More good Mail...

Good mail again... I got notice that my Wags Feb. Rebates were reloaded onto my card. I've been checking, but nice to receive notification of my $77plus rebate. Now I can get the March rebate items on my card! (and some chocolate..errrr, I mean milk)!!

I also received my Gillette rebate in the form of a coupon good for one FREE shampoo, conditioner or styler (mens), nice! I sent for this after getting several shampoos for free after coupons and ECB at CVS.

This coupon and my free Kashi entree will help me get my total up at Publix when I use a $5 off $30 competitor coupon...that is about $8 worth of product or more right there! :) If I add in a NEW mail in rebate (I haven't done Oraganix yet for instance, though I think they are b1g1f at Winn Dixie if I can get over there before the sale ends).

Also..don't forget to check your yellow pages type books for coupons hidden inside! :)

Have fun!
Tracey C.

Target get Mott's Applesauce for $.22 or Less!

Thanks to It's Hip to Save for this great deal at Target! Be sure to head over to her site to check out all the great freebies, clearance deals and monthly rebate deals at Walgreens too! GREAT info!!!

Mott's Applesauce 4-6 packs are priced around $1.77 each (this price may vary up or down a little). Use the $1 Target coupon from here, plus use the .55 Mott's coupon from here. You should be able to print two coupons per computer. Final cost ONLY .22 per pack!

CHEAP Huggies Diapers @ Walgreens!!!

Have you heard? Do you have a child in diapers? Do you have 2? Maybe even 3 or more? Then listen!

Walgreens is having a sale on Huggies Diapers for $10 (sizes/type vary, see ad for details). You can print out $5 and $3 coupons HERE. Once you print, hit the back button on your browser and print again, or just go back and click those coupons and print again..you can print twice. Do you have 2 printers? You should be able to print twice from each printer. Does Mom or Dad or Best friend (without a kid in dipes) have a printer? Ask them to print these for you also, TWICE each!

Now, you need to spend $25 on huggies diapers and/or wipes (see ad for details) and you will then get the register's catalina coupon machine to print out a $10 RR. (like instant rebate or cash back, but you must usually spend it in Walgreens, unless a store near you takes them as competitor coupons, like some Publix do).

So, you can buy 3 packs at $10 each or $30 total, use the printable $5 coupon (maybe 3 times) and $30 - $15 = $15 get back $10 RR = 3 pack of diapers as low as $5!!! Or you may only be able to use the $3 coupon for the diapers you need (the coupons are for different types), then $30 - $9= $21 - $10 RR coupon back = $11 cost or $3. 67 or so each pack! Of course, you can mix and match diapers and wipes to get to $25, then various appropriate coupons, then get $10 back in RR. You can do the deal AGAIN, but DO NOT USE THE $10 RR to PAY!! This will prevent the machine from printing a NEW $10 coupon. So use gift cards, or other RR (like the $2 vaseline lotion, or $3.50 colgate RR) to pay.

Again, you can do multiple deals, ONLY 1 at a time, Do not pay with Huggies RR or a new coupon will not print!!!

Go on! Go get some cheap diapers!!! Hurry before the printable Huggies coupon is gone!

PS_ if you miss the Walgreens deal this week, you can still use that coupon for great deals! Use it with a Babies R Us coupon (they take a store & a manufacturer coupon together), or at Target for one of their gift card deals...etc. It's a great coupon to print... You can even buy diapers for a baby shower!!!

Vent Fresh Car Freshener Rebate RECEIVED!

Today I received a rebate check in the mail for $4.99 from my Vent Fresh Elite purchase!! (this is the Walgreens car vent freshener) That is $4.99 back into my budget! Yay!

$659.42 + $4.99 = $664.41 left in budget

More FREE Dove at Walgreens (get paid!)

Walgreens + Dove + Coupons = Free Product & $$$

Transaction #1: Vaseline Rescue lotion, on sale 25% off = $2.69 - $1.50 coupon = $1.38 (taxed) OOP. Got back $2 RR. $.62 PROFIT

Transaction #2:

1. 1 Gallon Milk- $2.79
2. 7 travel sized dove deodorants .99 each. Used 3 $1.50/2 manufacturer coupons from 1/18 RP (I would have bought one more but 7 is all they had left)
3. 1 bar of dove regular sized soap $1.59 (use the Wags in ad $.99 coupon, I FORGOT!! had kids with me!) GOT BACK $10 RR for buying 8 Dove products! $8.52 (w/out tax) minus $4.50 in coupons = $4.02 cost = $5.98 PROFIT. Would have been higher if I used the in ad coupon!
4. 2 Sambucol cld & flu $12.99 - $10/1 Easy Saver Q (wags rebate booklet) - two $4/1 printable Sambucol coupons. $2.02 overage as they took off full amount of manufacturer coupons. PROFIT
   
