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My Target Trip | Spent $4.92, Saved $12.72

December 16, 2011

Along with my quickie Walmart Trip, I also went to Target, although this was not a quick trip. I spent three hours of my life wandering around but I found some GREAT deals. On days I go scouting for deals I don’t bring a lot of coupons, but I did manage to do a few deals:

4 – Deer Park Sparkling Water 1 L $0.69 – Used 4 $1/1 Deer Park Coupons = Free
3 – Eucerin Calming Cream 1 oz $0.99 – Used 3 $1/1 Eucerin Coupons (no longer available) = Free
1 – Nivea Creme Tin 1 oz = Used $1/1 Nivea Coupon (no longer available) = Free
2 – Garnier Face Wipes $4.99 – Used 2 $2/1 Garnier Target Coupons (under “beauty) AND 2 $1/1 $1/1 Garnier Cleanser coupons in the 11/06/2011 RP Insert (exp 12/17/2011) = $1.99 each/ Great deal on these…my daughter and use them daily!

Total = $4.92

My stores do not give overage, usually. Occasionally I have a cashier that just doesn’t care and pushes it through, but I never count on it. We have numerous Target stores in my area. I have checked every time I go to do the Free Maybelline Baby Lips deal and they are always wiped out!

· Filed Under: Coupons, My Savings, Printable Coupons, Stockpile Deals, Stores, Target, Target Coupons

My Walmart Overage Trip | Paid For My Mouse…Almost

December 16, 2011

Made a quickie trip to Walmart yesterday to use my $2.00 Kashi Coupons and do some overage deals:

4 – Single Kashi Bars $1.25 – Used 4 $2/1 Kashi Coupons = $3.00 in overage
2 - K-Y Jelly $2.62 each – Used $3/1 K-Y Coupons = $0.76 in overage
1 – Idahoan Potatoes $0.98 – Free with Free Idahoan Coupon in the October All You Magazine
1 – Logitech Corded Mouse $9.97 (I prefer the corded ones)
Total with overage $6.81

I posted a HUGE Walmart Matchup with lots of overage and free deals yesterday, so be sure to snag the coupons you need before they’re gone!

This has been added to the Walmart Deals Page

· Filed Under: Coupons, My Savings, Printable Coupons, Stockpile Deals, Stores, Walmart

Walmart Trip | 6 Items (Including An Outfit) For $2.45

September 23, 2011

Quick Walmart trip this morning:

4 – Schick Disposable 12 ct razors $1.97
1 – Schick Hyrdo $5.47
1 – Disney Outfit $5.00
Used 2 – Use $6.00/2 Schick Disposable Razors Coupons
Used 1 – $5.00/1 Schick Hydro For Men Coupon (no longer available)
Paid: $1.35 + $1.10 tax = $2.45

The razors are for my Operation Shoe Box donations (they had tons of them with the $3 coupons inside) and both my boys love the hyrdro razors. I would have usually bought something more productive with my overage (printer paper), but my granddaughter was with me, so she got a new outfit

This has been added to the Walmart Deals Page

· Filed Under: My Savings, Operation Shoe Box, Stockpile Deals, Stores, Walmart, Weekly Coupon Match Ups

Super Quick Target Trip | Bought 4 Items, Spent $1.47

September 22, 2011

I ran in Target to get some prices and ended up using a few coupons I had in my purse. Total, I bought 4 items and spent $1.47 ~

Bought 2 – Whisker Lickin’s Cat Treats $0.94 (donation item)
Bought 2 – Aquafresh Extreme Clean Toothpaste 7 oz 2/$6 (through 9/24)
Used 2 - $1.00/1 Whiskar Lickin’s Target Coupons
Used 2 – $1.50/1 Aquafresh Extreme Clean Toothpaste Target Coupons
Used 2 – $1.00/1 Aquafresh Extreme Clean Coupons
Paid: $1.00 + $0.47 tax

This is my kind of coupon trip…quick and easy. I am going to donate the cats treats and the toothpaste went into my stockpile!

Beginners: You can use (1) manufacturer coupon AND (1) Target store coupon PER item at Target. Target does not give overage, so the $1.00 Whisker Lickin’s coupons were reduced to $0.94, which made them free!

This has been added to the Target Deals Page

· Filed Under: My Savings, Stockpile Deals, Stores, Target, Weekly Coupon Match Ups

Freebies In My Mailbox 9/2/11

September 2, 2011

Here are yesterday’s freebies:

South Carolina Travel Guide AND map!
Free Product coupon for Freschetta Pizza (no longer available)
Free roll of Duct EZ Start Packaging Tape (no longer available)
$15 Rainforest Cafe Gift Card (Paid $7.50)

What did you get?

