Shopping Trip: Walmart

Please Note: Many of the coupons for these items are still good and since the items weren’t on sale, the deals should still be the same. These deals are for the Poconos region.

Saturday morning’s shopping trip to Walmart was a bit of a disappointment and still nice at the same time. The deals that I went in for were typically overpriced when compared to the deals listed by The Krazy Coupon Lady. I wish the prices had been the same because the savings would have been even sweeter, but for my area, the savings were still pretty good. I also bought part of the ingredients to make more laundry detergent since it’s been about a year and I just ran out. I love homemade detergent and it is so easy to use!

 

Here’s what I bought:

• 2 Bird’s Eye Recipe Ready Veggies: $1.96 regular price, used 2 $.75 cents/1 coupons (printable from Smart Source) = $1.21 each
• 2 Boxes 40 ct. Truvia: $3.56 regular price, used 2 $2.00/1 coupons (printable from Smart Source) = $1.56 each
• Bird’s Eye Voila Chicken Dinner Meal: $6.76 for a family size meal, used one free product coupon (received from a family member who had sent in a product review) = FREE
• 4 So Delicious Coconut Milk Cartons: $2.28 regular price, used 4 $1.00/1 coupons (SS 4/13) = $5.12 for all
• Planter’s Flavored Peanuts: $1.48 regular price, used $1.00/1 coupon (printable form Smart Source) = .48 cents
• Bayer Low Dose Chewable Aspirin: $2.17 regular price, used $1.50/1 coupon (SS 5/4) = .67 cents
• 1 Carefree Liners: .94 cents regular price, used $1.00/1 coupon (printable from Carefree) = .06 cents money maker
• Box of Borax: $3.97 regular price
• 2 Fels Naptha Bars: .97 cents each
• 4 lb. Box of Baking Soda: $2.24 regular price

I spent a total of $19.90 before taxes with a total savings of $19.26 and that’s including the laundry detergent supplies!

Shopping Trip to CVS: Cheap Body Wash and Soda!

I was recently planning to buy these items and when a great sale came up, I was thrilled. I stocked up on some cheap body wash and four cases of soda which should last us awhile. It’s been great getting back into the swing of using coupons with one of my favorite places to shop, CVS. This purchase was made over two transactions: one for the initial items that had ECBs on them and a second to use up the ECBs I had just received. I love how CVS allows you to use the ECBs you get on the same day you receive them. I thought it was a pretty good day and simple enough that I didn’t want to hide from the cashier out of couponing shame.

Transaction One:

• 2 Irish Spring Body Wash: $3.00 each on sale, used 2 $1.00/1 coupons (SS 1/19/14, exp. 2/8/14) = $4.00 for both
• 2 Softsoap Body Wash: $3.00 each on sale, used $1.00/2 coupon (SS 1/19/14, exp. 2/8/14) = $ 5.00 for both

The total was $9.54 after coupons and tax. This is like getting each bottle for only $2.38. Not fantastic, but I also received $6.00 in ECBs for purchasing 4/$12.00 worth of these selected products.

Transaction Two:

• 4 12-Can Cases of Coca Cola Products: $2.50 each on sale, buy $30 in selected products and receive $10 ECBs (just FYI), and I used $6.00 ECBs from Transaction One = $4.24 for all four cases with tax

So essentially, I got all eight items for a total of $13.78, which I thought was awesome. A total savings of $30.92 after coupons and sales.

Shopping Trip: CVS, Rite Aid, and Target

Well, I’m back at home now, though I had a blast visiting my mom and sister! We went out shopping again on Saturday and raked in even more good deals. Take a look!

Target: These deals were done in two separate transactions. We bought:

• 2 Marie Callender’s Easy Sides: $1.27 each regular price, used 2 $.75/1 coupons (SS 10/6/13, exp. 11/17/13) and $1/2 target coupon = $0.04 for both
• 4 Bottles of Tresemme Conditioner: $3.31 each regular price, used 4 $2.50/1 coupons (RP 9/29/13, exp. 10/27/13) and 2 $2/2 target coupons = $0.76 money maker
• 2 Up and Up Toothbrushes: $1.24 each regular price, used 2 $1/1 target coupons = $0.24 each

The total for both transactions only cost $0.52 cents before tax! Wow!

CVS: This was also an amazing deal. We used a $4.98 ECB to cover the out of pocket cost and only ended up paying .12 cents!

• 2 Right Guard Xtreme Deodorant: buy 2 and receive $1.50 ECBs, 2/$6 on sale, used 2 $1.50/1 coupons (RP 10/6/13, exp. 11/3/13) = $1.50 for both after ECBs and coupons
• 2 Oral B Toothbrush Refills: buy 2 and receive $4.00 ECBs, $5.99 each on sale, used 2 $5/1 coupons (PG 9/29/13, exp. 10/31/13) = $2.02 money maker after ECBs and coupons

Rite Aid: The bottles of Purex fabric softener crystals aren’t pictured in the image above, but these were on sale for the best price I have ever seen on this product. I had to pick some up anyway to make another batch of my homemade laundry detergent powder. My first batch lasted well over a year much to my delight.

• 2 Bottles Purex Crystals: $3.99 on sale (regular price was $7.69!), used 2 $1/1 coupons (RP 10/6/13, exp. 11/3/13) = $6.34 final price for both

Some of these deals were first seen on The Krazy Coupon Lady.