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Target: new IP coupons

February 1, 2009 by


There are new Target IP (internet printable) coupons up on Target.com.

Here are some of my favorites:

*$1/1 Flat Earth chips
If you have the $1/1 Smartsource printable that was available last month, this makes them .50/bag

*$1/2 Milk Bone treats
If you have the BOGO free coupon from this week’s inserts, they will be $1.69 for two bags

*$1/2 Kelloggs Pop Tarts
If you have the $1/1 Kelloggs peelies and they are still on price cut, they will be .34 for two boxes

These coupons are from today’s inserts and also match up well with manufacturer’s coupons:

*$1/1 Carnation instant breakfast
There are $1/1 blinkie coupons by the Carnation instant breakfast in the grocery store. The canisters and boxes are on price cut at my store for $4.49, which makes them $2.49 with both coupons! We love this stuff!

*$1/2 Juicy Juice
There are $1/1 Juicy Juice coupons from a recent insert. The juice boxes go on sale 3/$7 fairly often, which will make them .83 for a package of juice boxes when they are on sale!

*$2/5 Lean Cuisine meals
There are $1/2 printable coupons here. These go on sale 4/$10 fairly often. So, you would pay $8.50 for five meals using coupons (which is $1.70/meal)

You can find more Target deals in this post.

The Sobe Life water deal is also back this week. You get a $5 Target gift card when you buy ten 20 ounce bottles of Sobe Life water. The water is priced 10/$10. Look for .50/1 hang tangs on the waters at your store.

Here’s how it works out:

Buy 10 Sobe Life water = $10
Use 10 .50/1 coupons – $5

Total OOP = $5, get a $5 Target gift card back

Use your $5 gift card to “roll” into doing the deal again.

If you can’t find the hang tags at your Target store, check for tear pads or hang tags at grocery stores or gas stations.

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Scenario Sunday: CVS scenarios for the week of 2/1

February 1, 2009 by

If you are new to shopping out CVS, check out this post.

The first scenarios are for “newbies” or those who don’t want to spend much out of pocket but want to get started “CVS”ing:

Spend $5.98, get $19.47 in merchandise, end up with a $6 ECB

Transaction #1:
Buy 1 Excedrin 10 ct – $2.49
Buy 1 CVS Children’s Chewable aspirin – $1.99 (this is a February monthly deal)
Spend $4.48, get $4.48

Transaction #2:
Buy 1 Extreme Energy 6 hour shot – $4.99 (this is a February monthly deal)

Spend $.51, get $4.99 ECB

Transaction #3:
Buy 2 Gillette shampoo – $4.99/each ($9.98 total) (this is a February monthly deal…if you have already done the deal this week and reached your limit, do not try to do it early….it may mess things up and your ECB may not print)

Use 2 $2 Gillette coupons
Use $4.99 ECB

Spend $.99, get $6 ECB

My transaction:

Buy Excedrin 10 ct. – $2.49
Buy 4 Glade scented oil refills – $2.50/each
Buy 2 L’Oreal Revitalift face wipes – $5.99/each
Buy 2 L’Oreal shampoos – $6.99/each
2 Nature Made vitamin B12 – $6.39 (BOGO free)
2 Progresso soups – $2.99 (BOGO free)
2 L’Oreal lip products – $5.99 (BOGO free)

Total before coupons: $53.82

Use $1 CVS Excedrin CRT
Use 4 $1 Glade scented oil coupons
Use 2 $1 L’Oreal coupons
Use 2 $2 L’Oreal shampoo coupons
Use 2 $1.50 Nature Made coupons
Use 2 $1.10 Progresso coupons
Use 2 $2 L’Oreal coupons
Use $10/50 CVS CRT

Spend $23.62 (pay w/ ECBs), earn $22.49

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Savings Saturday: My $40 weekly budget

January 31, 2009 by

If you’re just starting to read my blog, you may want to click here to read about my challenge for 2009, so you’ll get a better understanding of how this all works. My Kroger stores triple three like coupons up to .35 face value and double three like coupons up to .50 face value. My Randalls stores triple one like coupon up to .35 face value and double one like coupon up to .50 face value.

