Yay! Today, I received my free Pink Cook Set in the mail! It arrived much faster than my cook set from last year!
I wrote about this deal about a month ago HERE.
To see the $2 transaction I did that qualified me for the cook set click HERE.
Today I did a massive shopping trip at Publix! I’m very excited to say that my totals were-
Spent- $35.47
Saved- $100.75
This included-
– 8 2L Dr Pepper (all free)
– 8 Boxes of Cereal (around $1 a box)
– 1 Gallon of Water
– 2 Loaves of Bread
– 6 Bags of Alexia Frozen Rolls
– 4 Boxes of Cake Mix
– 2 Bags of Shredded Cheese
– 2 Coffee Creamers
– 2 Packs of Cream Cheese
– Bagels
– Vitamins
– A BIC Lighter
– 4 Jars of Ragu
– 4 Boxes of Pasta
– 2 Cans of Shaving Cream
– 2 Bottles of Grape Juice
That’s how I like to do my grocery shopping!
For most of these coupon match ups I will simply direct you HERE where I got them. However, I added to this list with deals I came up with on my own so those match ups / coupons I’m listing below.
Ragu and Pasta Combined Deal Here-
*** Ragu Pasta Sauce is on sale B1G1 Free with a coupon for free Pasta when you buy two. Now what you need to know is that it doesn’t specify a brand so you can buy the B1G1 Free Ragu (I got four) and then get two Pasta’s for free. I chose to get Mueller Pasta which is also B1G1. The Ragu coupon will make two pastas free so you really get four FREE because the register will take off the other two for the B1G1 sale making all four FREE! This is an even better deal if you use the (4) .55¢ off Mueller’s Pasta coupons which you are given the chance to print as many as you want.
Here is the deal breakdown-
Buy 4 B1G1 Free Ragu Pasta Sauce, 16-24 oz $2.59 ($1.29)
Buy 4 B1G1 Free Mueller’s Pasta, 12-16 oz, at $1.55 (77¢)
-Use (2) Free Pasta WYB (2) Ragu Pasta Sauces, RP 11/13 (This makes all 4 Pastas free)
-Use (4) .55/1 Mueller’s pasta when you sign up printable (This takes $2.20 off of your deal total)
Makes It $2.98 for 4 Boxes of Pasta and 4 Jars of Ragu (or .37¢ each)
The rest of the deals I came up with-
B1G1 Free Dr Pepper, 2 L, $1.75
-Free Dr Pepper TEN WYB any Dr Pepper 2L, (Publix Coupon) Yellow Adv. Flyer
-Free Dr Pepper TEN 2 Liter, SS 10/09
Buy 1 Regular Dr. Pepper and 1 Dr. Pepper 10 and both will be FREE!
Noxzema Men’s Shave Cream, 11 oz, $1.99
-$1 off Noxzema product (Publix coupon), Green Advantage flyer (EXP 11/18)
-.75¢ off Noxzema face product 11/13 SS Insert
Makes it .24¢ Each
International Delight Coffee Creamer, $1.67
-.75¢ off printable coupon or
-.55/1 International Delight Creamer, 16 oz printable
-.55/1 International Delight coffee creamer, 16 oz printable
-.55/1 International Delight creamer, quart or pint, Upromise eCoupon
Makes it .92¢ Each
Clearance Trial Size Advil .55¢ (If your store has it, click HERE to read more)
– $1 off Advil Manufactures Target Printable Coupon
Free + Profit
Here are a couple of deals I didn’t get to do this morning but I am going to try to do later-
Lysol Disinfectant Trigger Spray Cleaner at $1.34 – On Sale Buy One Get One Free
Buy 2 and use 2 $0.50/1 printable
Or buy 2 and use 2 $1/1 coupon from the 11/6 SmartSource insert
As low as $0.35 each after coupon
President Rondele Cheese Spread, 8 oz, at $4.59 ($2.29)
-$1 off President cheese printable
-$2.50 off President cheese, (when you share) printable
Makes it FREE+
Click HERE to see my second shopping trip this week with even more deals and savings!
These deals are good until the end of the sale week which will be Wednesday Night, so hurry up and get to Publix!
Yesterday we had an extremely frugal day! Since we moved into our new house several months ago we have bought very little. My boyfriend and I both agreed that we wanted a flat screen TV but we also didn’t want to spend frivolously when we have other tube TVs in the house that work just fine.
When we moved into the new house and signed up for AT&T U-verse, which included a great introductory special, they unexpectedly gave us $150 in Visa gift cards just for signing up. I had also been saving $200 in Visa gift cards that I had received as a bonus from my old job.
