Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Target Toy Clearance Waiting


We ran out to Target tonight to scope out the toys to see what is left before the Thursday markdowns. Many people are reporting that the toys will go down again tomorrow.

I wanted to run tonight and see what was left. I have a wallet full of high value Leapfrog coupons and when I saw that they only had 1 of each of four different TAG books left, I bought them before the markdowns.

Tag Books $6.98 less $4.00 coupons making them $2.98 each for Miss Kasja's Tag reader.
We found one Leapster left at 1/2 off $24.99 less $10.00 making it $14.99. There was one Cars Leapster Game and One Ratiquoille Leapster Game left at $12.44 (1/2 price) less my $5.00 coupons on each. Paid $7.44 each after coupon.

I couldn't risk getting losing them waiting for the Morning Rush. I just settled on getting them at 75% after coupon :) Settling for 75% off is making me sound really cheap, oh well.

I can't post the Leapfrog Coupon link as it is no longer active since Monday :(

Becca is still up at Midnight and we have to be out of the house at 7:00 to drive to the city. I can't sleep either wondering what we will get in the morning if Target marks their toys down.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Got Milk-- Use Coupons and Get FREE Milk


Thank you to Hip2Save for the deal. Hurry these will not last long.
Two prints each per computer. We really needed these coupons, Doc wanted a bowl of cereal this morning and his milk was sour. He had to use Becca's and my Lactaid milk.


Get a FREE half gallon of Chocolate Milk with the purchase of White Gallon This coupon is up to a $3.79 value!

Get a FREE White Milk Gallon with $100 Grocery Purchase
This coupon can be used before ANY manufacturer coupons, so make sure to hand this over first when checking out. This coupon is up to a $4 value

Coupons.com. If they do not pop up use Zip code 63090

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Marissa-- Dreams Come True


Marissa our Actress


I will apologize ahead of time for this Mom bragging, but I can't help myself. Marissa is our actress and she left home for California to follow her dream. As a tiny tot she was always dancing, singing and making up plays. At the age of 5 she began her acting career scoring dozens of commercials and print ads. She loves the stage and I spent hours driving her to play practices and performances. She worked hard to raise the money when she was accepted into the prestegous Interlachen Fine Arts Camp and it became her stepping stone to the American Academy for Dramatic Arts in Hollywood for college.

Marissa has been busy working as a personal assistant while following her dream. This month she auditioned to be a company member at the Loft Ensemble at the LA fringe Theater and MADE IT!! Jordan, Marissa's other half (screenwriter and production) is busy doing an internship for a major production company. They both are very busy working and following their dreams and getting ready for their September 19th wedding.

Target: Windex Outdoor $10.49 Get $5 Target Gift Card



Windex Outdoor $12.50
Use $2.50 Printable
Use Target Coupon for Buy Windex Get $5 Gift Card (In this weeks Sunday Paper).
Pay $10.49 and Receive$5 Target Gift Card

I will finally pick one up for the family room windows. We have over 66 feet of 6 foot windows to wash overlooking the pool. I was wondering how it works, but with this deal I will give it a try.


While I am there, I will try this amazing deal I found on A Full cup and score some Bounty Paper Towels and Charmin to Go.


Buy 4 Rolls Bounty Basic @ $.99 = $3.96/4
Buy 6 Charmin To Go @ $1.00 = $6.00/6
Total $9.96
Use 2--$1.50 off Bounty and Charmin Target Coupons -$3.00
Use 3--$1.00/2 Charmin mfg. coupons 7/5 -$3.00
Use 2--$1.00/2 Bounty 6/7 -$2.00
Pay $1.96 for all 10 Items

Walgreens--Sundays Run

I quickly pulled together a couple of coupons to hit Walgreens when we ran to drop off our Redbox Movies at Walmart. I spent just under $5 and saved nearly $29.

