=no doubles) but then you pay $6, get $5 back. The Hershey’s catalina is the only one you can roll this week. The others you can’t use until next week. But if you did this first, then use that $5 catalina to purchase your Snuggle, pay $5.32, get $5 back.
Now I have $20 in Kmart cash that I have to use next week, but that’s no big deal since they sell all kinds of groceries now, including milk. That makes my final oop 11.26 for all that stuff, I’ll take it!
clearance at Acme
January 31, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
I was at the Hockessin/Lantana Square Acme today and they had lots of HBA stuff on clearance. Check your coupon binders for:
Aveeno hair (1/9 inserts)
L’oreal (1/2, 1/23 and yesterday)
Suave (yesterday)
Dove (yesterday)
Got2B ( I don’t know of any coupons)
Nexxus (don’t know of any)
Natural Instincts (I used the $2 home mailer coupons, came to $2.49 after coupon!)
