Super Saving Saturday

I built up a great stock pile of necessities from couponing and rolling extra care bucks at CVS before Rose was born. After a year of concentrated couponing I experienced a little burn out and thus disorganization. I've only bought a couple of newspapers this year and haven't felt the need to get more. I am still using my extra care bucks every few weeks to replace things we need and have great success using printable coupons.

Another way my shopping has changed is a shift from coupons to shopping at Sam's Club. It is quite the extreme from what I had been doing. Sam's doesn't even accept coupons! I mostly buy basic staple type whole foods at a great price and cook up big batches of things we love! I have been pleased the last couple of months with this method. I find that we are eating well consistently and I think I am actually saving more and getting more food by not going in the stores as much. This seems to be working well for my family and frankly it's a relief to have a break from so many coupons. I am glad that I learned that way of shopping so that if I ever need to go back to it I know how. Abby has learned a lot as well. CVS-ing is great for basic math skills!

Purchased at CVS and Walmart:

• 40 trash bags
• 7 pounds pet food
• 2 boxes organic granola cereal
• 1 pack of huggies diapers
• 1 huggies baby wipes
• 1 Suave hairspray
• 1 cvs D vitamins
• 3 coffeemate creamers
• 2 Palmolive dish soaps
• 1 dozen eggs
• 2 loaves of bread
• 2 Vaseline lotions

Total Spent:

$8.87 in cash

$5.68 on my CVS gift card (I had a coupon printed on my last receipt for a $25 gift card for a new or transferred prescription, which we needed. The same coupon printed again after I paid for the prescription today!)

Used 14 Extra Care Bucks

Earned 9 Extra Care Bucks

There a many great deals to be found with printable coupons. I found mine today from the following sites:

Money Saving Mom

Southern Savers

The Centsible Sawyer

This Weeks Savings

CVS

started with $19 Extra Care Bucks

spent $0.69

ended with $12 Extra Care Bucks

Food Lion

8 pounds of oranges

(2) 5lb. bags of potatoes

1 bunch of bananas

1 pack of hot dog buns

1 pack of hamburger buns

1 loaf bread

1 pork roast

1 package deli turkey

3 pounds black forest ham

1 pound chicken patties

1 1/4 lbs. ground turkey

total after sales and food lion printable coupons $27.58

Kroger

6 boxes of Kellogg's cereal

4 packs of toilet paper

2 gallons of milk (free with cereal purchase)

1 Sunday paper

total...$15.23

Grand Totals

Total before coupons....$119.05

Total out of pocket.........$42.81

Saved..............................$76.24 or 64%

Go to Money Saving Mom and Southern Savers for the links to great coupons at all these stores!

Food Lion Mark Downs and K-Mart Super Double Q's

We did not do any CVS shopping this week, but our efforts to collect coupons for Food Lion and K mart really paid off! First at Food Lion, I bought 8 pounds of lean ground turkey, a 4 pound beef roast, and 3 five pound chickens that had been marked down. I bought ten pounds of frozen vegetables, 2 boxes of cheerios, 2 packs of wipes, two jars of whipped cream (very important), and two boxes of saltine crackers. I paid $39 and change for a lot of meat and vegetables! I came across a new site this week that gives great details on shopping at Kroger and Food Lion. Check out Southern Savers for all the details!

Next up was K-mart. I found K-mart to be overpriced much like CVS tends to be. I collected a lot of coupons that could have potentially been good after doubling up to $2. However, I set a goal of not using any coupon that did not make the item free or less than a dollar. I also wanted to try to get a total of $50 before coupons because I had a $5 off $50 K mart coupon. My purchases totaled $55 before coupons. After coupons my total was $12.77. A lot of items were free after coupons, some were more than a dollar, but it averaged to .57 per item. A good result considering these were all item we need or will use.

Read more savings stories at Money Saving Mom!

