Soooo easy! I had gotten both the Lypsl and the Nivea body wash this month and of course by the time I went to enter those receipts the check boxes were gone! I was flustered but then heard that people were still getting them anyway. I checked their website late last night and they added them! Yeahhh!! Good thing too because myson opened that body wash the day after I brought it home, I was going to return it!
I did do some hounding this weekend.. mostly just trying to grab a few WAGS deals. I wound up having to go to several stores in order to get what I wanted. No pictures either, I was just too busy to get everything put together and now I'm sick and just don't feel like digging everything out.
Okay this is what I wound up with from WAGS this weekend.
Nivea Mens body wash $5.49 used $1 coupon
Lypsl lip $2.99 no coupon
**thought these both were added to the October ESR however I got home and tried to enter them and they are gone! Sure enough checked the sites I had seen them and everyone said they were taken down..?? should I return them?**
Rimmell foundation $7.49 used $1 coupon ESR FREEBIE
A&H Laundry detergent $2.99 used $1 coupon $1 ESR
3 Scrubbing Bubbles shower FOAMER $3.99 used 2 $2 coupons and 1 $1 coupon ESR
L'Oreal Towelettes $7.99 used $1 coupon ESR FREEBIE
I called Walgreens customer service this weekend because I never did get 2 of my ESR's from last month.. the Pert and the Acid controller because the cashier couldn't get my coupons to work so the manager had her do a price modification and instead she took the products off and then put them in as numbered items.. so it looked as if I hadn't even bought those products however I had. So they did credit me the full amounts for those. I was told the first time I called that you can't use coupons on ESR deals?? what? okay I always have and see that everybody does as well... IN FACT my WAGS had those little yellow dots on the L'Oreal towellettes saying if you pay at the cosmetic counter they'll give you a $1 off (coupons they keep over there) that were clearly marked as FREEBIE items....???
Okay last but not least my son got a drum set! I didn't take any pictures of it.. DOH but basically he got a set for $250 off of craigslist. Luckily this set we found happened to be very close to my sons dads house so we took them right over there for him to set up. He's spending the day today banging away! lol!
♥6 Glade scented candle refills $1.99 each used B2G1 coupon and will get $4 ESR
♥2 boxes envelopes 99 cents
♥1 carmex $1.59 (had to grab a fast filler I'd use)
♥4 shredded cheese 2/$3
used $5/$20 coupon and my total OOP $12.28
This WAGS I went to I always get amazing customer service which is why going to K-Mart didn't seem like a big deal because if I was just going to the grocery store and CVS there were 3 other WAGS I could have gone to.
Double Dip Days started at midnight.. so guess where I was at 11:48pm.... ha ha ha getting all the deals because someone else always beats me to them.. well not sure if it helped or not.. we'll see.
♥10 bottles of glade spray $3.99 each used 10 $1.50 manu coupons plus $1 Sept ESC and will get back $10 from Oct ESR in the end 49 cents each (well less with the extra 10% ESR)
♥6 Glade Candle $5.99 each used 6 $2 manu coupons plus $2 Sept ESC plus will get back $8 from Oct ESR so 4 of them are free and the other 2 were $1.99
♥12 Herbert Choc bars $1.99 each (somewhere I thought I had seen they were on sale 2/$3 but I guess they aren't) used the $3/2 coupon so wound up being 2/99 cents
♥Revlon nail polish $4.79 used $2 manu plus will get back $4.79 from Sept ESR
♥Pert Plus $3.79 (the shelf said $3.49 I swear) used $2 manu $2.50 Oct ESC plus will get back I'm not sure because the coupon wouldn't work so they hard coded it in as $1.29
♥Acid Reducer $7.99 used $2 Pharmacy coupon and another I don't know what I'll get back because she hard coded $5.99 because that Pharmacy coupon wouldn't work but it should be $7.99 Sept ESR or free
♥snapple packets $2 (was looking for the Wylers ones they used to sell couldn't find them)
♥2 Shake n light flashlights on clearance for $2.49 each (I have a small one in my car I love, got this for my dad. He drives back and forth to AZ a few times a year)
Okay that sums it up.. my total came to $130 then I gave her coupons and she had to hard code the Oct ESC because they wouldn't scan and the pharmacy coupons. Plus I had the prices wrong on the Glade Spray I thought they were $2.99 each and the Herbert Chocolate so I'm thinking of returning them. hmm anyway after all the coupons plus the $5/$20 (I should have separated this into a few transactions to get at least another $5 off, oh well) then a $4.50 RR plus $12.48 off my CG my total OOP was $38.27. If I get all my rebates back plus 10% I'll get back $38.50. Not too shabby! lol!