Scotch Mailers 6 @ $.39 = $2.34/6
Hunts Tomato Sauce 6 @ $.39 = $2.34/6 (Walgreen coupon)
Scotch Tape 6 @ BOGF 3--$1.46 = $4.38/6
4 Three Musketeer and 2 Snicker Mars Candy Bars 6 @ $.50 = $3.00
Total $12.06
Use 4--$.50 Mailer mfg. coupons -$2.00
Use 2--$1.00/3 Scotch tape mfg. coupons -$2.00
Use 3--$1.00/2 Mars mfg. coupons -$3.00
Use $1.00 Register Rewards from last week
Paid $4.06 plus tax

I can't believe that I was able to get free mailing envelopes for my book and candy bars.
15 FREE Items total with this deal :) 6 candy bars + 6 mailers + 3 tape

Next Trip

Starbucks Frappuccinno 4/$5.00
Use 4--$1.00 mfg. coupons
Use Walgreens Coupon
Pay $1.00/4

Becca will love these Starbucks Frappuccinos 9 @ $.25 for $2.25/9

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Mahala Arline Howe Arrives 7-22 --Congratulations Kristy and Chris










































Mahala Arline Howe arrived today weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces 19 1/2 inches long.

We are thankful for the safe arrival of Mahala and Kristy's safety.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Babies r Us--FREE Born-Free Bottle with $75 Purchase








Get a FREE Born-Free Bottle with a $75 purchase at Babiesrus. Combine it with spending $49 in the clearance store or $100 in the main store and the order is shipped FREE.

Waiting--Grandparents Again 7/22?


Kristy has finished her last days of work this week and has been busy getting ready for the impending arrival of her second daughter. The C-Section is scheduled for the 22nd.

This morning I woke and read her updated blog and this sign from her nursery pictures posted on her blog made me tear up. How fast they grow up. It doesn't seem so long ago we brought our "Sunshine" home from the hospital. Kristy is our "Sunshine" and we sun her song to her as we rocked her to sleep. Kristy soon will be a Mom to two precious little girls. Kasja and Mahala.

Kristy has updated her blog and has posted new pictures of the new baby's nursery and Miss Kasja. Nana brag time.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Toyrus--Buy One Get One Free Melissa and Doug Puzzles (online only)


Melissa and Doug Puzzles are Buy One Get One FREE at Toysrus.com (On-line only). This is a great price to stock up. With 107 differing puzzles to choose from. (I had to post the farm puzzle with living in rural farm country). I think
Kasja may need this one.

Winner Announced- Finish Coupons


And the Winner is #11
DESJ and Company

Thank you all for entering the giveaway and helping me find someone who needed these coupons. With 18 months worth in my storage room I didn't need any :)

FREE Chocolate Friday

FREE Chocolate Fridays at M & M Mars. Sign up and get a coupon mailed to you for a Free Mars Candy Bar. We have been enjoying our FREE Candy Bars.

Which is your favorite Candy Bar?

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Little Tikes--Christmas In July Sale up to 50% off


Little Tikes--Christmas in July Sale up to 50% off.

2-in-1 Dollhouse Playhouse $149.99 (50% off)

Huggies Pure and Natural Sample and Coupons


Sign up for a FREE Sample of Huggies Pure and Natural and get amazing coupons

Backpacks for Kids-- Paying it Forward


Press Release: July 14, 2009



With Back to School just around the corner, the Yurcek family is once again on a mission, to give foster children and other needy children a head start for school. This year Grant County Wisconsin Program will serve about 150 children with new backpacks and boxes of school supplies to differing sites throughout the county. In the past seven years nearly 5,000 children have been given a hand up for the start of school due to the generosity of others and the Yurcek kids. This year Becca Yurcek was inspired to take Backpacks for Kids-- Cyber Campaign. She is asking her avid readers of her Movie Deals on her Mom's Blog to buy a Backpack and schools supplies for a child in need in their own communities

The Yurcek's knew what it meant to be without years earlier, when the Becca the youngest was a critically ill baby, the oldest four children started school due to the generosity of others. Several years later the Yurcek family grew when they reunited and adopted five siblings separated in foster care. The older adopted children remembered what it was like to head back to school from the homeless shelters empty handed.