CVS

We shopped CVS for the first time in several weeks because all of our ECB's were to expire on Tuesday. I decided to try a store in town that I had only been in once before. I checked with the manager first to make sure he accepted internet printable coupons and he did! I had several coupons I had printed for the post it note deal. Also an FYI for fellow shoppers, I called customer service last week to ask about store policy concerning expired ECB's. It is CVS policy to accept expired ECB's up to two weeks past expiration; however the final decision is up to the individual store managers. I had a customer reward ECB that had expired and I had thrown away. Customer service renewed it for me and it printed at this last trip! Thanks CVS!
In summary, I went in with a non-detailed list and a fist full of manufacurers coupons and did four transactions to roll my ECB's. I spent around $5 out of pocket!

I got these groceris at Wal-mart this week for $1.96! You can use links for Kashi and vlassic pickles and tons of great coupon matches for Wal-mart at The Centsible Sawyer.

The Centsible Sawyer and Money Saving Mom have all the details you'll need to shop CVS and Wal-mart every week!

Super Saving Saturday-Abigail's deals

We went to wal-mart to get some of the good deals this week! It was going to be where we spent around 3.00 but the lady didn't ring up one of the coupons for three dollars!! We could hardly stand that we didn't catch it while in line!

2 Bic pens 1.79

1 pack print paper 3.97

1 A&d ointment 3.34

2 kotex 2.00.

4 clean team wipes 6.96

4 relish 4.20

total: around 22.00

coupons

-6.00 clean team

-4.00 relish

-3.00 paper

-3.00 She didn't ring this one up!

-1.00 Bic pens

-2.00 kotex

spent 6.00 plus tax.

We had a pretty good week at cvs. Are grumpy manager seemed in a better mood! We did two transactions this week.

Transaction 1

4 Wrigley's gum $4.00
1 Cvs sunscreen $0.19

2 m&m's $4.00

1 Avalart $5.99

1 cvs aspirin $1.99

Total: Around $15.00

Coupons

-4.00 Avalart

-4.00 Wrigley's gum

-1.99 Free aspirin

-3.00 3 off 15.00 coupon

Spend around 2.00 or 3.00 in ECB'S

get back 3.00 from the avalart.

Transaction 2

2 Wrigley's gum $2.00

1 infant Advil $5.79

4 peak teas $6.76

2 Light bulbs $2.10
2 light bulbs $4.20
1 light bulbs $0.75
5 cvs sunscreen $0.95
Total: Around $22.00
Coupons
-3.38 2 B1g1 for teas
-2.00 off any skin care purchase
-1.00 off Advil
-2.00 Wrigley's gum
-4.00 4 off 20.00 coupon
Spend 9.00 in ecb's
Got 5 for candy, 5.79 for Advil, 2 for tea.
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centsible sawyer
Posted by: Abigail~

CVS

Another fun week at CVS. This was all purchased in one order! I had a $10 off $50 coupon to use before it expired. We had fun making up this big order! I was relieved to find everything there that we planned to buy. That makes shopping fun and easy! some highlights...

• Two more bottles or laundry detergent, the kind with no perfumes or dyes, we are well stocked on laundry supplies now!


• snacks to share after a ball game


• lots of tea and drinks for all


• peanut butter for pbj's before we run out to a ball game!


• some pretty polish for toe nails this summer!

Total out of pocket...$0.99

Total ECB's for next visit...$37.96 !! Looking forward to the June monthly book!!

***Update*** Our Saturday trip....Two trasactions, totaling $43, spent $19 extra care bucks, $1.12 cash, earned $13 ecb's for a total of $33 ecb's for next visit!

Read more great deals at The Centsible Sawyer and Money Saving Mom.

CVS

Highlight from this week:

We spent $3.98 for two Hawaiian tropics lip balms and made $10 ECB's!

CVS supreme diapers ($8.99) ARE included in the buy 2 cvs brand products get one free sale, combined with whatever coupons you may have this is a pretty good deal.

30 more free kodak prints (the coupon for 10 free prints comes with the 3 off 15 coupon!

total out of pocket...$2.01

ECB's for next week $27.69

Visit Denise and Crystal to see what others bought and get great shopping scenerios and coupon links galore!!

