CVS and Acme 4/15

My husband did a few transactions for me this weekend because he's cool like that. =)

Acme:

2 Cheerios $3.29

Frosted Flakes $2.99

Raisin Bran $2.99

Mini Wheats $2.99

Pop Tarts $2.99

2 Gold Peak Tea $1ea

4 Yoplait $2

3 Mozzerella Cheese $1.66 with in/ad coupon

3 Pillsbury Rolls $1 ea

2 Burritos $1 ea

=$50.62

-lots of coupons =) if you have a question about which coupon he used you can leave a comment and I'll get back to you--he figured out the transaction and I can't tell from the receipt which coupon is for what. =)

= $14.76

That's a savings of 73%! What a good husband have I!

CVS:

My husband went here for me too and did one heck of an embarrassing moneymaker--I'm sure we can donate it though. =)

3 Suave Body Wash $1.86 ea

Mouthwash for kids ACT $3.99 ($1 ECB)

Depends $3.99 ($2 ECB)

=$13.56

-$2 Depends CVS coupon

-$2 Depends printable

-b2g1 free Suave (took off $3 automatically)

-$2/1 Act Mouthwash

=$4.56 with $3 ECB back

Acme & My Husband's Super Deal

My husband LOVES couponing. For real. Every Thursday the first thing he does after saying hello is ask where the circulars are. =) He should be a coupon blogger instead of me--he has the passion! HA! He put together this Acme deal this week--love him!

Buy 10 Save $5 Instantly (we did this twice in one transaction--price reflects pre-instant-savings)

4 Wishbone Dressing $1.49 ea

2 Ragu $1.49 ea

Crisco Cooking Oil $3.50

3 Stove Top Stuffing $1.49

Marshmallows $1.19

2 Snapple 6 pack $4.99

Texas Toast Croutons $1.49

6 Pillsbury Rolls $1.99 ea

=Pre-Price Plus Card over $70

after price plus $41.56

-$10 Instant Savings from Deal

=$31.56

-$3/$30 Acme Coupon

-6 .50/1 Cinnamon Rolls

-.50/1 Crisco Oil

-2 $1/1 Snapple 6 packs peelies

-$1/3 Stove Top Stuffing

-2 .75/2 Wishbone Dressing

-.40/1 Texas Toast

=$14.76

-Saved $58 with sales and coupons

Savings of 80%

Great Job Honey!!

Rite Aid, Acme, Super Fresh & Pathmark 11/6

My husband loves putting together shopping trips--he got everything pictured below for around $20 and he SAVED $66!! Here's what he did:

Acme:

Flour $2.29

2 Cake mix $1.25

Francesco Rinaldi Sauce $1.39

2 Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls $1.25 ea

13 pound turkey $6.51 (on sale from $17!!!)

Carrots $1

Celery $1

=$17.19

-free flour wyb $10

-2 .50/1 Cinnamon Rolls

-2 .50/1 Cake Mix

-.35/1 Pasta Sauce

=$10.20 (saved $28!)

Super Fresh:

Coffee Mate $1.66

6 Green Giant .99 ea

3 Cup of Noodles .59 ea

2 Lipton Tea .99 ea

Ginger Ale $1.59

2 Snapple $1.69

= $16.32

-2 .65/1 Snapple

-.60/1 Ginger Ale

-$1/2 Lipton Tea

-$1/3 Noodles

-2 .60/3 Green Giant

-.50/1 Coffee Mate

=$7.12 (Saved $27)

Pathmark: 

2 TGI Fridays Meals $1.99 ea

Kraft Barbeque Sauce $1.25

3 Snapple $1.69

1 Snapple $1.59

=$11.80

-2 $1/1 Fridays Meals

-$1/1 Kraft BBQ sauce

-4 .65/1 Snapple

=$3.60 (saved $11)

And I went to Rite Aid this morning:

4 Philly Inquirers $1.60 ea

2 Spinbrush $7.49 bogo

2 Toothpaste $3.99 bogo (spent $10 get $5 back)

Keri Lotion $6.99 ($6 +UPR)

=$24.87

-$2/1 Spinbrush

-$1/1 Toothpaste

-$2/1 Keri

=$19.87

-$11 +UPR

=8.95 (with tax)

-$10 Gift Card earned from purchasing free Covergirl a few weeks back

= $0 with $11 +UPR back =)

Acme Love $4.57 for $56 of Food!