Ann Yurcek was speaking to a group of foster and adoptive parents and the family learned about a group of foster children in Detroit who had just received 500 empty backpacks. On the trip home the children spent the three-hour trek planning on how to raise money to help fill those backpacks, as they knew what it was to be without. In less than l0 days, the childrens’ pop cans, lemonade stand, garage sale and door-to-door flyers helped fill over 100 backpacks with supplies. It was just their way of paying it forward.

Returning to Detroit, the children shared their dream of helping in Kalamazoo the next year. The foster care group gave the Yurceks 91 backpacks to help homeless children just in time for school. Backpacks for Kids was born. The project grew, and engaged the community to care. The Yurcek's Backpacks for Kids program has gained National Attention when it won the Disney All Stars Volunteer Team Award in 2004, and was featured in People Magazine in November 2005 for Small Angels, Kids Who Care. It was shared in a December 2006 Feature Story on Madison TV along with A Christmas Miracle and many news stories over the seven years of the programs existence.

But the Backpack Program is far from done even though the family now lives in Lancaster, Wisconsin for the past two years. Two years ago the Yurcek family left the Backpack Program in good hands as Kalamazoo families who have helped in the program carry the mission forward along with several other programs to fulfill the needs. In Lancaster the program is growing and Backpacks for Kids is partnering with Grant County Social Services, community organizations, and others to help Grant County Foster Families and families in need have new school supply stuffed backpacks for the start of school.

The Yurcek family story and the backpack chapter is chronicled in a 2006 published book, Tiny Titan, Journey of Hope. The story of a family who lost everything when their youngest daughter Becca was born with a severe form of Noonan Syndrome. With six children, one of them a dying baby, the family struggled against poverty, catastrophic medical bills and the despair faced by many families with terminally ill children. The Yurceks learned from the Tiny Titan to never give up and due to the Angels in their lives, they moved forward. Jim returned to school; two years of undergraduate coursework and four years of medical school were supported by delivering newspapers as a family. As the family was moving to Michigan for a general surgery residency they adopted transracially a set of five siblings. The story moves forward through the challenges of their newly adopted children’s attachment issues and the diagnoses of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. The book is the roller coaster of the ups and downs of life of special needs families and miracles.

Tiny Titan Journey of Hope was written to inspire others and to raise awareness of the causes of special needs families, foster and adoptive families and the children they raise.

Tiny Titan, Journey of Hope by Ann Yurcek was recently honored as being selected as a two-time finalist in the 2007 Mom’s Choice Awards. Tiny Titan, Journey of Hope was a finalist in the categories: Adult: Non-Fiction and the Your Heart Our Hands special category.

Liberty Ridge Media:

Monday, July 13, 2009

No Post Tomorrow--I am Tearing up my Storeroom

I will be MIA tomorrow (Tuesday). I began today completely tearing apart my storeroom (I am blessed in this house of mine to have a 14 x 20+ foot furnace storeroom in the basement level). I spent today emptying the freezer that Dee had left the door open on, because it refroze I ignored it until Becca's Drivers Training
Homework was done :)

Today Detamara and I emptied the freezer. Throwing away $1000 worth of frozen cow and food was not easy to do, but it is done. I am proud of myself I didn't cry!! Only did that when I discovered the freezer door wide open and everything unthawed, now the freezer is broken! Besides emptying a half a box of contractors trash bags filled with food it is now at curbside waiting for the trash truck tomorrow morning. My garbage man will not like me after this many heavy bags of trash.

Tomorrow I have vowed that I will not go on line to check my mail until I have put in a half a day in the storeroom, no frugal finds, no cruising blogs, no posting until I am DONE!

Doc helped me move all the tubs of clothing out of one end and that will be consolidated into the garage shelving. I will be moving my shelves to better utilize the space now that we have been here two years I know how I want it, and my "Mom's superstore" has outgrown its side.

I have two more shelving units to put together, a freezer to wash out, move it to its new location, and then empty the shelving units, move them into place and then fill up the shelving again. My goal of finishing this project will take me all day and I will not go to bed tomorrow until it is finished.