Super Savings Saturday

Highlights from CVS:

at least six months worth of trash bags

baby wipes for at least 6 weeks

bubbles and gum to entertain at ball games

Allergy meds for Anna (cvs brand is working very well for her)

brownies for a cook out at a friend's house

milk for the week

M&M'S for my husband who doesn't like chocolate?!?but is addicted to any variety of M&M's with nuts!

dog food for our pooch who will love me and cvs for some brand name chow! free with coupon here

50 FREE photos, if your not taking advantage of the 10 free photo coupon that prints out with the $3/15 coupon you really should!

coffee for me:0)

Total out of pocket $1.91

Extra Care Bucks for next week $31.94

Read about more at Money Saving Mom and The "Cent"sible Sawyer!!

CVS!

The first two pictures are Abby's deals. Abby (aka the coupon queen) is my eleven year old. Happy Birthday Abby:0) She planned her two transactions using the weekly flyer, our list of what we had left to buy of the April deals, and a list of needs I had made to work into this weeks shopping. She did a great job as you can see. In the second picture you can see a small bag of Hershey's Bliss candy (good stuff). She had to throw one of these on the counter when her total after coupons came to -.02. The candy was on clearance for .25! She really understands how to make CVS work for us and is a huge help to me in many ways. With her help we are able to get in and out of CVS in under 30 minutes, which is about the limit for our little Rose.

Here are the totals...

Total before coupons...around $81, each transaction was just over $20

total out of pocket... 95cents!!

Extra care buck's for next week...$27

Go here to see how to get a $3 off $15 coupon!

Read more deals here... Super Savings Saturday and CVS Superstars!!

Super Saving Saturday

This week the big "score" at CVS was the Alavert Allergy money maker! I have two suffering with Spring allergies, so this was also a helpful deal. I was also excited to work in the Dunkin' Donuts coffee for me and the mac', as Samuel calls it, and a coke for the kids. This only cost me $1.68 after ECB's and I earned them all back plus some! I have $31 in ECB's for next week!
Kroger had another good sale on cereal and granola bars. I loved getting this for the kids because we are really busy with three in sports right now! Total at Kroger after coupons...$44 and change. (Some fruit not pictured, we had already put it away!)
I'm not a huge fan of Walgreen's yet, but last week a deal there on Aveeno products caught my eye and my coupons! I earned $10 in register rewards. This was a big help for the end of the month budget and I got four dozen eggs and milk for $.44 with that coupon!

Check out lots of other deals and great shopping scenerios at The "Cent"sible Sawyer and Money Saving Mom!

This week at CVS

Another great week at CVS. My new goals with CVS shopping are to not spend more that change on each transaction and to get things we need. This was a good week! I was able to purchase diapers, detergent, soap, allergy medicine (for Anna, poor thing), milk (not pictured) and vinegar. I bought bubbles for the babies and M&M's for Tommy! He is sharing with us too:0) It is nice to be able to get needed items and treats too! Almond M&M's are the bomb! Anna is in coupon training. She helped with the big trip in the third picture. Our favorite sweet cashier even gave her a candy bar, which made the shopping experience all that much "sweeter". All this for $2.22 off our gift card and $27 Extra Care Bucks for next week!
If you want to learn more about CVS shopping read more at Money Saving Mom! And I'm a Superstar at Denise's site!

Super Savings Saturday

The first four pictures are of my four orders at CVS this week. I am very pleased with these purchases. I was able to buy things that are very useful and not a lot of "extra that we already have in the closet! Here's just a quick run-down...I did four separate orders purchasing what is in each picture, but these are the bottom line totals...

Total ...$93.06

Total spent in cash...$0.76

Extra care bucks for next week...$24.00

This table full is from Kroger! They had a great sale this week that will carry over into next week also. If you buy ten participating items, you get an $5 off your bill. After sale and coupons I spent $58. Twenty dollars was for chicken and another $5 for bananas...can you believe the price of bananas?! .74/lb.!? I have ordered more coupons from the Coupon Clippers to use this week at Kroger for this sale also. I like their site for good stock up sales like this one! Read more from Crystal here.

