Publix is currently running a great sale on Mtn Dew 2-Liters. They are Buy 2 Get 2 Free. In addition there are Hang Tags with the coupon $1 off when you buy 3 2-Liters of Mountain Dew.
Buy 4 Mtn Dew 2-Liters- Regular Price $1.99 each
– On Sale B2G2 Free
– Use $1 off of 3 2-Liters of Mountain Dew Hang Tag Coupon
Cost After Sale and Coupons- $2.98 or .74 cents each
Now through March 28th you can buy $25 restaurants.com gift certificates for $5. Use the promo code BUNNY when you check out. This is a great way to save money when going out to eat. 🙂
This post is by my sister Candy who is a frugal fasionista. She knows designer brand names and always finds the best designer deals!
For years my mother, sister, and I have been thrifting but more recently I have become obsessed with shopping at Goodwill. One of my goals for this year was to shop for all my new clothes at Goodwill and other thrift stores in my area. Instead of going straight to the mall when I need a new shirt or dress I head to Goodwill, which is conveniently a few minutes away from my local mall. Also there is a Goodwill on the way to the university I attend. Also the stores in my area offer a 10% off student discount which I always take advantage of. Here are some of my recent finds:
Toms Wedges-Retail 69.00 I paid. 5.99 . When I first tried them on they were a little tight but I bought them anyways because I was determined to squeeze my feet into those wedges. A few weeks and sore feet later they are probably the favorite pair of shoes I own.
http://www.toms.com/ash-canvas-women-s-wedges-14
Now I have been wanting these Kino sandals for about four years now but they are only sold in Key West or online and “ain’t nobody got time” to take a trip to the keys for 13 dollar sandals. I got mine for $3.99. Not necessarily as cheap as I would have liked but I have no intentions of taking a vacation to the Florida Keys anytime soon.
http://www.kinosandals.com/sandals/lili.html
This is a Kathy Von Zeeland purse I recently purchased for $3.99 at Goodwill. This is my second purse of this brand and the first one I have was $30 on clearance at Marshalls, but I received it as a gift. I love this purse and I am currently using it.
The next item I am really happy I bought. I recently took a trip to Kentucky. While there my family and I decided to go to Goodwill. This was literally the worst Goodwill I have been it. Super sketchy but I found this amazing H&M coat for $5. (It looks a lot lighter in the first picture, the second picture is closer to the actual color)
One of the best items to buy at a thrift store is books. I never pay full price for text books or books I read for entertainment. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while now but I just hadn’t found it at an affordable price. Then I found it at Goodwill and .99 cents is good for me.
Keep in mind with all of these items I also received 10% off with my student discount for showing my student ID. I love shopping at Goodwill but I also do my part and donate whatever items I have at home that my family members or I do not need.
A long time ago I wrote about mycokerewards.com HERE and said that I had started using it. However, I never got around to updating how it went. Well since I first started using the site, we have received Free subscriptions to People, All You, and Wired Magazines and also free soda. They also offer no points needed free deals from time to time. And we rarely drink soda! People give us their caps! We simply input the codes and redeem them for free stuff.
Currently, they are allowing everyone to enter the following three codes for 40 free points! This is enough to get a free 20oz Coke!
– 10099041542625 (10 points)
– 10099144423516 (10 points)
– 10099755715372 (20 points)
So if you haven’t yet joined mycokerewards.com then now is a good time to start. The site is easy and fun to use. Click HERE to check out the site. (This is not a referral link)
Thanks, moneysavingmom.com for this deal idea.
My sister and I were at Target today and we stumbled onto 70% off boots! We were especially excited because we are going on Vacation to visit our Aunt next week and she just told us they are expecting 3 inches of snow! So we each got a pair of boots for around $10 a pair. In the picture below, we turned around and realized we had both tried on the same pair of boots!
I did three separate shopping trips this week to stock up on a lot of great deals. Every year during the Publix Viva Italia Sale I stock up on canned goods. I wasn’t actually planning on doing much couponing this week but this sale literally saves us money all year long because canned good last forever. See my last years shopping trip HERE. These are some of the lowest prices I see all year and they make it really easy to buy canned items in bulk with B1G1s and extra in store / printable coupons (same coupons, two ways to get them). Safe to say I saved a lot of $ and we just this month have run out of the canned items I bought last year. We were also fortunate enough to have been given $45 in Publix gift cards by family members so I used those to pay for most of these items. I also used one competitor $5 off of $25 purchase Save-A-Lot Coupon for each transaction.
