Make sure when you get your weekly grocery ads, that you’re looking over them thoroughly. I found a deal, waaayyy down at the bottom of the last page of the Acme ad, in very small print! It’s spend $100 on select gift cards, get $20 back. They list several retailers including Best Buy, Kohl’s and a few others. Last year I got Kohl’s gift cards for the women at day care and had planned to do the same this year. I might as well get $20 towards my groceries this week, if I’m buying the cards anyway. Or if you know that you’re probably going to spend $100 at Best Buy or Kohl’s anyway this season, buy the gift card!
Huggies at BJs
November 20, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Here’s what could possibly be a decent deal at BJs. I generally don’t advocate warehouse-type-stores because I think it’s silly to pay to shop someplace. In addition, their prices aren’t always the greatest. But on a per diaper basis, they’re usually decent prices.
My Sunday Inquirer had a free 60 day trial membership for BJs in the coupon section. They also have a “Take $5 off when you buy 2….” and it lists several items including Huggies, Kotex and Poise. And you should be able to use that coupon, since it’s a BJs store coupon, with manufacturer’s coupon. There were $1.50 Huggies coupons in last week’s paper, and there are always Huggies printables online. In recent weeks there have been Huggies printables for $2.50 or even $3. Check smartsource.com and coupons.com. Or just google ‘huggies printable coupon’ and you should get lots of hits.
After all is said & done, I would think you’d be able to get yourself down to about $0.15 a diaper, which I think is good. Hopefully since it was in the Philly paper, it will also be in the other metropolitan papers where there are BJs.
Small Business Saturday
November 19, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
As you’re shopping around for gifts, don’t forget to support your local small businesses!
discounts on family activities
November 16, 2010 by · 1 Comment
The Please Touch Museum is currently offering family memberships at $40 off. It’s now only $110 for a family of four to have unlimited access for one year. It’s $15 per person to get in, so it should pay for itself with two visits. My kids love it there, but, we’ve been doing very well with the discounts offered on groupon. But if you don’t want to take a chance on it being offered on groupon, this is a decent deal.
Also, Sesame Place is offering discounts for next year, and you’d get the rest of this year included. They are still open for limited things on weekends, like the musical shows and meals with characters. I don’t remember the specific pricing, but I’m sure it’s on their website.
And of course, don’t forget the zoo. A family annual pass is just $99 and that includes parking. For an additional $20 or $30, you can add two guest passes on to each visit. We did that, and honestly, we never used the extra passes. But maybe that just means my friends are slackers. We could just never connect and meet up there. We did get our money’s worth from the membership.
This year, I think we’re going to join PTM. Their too active these days for the zoo, would rather be out doing things. And I like that we can use it year-round. Of course the zoo is open year-round, but who wants to go in the winter?