Go HERE to see the most current freebies and samples!

· Filed Under: Freebies, My Savings

My Binder Inserts | Various Sizes For Better Organization

August 30, 2011

As many of you know, I have always used a coupon box (and loved it). I keep my coupons very organzied and can’t stand bending them. I know, the “bending” thing is a little OCD, but that’s really the main thing that kept me from using a binder. In the past, the only inserts were baseball card size and required you to bend up most of your coupons…not my thing.

I don’t want to spend any more time than I have to on my coupons, especially finding them. Whether I am at home or in the store, I want to find my coupons quickly. I loved my box, but found shuffling through the stack of coupons in a category to be a little time consuming. I decided to try the binder method (again) a few months ago, so I started looking for different size insert pages and was pleasantly suprised to find there were many.

Last week I spent two evenings setting up my binder and getting all the coupons organized. I bought a Case-it 4″ D-185 XLarge Capacity Zipper Binder with 5-Tab File Folder and am loving how organized it is, especially the tabbed expanding file folder. However, it is big…much bigger than I expected. I clip ALL coupons, besides the ones I know I will 100% never use. I am firm believer that having your coupons at home, filed and unclipped, does you no good when your out shopping . I tried this method once and missed out on countless deals (unadvertised and clearance) because I didn’t have the coupons. I’m sure this is what is making the binder so big, so it’ll just take some getting used to. The inserts are working beautifully, so I wanted to give you guys the direct links to the ones I bought. You can click on all the pictures for a larger view:

20 (Twenty Pages) – 3.5 x 8 Inch BCW Pro 3-Pocket Currency Storage Page – Dollar Bill & Currency Holders

20 (Twenty Pages) – Pro 4-Pocket Page (3.5 X 5 Cards)

25 Pack Standard Baseball Card Sleeves

20 (Twenty Pages) – BCW Pro 6-Pocket Page (Tall 2 1/2 X 5 1/2)

Standard 8.5 x 11″ Full Sheet Page Protectors – Bought at Walmart
Perfect for keeping all my Restaurant.com Gift Certificates

Extra Inserts In back Pocket

I used the Avery Style Edge Insertable Plastic Dividers, 5-Tab Set for my dividers

I hope this helps you! be sure to share your tips for coupon organization on our Facebook Page

· Filed Under: Deals, My Savings, Online Deals

My Walgreens Trip 8/18 | Spent $2.75 Saved $23.90

August 19, 2011

Did pretty good at Walgreen’s today:

Bought:

1 - ReNew Life Omega Life Super Krill Oil 60 ct, $10 (Buy 1, Get a $10 RR)
1 – Gillette Fusion Pro Glide or Venus Razor system, $9.99 (Buy 1, Get a $4 RR)
2 – Crest Complete Toothpaste 5.8 oz, 2/$6 (Buy 2, Get a $3 RR)
2 – $0.33 Caramels – These are my filler items. I used 6 coupons, so I had to buy a total of six items.

Minus

1 – $2/1 Omega Life Super Krill Coupon
1 – $4/1 Gillette Fusion ProGlide Razor Coupon, 7/31/2011 P&G Insert
2 – $0.75/1 Crest Toothpaste Coupons, 7/31/2011 P&G Insert
1 – $8.00 Register Rward from the previous Complete Mulitpurpose Solution deal
1 – $10.00 Register Reward from the previous Celadrin Inflame Away Joint Health deal

Paid $1.15 + $1.60 tax = $2.75
Got back a total of $17.00 in register rewards!

This has been added to the Walgreens Deals Page

· Filed Under: My Savings, Stores, Walgreens, Weekly Coupon Match Ups

Why I Love Coupons: My Hubby’s ‘Almost’ Free Box

August 11, 2011

I try to get a box out to my hubby at least once every two weeks. The camp he is on this time is very remote and they have very little available to them. Even worse, there are people there that never get anything, which breaks my heart. I send extra and he is a good sharer

I go ‘shopping’ in my stockpile, so most everything in the box was free except the jerky and the Hormel meals. The Hormel meals are great because they are shelf stable and actually taste pretty good (he says the Chicken & Dumplings are the best). They were $0.60 each after coupons. New $0.55/1 coupons came out in the 8/7 SS insert and I already bought 20 extra for $1.25 off of Ebay! The jerky was the only thing I paid full price for, but he loves it!

Please consider sending care packages to our servicemen and women overseas. It’s so sad to me that some never receive anything. For more informaton, visitwww.operationshoebox.com/