Here’s a summary of my shopping trips:

Randalls: Total OOP = $7.59 – I went to Randalls to pick up a few ads so I had some extra copies of the $30 coupon for new or transferred prescriptions since they are good until March. I wasn’t planning on buying anything, but as I glanced at the ad, I noticed that they had 4 12 packs of soda for $7.99, which was a deal I couldn’t pass up. I had thrown in some Twizzlers also. For some reason, even with the Twizzlers, it only rang up at $7.59 after I gave them my Randalls card. I checked my receipt and everything that I bought was listed, so I’m not sure what happened, but I am not complaining 🙂

Kroger: Total OOP = $32.76 (I went over budget by .35 this week. I should have been just under budget, but when I got to the register, I realized that I had an extra bag of cheese in my cart that I hadn’t planned on buying and I just went ahead and bought it anyway….there was a long line and I didn’t want for someone to have to put it back) Here’s what I got: 13 bags of cheese (yes, you can freeze cheese, but all of the expiration dates are May or June, so we will probably use them all before then…I used the .75/1 blinkies on these), 2 boxes of Kleenex (used .40/1 coupons which doubled), 1 container Daisy sour cream (used .50 coupon which doubled), 3 cans Rotel, bananas, Juicy Juice (used $1 coupon), cucumbers, cantaloupe, carrots, clery, rice, DelMonte grapefruit (used free coupon from home mailer), Dannon yogurt (used free coupon from home mailer), 2 Vienna sausage, avocadoes, roma tomatoes, 3 packages Jell-O pudding (used .50 coupons which doubled), chicken marinade, ricotta cheese, parsley, one gallon of milk

Here are my updated savings totals: (if you’re new to my blog and not familiar with my savings goals, click here)

Baby Emergency fund – $764.92 (Goal = $1000) – I got $16 in rebate checks

Gift savings – $132.42 (Goal = $1500)

Rolling entertainment fund – $0 (Goal = $500)

I also cashed out for $35 in Amazon gift cards from Swagbucks (which technically could go toward my gift savings because that’s what it will be used for).

Here’s how much I have saved at individual stores:

Total Target savings – $139.27 to date (45% savings)

Total CVS savings – $272.75 (84% savings…this would probably be higher, but I do buy my stamps there to go toward my quarterly ECB earnings and you can’t use ECBs to pay for those!) – this # has not been updated because I have not entered my receipts for the week into my spreadsheet yet

Total Kroger savings – $172.54(57% savings)

Total Randalls savings – $76.33 (88% savings)

**If you’re looking for spreadsheets to help you track your savings, there are some good ones here on the Mommy Snacks blog

Question of the Week: Where’s the beef?
You may notice that my weekly grocery trip this week didn’t include any sort of meat. One of the beauties of having a stockpile is that sometimes you don’t have to buy meat. This week, I chose to use my budget to stock up on other items that I will use (like cheese) because I already have plenty of meat in the freezer and there weren’t really any good sales this week.

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Savings Saturday: CVS ad for the week of 2/1-2/7

January 31, 2009 by


Here are the coupon match ups for the upcoming week: (YMMV on coupon amounts because they are different in different areas)

I do these coupon match-ups myself and it takes a LOT of time. I don’t mind if you share this information with others or on your blogs, but please make sure you are giving credit by posting a link back to my blog! Thanks 🙂

ECB items:

FREE AFTER ECBs and coupons:
*Excedrin Extra strength – 10 ct vial – $2.49, get $2.49 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$1 Excedrin CVS CRT