Before coupons I never would have thought about donating to a food pantry--honestly, I probably could have used the services of one myself! But today I got a lot of great stuff I can donate (and some I can use) for next to nothing!

Buy 10 participating items get $5 off instantly 

*prices below reflect instant savings, I did two sets of 10

*the hamburger helper/betty crocker potatoes were totally free

9 Boxes Hamburger Helper .50 ea

8 Boxes Betty Crocker Potato Mix .50 ea

3 Cinnamon Rolls $1.99 ea (Can't lie, these are for us--a special occasion splurge =)

2 Boxes Everyday Essentials Spaghetti $1 ea

4 Boxes Green Giant Vegetables 4/$5

=$21.47

-2 $1/1 Everyday Essentials Item (These coupons are available in the Acme coupon books located at the service desk)

-3 .75/3 Hamburger Helper

-4 .50/2 Betty Crocker Potatos

-3 .30/1 Cinnamon rolls

-$3 Any Acme Frozen Food purchase (mailed to me from Acme)

-.80/4 Green Giant Frozen Vegetables

=$4.57 Saved $56 (according to my receipt with coupons/sale price/instant savings)

Acme 7/15

Acme has quite a few good deals this week--I ordered some coupons yesterday when I saw the excellent free milk catalina deal--so I'll be heading back later in the week when they arrive! =)

Here's what I did:

Transaction 1:

3 Pop Tarts $1.66 ea ($1 catalina wyb 3)

2 Nature Valley Granola Bars 2/$5 ($2 and Free milk wyb 4)

2 Fruit Snacks 2/$5

=$15

-$2/3 Pop Tarts printable

-.85/2 Nature Valley Granola Bars printable

-.60/2 Fruit Snacks

=$9.90 with Free Milk Catalina and $2 and $1 for my next order

Transaction 2:

3 Pop Tarts $5

Buy 10 get $5 instant savings--prices reflect instant savings)

2 Hunts Ketchup .79

3 Grape Jelly $1.49

English Muffins $1.49

2 Act Popcorn $1.29

2 Gulden's Mustard $.79

Milk $4.65

=$19.91

-Free Milk (took off $4.50)

-$1/2 Gulden's Mustard 6/26 SS

-3 .55/1 Grape Jelly 5/1 SS

-$1/2 Act Popcorn (From inside popcorn box)

-2 .25/1 Hunt's Ketchup printable

-$2/3 Pop Tarts printable

-$2 catalina

-$1 catalina

=$4.11

Acme, Target, Rite Aid With Two Of The Best Behaved Couponer Babies In The Land

I ran a marathon of store trips with the littles today--I like to get things done during the week so that my precious husband doesn't have to do too many store trips when he's home for the weekend--we like to enjoy our peaceful family time! Anyways, ordinarily I would run this many errands while Maeve is at pre-k but this was a weird pre k week and Ezra woke up with a low fever two days this week (teeth? cold? who can figure these things out!) so we're off it seems. They were so happy and well behaved at the stores for me--sometimes I can't believe how lucky I am to be their Mom....but I digress....=)

Here goes:

AMAZING ACME:

this is an awesome week to go shopping for free--I got a ton of stuff and had fun doing it and paying very little for it all =) (i was going to crop maeve out but she's so darn precious i couldn't =)

4 Ronzoni $1 ea

5 Lawry's Marinade $1 ea

3 Duncan Hines Brownie Mix $1 ea

5 Best Life Buttery Spread $1 ea

Glade Spring Air Freshner $3.49

4 Yoplait Yogurt $.50 ea

2 Kraft Dressing $1.50 ea

2 Best Organic Oatmeal $1 ea

= $27.49

-2 $1/1 Best Organic Oatmeal printables

-2 .55/1 Kraft Dressing printables

-.69 Free Yoplait Cup (requested online)

-.69 buy 2 get 1 free Yoplait Cup (requested online)

-$3.99 Glade (requested this coupon through a Glade promotion a while ago and this was the first time I saw it in a store)

