Locals-Val Pak & Clipper coupons

Wait! It’s not always strictly junk mail! At least glance through it before you toss it.

There are a few coupons in these packets/magazines that I’ll use. In the Clipper magazine, there’s a whole page of Concord Pet coupons. I always look for these, seeing as I have three 100-lb dogs to feed. Even if I only save $5 here & there, it’s something. But this month, there’s a coupon in there for $0.75 suet cakes. I’ve never seen suet cheaper than that, and provided I can find a way to store it, I will get the limit of 48. But mice always get into mine in the winter. Even in airtight containers. I really enjoy feeding the wild birds and suet brings a much nicer assortment than seed alone.

And the Rubinstein’s coupons are back in Val Pak! Yay! I don’t think there were in there last year at back to school time, or maybe I just missed them. But they have a free ream of paper with purchase and many other small bts items free with purchase. In the past I’ve been able to do it all as one purchase–not have to do a $12 purchase for the paper, then another $10 for the index cards, etc. I’ve been allowed to only make one $12 purchase and get all the freebies. This is usually the time that I evaluate my coupon binders & see if they need updating or check my son’s school’s wishlist and get  few items from that.

Odds & Ends for this week

Sorry I haven’t been posting much. I’m enjoying these last few weeks of summer with my boys and in all honesty, a bit fried on deals lately. Plus there’s not really any “must do” deals that I see.

CVS, Walgreen’s, Kmart, Walmart, Target–lukewarm about all the stuff I read online about these stores. CVS has a Crest freebie if you have Extra Bucks to roll and have the $1 Crest coupon. Personally more and more I’m finding rolling ECBs to be  a hassle and would much rather just take that $1 coupon to Acme/Jewel/Osco and get the $1 Crest with it. If you feel like poking around Kmart, Walmart or Target, I like to take my coupon binder with me sometimes and see what freebie/cheapie matchups I can do. Can usually at least find free razors and other little things.

Acme-once I took a second glance at the Acme/GM/BTFE deal, I did clip some coupons and go do it. Very cheap or free stuff if you use the GM coupons from last week’s paper. You have to buy 10 items though. But both Progresso Soup and the Nature Valley Granola Bars will spit out On Your Next Order catalinas if you buy 4 of them. I’m also the new BTFE coordinator for  my son’s school, so it was nice to get some of those.

Superfresh-haven’t made it to SF this week and not sure I will, though I’d like to. I want to get the Oxi Clean detergent, Danimal and do the Kellogg’s moneymaker. But their shopping carts are so old & rickety, you can’t take 2 kiddos.

Giant-I had a very nice run at Giant today. And with the promise of pizza for lunch if they were good, the boys cooperated. I really wanted to do the free Jif/Smuckers, but it’s only the grape that is included. Of course that’s the only flavor we don’t like. But if you use it, it is the bigger jar in the deal. The Kennett store had the 5 packs of mac & cheese with the FREE Capri Sun attached to it, so I grabbed a few of those plus the 0.99 Capri Sun deal. The Hungry Jack is free if you have the $1/2 coupons, made the syrup very cheap. All in all I got 4 Capri Suns, 3 5-packs of mac & cheese, 6 HJ mix, 4 HJ syrups. All of that for…..free! Used my $10 Kellogg’s catalina plus the balance on one of the Kellogg’s Visa Gift Cards I got in the mail.

In case you didn’t get enough Kellogg’s……..

Two more Kellogg’s deals I saw this week, and there were coupons in yesterday’s paper. Kmart is doing the $10 catalina when you buy 10 items and they do take mfr coupons. The $10 catalina is also still running at Superfresh. If you have enough coupons, the Superfresh deal can be a big moneymaker. Log in your Superfresh card so that you get the $1.25 off of three boxes. Then, add that to whatever Kellogg’s paper coupons you have. It’s on sale for $2 a box. Me? I’m staying away, we have waaaayyyy too much already.

Coupons for Charity-Week 2

Thanks for participating in Week 1–so far we’ve raised $10 for IDEAS.  This week I didn’t get as many inserts, so it’s a smaller lot. Still a great assortment–and in it there are 8 coupons for a FREE bag (3.5 lb) of Purina One, dog or cat. These inserts also include the coupons to make the Biotrue a moneymaker and get free postits.

As always, free shipping and all money goes to IDEAS.

Click here to see the assortment or to bid. Thanks & Happy Couponing–I’ll post more matchups later.