Saturday, January 31, 2009
Sunday Deals 2/1!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Mini Shopping Trip to Kroger & Target
First, Target:
I got a few things I needed; the step stool for Graham to brush his teeth upstairs $2.50, the puffs $1, and I threw in one $1 coloring thing for Graham (these come in handy when he's getting antsy!). The yoplait yogurts were $.59 each and I had two printable coupons for $1.00/4. So, I ended up getting the yogurt for $.34 each! Not bad.
Then on to Kroger before their mega sale was over. I needed milk and wanted to get more of that cheese on sale to put in my freezer!
I ended up buying:
2 gallons of milk - $3.39 each - sale price $5/2
9 Kraft cheese (variety of shredded/block/cubes) $4.19-$3.39 each - sale price $1.99
Doritos - $3.17 - sale price $2.18
Snapple - $1.29 - sale price $1.00
Value of Products: $47.71
Savings from Sales: $21.62
Coupons Used: $11.75 (I grabbed 9 $.75/1 coupons from the blinkie next to the cheese and bought 10 of the mega sale event items to get $5 off!)
Total OOP: $14.34 - Saved 70%
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Kroger Shopping 1/26
Free Diet Dr. Pepper
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Frugal Maven's Beer Bread
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
My CVS Shopping 1/25
CVS facial tissue $1.29
CVS facial tissue $1.29
Wisk he 3x concentrate 32 loads $8.49 (Sale: 2 for $9.00)
Wisk he 3x concentrate 32 loads $8.49
Garlic Salt $.99 (Sale: $.88)
Oregano $.99 (Sale: $.88)
Vanilla Extract $.99 (Sale: $.88)
Huggies Pull-Ups $12.99 (Sale: $10.00)
Huggies Pull-Ups $12.99
Colgate Total Advantage 7.6oz $4.89
Colgate Total Advantage 7.6oz $4.89
Value of Products = $63.45
Subtotal After Sale Prices = $44.42
Used Coupons:
$1.50 off Colgate Total printable
$1.50 off Colgate Total printable
$2.00 off Pull-Ups printable
$2.00 off Pull-Ups printable
$1.50 off Wisk
$1.50 off Wisk
=$33.42 (Used $14.58 in ECB's from last week) for a total of $21.47 (including tax) OOP
Received:
$5 ECB's for buying $20 worth of Huggies Products
$2 ECB's for 2 Wisks
$4 ECB's for buying 2 Colgtate Totals
Summary:
Spent: $14.58 ECB's and $21.47 OOP
Received: $11 ECB's for next time
Total Cost: $25.05 (for 63.45 worth of products) - 60% savings!
If you want to try this, there are plenty of blogs out there that tell you what the best deals are each week. Try Southern Savers blog!
Let me know if you try it and how you did. Leave a comment!
Free Coffee Tomorrow!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Free Movie Rental Today Only!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
It's Time to Make a Deal!
Thanks to Frugal Maven's inspiration (imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!), I am officially starting a blog to help my friends and family, and maybe some others along the way, spend less and get more! My plan is to post links to deals I find around town, on other blogs (giving credit of course), or wherever else I find them. Whether it's deals on groceries, drugstore buys, freebies, or just good deals around Louisville. I will also share the deals or savings that I take advantage of as I do it!
My first piece of advice is to get the coupons from the Sunday paper and start saving them now. If you do get hooked, like I did, you'll want those coupons saved up. You don't even have to cut them out at first. Most of the frugal blogs out there tell you where to find the coupon in which coupon book-from which paper, so it might be easier to find it if you didn't cut them out at first. However, if you do get hooked you will want to cut and organize your coupons. I'll share how I did that in a post soon.
So, let me leave you with your first deal. Maido, the Japanese Restaurant on Frankfort Avenue, has a great Happy Hour Appreciation Menu they are serving right now. It's only valid Monday - Thursday, from 4 - 6 p.m., but you can eat CHEAP! Click on the picture to the left to see the menu! If you like sushi, try it out.