-5 $1/1 Best Life Spread 4/3 SS

- 3 .50/1 Duncan Hines Brownie Mix 4/10 SS

-5 .50/1 Lawy's Marinade 5/15 SS

-4 $1/1 Ronzoni 5/15 SS

=$1.67 (the cashier took off the full price the coupons allowed for the free items instead of the actual price of the free items)

I saved over $67!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (with coupons, sale, price plus card)

And they cheered for me and I liked it =)

Rite Aid:

Earlier in the week I bought 3 packs of Swim Diapers (3/$21 -survey coupon, -3 $2/1 coupons, -$5 +UPR = $7 with $5 +UPR), the promotion is tracking on the bottom of the receipt and since I have a 20% discount at Rite Aid I did another Huggies Transaction to earn another reward:

2 Huggies Snug Dry $10 ea on sale (rang up $9.59 with my discount)

=$19.18

-$3/$15 survey coupon

-2 $3/1 Huggies printables

-$5 +UPR

=$5.18 with $5 +UPR back!!

I also ran into Target b/c I read that the sunglasses were on clearance and I had a $2/1 coupon from Target.com! All the Target brand coupons are ones that I printed from Target.com!

I got:

2 Shirts $6.48 ea

Sunglasses $8.48

Aluminum Foil $1.12

Gillette Body Wash $3.49

2 Band Aid $1.04

2 Liners .89 ea

2 Dentyne Gum $1.04

Kandoo Wipes $1.49

2 NYC Nail Polish $1.72 ea

2 Nail Polish Remover $1.02

2 Granola Bars Nature Valley  $1 ea

1 Lunchables with Fruit $2.69

=$44.56

=2 $1/1 Lunchables with Fruit 5/15 SS

-2 $2/1 Women's Shirts at Target

-$2/1 Sunglasses Target

-.50/1 Target Aluminum Foil

-$2/1 Gillette 5/15 RP

-$1/1 Gillette Target PG Insert from a few weeks ago

-2 .50/1 Target Band Aid

-2 $1/1 Dentyne At Target

-$1/1 Kandoo PG coupon from April

-bogo NYC Nail $1.72 ALL You May

-$1/1 NYC Nail coupons.com printable 

-.50/1 Granola Bar Nature Valley printable (gone)

-$1/2 Granola Bar Nature Valley Target

-2 .75/1 Target Liner

=$24.84

Acme 5/13 Transaction

I've been holding onto some Goldfish coupons forever because, well, those things are just so darn expensive! And though, just a short year ago, I wouldn't have batted an eyelash at paying $2.50 for a bag, now I won't buy them unless they're on sale for $1.50 or less--that's what using coupons does to ya!

Anyways =)

All this, $2.60:

Buy 10 get $5 off Deal (price shown is price after $5 deduction):

4 Bags Goldfish $1 ea

2 Bags Goldfish Grahams $1 ea

4 Powerade .50 ea

=$8

-$1/3 Powerade peelie coupon

-2 .35/1 Goldfish (printed forever ago from Coupons.com)

-2 .75/2 Goldfish (fully doubled printed from the pepridge farm website)

=$2.60!! This is the REGULAR price of one bag of goldfish! Woot!

Awesome Acme Catalina--It's Been Too Long!!

Thank goodness Acme has another great catalina sale running--it's been so long I've almost forgotten how to roll them! Almost....=)

I did two transactions and paid $5.76 out of pocket and walked away with $10 on my next order! The deal is to buy $25 of specific items (here is a matchup list) and get $10 back!

Transaction 1:

10 Healthy Choice Soup $1 ea ($2.69 shelf price)

= $10 ($26.90 shelf price)

-5 $1/2 Healthy Choice 1/2 SS

= $5 with $10 back!

Transaction 2:

4 Peter Pan Peanut Butter $1.69 ea

2 Snapple $5ea

=$16.76

-4 .50/1 Peter Pan 1/2 SS

-2 $1/1 Snapple 1/30 SS

- $10 from 1st transaction

=$.76 with $10 back!

