Internet Coupon Trouble?

GB Savers - has anyone had difficulty in the GB area using Internet Coupons?  I'm noticing a lot of skepticism when I present them at various places.  I had to tell a lady at Walmart once where I got it and that she could tell her manager to look it up if they wanted.  Just wondering what you have experienced?  Shelly - did you talk to the owners at your Piggly Wiggly by you about their decision not to accept them?  Vivian

$15 coupon on GM cereals at Cub Foods

YEAH!!!  After purchasing 60 boxes of Kellogg's cereal I've been watching for any General Mills sales to change the variety at my house a little.  I NEVER look in the Cub Foods ad since I really don't live by the store but I thought - let's just check and there it was ...$15 of the purchase of 10 boxes of cereal, granola bars or fruit snacks - God is good.  Cub Foods, here I come!

CVS $72.85 for $3.87

This was one of my CVS trips this week. I actually made 2, but this one was my better one. The other one was good, but not as good as this one. ( I did the diaper deal in my other trip).

Here is what I bought:

• 4 Sunsilk styling @ $3.49 each
  
• 5 Excedrins @ $1.99 each
  
• 1 - Degree deodorant @ 2/$5 = $2.50
• 2 - Covergirl blushes @ $6.99 each
• 1 - Covergirl Tru Foundation @ $6.99
• 1 - Covergirl Trublend Foundations @$9.49
• 2 - Pepcid AC EZ Chews @ $7.99 each

Total after sales and before taxes $72.85.

Did this in 2 separate transactions and used the following:

• 2 - $4 off $20
• 2 - $2 off Pepcid coupons
• 1 - $1 off Degree coupon
• 2 - B1G1 Covergirl coupons
• 4 - $1.50 off 1 Sunsilk styling
• 5 - $2 off Excedrin printable coupons
• ECBs to cover the rest as close as I could get.

Received $36 ECBs
Will also receive $5.50 x 2 = $11 mail in rebates for the Pepcid AC

Spent $3.87 OOP, but will receive $11 in rebates for an overage of $7.13

Walgreens - $54.51 for $5.97

Yesterday, I bought all of this stuff for $5.97.

It includes:

• 1 - Touch of Grey for Men hair color
• 2 - Nutrisse hair colors
• 4- Packs of Extra gum
• 1 - Crest White stripes
• 1 - Glucerna cereal
• 1 - Wyler's Light Pink lemonade (filler)
• 4 - Matchbox type cars for the boys (filler) - not pictured as the boys were playing with them.
  

I had a the following coupons.

• 1 - $5 off $20 Walgreen's coupon for Friday only
• 1 - $3 off $10 Walgreen's coupon good for Military St. Walgreen's only
• 1 - $3 RR from a purchase last week
  
• 1 - $2 coupon for Touch of Grey Hair color
• 2- $2 MF coupon for Nutrisse haircolor
• 2 - $2 Walgreen's coupon for Nutrisse haircolor
• 2 - B1G1 Off Extra gum
• 1 - 3/$2 Walgreens' gum coupon
• 1 - $0.99 off Extra gum (Walgreen's coupon)
• 1 - Gift card with $9.81 left on it

Paid $5.97 out of pocket. (I actually did this in 2 separate transactions which is why I was able to use both $/$$ coupons.) I had to throw in the fillers because I had too many coupons and it would have given me issues otherwise.

I received $10 RR good the next time I shop from the Crest White Strips
Will also receive:

• $7.49 Easy Saver Rebate for the Touch of Grey
• $5 Easy saver rebate for Nutrisse Haircolor
• $7.99 mail in rebate also for Touch of Grey haircolor

So in essence, they again paid me to buy all of this stuff. I love Walgreen's when I can get deals like this.

CVS Huggies Coupon

Starting Sunday, CVS will be having a sale buy $25 get 10 ECB on several baby products including (again!) Huggies. Here is a coupon for $2 off Huggies that can be used in combination with man. coupons. This coupon is good only through Sunday so to get the best deal shop the 6th!

My Walgreens trip

I also made a Walgreens trip today as well. Very good trip for me. I didn't realize just how good until I got home and figured it all out. Again, I didn't take a picture. Sorry. I need to get in the habit of doing that before putting it all away.

I bought $49.93 + tax worth of products.
Went to the store on Military and used the $3 off $10
Used $27 worth of coupons, including 2 x $5 RR from previous trip
Spent $22.51 OOP, but received $17 in RR for next trip and will receive $7.48 + 10% =$8.22 from the EasySaver Rebate

Basically, they will pay me $2.71 to buy all of these products.

I love CVS!!

I love CVS. This was one of the kind of trips I wish I could do more often.

I actually made 2 transactions. The second one was better than the first, but both good. Sorry, I don't have any pictures.

