CVS, Walmart and Kroger

CVS

Bandaids $2.99 used $1 q got back $2 ECB

Tampons $3.99 used $1 q got back $3 ECB

Nail Polish $3.99 used $1 q got back $3 ECB

St Ives $1.49 used $1.50 coupons adjusted to $1.49

Carmel as a filler

Paid with ECB and Gift Card

Kroger

Trans 1

Country Time $1/ea used $1.50/2 q = $.50

3 Dial Soap $1/ea used $.35 tripled = Free

Weber $1/ea used $.35 q tripled = Free

OOP $.53

Trans 2

3 Dial Soap $1/ea used $.35 tripled = Free
Weber $1/ea used $.35 q tripled = Free

OOP Zero

Walmart

Transaction 1 Store 1

7 Huggies @ $.97 used $1 coupon = -$.21

4 Febreeze Noticables @ $5 used 4 $4 coupons = $4

OOP $4.19

Trans 2 Store 1

BBQ Sauce $1.42 used Free coupon WYB Charcoal

Grated Parm $2.78

Cottage Cheese $2.14

Pork Chops $6.86 used $6 coupon WYB Charcoal and BBQ

Bananas $.76

Garlic $.44

Onion $.63

3 packs of 4 Star Wands (for DD's bday party) $1/ea

6 Buddie Bars $.97 ea used 6 $1 qs = -$.18

Charcoal $5.99 (pm'd to Kroger)

8 Tabasco Sauce $.98 used $1 q adjusted to $.98... why she chose to adjust this one and not the others is beyond me! :)

4 Johnson's Lotion @ $.97/ea used 2 $2 coupons = -$.12

Bday Ballons for DS's 1st birthday! $1

Tuna $.67

Pinto Beans $1.14

Bacon $2.98

Trans 3 Store 2

10 Shick Razors @ $1.97 used 10 $2 qs = -$.30 - combined with Amandas purchase...she ate my overage! :)

Total OOP $21.86

Total OOP for May $87.49

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Its been really busy at our house the last week or so. We've had alot going on, then DH got sick and I decided it would be a good time to take the week off.

I did do one deal on Kroger before though...

2 Trans identical
3 Ketchups @ $1 used .20 tripled
3 Yakisoba @ $1 used $.35 tripled

Total OOP $2.40

Total OOP for May $53.90

Amanda+Me+ Trip to Katy = Getting home at 1:45 AM and LOTS of deals :)

Kroger

I Kroger was a bit tricky, but we ended up making it work!

Trans 1
3 Soft Soap @ .99 used 3 $.35 q tripled = Free
6 Salsa $2.99 BOGO sale used BOGO q = Free
3 Bags of chips ranging from $2-$3.79 use up to $3 coupon

Total OOP $.49

Trans 2
3 Soft Soap @ .99 used 3 $.35 q tripled= Free
6 Salsa $2.99 BOGO sale used BOGO q = Free
3 Bags of chips ranging from $2-$3.79 use up to $3 coupon

Total OOP $.60

Trans 3
3 Soft Soap @ .99 used 3 $.35 q tripled= Free
4 Salsa $2.99 BOGO sale used BOGO q = Free
2 Bags of chips ranging from $2-$3.79 use up to $3 coupon

Total OOP Zero

Trans 4
3 Soft Soap @ .99 used 3 $.35 q tripled

Total OOP Zero

Walgreens

We hit up several Walgreens in the Katy area. We went looking for Bayer moniters, but we didn't find any :( We did find several other good finds!

These were broken into several transactions at 3 stores.

Nivea $4.99 used $1q got $4.99 RR
Bowls $.29 filler
Corn Dogs 3 @ .49 clearance
Kids toothbush pack $.50 clearance
3 Rembrant $5.99 got $5.99 RR
3 KY $5.19 used $5 q
3 Bayer $2.49 used $1 q got $2.50 RR
2 Ecotrin $2 got $2 RR
Stickers .25 clearance
Baby food .35 ea clearance
Sunscreen $2.60 clearance

Everything paid with giftcards and RR Total OOP Zero

Randalls

Capri Suns!

Living Well deal, I bought 13 Capri Suns @ $1.99 used $1 coupon

Amanda got a few items to round out to $30. She had $12 in catalinas about to expire so she used those and took the $10 that printed. :)

Total OOP $2.55


Total for today $3.65 :)

Total for May $6.63

Kroger and Walgreens

First, once again, I need to reiterate how AMAZING my BFF Amanda is :) She ALWAYS calls me to let me know about amazing deals and when she finds stuff in store, or to let me know which stores have what. Thanks again AMANDA for being AMAZING :)

Kroger

Didn't go how I planned. I got the free salsa I wanted, but they didn't let me use my chip coupons :( BOOOO I still have more, so maybe I will try again at another store!