Acme Strikes Again

I gotta say I'm loving the save $5 instantly when you buy any 10 (participating) items at Acme! Today we bought 34 items for $11 and saved $74 (with sales, coupons and instant savings)!! (Notice my excellent models below! =)

We bought:

21 Green Giant Vegetables (Frozen) 50 each after Instant Savings

4 Ragu Pasta Sauce .99 ea after instant savings

2 Acme pasta $1.19

1 Hellman's May $1.99 after IS

2 Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls $1.49 after IS

2 Kraft Cheese $2ea

2 Orville Red. popcorn $1.50 after IS

=$28.81

-7 .60/3 Green Giant 10/3 GM

-2 free pasta when you buy 2 Ragu 11/14 RP

-2 .35/1 Cinnamon Rolls 9/12 SS

-2 .40/1 Orville 11/14 SS

-.75/1 Hellman's printable

-2 $1/1 Kraft Cheese printables

=$11.53

Acme Awesomeness

I don't know what we'd do without Acme and their amazing catalina deals! My husband went today to do the buy 10 save $5 instantly. With coupons and sale prices we saved $116!!! That is amazing to me!

Here's what we got (prices = after instant savings we did 3 sets of 10 in one transaction for instant savings of $15)

14 boxes granola bar $1.49 ea

1 Gold medal flour $.99

4 cookie dough $.99

3 cake mix $.49

3 frosting $.99

3 pie crust $.99

2 quaker life cereal $1.49

2 birds eye steam fresh $.99

2 birds eye lightly sauced $2.79

pringles $1.49

barilla pasta $2.39

=$46.82

-7 .75/1 granola bar

-4 .40/1 cookie

-free pringles (facebook mailer)

-free barilla (vocal point mailer)

-2 free lightly sauced when you buy steamfresh

-$1/3 pie crust printable (kelloggs.com)

-3 .75/1 cake + frosting purchase

-$1/2 life cereal (printable no longer available)

-$5 from previous week catalina

=$12.16

Acme!

We ran to Acme today to use some high value coupons I didn't want to see go to waste! We saved $53 (with coupons/sales) and only spent $13 out of pocket, with $5 back to use on our next order!

 We bought:

12 Mentos Gum $1 ea

5 Bird's Eye Steam Fresh $1 ea

5 Bird's Eye Steam Fresh lightly sauced $2.79 ea

Townhouse Crackers $2.79

5 Glide Floss $2.50

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser $2.50

Bumble Bee Tuna $1

=$47.24

 -.55/1 Bumble Bee Tuna 9/12 SS

-12 $1/1 Mentos 10/3 SS

-5 b1 Steamfresh g1 Streamfresh lightly sauced free (-$13.95)

-.75/1 Mr. Clean Home Made Simple Book

-2 .75/1 Glide Floss 10/31 PG

=$13.26 with $5 catalina back for buying $20 PG (shelf price)

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Here is the transaction I plan on doing with my $5 catalina:

Buy 1 Secret Deodroant ($3.29) $2.49
Buy 1 Olay Body Wash (KD) $5.99
Buy 2 Crest Toothpaste ($3.49) $2.50
Buy 1 Glide Floss ($4.89) $2.50
-$5.00 Olay wyb Secret
-(2)$0.75/1 Crest
-(1)$0.75/1 Glide
Pay: $6.48
Get a $5.00 catalina
$1.48 for all after coupons & catalina

Acme Catalina Awesomeness

We did a few transactions at Acme today in order to roll over our catalinas. The deal is to buy $25 (shelf price) of items and get 2 $5 catlinas back. Lucky for us, the sale price is much lower than the shelf price so we did well!

We got all of this food,  

a total value of: $137 

for $1.30 out of pocket!!!!!  

with $20 back for our next transactions!

Now, we don't even eat Hamburger Helper but it was a money maker so we did this transaction twice and plan to donate our 20 boxes to the NJ Food Pantry!

Transactions 1 and 2:

10 Hamburger Helper $1 sale price ($2.69 ea shelf price)
=$10 ($26.90 shelf price)

-3 .75/3 Hamburger Helper General Mills Insert 10/3

=$5.50

-$5 catalina from previous transaction

=.50 with $10 catalina back

Transaction 3 and 4:

6 Cheerios $2 (4.79 shelf price)

=$12 ($28.74 shelf price)

-2 $1/2 Cheerios 9/19 SS

-$10 catalina from previous transaction

=$0 with $10 back

Transaction 5:

6 Cinnamon Rolls $2 ea ($2.99 shelf)

3 Hamburger Helper $1 ea ($2.69 shelf)

Lunchable $1

=$16 ($26.01 shelf price)

-6 .35/1 Cinnamon Rolls (doubled) 9/12 GM

-.75/3 Hamburger Helper 10/3 GM

-$10 catalina

=.30 with $10 Catalina back!