First transaction:
2 pkgs CVS diapers 2/$12 (I needed some diapers, not necessarily a good deal)
1 Softsoap $4.99

Total = $16.99+tax
Less: $5 off $15 coupon
Less $3 of $10 CVS product coupon
Less $1.50 off Softsoap (coupon found in Chicago Tribune newspaper today)
New total: $7.49+ tax
Used $5 ECB
Total OOP: $2.71 (could have brought it lower, but most of my ECBs were for higher amounts.)
Received $4.99 ECBs back


Transaction 2:
4 Speed Stick deodorants $2/$5 = $10
1 Softsoap = $4.99
Total: $14.99 + tax

Less $5 off $15 coupon
Less 4x$1 Speed Stick deodorant coupons = $4
Less $1 Softsoap coupon (found in Milwaukee Journal paper from Sunday)
Less $4.99 ECB received from first transaction

Total OOP $.28 which was all just tax!!
Received $10.99 ECBs back!!

Total spent for the day = $2.99 for $31.98 worth of products.

Free Dino Nuggets

Found this deal on MoneySavingMom. Since I was going to Wal-Mart anyway, I thought I'd give it a try. Looks like at our Super Wal-Mart these are $1 all the time. I only got two, thinking they may not take the printable coupons, since I've had trouble there before. They took the coupons no problem. I'll have to go back and get the other four bags. (I was only able to get 6 coupons to print). Since the boys have chicken nuggets every other Tuesday these will come in handy! I also got some frosting for 33 cents.

Cereal deal

Just found this deal...Copps has Kelloggs cereal 5 for $11. If you buy 3-4 boxes you get a $3.00 off coupon, if you buy 5-6 you get a $6.00 coupon and if you buy 7 or more boxes you get a $10 coupon. I think there are some Raisin Bran or Raisin Bran Crunch coupons at SmartSource.com but my Copps probably won't take them anyway. Still, even without coupons it would be a pretty good deal. Not quite as good as Piggly Wiggly's deal but close. Works out to be 77 cents a box.

Slow Week and bits of info

It has been a slow week for deals but that's good timing for me since I don't have much time these days. I'm going to take a couple weeks off from posting my lists with links. Maybe you could post yours to share with the rest of us? I am still going to shop if there are good deals!

Don't forget it is free Jane makeup week at Walgreens again this week!

I did find this one coupon link that I thought you could use. It is for the Listerine Smart Rinse that is free after rebate at Walgreens this month. Since it is a new product I had a feeling they would put out some coupons. Looks like it will be free after ECBs next week. So make $1 ECB if you have the coupon. Looks like it will be limit 2 and I was able to get two coupons to print. The Venus offer continues next week as well if you haven't been able to get one. My CVS is very well stocked on these right now!

CVS has emailed several of the big coupon deal websites and asked them not to put their coupons on their website anymore. So stay on the up and up when using the CVS coupons! Both Sara and I got $5 off $30 coupons out of the red box this week so they aren't stopping them all together, maybe just trying to control them a bit more. If you still have the $5 off $15 from Wellness360 it is good through the end of March and you should still be able to use those.

My Piggly Wiggly put up a sign this week that they are no longer accepting internet coupons. I am very disappointed about that and will be let them know about it when I have a minute. I really hope this is not a new trend in the area because that would really limit our savings. My informal comparison of coupons in different markets (here and AZ) has shown that we get a bum deal on the coupons in the paper. This last week there were $1 off Garnier Fructis coupons in the AZ paper that we didn't get here. These made the CVS deal items this week free. Nothing we can do about that I guess. Theresa mentioned the Milwaukee paper did have better coupons than ours so if you are buying a paper it might be worth it to buy the Milwaukee paper every once in awhile if you know it's a good coupon week.

That's all I have for now...if you miss my shopping list go check out MoneySavingMom she has great lists and deal ideas. If you don't have anything going on the 27th and 28th we are still looking for more help to load and unload for the move!! :)

Great Week!

[Posted this on my blog but thought it would be fun to put it here as well.]

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After several trips to both CVS and Walgreens this week this is what I came away with:


12 bottles of shampoo/conditioner
10 bars of soap
3 bottles of mouthwash
3 tubes of toothpaste
4 bags of candy (only 2 are shown in picture)
4 lip balms (only 3 are shown)
3 bottles of vitamins
4 pkgs. razors
1 face moisturizer

When all is said and done (meaning after store rewards and rebates are recieved) I will have paid NOTHING for all of the above. In fact, the stores/companies will have paid me $23.50 (in gift cards, rebates, RRs, and ECBs). This is so FUN!

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So how about you guys? Any pictures?

Vivian's trip to the Piggly Wiggly

Hi Ladies - I came home from my trip to Pig very excited today; I bought 14 large boxes of Kelloggs cereal (by going to the regular aisle - instead of the sale aisle to get them) at 50% off - and checked them out in two different transactions and got $20 off my next shopping orders. Now the swell fella that checked me out said after I checked out the first order, "do you want to use this $10 on the second order?" - what a great idea - I said YES. 

They had so many sales at the Pig that I saved $40 plus got $20 more to spend. YAY!!!! 

Think Savings - Vivian