Category Archives: Couponing

Shopaholic Savers Deals- Surprise Extra Register Reward Printing on Walgreens Zephyrhills Water Sale

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 15, 2012 1 comments

So Zephyrhills 24 packs of water are on sale for $3.49 this week at Walgreens with $1 RRs. However, one of the employees at my local Walgreens was kind enough to inform me that they are in fact printing 2 separate $1 RR coupons. The second actually says Energizer batteries but all I bought in this purchase was the water. This made the water only $1.49 for the entire pack after RRs. I know in some areas the water goes by a different name so I can’t say this will work everywhere or for how long but it might be worth a shot especially if you were planning on buying it anyways.

So the deal is-

Buy 1 Bottled Water (Brand Determined by Your Local Ad) 24pk $3.49
Get Back (2) $1 Register Rewards (Instead of the Single $1 stated in the Ad)
Cost after Coupons- $1.49 Each

*Shopaholic Savers Deals* are unique deals that the owners of Shopaholic Savers personally come up with and that we have not seen on other sites. Other Bloggers are welcome to repost these deals as long as they also post a link back to us. To see more Shopaholic Savers Deals click the category in the column on the right.

Natural / Organic Deals- Unreal Candy Free After ECBs at CVS

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 15, 2012 None comments

Now I have never heard of Unreal Candy before today, but this week it is .75¢ and you will receive .75¢ ECBs back making it free after the ECBs. I noticed that these candies claim to be “Unjunked” healthier candy. I can’t say that I am 100% sure that they are natural but they do claim to be healthier so I thought it worth writing about. There is a limit of 1 per card.

Getting Free Gift Cards with Prescriptions

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 12, 2012 None comments

I apologize for the lack of updates lately. I’ve been feeling under the weather and today I went to the doctor and found out I have strep throat. Not fun. However, being the frugal person that I am I tried to look on the bright side. I had to pay $14 for 2 prescriptions but I was lucky and had two $10 Target gift card with a new or transferred prescription coupons. You can get these in a variety of ways- their weekly ad, catalina coupons, or home mailers. I didn’t know that you can use more than one at the same time. I believe the limit is actually 4. So I actually made a $6 profit in gift cards. I am always on the look out for gift card with prescription coupons. You never know when you will need one, no one plans on getting sick.

Lately, Walgreens has been giving out tons of coupons for free $25 dollar gift cards with transferred prescriptions. But I called and they are ONLY for transferred prescriptions which is why I went to target today. If you have to be sick you might as well get a free gift card (or two)!

7-10-12 Winn-Dixie Meat Stock Up Trip

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 12, 2012 None comments

So this isn’t a typical couponing shopping trip that I would post about but I figured that I would share anyways. Let’s talk about meat. It is easily the most expensive item on my grocery shopping trips and it is usually what I try to buy when I have decent moneymaker deals at Publix. But how can you save on meat not using coupons?

One thing I tried this year was buying an extra ham and turkey at Christmas time and freezing them. This actually was a really nice savings but not a lot of variety and I don’t have an extra freezer besides the small one attached to my fridge so it would be hard for me to buy more than 2 at a time.

To save money on meat I shop sales and recently I have been finding the best deals at my local Winn-Dixie. There are a lot of things that I find to be a lot more expensive at Winn-Dixie but generally not their meat department. They also have extremely good deals on meat that they put on clearance due to it being close to their sell by date. I freeze a lot of what I buy until I use it and we have never had a problem with any of their meat. The Winn-Dixie butcher himself told me he uses their clearance meat.

So on this trip I bought-

– 2 Packs of Sirloin Steaks

– 2 Packs of Chicken Breast Tenderloins

– 1 Pack of Pork Chops

– 1 Pack of Beef for pan frying (not sure what we will use this for yet)

– 1 pack of ground meat

I spent- $24.74 and saved at least $19 off of the regular Winn-Dixie prices and I’m sure it would have been a lot more than that at other stores. This meat should last us for the rest of the month and hopefully I won’t have to buy much if any more.

