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-

Acme Update: P&G and Wisk

First, there is a Wisk catalina printing-$2 when you buy Wisk. Most of it is $8.99, so not a great deal even if you do have the $2 coupons. But, there is clearance Wisk at $5.99 and that is reported to also be generating the catalina. And it does roll. I saw lots of the clearance Wisk at the Avondale Acme. The tag is there, but oddly, it’s hidden behind a bunch of Tide. I gave all of my coupons away so I didn’t get any.

The P&G deal-I can confirm it’s working on shelf prices. I got the dog food, which is $21.99 shelf, $17.99 sale. Plus I have those awesome $8 Iams coupons I found at my vet. But one bag of dog food did generate the catalina. And this time, there’s no mention of it not being used on P&G items, and it did roll on to my next transaction. I got one Bounty, one Cascade, used two $1 coupons plus the catalina, got another one.

And I checked most of the items and nothing appears to be on knockdown which is good. They had these one pages handouts at the register. I wrote the shelf prices on mine and scanned it in. Hope you can enlarge it & print it.

Who is up for a Giant challenge? $25/$100 P&G/Kellogg’s/Keebler

I’ve told you all over & over, that the secret to getting things for super cheap or free, is all about stacking deals. Coupons are just one element of the stacking–a very valuable element, mind you, but there’s so much more.

I got my ads today and this is in the Giant ad: April 25-May 14, spend $100 on the selected products, get a $25 Visa gift card. It does NOT say it has to all be in the same transaction, so who is up for the challenge? The challenge of course, is to spend $25 or less on their selected items, get $25 back. Giant has more rules than I care for-the $100 spending threshold will be on sale prices, and they only double one like coupon–if you have two of the same coupons and you want them both doubled-you have to do separate transactions, and they have no e-savings program or printables. And I have to assume that we can’t double dip on our receipts, or send them in for the Kellogg’s rebate. Think we can do it?

ETA: Ok, since this is all only P&G, Keebler & Kellogg’s- P&G insert was 4/3, Keebler was 3/13, 3/20 and 3/27, Kellogg’s last week, some CoverGirl last week. That’s not to mention the Kellogg’s printables link I put up a few days ago, plus all the home mailers from P&G. P&G very rarely does printables. Don’t forget to check coupons dot com.

Here are the items:

Special K cereal-2.99, 3/27 inserts

Keebler Snack Crackers-2.50, 3/6 inserts

Tide 150 oz-17.99, 4/3

Herbal Essences/Aussie hair-2.79, 4/3

Kellogg’s Special K bars-2.50, printable

Special K meal bars or shakes-5.50

Tide pacs-10.99, 4/3

Clairol Nice & Easy-$1 off, last week?

Kashi cereal-$2.50, printable, printable

Kashi granola bars-$3

Charmin or Basic-5.99, 4/3

CG lash blast-$1 off, last week

Keebler sandwich crackers-$2, dates above

Poptarts fam pack, 2 for 5, must buy 2! printable

Downy-7.49, 4/3

Secret/OS/Gillette deodor.-3.79

Nutri Grain-2.79

Eggo pancakes-$2

Bounce-4.87

Satin Care-2.50

Kellogg’s cereal-$2.50

Keebler fudge shoppe-2.50

Dawn ultra-2.50

Venus/Gillette/Embrace/Breeze-$1 off

Keebler club crackers-2.50

Pampers box-19.99

Cascade pacs-4.49

Duracell-5.99

Buy big pack of Pampers, get wipes free

Febreze set & refresh-2.50

Crest whitestrips-$3 off

Iams cat 6.8lb-10.99

Luvs-7.49

Crest prohealth rinse-3.50

Iams dog-15.5-17.5-16.52

always/tampax-5.49

Olay regenerist-1.50 off

crest tp-2.50