5. Nutrisse H/C on clearance $3.19. Used a $2/1 Garnier man. coupon AND the $2/1 ES Q and got $.81 overage toward total. PROFIT
6. Vaseline Lotion Cocoa Butter 10oz $2.69 (on sale- $1.25/1 man coupon (1/18 RP) (get back $2 RR)
   
7. Colgate Max Fresh t/p 6 oz sale $3.29 (get back $3.50 RR) no coupon on this
8. Colgate Advance Total (w/bonus trial size tp) 4oz $3.49- $2.50/1 ES Q & $1/1 man. Q (from Publix Health booklet) FREE
9. HEY! She charged me TWICE for MILK!! See! I don't pay close attention with kids with me and a line of people behind me! That is $2.79 they need to refund me, and $.60 I didnt get for my dove soap! EEEEK!!! OK..OK...OK.. lets move on!

I used a $6 Catalina Coupon and my total OOP was $6.92. I got back $15.50 in Catalina coupons. I will get back another $2.79 for my milk! (humph!) So my REAL OOP for this transaction is $4.13 considering I didn't buy 2 milks!! I also like to consider my Catalinas used as payment...so I used $10.13 to pay and got back $15.50..so I made an increase of $5.37 + $.62 from 1st transaction = $5.99!!! ALL that great product for FREE (including my milk!) and a profit on top of that! ALSO I discovered that one of my Publix stores TAKES catalina as a competitor coupon! So I can directly translate my savings to my grocery bill! Awesome!!!

So, TOTAL OOP (for both transactions) is $5.51
Warmly,
Tracey C.
$659.42 left in budget

Free Scott Toilet Paper at Albertsons with coupon!

Scott 4 roll pack is on sale for $1 this week at Albertson's and there was a $1 off coupon in the 2/8 Smart Source insert. If you have multiple coupons, you can stock up like me! Cheap toilet paper is hard to come by around here, so I love this sale when it comes around and I have been saving my coupons! FREE TP!!! Whoo Hooo!
Thanks to Amy over at Who Said Nothing In Life Is Free???? for reminding me to post about this!

Cheap CARDS at Walgreens!

Today I noticed a deal on BOXED CARDS at Walgreens. If you look in their ad, you will see that the cards are normally 2/$3 ($1.99 each reg price) for a box of 12 cards. On sale for b1g1f so 2/$1.99 with in ad coupon!! 4 different designs in each box. Great price! I really fell in love with the blank cards, see pic, but they also have sympathy, friendship, get well and birthday that I saw. I like the blank ones because they are pretty, sort of retro and funky, which I like, and BLANK! I can make it any kind of card I want to! Thank you, hello, birthday, whatever. Also great for business if you are small or personal. A nice way to send a thank you without spending an arm and a leg to do so. Great deal at only $1 a box of 12!!! Check it out!

Warmly,
Tracey C.

Cheap Powerbar at Walgreens! FREE DOVE!

Today at Walgreens I found an unadvertised Catalina (at least in my area) deal on Powerbar, later I found one of those tags that shows a Catalina deal underneath the Powerbars, but this was another store. Apparently, if you buy 3 powerbars you get a $1 RR at checkout. The reason I discovered this was because the Smoothie bars were on clearance for $.47 and I thought I'd grab a few for my husband to have on hand at work. Not realizing there was a Catalina deal, and not realizing you needed to buy 3 to get the RR, I got lucky! So, for $.47 + $.47 + $.47 = $1.41 - $1.00 RR = final adjusted cost is $.41 for 3! Now I need to see if I can find some coupons!

Look for the orange clearance stickers..and if your store doesn't have them, maybe get a price check to see. Both stores I shopped at had the bars marked at clearance price, one in Orange, one in Strawberry (smoothie kind only), but at one store they rang up full price. Because they were marked, it was not a problem sorting it out, but keep your eyes open when they are ringing up clearance items! I am posting a photo to show you the bars.

