Happy Anniversary to us! Kroger paid us $34.88 for shopping!

There was an awesome set of coupons in yesterday's paper for Bayer Aspirin--save $4 off 2 items (20 count or higher--expires 6/30/13) or $2 off 1 item (20 count or higher--expires in August). These are on a catalina promotion at Kroger, buy 2 get $3 off your next order. I already did this deal twice last week (see last post) but that was not nearly as good as yesterday's trip! If you're wondering why I did buy 30 bottles: a) they are good until 2016 so we can use them by then and b) I'll donate some and they were HUGE moneymakers :) Here is what we got at Kroger:

We went late Saturday night just to make sure the catalinas were still running for the Bayer (they are printing until 7/3/13, by the way!) because I saw a coupon preview (you can Google Sunday coupon previews usually by Thursday or Friday before they come out) and I saw the Bayer coupons listed. They were regional, so not everyone in the country got them (we got really lucky for once!) but when I got my Sunday paper yesterday morning, I saw the coupons :) But, as of late Saturday night, all I wanted to do was see if the catalinas were going to align with the coupons IF we got them, so we ran in to Kroger.

Saturday Night: 6/22/13

3 Hamburger Helpers--on Manager's special for $0.50/box, reg. price $1.67 each

1 Betty Crocker Mac-n-Cheese--reg. price $1.00/box

4 Secret Outlast deodorants--on the buy 4, save $4 (which ended at midnight Saturday...) for $2.49--reg. price is $3.94 each (only 3 pictured b/c I gave one away when we were leaving the store lol)

1 pack of Kroger bagels--reg. price of $1.89

Pre-card/coupon total: $24.65 with tax

Coupons used:

$0.75 off 3 Hamburger Helpers (made these $0.25 each)

FREE Betty Crocker Mac-n-Cheese (e-coupon loaded to my Kroger card--made this FREE)

4 coupons for $3 off any Secret Outlast (this gave me overage of 51 cents each, so $2.04 in overage total!)

Kroger coupon for $0.40 off one pack of Kroger bagels (from those wonderful mailers they send out!)

New total (after card and coupons): $0.77 including tax (woohoo!)
We also received a $1 catalina for buying three Hamburger Helper items, so this little trip was a $0.23 moneymaker for us :)

The next trips (6/23/13--also our 1st anniverasry being married :) ) were planned--

We bought 10 Sunday papers yesterday at the Dollar Store so we had 10 of the $4 off 2 Bayer/Alka-Seltzer items and 10 of the $2 off 1 Bayer coupons, 20 coupons total that allowed us to do 15 catalina deals total.

We bought the following at two different stores (so not to clean out 1 store completely!):
30 Bayer Aspirins (a mix of orange, cherry, and regular non-chewable) all of which were $2.34 regularly priced.
1 2-liter of Dr. Pepper 10--on sale for $0.88, reg. price is $1.50

Pre-coupon total: $ 71.72 (I know right!) --in Virginia, medicine is non-taxable but the Dr. Pepper had a tax of 2 cents (this is the sale priced tax, that's what I'll use here)

After coupons (Bayer: 10 x $4/2 [$40] and 10 x $2/1[$20] and one e-coupon loaded to our Kroger card for $0.75 off a Dr. Pepper 10 2-liter): we paid a total of $10.35 and got 15 $3 catalinas back, for a total of $45 in catalinas to Kroger!


So, we did have to pay a total of $11.12 out of pocket up front over the weekend, but we have a total of $46 for Kroger now (a profit of $34.88!!!)--we are planning what to buy with the money, but I will break it down once we go shopping!