Shopping Trip 1- (The couch isn’t from Publix although I did get a great deal on it lol)
Order Total- $22.44
Saved- $64.60
Out of Pocket Costs- Paid With a Gift Card so ZERO out of pocket
Shopping Trip 2-
Order Total- $30.42
Saved- $98.70
Out of Pocket Costs- Mostly Paid With Gift Cards so only $8.77
Shopping Trip 3-
Order Total- $14.75
Saved- $42.39
Out of Pocket Costs- $14.75
Weekly Total-
Out of Pocket Costs- $23.52
Saved Before Gift Cards- $205.69
Saved Including Gift Cards- $250.69
Now I think we are also ready for the Zombie Apocalypse should it hit within the next couple of months.
If you are interested in doing any of the deals that I have done in these transactions I will refer you to couponaholic.net and southersavers.com for their deal listings.
I am going back to school for my Master’s degree soon and the campus is huge and rainy! My mother, sister and I were at Goodwill the other day when they found these new rain boots for $2.99 in my size, Target donates new stuff to our Goodwills. I love the colors because they aren’t too crazy. I hate to get my feet wet so these will be really helpful for days when I have a 20 min walk to class in the rain. Plus I’m told this type of boots usually sell for $40.
I have been looking for a Bread Maker at different thrift shops for a while now but I was hesitant to buy one because I wasn’t sure how many pieces they came with or if they were going to work. I was inspecting a used one at one of my favorite thrift shops when a woman came up to me and told me that it wasn’t a very nice one. We started a small conversation and before the end of it she told me that she had an almost new, really nice bread maker with the instruction book that she wanted to get rid of. I was a little hesitant but she drove home and got it to give to me. I offered to pay her for it but she didn’t want anything for it. And that’s how I ended up with this fabulous Bread Maker for free. It was spotlessly clean and didn’t look like it had ever been used, even though she told me she used to use it a lot. That very night I used it to knead the dough for the pizza we made in the picture below. I can’t wait to try making a loaf of bread in it. I will write an update once I have tried it for a while to let everyone know if it actually saves me money or not, but I know that homemade bread is fantastic.
I got a big surprise on Saturday night when I found out that CVS was starting most of their Black Friday Sale on Sunday instead of Thanksgiving night like last year(Click HERE to see my deals from last year). I was very excited with what I got! So excited, in fact, that I went to two stores.
HOW TO QUICKLY AND EASILY SET UP YOUR TRANSACTIONS TO SAVE THE MOST MONEY-
I’m not going to list out how I did my individual transactions, because it would take forever and it wouldn’t help you anyway. Each store will have slightly different items in stock so planning transactions ahead of time would just be a waste of time. There is however a quick and painless method for setting up your transactions in the store so that you save the most money.
1. Go through the store and collect all of the items you wish to purchase (most stores have many items gathered in the front so check there first so you don’t run through the store if you don’t have to)
2. Gather the items that you are getting free/almost free after coupons but will receive back a profit of ECBs (store dollars). For example, the command hooks are $1 and there is a $1 off coupon so the item will be free but you will still receive $1 ECBs. Starbucks Refreshers, Glade Plugins Scented Oil Warmer, and Children’s Advil all have deals where you will receive a nice profit in ECBs. This will be your first transaction. For this first transaction you will pay very little out of pocket and you will receive your profit in ECBs.
Note- If you don’t have coupons for any of the items just start by buying around $6 or $9 worth of items depending on how many transactions you want to do.
3. See how many ECBs you now have. For Example you may now have $9 in ECBs so put your items into groups of $9 and then pay for each transaction with the ECBs from the previous transaction. This is called rolling ECBs. It will keep your out of pocket costs as low as possible. Some of my transactions today were free, most were paid with coin change.
4. Buy the higher priced items first until you are left with all of the dollar items. These are the easiest to break into transactions.
Store One-
Spent- $7.47
Saved- $49.17
ECBs (CVS store dollars) left over- $9.50
That’s Like getting paid $2 to buy all of this stuff!
# of Transactions- 5
Store Two-
Spent- $2.45
Saved- $49.68
ECBs (CVS store dollars) left over- $7
That’s Like getting paid $4.50 to buy all of this stuff!
# of Transactions- 6
The Carmex, Somnapure and Command items all came with additional coupons so take a look because you might be able to use these.
If you didn’t make it in time to score a deal you really wanted don’t worry. Unlike last year, CVS is issuing rain checks for items they are out of. Remember these never expire so if there is something you think you might use it can’t hurt to ask. They know people are going to ask for these so in some cases they have them pre-written.
If you would like to see the coupon match ups for these deals and other Southernsavers.com and Couponaholic.net both did a great job of putting lists together.
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