Also included is the SUPER DOVE SOAP deal!
Haven't heard? Dove bars are only $.99 each with in ad coupon (weekly circular)! Great price you say? Well, how about this? I got 8 bars for about $8 and got back $10 RR!! If you can buy 8 of them, you will get back a $10 RR from DOVE!! WOW! Now, you may not get all 8 at the $.99 cent price because the store states a LIMIT OF 4 at this price, but the coupon will take the amount off of all 8. If your store sets a limit, tell them you would like to get 8 anyway, even if 4 are full price (I think $1.59?) because for around $11 or so dollars (prices may vary) you get 8 bars of soap and $10 back! So worth it! If you haven't done this, don't be surprised though if you YOUR STORE SELLS OUT of the single bars! 8 is alot! Anyway, I found one store with around 12 in stock and another with 0. The $10 will work with shampoo/cond/styler too I think, but those are full price at my store for $4.49 or more and not worth it~ Even with the $1.50/1 Unilever coupons. Maybe next week..

Also, I did some Publix/Wags shopping for other things.. $.20 poptarts, more Smart Start Cereal b1g1f (my hubbies favorite) and a free 4pack danactives..some bulk onions on sale, and I SPLURGED on Doritos (b1g1f), some whipped cream cheese, some sushi and some treats for the girls. I did several store runs but will just put my new balance..too tired to add all the details! I did buy another rebate item to mail in. Not my best day of shopping for sure, but I did get some great deals!

Warmly,
Tracey C.
$664.93 left in budget

$5 Huggies Coupon printable

Use Huggies Diapers? Thanks to HotCouponworld.com and the email link HERE to print a $5/1 Huggies Gentle Care Product expires 4/2 (mine did anyway) and ALSO a $3/1 Huggies natural fit product (diapers on both I'm assuming, but could it include wipes for the gentle care? I dont know!)

I checked the huggies boxes, printed, closed the browser window and clicked on the link again to print twice. These go to a friend since I do not use diapers anymore. Praises and joy!

Hope you can use these! Hurry, these disappear fast when enough people have printed!

Warmly,
Tracey C.

Rebates Received!

I need to record these rebate checks I received (was busy weekend, sorry for not updating sooner!)
RECD:

1. Vitamin shampoo rebate of $6.99 recd 2/25 709.68 + $6.99 = $716.67
2. Theraflu rebate (I had to resubmit, but got it) recd 2/28 add $3.00 = $719.67

$719.67 left in budget!

FREE Walgreens Stuff!! FREEEEE!!!

Walgreens. Free Stuff. I like! I must say, it was a total MESS though! Sigh!
But, lest I complain about my great deal and wonderful savings, I must praise the wonderful employees at the Walgreens I went to! Miss Liz was AMAZINGLY patient and nice (my cashier) and Mr. Edward was exceedingly pleasant to deal with and helped me by solving my problems quickly and with a smile. How REFRESHING! How nice! Plus, it was not their fault I had issues! It was partially mine, partially the ads posted on the shelves, but here it is:

I bought several things. The REACH toothbrush must be the new one, it was not, but there were coupons taped over the price/description and over the two rows of toothbrushes, so I ASSUMED they were the right one. This was Problem #1. Hair color for the Loreal Match, shows a coupon underneath the boxes for $2/1 using the ES coupon. I could NOT find an easy saver coupon for this product. I looked, the cashier looked, mr. manager looked. NOPE. Finally, he just told her to adjust the price to reflect a $2 savings. Problem #2. BLINK eye drops/tears had the same sale stickers over the tags for 2 rows of products, so I just looked at pics in ad. Mistake. I picked up the bonus box, as it was marked on sale and with RR. I was NOT. NO RR PRINTED. Problem #3. Of course, 2 problems not discovered until I was checking out, RR one once I was done and had to go back in!

Look at the pics! I got all that you see pictured for $22.58. Which seemed high. I saw that I was charged $14.99 for the BLINK, because it was the wrong product! I took it back inside and Mr. Edward found that they had NO product that matched. SO, he said, I'll fix it and exchange it and give you a coupon anyway. OK>>>> Not sure what he was gonna do, but he exchanged the big for the small (not the right one) and I was refunded $7.50 CASH. So $22.58-$7.50 = $15.08 OOP for this shop.