I actually wanted to pair my $1 off 2 Hormel coupons with their B1G1 sale but they were out of stock so I got a raincheck. We use a lot of canned chicken and this was a really good price at around $1 per can after the sale and coupons.

7-10-12 Publix Shopping Trip

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 12, 2012 None comments

So this shopping trip at Publix I needed to get quite a few things that I didn’t have coupons for so that definitely raised my out of pocket costs. To lower them I used a $5 off of $25 Save A Lot competitor coupon and a slight overage on the Bayer. I was also pleasantly surprised to find a sale and coupon on the energy drinks and get 4 for $5. My boyfriend uses them for work and if he buys them there they are $4 for 1. I won’t bore you with the regularly priced groceries but here are the coupon deals I did in this trip-

4 Bayer Asprins- $2.63 each (I believe regular price)
– Used 4 $3 off coupons
Cost after coupons- -.37 cents moneymaker on each

6 Advil Liquid Gels 40 count – On sale for $4.49
-Used 3 $5 off 2 Advil Publix Coupons from the Green Advantage Buy Flyer
-and Used 6 $1 off Advil coupons from an assortment of places including RP 5/20
Cost after coupons- .99 cents each

Note- If you are lucky enough to find the $2 off each peelie coupons on the product this is a moneymaker deal. Both of my local stores were sold out but .99 cents each was a good enough stock up deal for me

1 Four Pack of Rockstar Energy Drinks- On Sale $5.99
– Used $1 off Publix coupon from the Yellow Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- $4.99

– Used $5 off of $25 Save A Lot competitor coupon

Spent- 11.61
Saved- 52.96

7-1-12 Publix Shopping Trip

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on July 4, 2012 None comments

I was very excited to finally sit down and write about this week’s Publix trip that included deli lunch meat and cheese, hand soap, moneymakers on baby food and dog bones and finally getting to use my raincheck and coupons for the Tilapia Parchment Bakes from last week. And now I realize that I can’t find my receipt anywhere. I always save receipts so I have no clue where it could be. But anyways, I spent ~$9 and I saved ~$60 so it was a good trip.

6 B1G1 Mtn Dew 2 Liters, $1.89 (94¢)

2 B1G1 Kraft or Seven Seas Dressing, 14-16 oz, $2.93 ($1.46)
-$1/2 Kraft salad dressing, 16 oz, Target coupon printable
-$1 off Kraft Anything dressing Facebook 16 oz+ printable
Cost after coupons- .46¢

6 Beech-Nut Stage 2 Baby Food, 4 oz, 55¢ (27¢)
-$1/3 Beech-Nut items printable
Cost after coupons- Free +

2 Chinet Dinner Napkins, 40-90 ct., at $2.19 ($1.09)
-$1 off Chinet product, register printable
Cost after coupons- .09¢

2 Purina Busy Dog Treats, 4-7 oz, at $3.79 ($1.89)
-$1 off Purina Busy Chew treat, SS 4/29
$2/1 Purina Dog Treat or Snack Assorted Varieties, 4 to 25-oz pkg PUBLIX coupon
Cost after coupons- Free +

2 Dial Liquid Hand Soap, 9.37 oz, $1
-.35/1 Dial bar 3 pk.+ or liquid hand soap, RP 6/17
-.50/1 Dial liquid hand soap, 9.37 oz, Target coupon printable
Cost after coupons- .15¢

2 B1G1 Hellmann’s Mayonnaise
– $1.50 off 1 Publix Coupon in Store or Printable
– $1 off of one Manufacture coupon
Cost after coupons- Free

Used a Raincheck to do 8 Mrs. Paul’s Parchment Bake, Buy 1, Get 1 Free
– Buy 1, Get 1 Free Mrs. Paul’s Parchment Bake coupon
Cost after coupons- Free

Also Bought a half pound each of Publix Deli Lunch Meat and Cheese

– I also used $2 Walgreens Register Rewards to lower my out of pocket cost, my Publix accepts those because they are manufacture coupons