I pray my back that I threw out back in June will not act up and my asthma settles down. I won't tell the doctor what I am up to, and Doc better not tell either. The moldy floor under the refrigerator cause me trouble already tonight. The floor has now been scrubbed and bleached. I am now on prednisone to avoid a trip to the emergency room when I ran for my inhaler. Mold is my biggest trigger with my asthma even worse than smoke. Yes, I know I shouldn't be doing this, but I have no choice!! Tomorrow it will be easier to breath, but I hope my back doesn't miss behave.

Postscript: I worked until 5:30 am Tuesday and gave myself permission to post something.
I will work until I finish, I still need 4 more white 5 shelf units but hope that I can find them at Kmart or Menards so I don't have to head to the Big City taking much of my day.

Office Max--Back to School Bargains


Cheaper by the Dozen and Get One Free--Backpacks for Kids Cyber--Drive 157 pledged backpacks and counting.

Can You help?





Back to School Bargains
Office Max


Highlighters---1 cent limit 3
Protractors--- 5 cents limit 3
Metal Compass--- 10 cents limit 3
Markers--- 50 cents limit 3

When you shop pick up a few extras and donate to a school supply drive or your local school to help children who will face school without your help.

Join our Backpacks for Kids--Cyber Drive by picking up a backpack and fill it with supplies for a child without in your community.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Target--Price Matching


I like to price match in order to simplify shopping save time, gasoline. I have shopped Walmart just to get everything in one place by price matching the current ads.

This week I can at Target!!!!! I had read that Target in some Minnesota Stores had begun price matching and this week it is in the Ad here in Wisconsin and in my Chicago papers.

From the Middle of the ad on page 2 and 3....

"Red Hot Savings: We'll match the price found in any competitors's printed ad* for an identical product." *Applies to curent, local print ads for in-store products. See Guest Services for Details.

With all the back to school sales, I will be simplifying my shopping by Price Matching the School Supply Ads at Target for brand name products they carry. Every few cents helps us stretch the dollars helping kids.

Target--$.99 Finish Quantum or Gel Packs












Finish 20+5 ct Quantum, or 32 ct. tablets or gel packs on sale for 3.49,
Use 2.50 OFF mfg. coupon from 7/12 SS
Pay $.99 Dish Detergent.

I have 5 more coupons and had stocked up last time there was a $2.50 coupon. With 18 months of worth of dishwasher detergent stocked up. I am offering a Giveaway for my 5--$2.50 coupons..

Giveaway: Center to WIN 5---$2.50 Finish, Electrasol Coupons.
Leave a comment and I will draw the winner on Wednesday at Noon Central Time.

Walgreens Back to School--Buy One Backpack Get One FREE







Walgreens Back to School Bargains of the Week:


Walgreens Best Buys Worth Noting




Buy One High Trails $9.99 Backpack Get One FREE







Becca and I challenge other frugal bloggers to use Register Rewards to help a child head off to school with a NEW Backpack and with this deal why not make it 2 for the price of one.

We have had used these backpacks for our Backpacks for Kids Program and they hold up well for the price. Today I just picked up 6.

Papermate 10 count Mechanical Pencils $.39 (this is $2.20 a pack off)
Fiskars Kids Scissors $.79 (This is the lowest price for these scissors I have ever seen)

$.19
Mini Highlighters (limit 3 with walgreens coupon)

$.29
Penway 2 pack Pink Eraser
Pencil/Crayon or Dome Sharpener

$.39
Corner Office 100 pack White or Colored Index Cards 3.5
Plastic Sheet Protectors--10 pack
Dividers--5 Pack

$.50
Filler Paper 120 - 130 sheets (limit 4 with in-ad Walgreens coupon)

$.99
Crayola Markers-10 pack

$1
2 Pocket Folder with Prongs 8/$1 (limit 8 with in-ad Walgreens coupon)
Legal Pads 3/$1 (limit 3 with in-ad Walgreens Coupon)

Sharpie Markers 12 pack Fine Point $4.99

Target Back to School 7-12-/18



Target Weekly Back to School Best Deals 7/12

Target is launching back to school with huge savings. While you are there, pick up an extra BACKPACK for A child in need in your community. Join our Backpacks for Kids Cyber-Campaign to help 2000 children start school with the needed supplies. Click here to see how to help.