**yeah I just figured it out.. if I had cut it into 3 transactions or even 2 I would have paid $26 OOP after $4.50 RR and $12 GC instead of $38. Can't win them all!
loooooookiiiee looookie what I found in my mailbox today!
that's right the dancing cash man! lol! I got a rebate from Kelloggs today for the Blueberry Muffin Cereal rebate $3.24. I also got a $5 check from Finacea I had ordered a sample pack from them and due to an overwhelming response they had to modify the free packs. Instead I got a $5 check and a $10 coupon for my first prescription. Not bad. Also, I still have a check for $2.49 for Hunts Ketchup I never cashed and $1 Menards gift check for use in their store.
$10.73 isn't bad pay for just walking out to your mailbox! lol!
My first stop of the day was at WAGS, I had put together a few deals of things I wanted to get. On the way home I stopped at Woodmans and Meijer last (I'm posting out of order today sorry) but every time I got back in my car it smelled divine.. and here is why.
2 glade 2 pack oil refill $5.99 each BOGO but only up to $5.49
1 glade oil warmer FREE WITH COUPON ON REFILL PACK WATCH FOR IT plus $1 from rebate
3 glade candle refill B2G1 free coupon $1.99 each plus I'll get $3 from rebate
1 Crest Prohealth mouthwash $4.49 used 75 cent coupon got back $4.50 RR
used $10 RR cleaners last week and $4 RR Benadryl last week and 16 cents off my gift card. I got back a $4.50 RR from the mouthwash and I will get back $4 in rebates next month. Not bad.
OMG I AM SOOOO EXCITED TO ACTUALLY POST THIS.. CHECK IT OUT!!
okay the rundown of my goodies.... sooo sooo soooo excited, can you tell??So off I went back to that awesome WAGS again that has all the coupons at the cosmetic counter. Again the same girl was in the store. I have to admit I had to go back to that particular WAGS anyway because I had seen some Similiac Advance marked down to $9.99 for the big cans of powder. I finally got some $5 coupons today in the mail so I wanted to see if they were still there. Of course they weren't.. but one of my ATM's is on the way (I had another rebate check come in today), plus the Jewel that is having the grand re-opening and has some more fantastic deals I wanted to get in on. Not to mention on my way home is an Aldi and I needed a few items I only get at Aldi.
LOOK WHAT POPPED UP AGAIN AT WAGS!!
whooooo hooo!! for the 2nd time I've been able to cash in on this deal. If you didn't read my past blog about the products that have this sticker I can now go to the Cosmetic counter to cash out and they have manufacturer coupons there! Last time I had a really great Biore coupon but just one and they had 3 of the same one. So I didn't have to spend my precious coupon and I got $2 off each product instead of just $2 off one! double woot!
so here is what I got today at WAGs... I hate to dissapoint but I did this all in one transaction! lol!
glade spray $3.49 one $1.50 coupon from ES book one $1.50 manufacturer coupon from this weeks paper
two sets of slippers on clearance for $1.99 I'm keeping those for Christmas gifts
3 packages of paper plate 99 cents each with wags coupon from flyer
3 edge shaving gels 7 oz $1.99 with coupon from wags flyer and 3 $1/1 coupons from the cosmetic counter
1 trident gum 99 cents with wags flyer coupon and 75 cents off manufacturer coupon from all you magazine (I think?)
2 rimmell eye shadows bogo $5.xx each? used a BOGO coupon from all you magazine
2 smuckers strawberry squeezables and 1 peter pan pb $3/$5 used $1/1 peter pan coupon from all you magazine and $1/2 smuckers manufacturer coupon from newspaper a few weeks back
used one $5 RR from last weeks dumb transaction with the cereal.. oh well. my total was $12.xx not too bad. got stuff I will use, and some stuff for christmas.
