Quick deal roundup for this week

Is it just me, or is it a slow week for deals? I guess that’s to be expected. All the sales are focused on Mothers Day items like jewelry, flowers, candy, picture frames, perfume and other stuff like that.

And I apologize for being light on posting lately. What I’ve been doing instead of blogging: enjoying the sunshine, cleaning out closets & getting ready for our neighborhood yard sale, taking a class to become a BCEA (special ed advocate) and just mom stuff. As the great deals increase, so will my posts; that’s usually how it goes. Anyway, for this week, there are a few things to check out.

Acme-I posted last week about the P&G deal and gave an update. I still will probably do it two or three more times to get dog food & paper towels. But the P&G coupons aren’t that hot, nothing to make anything free. And my coupons, I noticed this week I got MANY more $1 off 2s instead of $1 off 1s. Gee, thanks P&G. And the $0.20 coupons–seriously? A bottle of Downy is $6 or $7, $0.40 isn’t even a 10% savings. How do you go from offering $2 off of Pampers wipes to offering $0.20 off? Ok, enough of that. But, I didn’t see anything on knockdown which is good, will all work on shelf prices. And if you need the stuff and have the good home mailer coupons, there are decent deals to be had. And the Wisk is a decent deal if you can find the clearance and have the $2 coupons.

Giant-I will check out the Pampers deal in conjunction with the $25/$100 offer and report back. I do want to check this one out.

CVS-Meh. Colgate will be a moneymaker, depending on what coupons you have for it, but it’s limit two. The Frito Lay items, the smaller ones are 3 for $1 and you get $1 back wyb three. So free, and you can do it 5x. But I’m not expecting much. I would expect that most stores won’t have enough on hand of what I like. After all, every couponer will be buying 15 items. My apologies–I should have posted this yesterday as a Sunday must-do deal, I bet by now there’s already not much left! They also have several P&G offers. I would like to get the Soleil which is cheap. I dislike that they are posting the deals in supercouponer format. Hmph. Overall not a terrible week, but no hot freebies, imo.

Walgreens-I have $10 in RR that I must spend this week, what to spend them on? I really don’t see anything, so will probably not roll them, just spend them. I do need envelopes which are on sale. The GUM flossers are free after RR and I think I may actually have coupons for those that I got inside of packages. Walgreens has also started posting some of their deals in supercouponer format.

Good week to stock up on razors, I guess.

Kmart-doing a $10/$35 P&G deal. Will work on sale prices, not shelf prices. Has always rolled for me.

Ulta-has a $3.50 off $10 coupon on front of flyer. Can be stacked with mfr coupons and sales. They are currently running sales on P&G stuff (Cover Girl, Olay, Pantene, Venus), Garnier, Neutrogena, Physicians Formula & Revlon–all of which currently have mfr coupons out. Check the PF stuff for “Try Me Free” rebate offers stuck to packages as peelies.

L.L.Bean-I haven’t tried it yet, but I read that using the code THANKYOU will get you an additional 20% off your purchase, plus they now offer FREE shipping all the time with no restrictions. Last time I found a code, I got the boys some of the unshrinkable tees which are only $8 each wyb three. Then it did take another % off with the code. I love these tees for them, they hold up very well. Can also be stacked with clearanced items and I saw several cute cropped pants I need to check more closely.

Target also offering several P&G items on a gift card deal. Not bad prices if you need the stuff and have coupons. Even better if you have other $5 GCs to roll. They also have an Aveeno GC deal.

I certainly will update with my news on the Giant deal which I hope to check out tomorrow. And other great deals as I find them!

Walgreen’s-

New Giant ad-May 1 to 8; P&G deal update

Looking at the new Giant ad. It has a little pull-out insert with the $25/$100 P&G deal. At first glance, it looks like most of the prices are the same as this week. And I don’t see any mention of a possible $5/$20 catalina offer from Pampers. Nor do I see the big box of Pampers that they have advertised this week, with the free tub of wipes when you buy the big box.

My hope, of course, was that I’d buy five big boxes of Pampers in separate transactions. Pay $19.99 for them, get my free wipes and use whatever Pampers coupons I have. I think I have $2 ones right now. See if one box and one tub of wipes is enough to generate $5 catalina, and see what my spending amount is listed as on my receipt. Hopefully get a $5 catalina to roll on the next box of diapers and so on. When I got to $100, hopefully only five transactions (99.95-I was counting on the value of the wipes to push me over).  I would have spent: 17.99+12.99+12.99+12.99+12.99=69.95, I’d still have a $5 catalina. Go home, submit $25 rebate. $44.95 final cost for five big boxes of diapers, five tubs of wipes, one $5 catalina.

But since I don’t see this anywhere in the ad, and only read about it on discussion forums, I’m going to wait & see what happens. Hopefully some shopper will be the guinea pig and go out and try it on Sunday or Monday. Since Giant deals only work on sale prices, I don’t see how we can make anything even close to free.

There’s another P&G deal at Acme next week, so I’d rather just try for that one instead.

Organic Deals at Giant w/printable links

This week’s natural and organic specials include:

Nature’s Promise whole chicken $1.39/lb

Nature’s Promise Top Round London Broil $5.99/lb

Nature’s Promise sliced bacon $3.99/pkg

Hormel Natural Choice Lunchmeat or Oven Ready Grilled Chicken 2/$5

Evol Burritos 2/$5

Cedarlane Frozen Entrees $2.99

Bear Naked Granola $3.99

Cascadian Farm granola cereals 2/$6, printable, printable

Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bar 2/$5, printable

Terra Exotic Vegetable Chips $3.99 printable, printable

So Delicious frozen novelties 2/$6

Nature’s Bounty vitamins or supplements BOGO Free, printable
They are also advertising new Seventh Generation Products:

Seventh Generation Dish Liquid (25 oz) $2.99

Seventh Generation Laundry Detergent (50 oz) $7.99

Seventh Generation Diapers (26-35ct) $8.99

Printables for 7th generation

Giant-5/15 Unilever Instant Savings Deal

Giant is running a $5 instant savings promo when you spend $15 on Unilever products. There is a Unilever insert in today’s paper.

Buy $15 worth of participating products in a single transaction and after discounts and COUPONS and get $5.00 off instantly. I’m still checking out the hcw Giant board to see if any guinea pigs have tried it yet–in other words, is the discount really after coupons, or before?

~Skippy peanut butter 3/$5.00; no coupons listed

~Ragu pasta sauce, all varities 2/$5.00; 3/13 inserts-free pasta wyb 2 Ragu; so you’d get 6 jars of Ragu and 3 boxes of pasta for $10, or appx $1 per item. But these are the bigger jars of Ragu.

~Wish-Bone dressing 2/$4.00

~Wish Bone salad spritzers 2/$4.00; no Wish-Bone coupons listed

~Lipton tea bags reg. 100ct or decaf 72ct 2/$5.00

~Lipton green tea, all varieties 40ct 2/$5.00

~Lipton ice tea mix $4.99

Lipton coupons are all $0.50, $0.60  off 1 or $0.75 off 2. Remember, only the first one will double; subsequent same coupons will only be face value.

~Hellman’s big squeeze mayo $2.49; no insert coupons or printables