Two Transactions

Trans 1
2 Sara Lee Bread $2.49 BOGO
6 Salsa's $2.99 BOGO used BOGO q = Free
Tostidos $2, used $2 free chip at Kroger q

Total OOP $2.24

Trans 2
6 Salsa's $2.99 BOGO used BOGO q = Free
2 Kroger Yougurt to eat up overage $1

Total OOP $.75


Walgreens

26 2 packs of AA Batteries- clearanced $1.09 used $1 coupons = $.09 ea
6 KY Intrigue clearanced at $5.19 used $5 coupons - $.19/ea

Total $3.72 paid with RR and gift card... Total OOP Zero!

Total for May $2.99

Krogering in Katy

Amanda and I traveled to Katy- land of the coupon friendly cashiers :) We packed up our kids and headed up, I have to say, we were not dissapointed. We each got everything we came for and recieved no hassle or grief for our "purchases".

I broke these up into sets of 3.

18 - 4 Pack rolls of Angel Soft @ $.99, used $.50 q doubled = Free

14 -McCormick @ .99 used $.50 q doubled = Free

1 Box Barilla, clearanced at 1.04 used $.50 q doubled = $.04

4 - Bottles of Poppy Seed Dressing clearanced at $.75 = $3 for all
(I make an awesome reciepe using this and i just had to stock up!)

Total OOP $3.04

Walgreens and Kroger

Walgreens

Alright, I only did two transactions at Walgreens. I may run back up there tonight, if not, I will do more later in the week. I did two identical transactions that looked like this

1 Mitchem deod $2.99 used $.75 coupon
1 Skintimate Shaving cream $2.99
Tums duel action $7.99 used $3 coupon
3 Easter Candies as fillers $.12

Paid with RRs and Giftcard, got back $2 for Mitchem, and $3 each for skintimate and tums.

OOP Zero

Kroger

Transaction 1 and 2

3 Angel Soft TP @ $.99 used $.50 coupon, doubled

3 Domino Sugar @ $.89 used $.35 tripled

3 McCormic @ $.99 used $1.00 coupon

Now, these both got messed up. Both times included a manager messing things up and saying I could only triple/double the first...she ended up tripling and doubling everything in the end. But, in both of them, she forgot one sugar coupon. Now, I may return these, I'm not sure, but I figure the Coupon God's keep everything in a sort of balance. Sometimes things work out better in my favor, sometimes the other way around. So... anyway, we shall see :)

Trans 3

Reusable Bag $1 (free with Kroger.com promo from a few weeks ago)

3 Angel Soft used 3 coupons

1 Mccormic Pepper $1.99 used $1 coupon

1 Domino Sugar $.89 used $.35 coupon tripled

Oregano $2.89 (i ran out and needed some!)

I can't find my recipets at the moment, but my OOP was around $5.

Randalls and Kroger

RANDALLS

I know, I know...Randalls again! For those of you who don't have "randalls" it does go by other names like Safeway, Dominics...there may be others. Anyway...

I went to get 16 packs of Bertolli, but they only had 6. The deal is, buy $30 worth of a list of products (Bertolli being one of them) and get a $10 OYNO cat. So I needed to get 15 packs to hit that number, however, for every 2 packs you buy you get a $2 OYNO, so I wanted to buy in even numbers. Anyway, they are free after the cats, but not a money maker wtih the $10 cat. They said they should have more tomorrow so we shall see.

KROGER

Kroger was a bit more eventful. I did two transactions for these deals. A bunch of my coupons weren't going through so he manually did it... I think this gave me overage on alot of things. It broke down like this...

Transaction 1

2.6 lbs of Chicken Breast (2 packs) BOGO $6.71 used 2 $ .75 Qs =$5.21 ($2.00/lb)

3 Barilla Pasta @ $1.39 used 3 $.50 Qs doubled = $.39/ea

3 Barilla Wheat Pasta @ $1.39 used 3 $.50 Qs doubled = $.39/ea

5 Birdseye @ $.99 used 5 $.35 Q tripled = Free

3 Suave deoderant @ $.99 used 5 $.50 Qs doubled = Free

3 Pilsbury brownie mix @ $.99 used 5 $.35 Q tripled = Free

3 Quaker Quakes @ $.99 used 4 $1Qs = Free

2 Challenge Butter @ $.99 used $.50 IP doubled = Free

3 Domino Sugar @ .89 used $.35 tripled = Free (I know I got about .16 overage on each here)

3 McCormick Grinders .99 used $1 q = Free

Total $8.03 used RX balance on my card

Total OOP ZERO

Transaction 2

3.1 lbs of Chicken Breast (2 packs) BOGO $7.93 used 2 $ .75 Qs = $6.43 ($2.07/lb)
1 Barilla Pasta @ $1.39 used 3 $.50 Qs doubled = $.39/ea
1 Barilla Wheat Pasta @ $1.39 used 3 $.50 Qs doubled = $.39/ea
2 Birdseye @ $.99 used 5 $.35 Q tripled = Free
1 Suave deo @ $.99 used 5 $.50 Qs doubled = Free
1 Pilsbury brownie mix @ $.99 used 5 $.35 Q tripled = Free
1 Quaker Quakes @ $.99 used 4 $1Qs = Free
3 McCormick Grinders .99 used $1 q = Free
3 Domino Sugar @ .89 used $.35 tripled = Free (I know I got about .16 overage on each here)