Buy an Embark Backpack get a FREE Embark Lunch Kit up to $9.99
Embark Backpacks are on Sale for $9.00, $14.00, $19.00






$.50

Rose Art Washable 8 Count Markers
Rose Art 12 Count Color Pencils
Mead 70 page Theme Notebooks
Bic Crystal Pens 10-count
Vinyl Pencil Pounches
#2 Yellow Pencils--24 count
Pink or Blue Plastic Pencil School Boxes

$2
Dry Erase Board

On Price Reduction
$.30 24 Count Crayola Crayons

$1
Crayola Markers--10 Pack Bold and Assorted Colors
Crayola Markers--Thin
Crayola Colored Pencils--12 count

Friday, July 10, 2009

Kmart Doubles--New Free Item Irish Spring Body Wash


If you are making one last run for Kmart Doubles. This deal is worth taking a few moments to print out before heading out.

Kmart has it for $3.99 and with the $2.00 off coupon on Coupons.com doubled will make it FREE. Use zip code 45435 and print out 2--coupons for $2.00 of Irish Spring Body Wash if you have a second computer you can print 2 more to take advantage of the 4 limit for FREE.

While you are there, print 2 out the $1.00 Softsoap Liquid Handsoap coupons on the same page. (same zip code). These should be FREE or almost FREE. I have not priced checked it but will pick them up tomorrow on our last run to Kmart Doubles.

Kmart--Doubles Trip #3 and $76.00 in Free Toys


The girls and I went to Kmart and we did 4 sets of deals. One set of Kimberly Clark products and 3 sets of Unilever. We spent our 4--$14.00 catalina shopping coupons along with 4 --$5/$20 Toy Coupons and bought 4 transactions of $20+ toys. We went over $20 on a couple of the toy transactions and with tax we spent under $10 for over $85 in toys plus tax with $76 savings. These were NEW for fall toys. I had already cleaned up on the 50% off the clearance toys on Sunday and it is all picked over.

The cashiers were impressed by my totals on the doubles and shocked by the savings on the toys deal :) It feels amazing to have the cashiers impressed!!

Backpacks for Kids--Kids Can Make A Difference


Backpacks for Kids











From Left to Right, Maggie a volunteer,
Detamara Yurcek, Me, Delonzo at Office Depot of our four Drop Sites in Kalamazoo that year. August 2002

BACKPACK for KIDS-Cyber Campaign Count


BACKPACKS for KIDS--Cyber Campaign
151 Backpacks to Date 1,849 to go.


Goal: 2000 Backpacks filled with love and school supplies for children in need by you in your communities across the United States.

Read Here about our Campaign.

Help a child in need start school with a New Backpack by pledging to buy one filled with school supplies and drop it off at one of the many school supply campaigns in many communities across the country or at a local school. Principals and teachers will know how to find a child who needs a hand up for school.

Commit to buying a Backpack by leaving a comment here or emailing me privately at Anny458@aol.com and check back for our Back to School Frugal Finds.

Backpacks for Kids-- Staples 1Cent Pencils and $5/$20



Staples has Posted their Ad beginning Sunday July 12 with an amazing $5.00 off $20.00 coupon.

Combine it with these School Supply deals and begin your back to School Shopping Valid Sunday through Wednesday July 12-15













Sharpie Major Accent Highlighters, Assorted 6 Pack $1.00 Limit 2

#2 Yellow Pencils 8 per pack 1 Cent Limit 2
Fiskars Kids Scissors $1.00 Limit 2
Staples Pink Wedge Erasers, 3 Pack $1.00 Limit 2
Bic Velocity Stick Fashion Pens Assorted 5 per pack $1.00 Limit 2
Plastic School Boxes $1.00 Limit 2
Bic Wite-Out Quick Dry 2 Pack $1.00 Limit 2
Staples Mini Magnetic Stapler $1.00
Staples 8.5" x 11" Copy Paper 500 Sheets 1 Cent after $3.68 Easy Rebate Limit 2

Total the Above Items $21.30 less $5.00 coupon less $7.26 Rebate for 2 Paper = $9.04

You may save more if you have the Bic internet printables from a week or so ago.

