Giving Walgreens a second glance-May 1-7

A few things at Walgreens are catching my eye, since I gave the ad a second look. Plus I picked up my inserts today, and sometimes things don’t click for me until I see both the ad and the coupon inserts in my hand.

Yesterday’s Red Plum had bogo Right Guard coupons and it’s bogo at the store. Free! Well, almost free for me. I think the coupon value is only good up to $4.49 and last time the RG stuff was $4.79. Still, $0.30 for two body washes or deodorants is a great price.

There’s a Foot Locker GC offer when you buy Gatorade, and Gatorade coupons in yesterday’s paper.

Lipton Tea 12 packs-that’s a good price for those, and it’s $2 off 2, or about $8 for two twelve packs.

The RR deal on the P&G cleaning items (page 5 of ad, top middle). It will work on sale prices, not shelf prices, but if you have the home mailer coupons for things like Swiffer, good deals to be had. Prices not listed in flyer, I’ll check it out tomorrow.

Movie ticket offer-buy 6 of the candies listed at $15. Use three of the $2/2 coupons from yesterday’s paper, pay $9. Get $7 back towards a movie ticket. Good deal for movie goers.

The Mead and 3m stuff I mentioned last week-don’t forget the 3m printables.

Use the yesterday’s Noxzema razor coupons and the razor deal is a small moneymaker. Razors are $3.99, use $2 coupon, pay $1.99 get $3 back!

LOTS and lots of bogo items and remember, Walgreens will allow you to use a coupon on each item. Schick Hydro, Speed Stick, Olay are just some of the brands that are bogo and have good coupons out right now.

I have $10 in RR to spend by Wednesday. My plan is this:

4 Right Guard items-4.79 each, on sale bogo, I have two bogo coupons; will cost me about $0.60

1 Noxzema razor-3.99, I have one $2 coupon, cost $1.99

1 Soleil item at 5.99, I have one $3 coupon, cost $2.99

1 Fusion razor, $9.89, I have $5 home mailer coupon, $4.89

$0.60+$1.99+$2.99+4.89=appx $10.50; will pay with $10 RR, don’t need any fillers because of bogo items. Get back $3 for Noxzema, $2 for Soleil, $4 for Fusion.

Diaper prices this week, May 1

Pampers coupons in today’s paper, Huggies was 4/17 inserts. Pampers/Luvs rarely if ever does printables. Huggies does quite often, check coupons dot com toolbar on this blog. Remember to use a phone/calculator to determine price per diaper that you’re paying. Try to stay at $0.20 per diaper or less. Under $0.02 each per wipe. Under $0.15 per diaper or $0.01 per wipe is my stockup price.

Target-has big boxes of both for 19.99/each. $5 gc wyb two boxes.

Kmart-no Huggies sale listed. Pampers is a P&G item and they are running a $10/$35 promo. I would get four jumbo packs to put me over the $35 limit, then use four coupons.

CVS-nothing listed, assume regular prices

Walgreens-has their store brand on sale for $5.99. Use the $2 coupon from infant care booklet to pay $3.99 each. That gets you down to about $0.12-$0.15 per diaper! Ask for the $2 coupon back, but ymmv. They are allowed to return it to you, but don’t have to. And one coupon should take $2 off of every pack you get.

Acme-big box is 19.99 and included in the $5/$20 P&G deal. But you’ll have to buy a cheap P&G filler item, or something you need, to get over the $20.

Giant-this is my plan. Will update you if it works.

My two picks for this week would be the Walgreens deal if you have the infant care booklet. That’s the easiest deal-no rebates to be bothered with or catalinas to roll. But I love Pampers best, so for that reason, I’m still going to try Giant.

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-

Some good deals at Walgreen’s this week

Now that I have a few moments to actually check out the ads and the forums on HCW, I may get a few things at Walgreen’s this week. I have $5 RR to spend from the last Pampers offer. Here are a few items I noticed-

Carefree Pantiliners 20-22 count, $.51 overage
TOTAL: $.51 overage after mfr coupon and RR
SALE: $.99
MQ: $.50 off any one Carefree product, 3/27 RP insert
RR: $1 RR when you buy Carefree pantiliners 20-22 count

Garnier Nutrisse or Herbashine

TOTAL: 2 for $4
SALE: 2 for $14
MQ: $3/1 coupons.com (toolbar to your left)
RR: $4 RR wyb 2
MATH: 2 for $14-$6 coupons-$4 RR=2 for $4
Note: I also saw this on clearance at Acme, for $2. So you’d get $1 overage and no bothersome RRs to roll.

Pampers jumbo packs 
TOTAL: 2 for $8
SALE: 2 for $18
MQ: $1.50/1 PG insert (last week)
AD Q: $2/1 Walgreens Infant Care booklet **Note, this coupon has been beeping & cashiers have been turning it down. Try at your own risk.
RR: $3 RR wyb 2
MATH: 2 for $18-$3 mfr coupons-$4 wags coupon-$3 RR=2 for $8

Biore Cleanser & Pore strips
TOTAL: .99 after Q & RR
SALE: $5.99
MQ: B1G1 – Biore Cleanser (1) Free when you buy Biore Pore Strip (excludes trial size) – 03-06-11 SS
RR: $5 when you buy 2 participating products
MATH: 2 x $5.99 – $5.99 (BOGO Q) – $5 RR = .99