I stopped at Jewel next to pick up the deals that only this Jewel has. They are still doing their grand re-opening and each week they have some killer deals. This week was 69 cent coke/sprite product 2 liters. limit 6. So I got those along with my FREEBIE Sara Lee bread (coupons from the newspaper a few weeks back) as well as Daisy Sour Cream was 50% off which made it $1.49. Used 50 cent coupons from this week and now I have more sour cream than I know what to do with.
I also stopped at Aldi for a few items.. just eggs, fake doritios which my husband loves.. he says they are better than regular doritos.. more cheese and only 99 cents. Some olive oil and garlic bread. Nothing else there. spent $10.xx there.
Got a the "back to school" rebate this week. so I got those $5 in school supplies for free with Pert/Sure. That was cool and it came with more Pert/Sure coupons. I also got my samples of Similac with 5 $5 coupons which I will now keep with me at all times just in case I come across any more Similac on clearance! ughh. I got another Playtex sample along with another $1 coupon so that was cool.
That's it for today ladies and gents!
Okay.. so today marked another day that I just didn't feel like hounding.. I looked at deals on line and that.. read through the grocery ads that came out yesterday.. just tried to get a general feel for what I needed. I'm starting to feel the "unemployment" red line (meaning I have less and less money each week available to me) so I'm really looking only for deals on things that I need. For instance, I really needed ketchup and bleach this week. I went to WAGS on Monday because I had to get $10 cash (I don't ever carry cash) so I pulled together a few fast deals and wound up spending $17 there that day. $4.xx on deals plus $2.42 in TAX plus my $10 cash.. so it was an expensive (for me) wags trip. I stopped at CVS on my way home that day just to get 1 more $1 candy to get my $5 ECB, but other than that I've not gone shopping at all.
This week I did get another rebate for the Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner. Works good, I'm happy with it and I got it for free so that's cool. I also got some really good FREE coupons this week. One in the mail for V8 fusion. That was one where you text for the coupon which was cool. I also got 5 free wet dog food coupons this week in Sunday's circulars (I get coupons from neighbors and my husbands grandma) and also I had 4 free wet cat food coupons from last week. I got another today at Jewel when I went for a grand RE opening which turned out to be a disaster.
I thumbed through a special circular that was sent for this grand re opening at the Jewel in another town but still very close to my house. They had some pretty good deals PLUS had some freebies/games going on I thought would be cool to check out.
So on the way I decide to stop at Target to get a few things like cat litter. I bought about 25 of those great Tidy Cat $1 off coups that came out awhile ago. If I can get litter for 77 cents a week I'm going to stock up. So I got 3 of those because of course they only had one type and I like to switch the types around. Not sure why but I'm convinced the litter doesn't smell as bad if you switch it up. Anyway.. I found some other good deals on some clearance items.. nothing great, nothing to brag or that I even took pics of. I wound up spending $14 there on nothing particular.
I drive across the street to Jewel and I see this huge group surrounding this pop up tent. I park and walk over and sure enough there is a huge slot type machine set up and you pull the arm and if you get 3 huggies you win a TV. There were several other items you could win if you got all 3 and after asking a few others standing there I heard that yes they had started at 4pm (it was now 4:15pm) and in that time 3people had won something. So I pulled the lever and got a big nothing. oh well.. my parting gifts? Another free Jewel reusable grocery bag, 2 samples of Dunkin Donuts coffee, a few coupons 1 for a free half gallon of ice cream, a sample of tide/downey laundry detergent, and a big chip bag type clip. So not a bad deal.
So inside I go to grab all the deals that are just at this location. As I'm walking in some lady is walking out and yells to me to "think about going in there" apparantly there was some computer glitch and all the registers were down. So the only register they had running was the service desk and that was backing up down the isles. By the time I got in there they had the self service registers running so that was 4 more registers shoppers could use. Because of this I decided not to try to get all the deals I wanted and actually found a few of the deals I thought I really wanted weren't exactly what I wanted so I passed on some. I get through my self check out which always takes me forever because of coupons and today I was buying beer so I had to wait for someone to come over and validate my age into the register. So I'm leaving and I had spent $32 on basically nothing.. so I decide to grab my receipt and look at what I bought... yea TOTALLY BLANK RECEIPT! nice huh? ughhh so once I got home I worked it all out and it makes sense but still I'm sorta miffed because I didn't get that much.