More From Staples Worth Mentioning:

Crayola Classic Markers Buy 1 Get 1 Free
Staples also has Backpacks on sale for 25% to 50% off this week.

*Deals posted in bold are probably close to a lowest season price.

Backpacks for Kids: Cyber Campaign. Buy a Backpack and Donate it to a Child in Need in Your Community. GOAL: 2000 Backpacks


I challenge fellow Frugal Bloggers to help Becca fill backpacks and join our Backpacks for Kids Cyber Campaign to Buy Backpacks for Children in Need across America.

Over the next two months, I challenge other Bloggers to join the campaign to fill a backpack with needed school supplies and donate it to one of the many Back To School Drives in almost every community across the United States. Becca's Goal to inspire you to match the 5,000 Backpacks our family and Backpacks for Kids has given away in the past 7 years. This mom burst her dream and told her that she needed to goal more manageable. So we compromised on 2000.

Becca has worked year round for these years scouring and hunting for the the Best Deals for Backpacks and School Supplies. We are again working in our own county for Back to School through our County Services making sure every child who is referred has the supplies they need to attend school. Our Garage will be turned again into Back To School Central.

Becca and I will be scouring the Ads and will post the Best School Supplies bargains weekly on Sunday. With all of us using our bargain hunting skills we can save money for our families sending our kids back to school and together will help children in need by fulfilling the needs of the school supplies campaigns across America. Over the next couple of weeks we will be posting the deals, sharing our purchases and giving you a place to share your frugal back to school finds and most importantly give you ideas on how to get the backpacks to a child in need.

I begin with my pledge of 150 Backpacks already purchased. 1,850 to Go. Can You Help?

Add your pledge to Buy a backpack with supplies for a needy child and lets unite to reach a goal of 2000 backpacks to add to the 5000 Backpacks for Kids and our family has already raised in the last 7 years.

Sign on to the campaign and pledge to buy a backpack and school supplies by leaving a comment on the blog. I will get a formal sign up on the blog and we will watch the multiplying backpacks begin.

Back to School Deals Begin

Miss Becca in the Middle with some of our Backpack Friends (2005)

If anyone has read my story, Tiny Titan, they know that Back to School is one of my most favorite time of the year. Not because I am sending my kids back to school, because of a miracle so many years ago, that I get the gift of repaying backpacks that my kids had received when our family was in poverty from Becca's catastrophic illness and Jim losing his job to cover her million dollars in medical bills.

Where my frugalness and bargain hunting skills are best served is through school supply shopping. I have taught my kids how to stretch small change and turn them into school supplies which over the past 7 years have served over 5000 children in the communities were we have lived. The miracles of the multiplying backpacks and schools supplies and who it would inspire.

Over the next two months check back and find out the whole story and I will be posting Back to School Deals to save money with sending the kids back to school.

I will be posting Weekly Back to School hints and deals. This year I would like other frugal bloggers to join the campaign to help needy children have NEW backpacks and school supplies in your own communities.

As you are out shopping, pick up the Back to School Frugal Finds and find your own communities back to school drives and help children have a New Backpack and Supplies to Start School Ready to Learn.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Pyrex Sale--24 oz. Round Casserole Dish 50 Cents plus Shipping


What will 50 Cents buy? A 24 oz. Pyrex Round Casserole Dish or 4 and 7 oz. Pyrex Ramekins. These are available on the internet at Shop World Kitchen.com

Gymboree Coupon 20% off your entire purchase in August Parents Magazine


I just brought in my new August 2009 issue of Parents Magazine and discovered on page 87 a coupon good for Gymboree for 20% off your entire purchase. Coupon is good through 8-30-09.