Other ECB offers:
*Buy Axe shampoo, conditioner, or styler – 2/$12, get $2 ECB (limit 5 per household)
*Brita pitcher filters – $17.99, get $5 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$1/1 printable here (you have to register)
*Centrum Cardio 120 ct – $14.99, get $2 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$3/1 Centrum Cardio Vitamins, Any – 01-04-09 RP
$1/1 Centrum Product, any except 30-ct – All You, February 20, 2009
$3/1 Centrum Cardio, excluding 30-count – 11-16-08 RP
*Buy $15 of the following Colgate-Palmolive products, get $5 ECB (limit 1 per household): Speedstick – 2/$5, Lady Speedstick Clinical proof – $7, Colgate toothpaste/toothbrush – 2/$5, Softsoap – $1, Soft Soap Spa – 2/$7, Irish Spring bar soap 3 pk – $2, Palmolive – .97, Fabuloso or Murphy oil soap – 2/$5, Suavitel – 2/$7
$1/1 Colgate Toothpaste, Any 4 Oz. + Adult Or Kids – 01-18-09 SS
.75/1 Colgate Kids Toothpaste, Any 4 Oz. + – 01-18-09 SS
.75/1 Colgate Toothpaste, any (kids or adults) – 2/1 SS
$.75/1 Speedstick 24/7 – 2/1 SS
$.75/2 Speedstick – 2/1 SS
$.35/1 Softsoap – 2/1 SS
$1/1 Softsoap Spa – 2/1 SS
.25/1 Palmolive – 2/1 SS
.50/1 Irish Spring 3 pk bar soaps – 2/1 SS
*Claritin liqui-gels (40 ct) – $29.99, get $5 ECB (limit 5 per household)
$2 printable coupon here
*Cortizone 10, Plus or Intesive Healing (1 oz) – $4.99, get $1 ECB (limit 5 per household)
*Excedrin Menstrual Complete – $6.99, get $3 ECB (limit 5 per household)
*Buy $50 of iTunes gift cards, get $10 ECB (limit 1 per hosuehold)
*GenTeal drops (10-15 ml), Clear Care, or Aquify 12 oz – $8.99, get $2 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$1.50/1 GenTeal Dry Eye Relief, Any – 10-19-08 SS
*Gillette Gamer (manual or power razor) – $7.99, get $4 ECB (limit 1 per household)
(if you did this offer last week, it may not reset….buy something else first and see if your receipt shows that the limit is reached)
*Glade essential oils jar candle (4 oz), PlugIns fresh refills (3 ct), scented oil refill (1 ct) or scented oil candle refills (3 ct) – 4/$10, get $5 ECB (limit 5 per household)
$1.50/2 Glade 4 oz jar candles (exp 3/14/09) – 2/1 inserts
$1/2 Glade Plug-ins refills (exp 2/21/09) – I’m not sure what insert this is from, but it is listed on The Coupon Clippers
$1/1 Glade scented oil refill packs (exp 3/14/09) – 2/1 inserts
*Buy 2 Jergens 4-21 oz or Curel 13 oz lotion, get $5 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$3/1 Jergens Naturals Moisturizer, 16.8 Fl. Oz. + – 01-11-09 SS
$1/1 Jergens Moisturizer 7.5 fl. oz.+, or Jergens Natural Glow Face fl. 2 oz, or Body 4 fl. oz+ – 12-07-08 ss
$1/1 Curel Moisturizer, Any 3.5 Oz. + – 01-11-09 SS and 12-7-08 SS
*KY Yours + Mine – $19.99, get $10 ECB (limit 1 per household)
$5/1 from 2-1 inserts
$5 printable coupon here
*Buy 2 L’Oreal Revitalift products, get $10 ECB (PSA $5.99) – (limit 2 per household)
Get a $1 printable coupon by doing the consultation (lower right hand corner) here
$2/1 L’Oreal skincare from 1/4 RP
*Buy 2 L’Oreal EverPure shampoo, conditioner, or styler (PSA $6.99), get $5 ECB – (limit 1 per household)
Get a $1 printable coupon by doing the consultation (lower right hand corner) here
$2/1 in 2-1 inserts
*NicoDerm CQ – get $10 ECB when you buy an 7 mg Stop Smokign Aid patch (limit 1 per household)
*Get $10 ECB when you buy any Omron manual, wrist, or ComFit cuff blood pressure monitor (limit 5 per household)
*Pantene, Herbal Essences, or Head & Shoulders shampoo or conditioner (23.7-25.4 oz) – $5.99, get $2 ECB – (limit 5 per household)
$1/1 Head & Shoulders Shampoo Or Conditioner, Any Excluding Trial Size – 01-18-09 PG
*Buy 2 Theraflu 6 ct, 8.3 oz, or Triaminic 14 ct or 4 oz, get $5 ECB (PSA $6.59) – (limit 5 per household)
$2/1 Theraflu printable here
$1.50/1 Theraflu Product, Any – 01-04-09 SS
$1/1 Triaminic Product, Any – 01-04-09 SS, 12-7-08 SS
*Secret or Old Spice deodorant – 2/$5, get $1 ECB (limit 1 per household)
.20/1 Secret Product, any excluding trial size – 12-28-08 PG
$1/2 Old Spice Anti-Perspirant Deodorant, Any (2) or any (1) Pro Strength Product – 12-28-08 PG
*Welch’s grape juice (64 oz) – 2/$7, get $1 ECB (limit 1 per household)
*Zantac 75 80 ct or Zantac 150 65 ct – $18.99, get $3 ECB
$1.50/1 Zantac 75 Product, Any, Any – 01-18-09 SS, 12-14-08 SS
$1/1 Zantac Heartburn Relief, Any – 12-14-08 SS, 1-18-09 SS