I gotta figure out how to make hounding work to my advantage in the food arena.. seriously.. I don't get how others get such great deals in the grocery stores. I just can't seem to pull food deals. I can get unlimited amounts of deoderant, shampoo, cleaning supplies, and in general junk food for great prices, free, or even get paid for it.. but regular every day stuff.. not at all. not sure what I'm doing wrong.. ughhh
So tonight I went to another Jewel to use the free ice cream coupon I had gotten earlier and that free V8 Fusion coupon. Wound up getting some Magic Shell (crack in a bottle) and came home and had a little ice cream party with my son and 2 nephews. Of course, they were more excited to see the juice than the ice cream.. I THINK SOMEONE SWITCHED MY KIDS AT BIRTH, THEY CAN'T BE MINE! lol!
So I've been really up in the air over doing the AXE/WAGS deal. If you buy 4 AXE deoderant/shower gel you get free 2 movie tickets.. which isn't a bad deal and at Christmas I always buy that stuff for the boys anyway.. I just don't feel like spending $16 for movie tickets! lol! Tim and I go to the $5 shows early on Friday/Saturday/Sunday or we use our freebie tickets we get once in awhile.. or we wait for it to come out on video and get it free from redbox (I just returned 3 movies I rented from redbox for free yesterday).
Anyway.. that's all that has been going on with me in the hounding world.
first stop jewel
Okay.. sooooo I wanted to go to Jewel first because it's the farthest, I had nothing cold to get there and because they had a super give away at this particular one JUST TODAY! It was a reuseable grocery bag filled with free organic goodies (including pet products) and tons of coupons. If I had time like a day and half I'd actually list out each coupon.. all I know is that they are all for organic products.
I tried to take this picture twice but my chihuahua Blue just had to be in the pic.. I guess he's my photobomb for the day.. ha ha
Inside Jewel I wanted to get the $1.77 cereal deal (limit 4) and it just so happened that I had two $1 off coupons and a free chex mix product (up to $4) from GM for calling in and telling them about a bag of chex mix 100 cal pack I got that was slit up the back. Totally weird. It was like a box cutter had cut right up the back of the bag but there was no box cut mark in the box that the bag came from.
anyway so I got all this for $11.xx but I'm taking the soup back because even with the $1 off 2 coupon they were $5!! I had no clue they were $2.99 each. I thought they were $1.99 each. I did finally get to use my MUIR coupon but just for that little can of tomato sauce. I only had one.
STOP TWO WAGS
I had read WAGS was doing a demonstration type deal today something to do with Clean and Clear complete with coupons/samples so I went in to check it out. Basically it was both the Clean and Clear blackhead eraser and the Advantage Acne Cpontrol Kit were both $19.99. All Clean & Clear products were buy 1 get 1 50% off this week plus buy $30 and get $10 in RR. So because I was a few cents short she run up one of my C&C items as $20.10, gave me 2 $1 off C&C coupons, 50% one of them, plus a $5 Internet coupon she had sitting there. I had a $5 RR plus somehow she worked in 2 packs of Starbucks candy for free (she had the coupons for those too.. I wanted to ask for some coupons for myself but didn't). so my total came out to $19.xx and then I got the $10 ECB!!
so basically, I got all this for $9.xx not bad!!
exhausting unorganized stop CVS!!
Okay, so I'm driving to CVS and realize I'm really not all that prepared. I have a few coupons for deals that are ending today. I have a my CVS $2/$10's printed, $2 skincares printed.. that's about it.. no lists breaking up my deals, figuring out rough totals nothing.. okay.. wing it.. My total for all three transactions were OOP $2.80 and one $10 ECB which I got back.
Transaction 1
2 Crest toothpastes $2.49 each with $1.50 ECB plus 2 75 cent coupons
2 oral b toothbrushes $2.49 with $1.50 ECB plus 1 $1 off 2 coupon
2 colgate toothpastes $2.99 each with $2 ECB plus 2 $1 coupons
1 cvs sunscreen $2.19 with $2 off all CVS sunscreens PLUS $1 CVS sunscreen coupon from scanner
2 CVS hand sanitizers $1.19 each b1g1 50% off with $2 off CVS skincare coupon
total came out to $8 something and I had planned on using a $10 ECB so I threw another CVS antibacterial $1.49 and a nail clipper $1.19 up on the counter. My OOP was 19 cents!! I got a $6 ECB for Crest/Oral B and a $4 ECB for colgate.
