Webkinz and Melissa & Doug toys

I was at Avon News yesterday and they are having a Webkinz sale. Kevin is too young for them, but I know they’re popular and can be hard to find. Avon News is on State Rd in ‘downtown Avondale’ right off of 41.

Also, my friend Rachael turned me on to Melissa & Doug brand toys for Kevin. I love them! And so does Kevin. Now Avon News is going to start carrying them. From what I saw yesterday they seemed to have a pretty good selection. They are mostly wooden toys for preschoolers–puzzles and stuff. TJ Maxx used to have a decent selection of them too, but lately it’s the same old stuff, not many choices. I was really tempted to get Kevin some things but I’ve already spent more than I planned on him for Christmas.

You may want to stop in if you need some last minute gifts for preschoolers & kids and don’t want to deal with crowds.

20% off at Peebles

Here you go. An IP for Peeble’s for 20% off your entire purchase.

Happy shopping.

new CVS ad-good news, bad news

When it rains good deals, it pours. After a few slow weeks, this one looks good. First, the good news. Get your ad and check out pages 3 and 17 for tons of “free after ECB” items. Great stuff and high limits, like 5! And if you check your coupon holders, I’m sure you have lots of corresponding coupons like I do–for Listerine, Arm & Hammer, L’oreal and more.

Now the bad news. They are all only Sunday/Monday deals which doesn’t give us much time and frankly stresses me out a bit. I want to roll all of the ECBs I got on Black Friday weekend, and this is the perfect opportunity to do it. Except that I have 1000 other things to do because it’s the last weekend before Christmas. And the weather people are calling for some type of ice/sleet/snow messy mix on Sunday.

I hope to cash in on these deals and walk away with lots of free stuff and hopefully enough moneymakers that I will actually increase my ECBs. It’s just finding the time to do it. I don’t even have my tree up yet! Or have any presents wrapped, or have my cards sent…….

new Acme ad

I got the ad for Acme that starts Friday. Finally something to get excited about! Certain Kellogg’s cereals are 1.50 each, must buy 6. But I have tons of the $1 coupons, and it includes Mini Wheats and Crispix! Yay! Usually it’s just the sugary stuff so I don’t get too much of it.

Keller’s butter is 1.88 which is a great price for butter. I find that butter freezes well. So does cream cheese, which is $1 for Philly brand and there were $1 off 3 coupons out, I think it was last week or the week before. So 3 bricks for $2. You just have to stir it up as it separates when frozen. Or I just use it in cooking/baking and it doesn’t matter.

The Hatfield bacon is bogo, I freeze bacon too and it’s fine. Hatfield is our favorite kind. The Herr’s are 3 for $6 again, make sure you look for those $0.35 peelies so that will take another $0.70 off each bag.

Snapple is 3 twelvepacks for $14, or 36 bottles for $14, or $0.38 a bottle. A good price if you like it, Dan likes to take tea with his lunches.

The Coke/Nabisco deal seems decent, I don’t know if there are any coupons floating around for either of those brands. But still decent prices if you’re having people over for the holidays.

The New England coffee is 4.50 a bag, so last chance to use those $1.50 coupons that were out before they expire. $3 for a bag of coffee is pretty good, I think.

GUM/Butler toothbrushes are $1, so use the $0.75 coupons that were out (last week maybe?) and get it for free and some possible overage.

Penn Maid sour cream is bogo if you need it, and there are $1 off 2 coupons out recently.

There’s also a small bottle of Advil for $1, check your coupon binders to see if you have $1 off ANY Advil coupons. Free! There are usually printables on their website too.