Totals-
Spent- ~$9.00
Saved- ~60.00

6-18-12 Publix, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS Couponing Day

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on June 18, 2012 None comments

I had so much fun today doing A LOT of couponing at 4 different stores. I wanted to take advantage of some of the really great deals going on right now. If you follow my blog you will see that there are often gaps between my couponing trips. It’s because I don’t spend my time couponing if I don’t think the deals are good enough or I don’t really need something. I don’t live in the land of double coupons so deals are a little harder to come by. So right now, since there are so many good deals out I want to stock up for later. The first Publix shopping trip was actually yesterday but I wanted to post them together because these deals can all be done this week. The rest of the couponing trips were today.

Publix Trip #1 – 6/17/12

Bought 6 Nature Made Vitamins- Vit D, Melatonin, Magnesium, Folic Acid, and others- Prices from $3.99 to $4.99
used 3 $2/1 Nature Made Vitamins printable coupons (This is an awesome PDF coupon that you can print as many times as you want)
and used 6 $6/2 Naturemade Vitamins Publix coupon, Green Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

3 Sundown Vitamin Folic Acid, $2.89
-$1 off Sundown Naturals vitamin or supplement, RP 6/10
-$3 off Sundown Naturals product, 120 ct. + Publix coupon Green Advantage flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

Bought 2 Right Guard Deodorants $3.89 and 2 Right Guard Men’s Body Washes $3.91 all B1G1
– (2) $2/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Anti-Perspirant, Deodorant, Gel or Body Wash manufacturer coupon (zip 30187)
– (1) $2/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Anti-Perspirant/Deodorant Target store coupon (zip 33712)
– (2) $1/1 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Body Wash Target store coupon (zip 33712)
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit
Thanks to Couponaholic.net for the deal idea

Maggi Ckn Soup .50 each
– Used 2 .50¢ off printable coupons I printed so long ago I can’t remember where I got them
Cost after coupons- Free

Items Bought Without Coupons-
– 3 Packs of Perdue Ckn Breast ~$3.50 each
– Bananas $1.86

-I also used one $5 off of a $55 purchase competitor coupon from Winn-Dixie.

Totals-
Total Before Coupons- $86.17
Total w/ Tax After Coupons- $5.23
Savings- $80.94

Publix Trip #2 – 6/18/12

Bought 8 Nature Made Vitamins- Vit D, Melatonin, Magnesium, Folic Acid, and others- Prices from $3.99 to $4.99
used 4 $2/1 Nature Made Vitamins printable coupons (This is an awesome PDF coupon that you can print as many times as you want)
and used 8 $6/2 Naturemade Vitamins Publix coupon, Green Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

4 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, $1.99
-Used 2 $1 off of 2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers (although there are a lot of other manufacture coupons for this product out there)
– and used 2 $1.99/2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, Publix Coupon Yellow Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- .49¢ each

4 Smart Balance Milk, 64 oz, $2.50
-$1 off Smart Balance enhanced milk, SS 6/03
Cost after coupons- $1.50 each
Note- These are good for several months so I like to stock up

BUY TWO WHISKAS CHOICE CUTS FOOD FOR CATS 12 PK 30-36 OZ, 2/$7
Use two $2/1 Whiskas Multi Pack Cat Food Assorted Varieties 30-72 oz Multipack Publix Printable Store Coupon
and use two $0.75/1 Whiskas Pouch Multipack manufacturer coupon, 6/10 RP newspaper insert
NET PRICE: $1.50 (or 75 cents per multipack!)
Thanks to Couponaholic.net for the deal idea

Items Bought Without Coupons-
– Publix Cream Chz $1.89
– Publix Sliced Chz $2.79

Totals-
Total Before Coupons- $71.26
Total w/ Tax After Coupons- $6.84
Savings- $64.42

I’m really excited about this Walgreens trip. The store was dead and the cashier in the cosmetics department was really patient so I was able to do more transactions than I usually would. I keep taking advantage of cheap shampoo deals (see HERE and HERE to list a few!) because there were so few last year but now I think I might be set for a long time.

