Possible good Pampers deal at Target

I got this one in my email:

Care for your newborn with the softness of Swaddlers, now with Wetness Indicator*. And for babies on the move, new Cruisers offer the softness of Swaddlers** and feature 3-way fit so your baby can play freely.

Stop by your local Target store between 8/8 – 8/13 and receive a $20 Target GiftCard with the purchase of 2 of these great products:

 
 160-ct or larger Pampers Swaddlers
 92-ct or larger Pampers Cruisers
 
I think that the 92ct boxes are usually around $20, so essentially you pay about $40, get $20 back. $2 coupons from last week’s paper. Look for the specially marked packages that contain either a small thing of wipes, or a coupon booklet–I’ve seen both at stores.

This is a good deal, half off sort of–for those that don’t like to clip coupons and shop at Target. Even better, I’d get 4 boxes. Pay for first 2, get $20 gc. Get second set of 2, use $20 gc and $20, get $20 back. Then you’d spent $60 oop, and you have four big boxes of Pampers and a $20 gift card.

 
 
 
 

Woohoo! Success at Giant with the Pampers deal!

Giant has two overlapping deals this week. One is a $25 mail-in-rebate offer when you spend $100 on P&G items. The other is a $5 back when you spend $20 on Pampers (a P&G item). Note that the $5 catalina you get back is ONLY good on Pampers items and says so right on it. There are lots of ways you could do this, this is what I did:

$19.99-box of Pampers

$2.69 tub-of Pampers wipes

For the first transaction, I was successfully able to use my $5 catalina that I got at Acme over the weekend. I also have the $0.20/wipes coupons from yesterday’s paper and various Pampers diapers coupons from the paper and home mailers. Anywhere from $1.50 to $3 off. Each transaction cost me about $15.xx for both after coupons & $5 catalina, and for each transaction, $23 worth of P&G credit towards the $100 would show up on my receipt. So I did the box of diapers/wipes transaction four times, which took me to about $92. I did get some Easy Ups and they are included in the promo.

Last transaction, just one jumbo pack ($8.99) and I used the $5 catalina AND a $1.50 coupon. That transaction only cost me $2.48 or something like that.

My final out of pocket was about $66, and I’ll send in the rebate form to get a $25 Visa gift card back.

$41 final total, for four big boxes of diapers, one jumbo pack of diapers and four tubs of wipes.

Of course once all was said & done and I was driving home, I realized I probably could have done better.

Two jumbo packs X 8.99=17.98 plus one tub of wipes at 2.69=20.67

From there, use two diaper coupons instead of one and one wipes coupon doubled- ($1.50+$1.50+$.40)=20.67-3.40-$5 catalina=$12.27 per transaction. But that one you would have to do five times to hit the $100. Final oop would be roughly $61, then $25 back, or $36 final total. You may end up with fewer diapers though. I think a big box has more than two jumbo packs, but you’d have ten jumbo packs & five tubs of wipes for $36 if you did it that way. Still a good deal.

The Kandoo are $1.99 and I have $1 home mailer coupons, but I didn’t try it. Was tempted but wasn’t positive it would generate the catalina so I skipped it. Also, Giant had zero Pampers swim diapers and I was interested in them for my jumbo pack, but oh well.

Free book from Shutterfly via Pampers

You know I like Pampers Points. If you aren’t already a member, go over there and join. They just sent me a code (specific to me, sorry!) for a free 7×9 photo book from Shutterfly. I don’t know what criteria they used in sending them out, but it’s good until the end of May so I have lots of time to gather up photos. Happy Mothers’ Day to me!

This week’s diaper prices, April 10

Pampers coupons in last week’s paper, Huggies printables available on the coupons toolbar on left hand side of page. Of course, home mailers, tearpads and peelies may be found–your mileage may vary.

To try to figure out if you’re getting a good deal, whip out your phone and do the math–what price are you paying per diaper? Try to stay under $0.20 per diaper, anything that is about $0.12 or under, I would stock up and max out on that deal. For wipes, I definitely won’t pay more than $0.02 per wipe, and I try to stay at a penny or less.

Genaurdi’s-big box, both brands, 17.99

Superfresh-advertising horrible prices this week–$2.79 for a 60ct tub of wipes! Jeez SF, that’s over $0.04 a wipe-no thanks!

Walgreen’s-Pampers-two jumbo packs for $18, get $3 RR back. Huggies-big box for $21.99 with $2 RR back

Acme-Huggies or Pullups, big box for $19.99 with $5 catalina back

CVS-no deals listed, assume regular price

Kmart-big boxes of Huggies 19.99; get 3000 extra points (if you do the Shop Your Way Rewards) when you buy $25 worth or more.

Target-extra big boxes, both brands, $29.99; $10 gc back when you buy two boxes