Used $2.14 from RX and paid 4.58 OOP

More Deals

This has been a really busy weekend for me, so I am kind of lumping everything from the last few days into one.

Kroger



I love RX coupons :) I used a coupon from CVS (Kroger takes competitors coupons) and recieved a pharmacy credit of $25 on my Kroger card. My first transaction acutally was negative .85 because I forgot about overage from the Quaker coupon, so i quickly grabbed some candy, I HATE this... its such a habit I have to reach and grab the first thing I see that would eat up overage... I had more grocerys from the second transaction I should have grabbed, but in the middle of it, I freak and just grab. My second trans for $14.xx but that was out of my RX money, so nothing OOP :)

Next, Walgreens

I did another reach deal, but it is already in the garage sale pile :) I also got 5 BIC Soliel razors (only 4 pictured, one got lost in my car for the picture) they were on clearance forWags $3.59, we have $2.00 off coupons from the 3/15 SS (smart source) coupon inserts, AND Wags has the easy saver coupon for $2.00 of each pack, making this a $0.41 MM EACH. I also got a princess plate for DD to eat up overage :)



Today I did the Hunt's Tomato Sauce deal, where I got 11 cans and will be a .42 money maker :) WOO HOO!!




Target was awesome thanks to Amanda, they had these Gilette bodywashes on a side cap (LOL) for $2 and we had $2 coupons, so I got 10 of these (DH already stole one for the shower). And I am still using up my huggies coupons on wipes. The larger bag is $5.99 with a $5 coupon making it .99 and the other two tubs give .61 cents overage, woo hoo! I also forgot to picture applesauce, it is $1.62 and I used $1 target coupon and a .55 printable making it .07 :)

CVS, Walgreens and Kroger

Ok, so I did my normal grocery shopping and thanksgiving... I didn't get any crazy deals except for free frozen veggies (on sale for $1, .35 q tripled making it free) and the HEB meal deal. My total between Kroger and HEB was 128, I'll add that and my savings below.

CVS

I was happy to acutally be albe to get everything that i came for. The last few weeks I've had to get alot of rainchecks :( The paper towel and toothbrushes weren't free (GASP) lol but i payed with ecbs for them...so technically no money out of pocket. Well...thats not entirely true... I LOST MY GIFT CARD :( It only had like $11 on it, but $11 goes a long way with me :( So I had to pay my balance oop :(

Two Identical Transactions
1 Viva Paper Towel 7.49
1 Crest Spin Brush 5.29
1 Mabeline Foundation 8.99
1 Complete Contact Solution 8.99

(Saved 7.70 with sale prices)

- .50 Viva
- $1 Complete
- $3 Mabeliene
- $2 Crest

Paid with ECBs OOP Zero for one and .69 for the other (different amounts of ECBs on each card)

And not pictured.. I went to another store looking for more contact solution (they were out) and got 2 more Mabelienes

8.99- $3 coupon, paid with ECBs and .76 OOP twice

Total OOP 1.52

Walgreens

Ok, so I went crazy at Walgreens. I paid for some stuff I wanted, then got a few extras, I used my rebate giftcard so I still didn't have an out of pocket cost, and one thing I got will give me another $5 rebate.

4 Hershey Candies 4/$10
6 Andes Mints 2.29 each
6 Mac and CHeese 1.50/ea
Gingerbread HOuse Kit 9.99
Breschool book 2.99
8 Sure Deoderant 1.99/ea
2 Package Tapes 2.99 (bogo)

- 8 $1.00 Sure Coupons
- 8 $1.50 Easy Saver Book Coupons (sure) (yes, I made .51 for each one)
- 8 $1.29 Andes IVC coupon (in the walgreens ad)
- 2 $1 Package Tape
- 6 $.81 Kraft Mac and Cheese IVC

Total $29.18, paid with rebate gift card

Total OOP Zero :)

Kroger Total 108.67
Kroger Savings 54.31
Heb Total 20.16
Heb Savings 13.77

Total Spent since Sept 1st: $355.27
Total Saved since Sept 1st: $4036.30
91.91% Savings in total

First Things First

I wanted to start a blog to start tracking my savings. I want to know about what budget I can realistically set for myself, both for food/hba products and for clothing ect. While I am going to list some deals that I got before this month, my tracking is going to start as of September 1st, 2008.