Walgreens Trip – 6/18/12

1 Real Soft Toilet Paper 12 Pack $5
– $1 off Walgreens Coupon in June’s Coupon Booklet
Cost after coupons- $4

1 Scott 6 Pack of Paper Towels $5
– $1 off Walgreens Coupon in June’s Coupon Booklet
– $1 off Scott Paper Towel Manufacture Coupon SS 6/10
Cost after coupons- $3

3 $2.50 RR WYB Colgate Total Gum Defense or Advanced Toothpaste, 4 oz, $3
– I Used 3 .75/1 Colgate toothpaste, 4 oz, SS 6/03
Cost after coupons and RRs- Free+

10 $2 RR WYB (2) Suave Shampoo or Conditioner 5-28 oz, Stylers or Lotion or Caress Body Wash, 12 oz starting at $1
– No coupons used
Cost after RRs- Free

Filler Items-
– 2 Muffin Mix on clearance $.89
– 4 Candy Sticks $.25

Unfortunately this is a shopping trip that needs an explanation because as you know if you coupon at Walgreens they don’t make it easy on you. At Walgreens you can only use one manufacture coupon per item and their store Register Rewards (RRs) count as Manufacture coupons. Also they charge you tax on the pre-coupon amount so you pay more tax than at other stores. My initial intention with this shopping trip was to rotate the toothpaste deal with the shampoo deal so that I could use the RRs from the previous transaction for the next transaction (because you can’t use RRs for one deal to get more of the same deal). This did not work out as well as I had hoped because the $2 from the Shampoo did not fully cover the toothpaste + filler Item and the $2.50 from the toothpaste was higher than the $2 for the shampoo so I needed several filler items and that always raises your out of pocket costs. That being said, I still got 21 items including paper towels and toilet paper for around $11 and I’m happy with that.

Totals for 21 items in 9 transactions-
Spent- $11.02
Saved- $27.35

CVS Trip – 6/18/12

I bought 2 Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste and 2 Tom’s of Maine Deodorant for this deal-

$1 ECB WYB Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste or Deodorant, $3.19, limit 2
Used 2 -$1 off Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, excl trial sizes, SS 6/17
Used 2 -$2.50 off Tom’s of Maine Naturally Dry antiperspirant, SS 6/17
– I also used $1 ECBs that I already had
Spent- $5.11 total and Received $4 ECBs
Cost after coupons and ECBs- $1.11 or about ~.27¢ each
Saved- $16.50

Note- I used two different CVS cards to do this (mine and my bfs) because the limit is 2. Also, even though these items were cheap I can usually find better deals on toothpaste and deodorant but I am slowly switching my house over to Natural and Organic Products and I also love that they are fair trade. When I can’t find Natural or Organic I settle for cheap (lol).

Walmart Trip – 6/18/12

3 Black Flag Fly Paper or Flyswatter $.98
Use one $1/1 Black Flag Product 4/15 RP
Cost after coupons- Free + .02 Profit

4 Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles $.78
$0.50/1 Maruchan Yakisoba Product 5/20 SS
Cost after coupons– $0.28

Totals-
Spent-$1.06
Saved- $5.00

Today’s Couponing Totals-

(Note- this does not include the 1st Publix Shopping Trip because it is from yesterday)

Spent- $24.03 out of pocket at 4 Stores

Saved- $113.27 plus I still have $4 ECBs

(I didn’t count the ECBs this week because they will count towards next week)

Natural / Organic Deals- Tom’s of Maine Lots of Coupons in SS 6/17 and a Deal at CVS

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on June 18, 2012 None comments

I was very excited about two things this week when it comes to Natural / Organic deals. I was excited to see that there are A LOT of Tom’s of Maine coupons in yesterday’s 6/17 Smart Source Coupon insert. AND you can use these coupons to do this deal at CVS this week. Tom’s hasn’t always put out a lot of coupons so I’m glad to see they are creating more.