All told we have $20 in catalinas to use and lots of food to eat, give away and donate! Anybody need some Cheerios? =)

Acme *LOVE*

Acme is totally speaking my love language this week with some *hot* catalina action!! We've done a few deals to earn our $10 cat. when you buy $25 (shelf price) of items.

Here's an example tonight of how we "rolled" our catalinas for super savings! I am celebrating my 3 yr old's birthday this weekend and needed *one* cake mix--well, using our catalina at the store to maximize our savings--it was actually cheaper to buy TWELVE boxes of cake mix than it was to buy ONE!

I know, it's weird--but we can donate the rest or share with family--don't be overwhelmed by the deal! =)

Transaction 1:

12 Cake Mix .88 ea ($2.19 shelf price)

= $10.56

-$10 catalina

=.56 with $10 catalina back
 

Transaction 2:

5 Marie Callender meals $2.50 ea ($5.19 shelf price)

=$12.50

-$1.50/4 Marie Callender Meals 9/29 SS

=$1.00 with $10 catlaina back!

Acme Is On Fire! (Figuratively Of Course)

The deal this week at Acme is to buy 6 General Mills Items @ $1.49 ea get instant savings making each item .99. I did this deal 3 times in this transaction. At our Acme all coupons fully double.

37 items altogether!

All This: $8.16

(.22 an item)

$70.78 Saved!!!!!

Warm Delight $1.49

4 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix $1.49 ea

2 Gold Medal Flour $1.49 ea

Cake Mix $1.49

Frosting $1.49

9 Brownie Mix $1.49 ea

Bisquick $1.49

Bounty Paper Towel $1

2 Goldfish $1 ea

2 Pop Secret $1.67 ea

4 Spaghettios .39 ea

6 Tomato Soup .39 ea

4 Bumble Bee Tuna $1 ea

=$41.16

-$9 Instant Savings (3 Sets of 6 Items)

-.75/1 Warm Delight 8/8 SS

-.50/1 Bisquick 8/8 SS

-$1/2 Pop Secret 8/29 RP

-4 .55/1 Bumble Bee Tuna 9/12 SS

-$1/1 Bounty PG Mom Thank You Book

-2 .40/2 Spaghettios 8/29 SS

-.50/1 Betty Crocker Cookie Peelie (on Flour)

-4 .40/1 Cookie Mix 8/8 SS

-2 $1.50/3 Tomato Soup printable

-.75/2 Betty Crocker Cake Mix/Frosting 8/8 SS

-4 .75/2 Betty Crocker Brownie Mix 8/8 SS

=$8.16!

Plus 500 Campbells Soup Labels for School

****What an awesome savings! And, I'll have tons to donate and give to family!****

Acme And Super Fresh 9/10

We did a couple of great transactions today (for fun, duh! hahahah)!

We went to Acme to take advantage of their

**buy 10 General Mills Items get $5 instant savings and 50 box tops!  **

We got all of this (in two transactions) for........

$2.19!!!!!

Transaction 1:

6 Green Giant Vegetables .75 ea after instant savings

6 Pillsbury Grands $1.00 ea after instant savings

= $11.50**

-2 $.60/3 Green Giant printable (all coupons under $1 fully doubled)

-2 $1/2 Grands printable

-.30/2 Grands printable

-$5 catalina last week (from buying 5 coolwhips for $5 get $5 back)

=$1.50 with $3 catalina Green Giant, $2 Catalina Pillsbury

**(it equals $1.50 b/c we bought 12 items so the extra two didn't ring up at the instant savings price so it cost us $1 more)

Transaction 2:

3 Lucky Charms $1.50 ea (after instant savings)

2 Old El Paso Taco kits $2.00 ea

4 Warm Delights $1.50 ea

1 Chex Mix $1.19

= $15.69

-2 $1/1 Old El Paso printable (no longer available)

-.50/1 Chex Mix printable

-$1/3 General Mills Cereal 8/8 SS #2

-4 .75/1 Warm Delights 8/8 SS #2

-$2 and $3 catalinas from 1st transaction

= .69

Super Fresh!

