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!
Today Dollar General started a 10¢ sale! We stopped by and found a few things. It was around noon and they were already almost sold out. Too bad, the cashier told us they had a lot more stuff earlier in the day but that people had lined up at 8am to get the deals. I was still happy with the few things that I found which will end up being gifts for other people.
Target.com has a great deal going on (especially this close to the Holidays). If you use the code TGT75HFN it will take $5 off of any order with no minimum. You still have to pay shipping but my sister got a great deal on a makeup kit for .99 (just paying shipping) and it looks like others have found great deals too.
Thanks, hip2save.com
Edit: I just tried to use this code and it didn’t work for me. It worked for my sister yesterday so possibly they canceled it.
We went to CVS today hoping to get coupons from the coupon printer for $1 off (which =s free) NYC nail polish. We didn’t get the coupons but we did stumble across a 90% off sale on some items. I got the items below, some of which will be Christmas presents, for a total of $2.57 and I used the $2.50 I had in ECBS (CVS bucks) to get all of them for .07 cents. I saved $25.00. Not too bad.
I have recently moved closer to my home town from a much larger city. I grew up visiting thrift shops with my mom and Saturday I was excited to continue our tradition by going thrifting. Ten cents seemed to be the theme of the day; we had a lot of fun and got some great deals. Here are some pictures of what we got.
One thrift shop was selling books for 10¢ each and I was excited to look through all of them. A very nice man offered to let me fill a box of books for $1. I filled 2 boxes and got all of these books (and a few more I already gave away) for ONLY $2! I probably bought around 45 books and 1 book on CD.
I am currently experimenting with alternative revenue sources. When I was younger I used to sell books on ebay and did well doing it. I know that the market is tougher for that now because of more sites that sell books like half.com but I’m going to see if there is still an opportunity to make some extra cash this way. I’ve already gotten back more in value than the $2 I spent by counting the books that I will keep or give away, so for a very little investment I’m going to see if I can make a profit.
I got all of these XBOX games for my boyfriend’s XBOX for 10¢ each! New XBOX games retail for $60 each.
These magazines and old art books were also only 10¢ each.
I needed a new purse and I found one for $1
I found this Brita faucet filter for my sister who needed one at her house for $4 in the package.
I also got this decorative ship which I paid $2 for. We still need more decorations for our new house.
There are a lot of things that I love about thrifting. It’s green, it saves money and the money you spend usually goes toward the nonprofit organization that runs the thrift shop. No one will ever know (except for everyone who reads this blog 😛 ) that most of the valuable items in my house were bought second hand.
I had a great day yesterday shopping with my mom and sister. We went to several thrift shops, CVS, and Big Lots. We got a lot of bargains. Here are a few of my favorite.
At CVS the CVS coupon printer was printing coupons for free candy bars and there is also a Hershey bar Free after ECBs (CVS dollars). I also bought 4 small boxes of cereal for .50 cents each
At Big Lots my sister found cat litter for $1 a bag
I have needed a new curtain for the small window in my shower. While it is unlikely that anyone could actually see in we didn’t want to take that chance. I bought 1 yard of clearance fabric for $1.50 and made my own curtain by draping it over the curtain rod and cutting the excess. Why pay for expensive curtains?
As I write this I sit in front of my TV watching one of my favorite shows Extreme Couponing. I do not consider myself an extreme couponer even though I am a couponer. My couponing trips are generally under $100 each even though I save hundreds couponing. During the time when I couponed the most I was working part time and using couponing to lower the amount I had to spend on groceries and necessary household items. Now that I work full time it is much harder for me to find the time to do this- especially with groceries. Therefore, I have been trying other strategies to save money. I still try to do short couponing trips for household products thus illustrating that couponing doesn’t have to be all (aka extreme couponing) or nothing. But frankly for the majority of my grocery shopping I’m lucky if I can find the time to make it to a store. With the very little spare time that I carve out I have to be very careful to balance my time with money saving strategies.
I recently discovered a store called ALDI that is saving me a lot of money. Click HERE to read a really great article that I found comparing ALDI to Walmart and apparently ALDI is much cheaper. The above picture is of my shopping trip today and my total was only $63.65!!! (Not pictured are 6 gallons of water and a watermelon). I bought 40 items including a family size frozen lasagna $2.79, MILK $2.69, three romaine hearts of lettuce for $1.99.
Below are some other great deals I have found there.
The toilet paper for $4.99 for a 12 pack and $2.39 for laundry detergent help me set my price point. A price point is a price that you will not buy an item above because you know you can get it for less. I will not spend more that $5 for a 12 pack of toilet paper or more than $2.50 for laundry detergent. Best of all, these are not crappy cheap products. Quality is valuable too and I won’t buy items that will end up costing me more in the long run.
I bought-
20 B1G1 Green Giant Canned Vegetables, 11-15.25 oz. at $1.35 (.67 cents)
I used (5) $1/4 Green Giant Canned Vegetables (Publix Coupon) printable
and (1) -$5 off 20 participating General Mills or Hunts products (Publix Coupon) printable
.17 cents each
4 Reach Floss .99 cents each
I used (4) $1 off Reach Dental floss, Access Flosser, or toothbrush, RP 10/10
Free+
3 Maalox $4.49
I used (3) -$5 off Maalox product, SS 1/09
Free +.51 cents profit each (I’m not sure what these are but I was paid to buy them)
Total- $2.19
Saved- $44.50
There is also a fantastic deal this week on Progresso Soups using the same coupon PDF as the vegetables-
B1G1 Progresso Soup, 18-19 oz., at $2.29 ($1.14)
-$1/4 Progresso products (Publix Coupon) printable
-$5 off 20 participating General Mills products (Publix Coupon) printable
-$1/4 Progresso soup, SS 1/02, SS 1/16, SS 2/13, printable or printable (Note- I only found them in the 1/16 although SouthernSavers lists the others as well)
-.50/2 Progresso Light soup, January or September Weight Watchers magazine
-.50/1 Progresso soup 18.5-19 oz., (Walgreens coupon), February Walgreens booklet
If you use the $5/20 and 5 each of the $1/4 store and manufacturers coupons the soups will be .39 cents each
Thanks to Candy for the Veggie and Soup deals and thanks to SouthernSavers.com for the coupon match ups
These deals will be good in Florida until Publix closes Wed night.
Winn-Dixie is having a three day sale until Feb. 20th on Colgate Toothpaste for .99 cents. Today I got 6 of them for .83 cents.
I Bought 6 Colgate Toothpastes for .99 cents each
Used (4) $1 off Colgate Sensitive toothpaste, SS 2/06 (exp 02/25)
and (2) .75 cents off Colgate toothpaste, 4 oz.+, SS 1/30 (exp 02/19)
Total- .83 cents and .39 cents of that was tax
Saved- $16.30
You can also print -$1 off Colgate Sensitivity Toothpaste printable
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