$1 Extra Care Bucks (ECBs) Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste or Deodorant $3.19 each a limit of 2 per CVS card
-$1 off Tom’s of Maine deodorant SS 6/17
-$1 off Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, excl trial sizes SS 6/17
-$2.50 off Tom’s of Maine Naturally Dry antiperspirant SS 6/17
The $2.50 off coupon will make this free after ECBs– Spend .69¢ Receive $1 ECBs for a profit of .31¢ in ECBs

Check Your Inbox- Bealls $10 off of $25 printable coupon or Online

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on June 17, 2012 None comments

If you receive Beall’s emails check your inbox for $10 off of $25 printable in store coupon or Online with the code JUST4DAD.

6-14-12 $5 for $145 worth of groceries at Publix, Lots of free items this week! 96.56% Savings!

Posted by Ney@ShopahoicSavers.com on June 14, 2012 None comments

I was very excited about my Publix shopping trip yesterday. I got $145 dollars worth of groceries for $5! I took advantage of all of the overage deals and got some other great free products. The best part about this shopping trip for anyone who is reading this is that most of these great deals are still available.

2 B1G1 Smart Balance Butter- $3.59 – Sale ended 6/13/12
– Used 1 $1.60 off Smart Balance Spreadable Butter
Cost after coupons- $1.99 for 2

2 Puffs Vicks Tissues $1.50 each
– Used 1 $2 off Vicks Product Coupon P&G “Have You Tried This Yet” booklet Coupon HERE
– and Used 1 $1.50 off Vicks Product Coupon that came in a coupon book with a pack of tissues
Cost after coupons- Free + .50 Profit

Bought 16 Nature Made Vitamins- Vit D, Melatonin, Magnesium, Folic Acid, and others- Prices from $3.99 to $4.59
used 16 $2/1 Nature Made Vitamins printable coupons (This is an awesome PDF coupon that you can print as many times as you want)
and used 8 $6/2 Naturemade Vitamins Publix coupon, Green Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + $13.26 Profit

1 Pack of Tena Pads $5.19
– Used 1 $7 off coupon- Mailed to my house after sign up
Cost after coupons- Free + $1.80 Profit

2 Packs of Bologna $1
– Used 2 $1 off Target Coupons printable
Cost after coupons- Free

1 12 Pack of Angelsoft $5.49
– Used .25 cents off manuf. coup
– and used .55 off Publix coupon from Children’s Miracle Network coupon sheet (for sale at register)
Cost after coupons- $4.69

4 Sundown Vitamin Melatonin, 120 ct., $3.99
-$1 off Sundown Naturals vitamin or supplement, RP 6/10
-$3 off Sundown Naturals product, 120 ct. + Publix coupon Green Advantage flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + $.04 Profit

4 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, $1.99
-Used 4 .55 cent of Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers Blinkie Coupons (although there are a lot of other manufacture coupons for this product out there)
– and used 2 $1.99/2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, Publix Coupon Yellow Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- .49¢ each

4 International Delight Coffee Creamer, 16 oz, $1.66
-.55/1 International Delight product printable
Cost after coupons- $1.11

1 Bag Tyson’s Spicy Ckn Patties $5.99
– Free Tyson’s Breaded Product (Took off $5)- Mailed to me HERE
Cost after coupons- .99 cents

Items Bought Without Coupons-
– Bananas- $1.96
– Pillsbury Pie Shell- $3.15
– Children’s Miracle Network Fundraiser Coupon Sheet- $1
– Publix Milk- $3.49

-I also used one $5 off of a $55 purchase competitor coupon from Winn-Dixie. If I had realized my before coupon total was so high I could have used 2 of them to make this entire purchase almost entirely free.

Totals-
Total Before Coupons- $144.98
Total w/ Tax After Coupons- $5.16
Savings- $139.82

That’s about $145 dollars of groceries for $5!!! The best part is that I had a missed coupon and receipt that I brought to customer service and got $5 back. So that was like getting everything for .16¢!

Click HERE to see my 4 Store Shopping Trip at Publix, CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart later this week!