Transaction 2
1 cvs sunscreen $2.19 with $2 off all CVS sunscreens PLUS $1 CVS sunscreen coupon from scanner
2 CG lashblast $8.49 b1g1 50% (I thought this was B1G1 free?? hmm, oh well) plus 1 B1g1 free coupon
2 CVS foaming soap $1.99 each b1g1 50% off with $2 CVS skincare coupon.
My total came to $2.18 OOP which should have been negative now that I see what I did wrong.. oh well I wanted to try that mascara anyway! lol!
Transaction 3
1 cvs sunscreen $2.19 with $2 off all CVS sunscreens PLUS $1 CVS sunscreen coupon from scanner
2 CG loose powder $7.99 each B1G1 sale with B1G1 free coupon
2 CVS aloe hand soap $1.69 b1g1 50% off with $2 CVS skincare coupon
again my total was negative so I threw another CVS antibacterial $1.49 and a nail clipper $1.19 up on the counter. My total OOP was 43 cents! Woot!
Last stop, Butera
Okay I went simply for the $1.99 milk.. but you have to spend $20 to get that good milk price. It's limit one so I went twice this week. Ok. So I wanted to make sure I got only things we would use so I wound up with lettuce, cantalope, hot dog buns, water bottles, 2 liters of pop, 4 cans of full throttle, milk, and some marked down doughnuts. My total with coupons was $21.95.. not bad.
TOTALS for the day
Okay, roughly OOP I spent $55.53
minus $10 CVS ECB
minus $10 WAGS RR
minus $5 soup return later today
I spent around $30
Plus I got a $4.79 Rebate today from Excederin. Not sure if I mentioned it but I also got one for $6.49 yesterday from 3M for the stove top cleaner I bought a few weeks ago.
In the mail today I got Glad force flex trash bag sample, and a Freeze It sample with a $1 off coupon. At WAGS I got a sample of Eucerin Redness Relief face wash and face moisturizer along with coupons for those products.
Okay so the way I'm looking at it, I spent $30 on the Clean and Clear products at WAGS and everything else you see was free! not bad for a few hours!
rain rain and more rain.. that's all we get.. lots of rain, thunder, lightening, our house shaking at all hours of the day/night... hail too.. I guess we needed it but yikes.. it's fierce here in the Chicago burbs the last few days.. and now the humidity.. not fun.
Okay.. so I went to Walgreens this morning to get my Kelloggs deal on.. oh yeahh.. got everything as planned.. 4/$10 cereal (2 special k and 2 raisin bran) and then 4 boxes of pop tarts and 2 boxes of rice crispy treats.. all $2 each. It printed both $5 RR!! Yes! I had read other people did not get it. I wonder if you make sure to do $10 of each type snacks vs ceral you can get them? All I know is that I got it and probably will do it again even though only one will count for the rebate.
I decided to do a 2nd transaction for what I thought was another rebate product. the Nivea lip balm. So I found it, bought it, and also 2 carmex's. They were B1G1 and we use a ton of that stuff in the winter so I normally try to buy a ton of it.
So I used my gift card for both so already it was free for everything, plus $10 in RR, plus a rebate for $10 from Kelloggs and $2.49 for the lip balm.
I get home and realize you have to buy thier lotion, then send in for a free coupon for the lip balm! I totally did not read the rebate form right at all! Oh well.. I can return it I supposse.. I don't really need it..
I have to walk my dog, get my Kelloggs rebate together, and maybe shoot up to Wal-Mart and then I'll post a pic and hopefully blog about the deals I get at Wal-Mart.
OKay.. because I messed up and did the Kelloggs deal early, I went back got my money back but no coupons figuring I'd get other coupons from my neighbors and/or parents.. well of course no neighbors have saved theirs for me this week (of course) and I've driven to every Dollar General that sells Sunday's papers on Mondays.. and of course they had Sunday papers just NONE with the coupons in them! ughh!
