Outside of couponing, I have been toying with a few ideas lately: I want to get into furniture and home decor upcycling. Eventually, I am thinking an etsy shop or something similar, but until then I will continue to prep the items I want to work with and I will keep working on new ideas. Also, I am challenging myself to try different (i.e. new) recipes each week and trying out ways to get the most out of the items I save money on by couponing :) If anyone has any advice, please share with me on Facebook, Twitter (@hokiemma) or email me : ajwejw@gmail.com
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Now, the fun part! My first brag of the new year and it's a good one! I spent a net of less than $5 for everything pictured and I was very pleased since some of these things I desperately needed and could not have gotten much cheaper if I tried. Hopefully you can repeat some of these :)
I went to Food Lion, Walgreens, and CVS and I spent a total of $23.36 in cash and walked out with a total of $18.50 in store monies/credits. That's a net difference of $4.86!!
Walgreens:
I went in for the Spend $20, get a $5 Register Reward on Nestle/Purina items. I was expecting to spend a net of $7 (plus tax) for 4 bags of dog food, but I left doing better than planned!
5 bags of Beneful: $20 total (retail: $7.49 each (!) = $37.45)
2 Alka Seltzer cold products: $6 total (can't remember retail...)
Coupons used:
5 $2/1 any Beneful dry dog food, any size or variety (pre-Christmas coupon)
2 $2/1 any Alka Seltzer cold product (from this Sunday's paper)
Paid: $9.83 in cash
Received a $5 register reward for Nestle and 2,000 points on Alka-Seltzer ($2 reward)
Net spent at Walgreens: $2.83 (each item cost me $0.40)
**Bought 5 bags of Beneful (three rang up at $5 sale price, and two I got for $2.50 each because their "best by" date was passed. I just asked if they would let me have both 'expired' bags for the price of one, and they did--which also meant I was able to use 5 coupons, instead of 4 so my savings was better than planned!)
**Also, the Alka-Seltzer is advertised on sale 2 for $11, then use an in-store coupon to pay $6 for 2 AND get 2,000 points (which would bring you to $4/2 sans coupon)--this is a national typo since there is no in-store coupon, BUT they will honor the price at the register if you ask and THEN use 2 of the $2/1 coupons to get two boxes free (pay $2 after sales/coupons, and get $2 in points back!)
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Food Lion:
Took advantage of some closeouts and the store brand sale and a great personalized coupon I got in my email. YES, THE STORE BRAND ITEMS ON CLOSEOUT DO GIVE YOU THE CATALINA :)
1 bag of Food Lion frozen chicken breast tenderloins: $6.49 (on sale from $6.69)
2 boxes of Food Lion poptarts: closeout of $0.87 each ($1.74 total)
3 cans of Food Lion mixed veggies: sale price of $0.50/can from 67 cents/can ($1.50 total)
1 Bear Creek rice mix: closeout of $0.62 (no coupon but I love this stuff)
2 Skinny Cow candies: sale of BOGO @ $0.89 (each rang up at 44 cents each)
Coupons used:
$2 off any $5 purchase of frozen food items (emailed coupon) (I try to use these on practical items like chicken--which we needed-- but you CAN combine these email coupons with manufacturer coupons or other deals to get great savings)--this made my chicken $4.49/bag :)
1 BOGO Skinny Cow candy singles (took off $0.44 so it made each candy bar come to 22 cents/each)
Paid: $9.07
Received: $1.50 in store cash catalina for buying 6 store brand items
Net spent at Food Lion: $7.57 (final price for each store item: canned veggies: 25 cents/each, poptarts: $0.62/each, chicken $4.24)
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CVS:
I love getting good deals on Tena pads because I give them to people I know who need them and they are pricey otherwise.
6 Tena pads (various kinds): 3 @ full price of $7.29 each and 3 @$3.64 (half price)--$32.79 total
2 Goody's headache relief shots: $0.99 each (sale from $2.99 each)--$1.98 total
Coupons used:
6 "up to $5 off ANY Tena product" (from this Sunday's paper) *took of $30 total
2 $1/1 Goodys headache relief shot (had these since Novemeber) *took off $2 total
Paid: $4.46 total
Received: $10 in ExtraBucks
Net at CVS: $5.54 moneymaker :)
Tena pads (all varieties) are currently BOGO 1/2 off now AND part of a spend $30, get $10 ExtraBucks or spend $50 get $20 in ExtraBucks.
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If you want to break it down further, I paid just 20 cents per item. Woo, a bag of chicken and dog food for that low--I'll take it!
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