Super Saving Saturday

I'm joining the ladies at Cystal's site, sharing my Saturday cvs deals!
I did two transaction's:
the dove deal went like this:
2 dove body washes 3.99 ea.
1 dove deodorant 3.49
2 dove shampoos B1G1 4.99
1 cvs spray hand sanitizer 1.79
total-18.25
-8.00 dove coupons from the paper
-1.79 (coupon from cvs in my email for the hand sanitizer, yay!)
-3.00 off beauty products online printable
-5 off 15 cvs purchase
=.88 out of pocket!
earned 5 ecb's

second transaction:
2 bags peanut m&m's 2/6.00
2 glade sprays .99 ea.
1 glade wisp flameless candle 7.99
1kid's listerine smart rinse 2.99
1 maybeline lip stick 8.99
1 glade candle 2.99
1 cvs hand sanitizer 1.79
1 gallon milk 4.09
total-37.32
-11.38 manufac. coupons
-5 off 30 from a previous receipt
-5 off 15 online printable
-14.95 ecb's
=1.16 paid out of pocket!
earned 17.98 ecb's

Rose, our newest cvs shopper.

CVS and Food Lion Savings

We had a good week with coupon savings! Unfortunately my sleep deprived "mommy brain" is making it hard for me to keep up with my receipts!
We had fun at CVS. The picture is just one of our trips! We were able to get three free gallons of milk to go with the 20 boxes of cereal we bought at Kroger for $15! My favorite transaction at CVS went like this:
3 bags of starbuck's coffee 6.99 ea
$20.97
-$4 off 20 cvs coupon
-$5 off 15 cvs coupon
-$1.97 ecb's
-$10.00 ecb's
=free coffee!
At Food Lion we bought the three baby items for $1!
Go to Crystal's blog to get the links to great coupons!

Super Saving Saturday

This is my 2 year old that asks "You goin' to CBS (that's CVS)? I wanna go wis you Mama" when she sees me putting on my shoes:)

At Kroger, we took advantage of sales and coupons that have printed out with our receipt recently and some manufacturers coupons that matched sale items. Thanks to Abby, my ten year old resident "Coupon Queen" for gathering what we needed:) We spent $30.74. Items that were free were...6 tubes of Aquafresh toothpaste, six pack of Yoplait yogurt, 2 jars of Peter Pan peanut butter, and Private Selection Coffee.
I felt like we had to really work at putting together a plan to make CVS work for us this week. The deals were few and far between. We did get the Revlon buy $20 and get $10 ECB's deal. I really debated this one because I just don't use very much make-up. Again, thanks goes to Abby because she searched for some light nail polishes and a mascara to total the $20 while I walked sleepy Rose around the store. Here's the break-down...

2 stayfree 2/$10, used one $3.50 cvs printable and 2 $2 mc

1 softsoap pump $1.79

1 J&J healing hand lotion, used 1 CVS $1 printable, and 1$1 mc

1 tresseme hair spray $1.99, used $2 CVS printable

3 revlon nail polishes $4.59 each

1 revlon mascara $6.99

Sambucol $12.99

1 dozen eggs $2.05

1 gallon milk $4.29

total before coupons $60.87

used $4/$20

used $10/$50

paid $27 in ECB's

paid $1.53 on cvs gift card

Got back $25 ECB's

Read Crystal's Super Saving Saturday!

Super Savings Saturday

The deals at CVS were great this week. We actually made two trips. This one pictured is the second trip. I have been so impressed with many of the purchases made by all the ladies at Money Saving Mom. I bought two coupon packed papers last Sunday, and was thrilled to replace a ton of expired coupons out of my organizer.

We must have tossed the receipts from this week , so no details. We did not pay anything out of pocket, just a few cents off our gift card. We mostly took advantage of the freebies after coupons and our first transaction include two gallons of milk for the week and two of my favorite treats....Eddy's Lite French Silk and Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (a pregnant ladie's dream:) And we still have $23 in ECB to use. Check out the other posts and great coupon links from Crystal at http://www.moneysavingmom.com/2008/01/super-savings-saturday_11.html

Taget Deal

Our simple, but exciting find....$0.89 Christmas lights from Target. Our store went to 90% off today and we were so happy to find replacement lights for the tree for next year. We struggled to get enough working lights for it this year and did not want to pay full price!