So I decide on my way home from driving all over to stop at Wal-Mart and see what deals I could dig up. I always have a little spiral notebook with all the deals I want to get where and with all the coupons tucked inside the spiral. Of course, I get to Wal-Mart make it halfway to the door look down in my trusty coupon keeper.. and LOW AND BEHOLD MY SPIRAL IS MISSING. Panic quickly sets in, I says OUT LOUD "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME" (some guy looked at me like I was a circus freak with 12 heads) because now it's like 140 degrees outside, I've been sweating my keester off for what seems like hours and now I can't even go inside Wal-Mart to the nice cool air and browse the isles for hours trying to find some deals because today I actually have time.. ughh.. so I go back to the car hoping my spiral just "fell out" and of course.. not there. *sigh* some swears too.
Here is my coupon keeper.. Yes it's a MONSTER box. I stole it from my son and nephew fair and square after I had to pay $11.88 for the box. They got the inside contents. It's perfect size. It holds full size envelopes, flyers, atm envelopes (for depositing rebates of course), an old envelope box that I throw the expired coupons in that eventually go to the troops overseas, and it used to be empty enough to hold my purse.. no longer.
view from the top
and the envelopes. I have extra envelopes like this one that are store specific. I *think* the CVS envelope is my favorite.
anyway.. so I decide to go home.. I'm sitting at the light and realize I haven't worked out any of my deals for CVS this week BUT I have most of my coupons in the car with me maybe I can make a few deals, get my CVS coupons, and this weeks flyer.. plus I had plenty of the new $2/$10 coupons printed and rearing to go.. It was only 2 miles out of my way.. I'm going.
So I get there go inside and these are the deals I put together.
First Transaction
2 packs of mechanical pencils 99 cents each
2 packs index cards $1.49 B1G1
2 packs Piolet pens $1.99 B1G1
2 Sure deoderants $2.49 B1G1
2 Pert $3.99 B1G1 (do you see a trend here?)
1 CVS personal lubricant $1.49
2 gold bond lotion 99cents each
coupons
$2/$10
$2 off any CVS skincare
$2 off any size gold bond lotion (got knocked down to .98)
$1 off any size gold bond lotion
2 $1 off Sure deoderant
2 $2 off Pert Shampoo
My total $4.08. MIR for School Supplies with Pert/Sure $5
Second Transaction
2 covergirl make-up $8.99 B1G1
1 CVS fem cloth $1.89
1 CVS hand santizier
2 trial sized gold bond powder 99 cents each
coupons
$2/$10
$2 off any CVS skin care
1 B1G1 covergirl makeup ($8.99)
2 $1 off any size gold bond powder (one rang up as .98)
Total $1.68. I had everything in my basket separated out until I realized that everything in my basket was going to be FREE.. so I ran back and got the hand sanitizer (I just grabbed anything that was over $2).
So my total for both transactions was $5.76, add in .42 for a stamp to mail the rebate = $6.18 so today for everything I paid $1.18
Then I get home.. now this is the good part.. I go to take all my goodies inside. I had stopped to pick up some formula from a fellow Freecycler for my friends baby, along with 3 bags from CVS, some misc garbage in my car, plus some of the coupons from this weekend I hadn't cut out yet and GUESS WHAT FALLS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH EVERYTHING?? My freakin spiral.. *sigh* more swears...
BUT THEN.. da da da daahhhhhhhhh (the plot thickens) I get to my mail box and what awaits me??? I won't keep you in suspense.. well not that long anyway.. hey did you see that chicken? why would there be a chicken here right now? Where did she come from.. what did she have in her mouth? ughhh I have a.d.d. what was I telling you? hmmmmm geez.. I had something really great.. OHHHH YYYYYeaaahhhhh... it was the mailbox..
2 rebate checks 1 for $1.99 from Pert peelie and one for $2.49 from Dawn! Yippee.
I also got 2 samples today. gas-x strips with coupons and Nivea Mens face cream with a coupon as well.
So take the $4.48 from the rebates and I MADE $3.30 today.. I guess in the long run I'd be counting those rebates twice then.. but hey.. either way.. the day didn't turn out to be a total loss.. now to hunt down some neighbors that didn't throw away or use their coupons.
~~~2 Glade Fabric & Air sprays $2.99 each.. free after two $1.50 coupons plus $1.50 easy saver book coupon
~~~lightbulbs free after easy care rebate
~~~2 Scrubbing Bubbles shower refills 2/$6 OMG I ONLY GAVE THEM ONE $1.50 COUPON I JUST REALIZED duhh!! anyway after coupon and easy saver rebate they will be 2/$3 would have been 2/$1.50 DANG IT!