BOGO free items: – don’t forget to use 2 coupons (if you have them) on BOGO free items!

2 day sale: Valentine Card Exchange kit (Sunday-Monday only)

*Alka Selzter plus
$1/1 Alka-Seltzer Plus Product on any (not sure what insert this is from, but it’s listed on The Coupon Clippers)
Alka-Seltzer Product buy any (excluding Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold products) get FREE Alka-Seltzer Wake-Up Call, to $6.00 (possible freebie? I dont’ know what insert this is from, but it is on The Coupon Clippers)
*CVS alkaline batteries
*Kleenex facial tissue
.40/1 Kleenex Lotion Facial Tissues on ONE, excluding individual Kleenex Pocket Pack or Juniors Tissue (not sure what insert this is from, but it is on The Coupon Clippers)
*L’Oreal lip colors ($5.99-12.99)
$2/1 L’Oreal HIP Eye or Lip Product on any
$1/1 L’Oreal Lip Product on any
*Magnivision reading glasses (PSA $7.99-39.99)
*Nature Made vitamins (PSA $3.99)
$1.50/1 printable here (when you register)
**Don’t forget about the $1 rebate from The Caregivers Marketplace
*Progresso soups (PSA $2.99)
$1.10/1 printable coupon here
*Select men’s and women’s fragrance gift sets (PSA $4.99-35)

Other deals:Electrasol – 20 ct ($2.99)
$2.50/1 Finish/Electrasol Powerball Tabs, Gelpacs or Quantum, Any – 01-04-09 SS (expires on 2-1, so hurry and use this if you have any left!)

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We have a winner!

January 31, 2009 by

The winner of the $15 CVS gift card giveaway is Jennie! Jennie had two entries: one for following my blog and one where she shared what she planned to do with her gift card if she won. Here’s what she had to say:

Wow, $15. I would buy so much stuff using coupons and EBC’s that my husband thought I broke our budget.

Congrats to Jennie!

Thanks to the rest of you who entered. Your entries were all great, I appreciate your support, and I really wished I could have given away more. I plan on doing a giveaway at least once a month, so there will be plenty of other opportunities to win. Please vote in my poll (on the upper right sidebar) to let me know what you’d like to see in my next giveaway.

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