So far this month, I have made 3 shopping trips. One each at CVS, Kroger, and Target.

Last week, Target had a special, purchase 4 Kellogs products, receive a $5 gift card. My transaction was as follows.

12 boxes of Poptarts
-6 $1/2 coupons (q)
-12 .50 off target qs
Total $15 receive $15 gift card.

I did this transaction twice totaling 24 boxes, the second time using the $15 in gift cards. I could have done less out of pocket to start, but I want to use a $10 mail in rebate. Therefore, in the end, I spent $5 out of pocket and received $15 in gift cards, making this a $10 profit.



Why so many poptarts? First of all, if you are being paid to take stuff out of the store, why wouldn’t you take it? Secondly, my husband and daughter love poptarts J There is no way we will eat all of these before they expire, so we have shared some with neighbors and plan to use some as trades for other products and coupons.


CVS this week was very eventful! CVS has an extra care bucks program (ECB). Certain items every week and month have ECBs offered on them. I have two cards, one each for Dave and I. Here was my transaction this week.

Nena’s Card
Start with 9.99 in ECBs

Transaction 1
2 Chex Mix @ $1 ea
Loreal Product $5.99
2 Right Guard Deoderant @ 2.99 ea
Bubble Toy .75 (75% clearance filler)

subtotal: 14.72
2 $1 off chex coupon
2 $1 off Rightguard
$1 off Loreal
5.99 ECB
4.00 ECB

Total OOP: $0
ECB earned: $4 (rightguard) $5.99 (Loreal) $9.99

Trans 2
3 Revlon Nail Polish @ $3.99 ea
3 Right Guard Deodorant @ 2.99
1.75 Tennis game (75% clearance filler)

subtotal: 22.69
3 $2 off Revlon coupon
$2 Revlon CRT (store printed coupon)
3 $1 Righguard coupon
$2/10 CVS coupon (sometimes emailed)
$9.99 in ECBs from previous order

Total OOP” $0
ECBs earned $9 (Revlon) $6 (Rightguard)


End with $15 in ECBs no OOP (out of pocket)


Dave’s Card
Start with 12.99 in ECBs

Trans 1
1 Rightguard Deodorant
1 soft and dri Deodorant (same as rightguard deal)
3 Revlon Nail Polish
1 Loreal Product

- $1 Loreal
- $1 Rightguard
- $.75 soft and dri
- $6 Revlon (3 @ $2)
- $2/10 CVS coupon
- 12.99 ECBs
Total $.20 Paid with CVS gift card (I received a gift card after calling CVS customer service after being wrongly treated, the problem was corrected and I got a gift card J )

ECBs Earned- 5.99 Loreal $2 Rightguard $9 Revlon

Trans 2
3 Soft and Dri Deodorant

- 3 .75 coupons
- $5.99 ECB

Total: $.73 on the gift card

ECBs Earned $9 Soft and Dri


End with $18 in ECBs no OOP (out of pocket)

They were out of the Excederine that was on sale for $1.99 (I have $2 off coupons) so I got a raincheck.


Total Spent at CVS $0, Amount saved (based on prices of items while on sale): $84.09

Kroger

This trip wasn’t as good as most. Dave picked out two recipies in which the ingredients ended up being very expensive having to buy oils and seasonings that we didn’t have. However, the trip turned out pretty good.

Total before coupons: 85.07 (this is after all of the Kroger sales)
Amount of coupons $36.95
Total paid $48.12

I got a great deal with coupons for the All You magazine, this is the first time I have got these and I need to get more!!

Several buy 3 Kraft products receive ____ Kraft product free. Koolaid is Kraft. So here are the items I got for free buy using these coupons and purchasing $6 in koolaid J




Some other recent frees (all within the last 2 weeks or so):

$10 Covergirl Outlast Lipstick BOGO at CVS use BOGO q is FREE (got 30 of these)
$2 Just Bunches honey bunches of oats using $2 q is FREE
$1 Malt O Meal with $1 off MOM is FREE
$1 Frenches Mustard $.50 q doubled FREE
$1 Lawrys Marinade $.50 w doubled FREE
$1 Kotex Pantyliners using $1 off Kotex FREE
$3.72 Glade Plug using $4 off .28 CENT MONEY MAKER


Just matching sales and coupons… oh and not to mention ALL of the help I get from http://www.hotcouponworld.com/ :)

Here are some pics of my "stockpile" I have been doing this for about 2 1/2 months with the first few weeks of trying to learn the ropes. Everything pictured was either rediciously cheap or free, or better yet... I made money by buying it :)

Total Spent: $48.12

Total Saved: $190.04