Which TV to buy? We looked for months and decided that we were willing to each pay a little more out of pocket to get a better (aka bigger) TV. My boyfriend found the one we wanted at Best Buy online for $499. The downside was that we had to drive about a half an hour to get it from by where we used to live. The good thing was that even though it cost more in the store they price matched it for us to the cheaper online price.
On the way, I was able to stop at a book store that doesn’t have a branch by where we live and sell 3 books I no longer wanted from my huge library for $22 cash.
I was also able to redeem a couple of coupons for free items at stores in the Best Buy plaza that I had been holding onto since before we moved. We got a free caramel apple at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and we got a free gourmet cupcake at Sweet.
After getting back in town we went to the County Fair for the last night of fun, rides and shows. A close relative of mine is one of the managers so we were able to attend for free! We also got free ride bracelets. Yes, that is a picture of a tiger jumping through a flaming hoop! We brought the free candy apple with us to save on food cost and no one knew that we hadn’t purchased it there.
After the fair, we went to Target and met up with a relative who bought some of the cables we needed for the new TV with their employee discount. So we were even able to get the TV cables 15% off.
After that, we went home to play with and watch our new TV. For us it is a good investment because we love being at home watching movies and playing games. This TV allows us to connect our computers to the TV so that we can watch free streaming internet movies and TV shows on a large screen. It’s always more frugal to stay home than to go out so I feel that investing in your home is a great idea and luckily we love being at home. 🙂
I have written before on the pros and cons of Having A Water Well which for us means that we have to buy drinking water. Before we were paying about .75¢ for a gallon for drinking water at the various grocery stores we shop at. Now I have rediscovered the Water Vending Machines outside grocery stores (near us Publix has them). For .30¢ a gallon I can fill up my water jugs and save more than 50% of what I had been paying for water. For us the .45¢ I’ll save a gallon will really add up because we buy so much water.
I love that I have been able to save 50% of what we used to pay for milk and now I’m saving 50% of what I used to pay for water. Maybe my goal should be to save 50% on everything!
This is the first time since I was a child that I have lived in a house. Something we considered when renting our house was the lawn care but we still wanted our own lawn. My boyfriend mows our decent sized lawn so I decided that it was up to me to pull the weeds out of the sidewalk cracks and mulch flower beds.
However, we have hundreds of clovers mixed in with the mulch. Instead of hand pulling each of them I decided to look up homemade weed killer.
After looking it up, I learned that salt and vinegar are the two main ingredients in homemade weed killer, both of which I already had in my cabinet. I took both of those and mixed them in a small reused spray bottle.
I sprayed it on the clovers today and it worked!
Thanks to The Garden Counselor for the information.
Remember my post about always looking out for stuff on clearance? Well I noticed these trial sized items on sale at Publix for change, went home and realized that I had coupons for them. Not only were some of these items free but I was paid overage to take them out of the store. That’s the way I like to shop!
Yesterday I got to go shopping with my sister which is always lots of fun. My sister is a shopaholic like no other. She loves to shop but she somehow always finds the most amazing deals so that she never spends much money.
We found these cute Almost Famous shorts at Sears for $2.99.
She also needed a birthday gift for her friend and we went to Bath & Body Works that was having Fall Clearance. She got almost $40 worth of stuff for $10.
At CVS, she needed some air fresheners so we the deal where if you spend $12 on select glade products you get $4 ECBs. After the coupons she used and the ECBs she received this ended up costing around $4. Not bad for something she needed to buy anyway.
At Publix, we got a few things she needed and it only cost about $2.
Shopping is always more fun when I get to go with my sister. We compare deals and we encourage each other to save. I definitely recommend having a shopping/saving buddy!
I was at my local Walgreens a couple days ago when I spotted a cart containing the stuff pictured above. I don’t generally carry a lot of coupons on me when I go shopping, mostly just the ones I hope to use. I still like to browse the clearance sections at stores to see if I see anything that I know I have coupons for at home. The problem was that I would often forget exactly what was there and the prices. Now that I have a smart phone (that I bought secondhand for really cheap by the way) I have started taking pictures so that I can go home and look up any coupons I might have.
You can find coupons that are available for any product by using free coupon databases on different websites. I most often use the coupon database on SouthernSavers.com. I did find some coupons that would have made some of this stuff even cheaper, but I didn’t find any coupons that would have made anything free or dirt cheap which is always my goal. I didn’t end up going back this time but I’m glad I looked because this is always a chance to get some free stuff.
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