I GOT:

• 2 BIG bags Hershey Mixed/Assort 2/$7 -$3/2 ESC-$2/2 Manufacturer Q SS 1/25
• Disney Water Color Paintset (now we have 2!) $1.59 clearance
• Blink Tears (bonus pack of 2 .05oz) $14.99 WRONG one! Exchanged for smaller (still wrong), got back $7.50 and received the $8 RR which the manager had to key in. Left w/out the blink! But whatever, I think I still got my $2/1 amount off my check so I'll get some blink later! $2/1 RP 3/1 and $8 RR
• Nice/Easy Perfect 10 Haircolor clearanced $3.59 used $5/1 coupon from P&G, which they adjusted to $3.59, free
• Mylanta Ultra Mint 12oz clearanced to $1.89 FREE with $2/1 ESC
• Balsam 600 haircolor clearance $1.29 used P&G clairol $2/1 any
• Nutrisse h/c clearance $3.19, $2/1 ESC (booklet) and RP 2/8 $2/1 Garnier
• Colgate Max $3.29 (get $3.50 RR) used $.75/1 SS 2/22
• Colgate Total w/bonus on sale $3.49, used ESC (booklet) $2.50/1 and $1/1 Publix Health flyer coupon (manufacturer coupon, not a publix coupon) = free
• Sambucol $12.99, used $10/1 ESC and $4/1 from IHEARTWAGS.com printable
• Vaseline INtensive Care 10oz lotion sale $2.69 used $1.50/1 RP 1/18 & got back $2 RR (only can do ONE of these at a time,a nd if you pay with the register reward you earn, you will not get a new one! Pay a different way if you want to do the deal more than once!)
• Reach Ult Clean toothbrush (wrong one) $3.49, price adjusted to the $.99 in ad coupon price, got 3 for $.99 and used 3 of the $1/1 RP 2/8 coupons
• 24:7 energy drink 2/$3 got two no sale for hubby
• Loreal Natural Match 7W clearance $4.19 price adjusted to $2.19 couldnt find ESC, and used a $2/1 RP 3/1 any natural match Q
• BIC mechanical pencil (HAD A PEELIE TMF rebate on it!) Added this in because I'm doing all the rebates for free products I can find....free items are fun!! $4.99 and will mail in. I did not do any Wags rebate items on this receipt, so I can use it to mail in for my pencil!

Ok, after ALLLLLL that, including my $7.50 refund back, I spent $15.08 OOP AND I used one $6 RR from the Gillette Gamer/Fusion razor deal last week. I got back $8 RR (blink), $3 RR (I have no idea!!), $3.50 RR and a $2 RR (vaseline), and also my $4.99 Free after Rebate Bic. So I come out with $16.50 RR's and $4.99 cash rebate, about a .50 profit which will be eaten by my rebate stamp. So, ALL FREE!!!!WOW WOWOW WOWOW!! Whoo Hoo! I didn't even MEAN to do this, I just attract the freebies! :)

Ok, so let's discover what the unknown $3 RR was for. Perhaps the Mylanta? It says, thanks from McNeil-PPC, Inc. Let me go look. Ok, I was wrong, this was from the REACH toothbrushes! I got the wrong ones for the ad price (they were priced/tagged wrong), they price adjusted, and I got them free, I didn't realize there was a deal, but in the ad it says buy 3, get $3 RR. Solved!

Warmly,
Tracey C.
$724.76-$15.08 OOP= $709.68 left in budget!

CVS run Sunday

Dropped into CVS to get some milk, and SCANNED my CVS Extra Care Card FIRST! Always do this! Anyway, got a $5/$20 CVS brand coupon. OK, hmm, I can wait and use this, or just use it now. I had no coupons with me, just my ECB, my card and a CVS gift card for $25. I am almost out of Toilet paper. OH NO! So, perfect timing, even if not free.

I got my starbucks $45 and my 2 $45 CVS gift cards in the mail on friday. Very Good! So fast for a reward from our Credit Card!! I still have about $60 in reward to redeem too! Nice!

Anyway, I decided to get some tp and to get my total to $20 (milk is now TG Lee, used to be CVS brand I think) I added the FREE after ECB monthly Vitamin D 400 100count for $2.99, 1 CVS bleach for $2.39 and 2 12pk premium CVS tp for $7.49 each. Not on sale, I know, but $5 off! good enough for me, plus I make money on ECB items all the time, so using them towards this, and my free gift card, is what keeps me from spending out of pocket on these items!

I also got 2 nestle candy bars on sale 2 for $1 and my milk for $3.29.

COUPONS: $5/$20 CVS brand purchase coupon, $3 ECB, $5 ECB.
TOTAL after coupons: $12.02 w/tax, which I paid on a GC. $0 OOP
ECB received $2.99
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$724.76 left in budget