We picked up 4 Yo Crunch 100 calorie packs (on sale for $2)

4 Yo Crunch $2 ea

=$8

-4 .75/1 Yo Crunch 8/1 SS

-$1 catalina from last week (bought some cinnamon rolls on sale)

=$1

Acme and Super Fresh--The *Deals* We Did Today =)

Super Fresh has a great little catalina running on Paper towels and tissues--which we can always use more of! And, since we had a leftover $5 catalina from last week (when we bought the billion jars of peanut butter I blogged about =) it worked even better!
You're supposed to buy $20 (shelf price) and you get $5 back!

We got:
1 Scott Paper Towels $5.99 sale ($8.59 shelf)
6 Kleenex Tissue Boxes $1.25 ea ($2.19 shelf)
=$13.49 sale ($21.83 shelf)
-$5 catalina last week
-2 $1/3 Kleenex 7/11 SS
-$1/1 Scott (August All You)
=$5.49 with $5 back! Woot!
= .49 for paper towels AND tissues!! SCORE!

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A while back I purchased a bunch of granola bar coupons from Ebay and they finally have come in handy! These are a favorite of my girls and they are sooooo expensive! Acme is running a deal that they are 5 for $1.39 ea (must buy 5!!)

(like my stacking ability? tee hee!)

So we bought:
10 Quaker Granola $1.39 ea
-5 $.75/2 Granola (doubled to $1.50) 7/25 RP
-$2 and $1 catalina from last week (when we did the Progresso Soup and Fruit by the Foot cats.)
=$3 for 10 boxes!! What an awesome savings!

Acme!

I soooo love Acme and their catalina deals. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure they are the most expensive store in our area but their deals just can't be beat!! They are currently running a special where you buy 10 items and rec. $5 off instantly as well as 50 box tops!

Here are a few transactions we did:
4 fruit snacks $2 ea
2 Bisquick shake and pour pancake batter $1.50 ea 
4 progresso soups $1.50 ea
=$17
-$5 instant savings
-2 .50/2 Fruit snacks 8/1 General Mills insert
-2 .50/2 Progresso 8/1 General Mills insert
-2 .50/1 Bisquick shake and pour 8/1 General Mills insert
=$6 with $2 catalina Fruit snacks and $1 catalina Progresso

Transaction 2
4 fruit snacks $2 ea
4 Progresso soups $1.50 ea
2 Chex Mix $1.50 ea
=$17
-$5 instant savings
-2  .50/2 Fruit Snacks
-2  .50/2 Progresso
-2  .50/1 Chex Mix
-$2 Catalina Fruit Snacks
-$1 Catalina Progresso
=$3 (with $3 back again)

We also had a $2 off our next order from doing a survey that appeared on the bottom of our first transactions receipt! So we only paid $1 and got $3 back! For a full list of coupon matchups and participating items check out Living Rich With Coupons!

Today's Shopping Trips = Free! ((And Yes, We Go Shopping For *Free* Things Just For Fun =)

We made a couple of stops tonight after dropping our daughter off at VBS. I wanted to go to CVS because I read that they increased the limit on the John Freida ECB deal (buy 2 for $10 get $5 ECB back) and had some coupons to use for free toothbrushes.

All this = .39!!! With $6 ECB back!

2 John Freida $10

2 CVS liners $1

2 Pulsar Toothbrushes $2.50 each

=$17ish with tax

-2 $3/1 John Freida 6/6 SS

-2 $3/1 Oral B Toothbrushes 6/27 RP (adjusted down to $2.50)

-$5 ECB from John Freida earlier in the week

=.39! (tax) with $6 ECB back ($5 John Freida, $1 liners)

We also stopped at Acme because I had some coupons that would give us free toothpaste:

4 Crest at $1.50 ea

-4 .75/1 Crest 6/27 RP

=.42 tax

Remember when I used to pay $3 a tube for toothpaste? Ah. Mazing. Coupons = Love!