~~~Visine (I was having a major allergy attack IN THE STORE) $4.99 $3 coupon from all you magazine
~~~2 boxes of garbage bags 2/$10 will be 2/$5 after easy saver rebate.
because of my returns and everything I have no clue what I actually spent OOP on this stuff. okay some quick addition I paid $18.50 for all products OOP but I used my rebate card so it was FREE. I will get back $5 for the bags, $1.99 for the bulbs, and $1.50 for the Scrubbing Bubbles. Not a bad run I guess.. ughhh still mad at myself. I guess waking up and leaving the house without waking up your brain first will do that to you.
Okay.. so I've been reading about the Kelloggs 4/$10 with a $5 RR and and then found out about the MIR for Kelloggs for $10. So I figured because my area runs out of any deal fast I better get my arse to WAGS bright and early this morning.. and of course.. no such luck.. I got everything I wanted but I messed up HUGE on the whole deal.
When I got home I did my totals I spent $7.59 OOP and got a $5RR so I'm thinking I spent $2.59 OOP really.. not bad. so then I realize that the Smart Start cereals did not ring up correctly. ughhh really? So they rung up as $3.90 instead of $2.50 so I need to get that money back.
So I figured between everything with MIR and Easy Saver I made $18.50 on that entire deal.. not bad.. EEEERRRRRRR
not so much. now I just checked another blog and read that the Kelloggs MIR deal has to have a RR dated after 8/5! today is only 8/3 do you think they'll notice? Not only that but I realized that if I had bought more snacks I could have gotten 2 $5 RR one from the front page and one from the inside pages of the WAGS flyer. I just figured one $5 RR from "kelloggs" per transaction.. ya know?
Okay so then I get home stack all my goodies up nicely, run upstairs to get the camera.. oh yeah.. I left it hooked up to the computer all night which drains the battery!
Okay.. so do you think I should return all the cereal and just start over later this week and take advantage of all the deals? or just pray they pay me for the rebate and miss out on that $5? ughhh not good.
Okay.. so I wanted to at least use my $5 RR from last week and get that $7 RR for this week.. so I headed to WAGS. I didn't think I made any rookie mistakes in a long time but I was just on the phone with my Aunt-in-law (my husband's aunt) and realized I had better coupons than what I used! ughh I went through those P&G's that are all expiring this week like 20 times.. I don't know how I missed them.
Anyway.. I also realized today that I haven't been adding my samples that I get through the mail. Today in the mail I got tampons from Tampax, at Walgreens I got a skin cream sample and also a Biore sample and one other I can't remember off the top of my head. Also, I got my first 2 rebate checks!! and one of them came with MORE COUPONS!! and wouldn't you know it.. rebatetracker.com is down? WTF! lol! I got $2.49 for the Sure Deoderant rebate and $3.29 for the Zout rebate!! woot!!
Okay so here is all the loot..
WAGS
6 Olay body washes 3/$10
1 Ultra 2 glucose monitoring system $14.99
Used
$5 RR from last week
3 $2 coupons for the Olay
2 $1.50 coupons for the Olay
1 $1 coupon for the Olay
up to $20 for the One touch (she gave me $14.99 so I got it free)
Total $6.81 got my $7 RR
of course I came home and found those other $2 coupons!! ughh! not good.
Stopped at Pet-Co and grabbed one 4lb bag of Nutro cat food (senior) and one 5lb bag of Nutro dog food (small bites) had free coupons for both but I had to pay $2 in tax?? is that right? I didn't want to argue with the girl.. she was really nice and I didn't read the actual coupons so they may have said Free up to $10.99 and my bags were $11 something each or whatever.
Then to Butera (read below)
but I did manage to get 2 monsters for free with my free monster coupons
and Edy's ice cream for $1.49 each. They were $2.49 on sale and I had $1 off coupons. So not a bad day.
$6.81 - $7.00 (rr) = -19 cents
$2 at petco
$20 at Butera
so basically $26.81 OOP
$50.16 in coupons & RR
$7 RR for my next WAGS trip
samples
and $5.78 in Rebate checks!
I know I make no sense do I? lol!