Right next to the Gymboree Coupon is a coupon for $1.50 off New Tide Stain Release good through 2/28/2010.

Becca's Best Movie Deal: Toysrus Disney Movie Coupon-- $5.00 off $19.99

Toysrus a 2 Day Movie Special for Friday 7/10 and Saturday 7/11 Only has a $5 off coupon good for any Disney movie priced $19.99 or more.

For the tween in your life.. get an even sweeter deal by using this $5.00 coupon along with the Toysrus coupon on the New Release Jonas Brothers--Concert Experience DVD.

I will be heading over to see what movie we don't have before it is put back into the Disney Movie Vault. Thank you Candace for helping Becca out on this deal :)

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Kmart-- One Dollar for a $20 Toy Scenario


With Kmart Doubling I stocked up on Kimberly Clark and Unilever products and got several $14 off your next shopping order Catalina coupons.

Even without having double coupons, with all the high value Huggies coupons for $3.00 off you can still get the $14 shopping catalina.

I used two on the take 50% off the clearance price toys, but did not think to try using one of the $5/$20 off toy coupons. Two Kmart coupons do not work with each other. We can only use the $14 Catalina or the $5/$50 not both.

Last night I received another $14 Catalina and was buying a regular price toy using another $5/$20. Just for giggles I told the cashier I should try and see if it worked. It did. A $20 regular price toy for $1. The reason it worked I believe is that the $5/$20 is a manufacturers coupon not a Kmart coupon and so I could use it with the $14 shopping order coupon.

This would make it a good time to buy a newer regular price toy on someones Christmas list and get it for a very frugal price. I am posting both the scenario

Scenario: To get a $14 shopping order catalina
Buy 5 Huggies Diapers, Pullups etc. @ $9.99 = $49.95
Buy 1 Huggies Wipes 46 count $1.99
Total $51.94
Use Kmart $5/$50 coupon
Use 5--$3.00 off coupons -$15.00
Print $3 Pullups here *use more than one computer or ask Grandma to print some, Also the $3 Pure and Naturals work. or for those who have doubles you can use $1.50 coupons and will save even more doubling $2 coupons.
Use 1--$1.00 off Huggies bath and body coupon
Pay $30.94 for diaper stock up
Receive $14.00 off Shopping Order Catalina

Then Buy $20 worth of toys (next transaction)
*Use $5/$20 coupon
*Use the $14.00 off Shopping order catalina from buying Kimberly Clark and Unilever Products.
Pay $1.00

*Make sure the coupons are presented in that order for the deal to work.

Pay $31.94 + tax for 5 huggies diaper products, a wipe and a $20 toy!!! ($72.00 value)

Monday, July 6, 2009

Becca's FREE Movie Deal: Redbox Today Only (7/6)



Today only you can get a free DVD rental at your local Redbox.
Use code: 4J7LF6.

Kmart Doubles--Purex Completes Frugal Laundry


With knowing that Kmart has been doubling I ordered 10 coupons for Purex Completes. ($1.00/10) Becca and I each picked up 4 at Kmart yesterday for $1.99 each after doubling our $2.00 coupons. I will use my last two coupons later this week if there is any left.




I have been using it for the last two weeks and it seems to get the clothes clean and it works in the dryer prevent wrinkling. I reuse the dryer sheet with the next load for added softening.

8 packages of 25 count (refills) each Purex Completes = 200 sheets
Regular Size loads because we have a water softener I only need to use 1/2 sheet--- 400 loads of laundry.
8 @ $5.99= $47.92
Plus $1.00 for purchase of the coupons
Less 8--$2.00 mfg. coupons doubled -$32.00
Paid $16.92 for 400 loads of laundry or 4.2 cents a load
I do 2 loads a day average for the four of us gives me 200 days of laundry.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Kmart Doubles and an extra 50% off Clearance Toys


We scored!! We headed to Kmart to pick up our 10 coupons and take advantage of stocking up on Kimberly Clark Products and pick up our $14.00 Shopping order Catalina coupons. I budget $100 a month to take advantage of doubles coupon for household items. (We still have $47 in the budget after Becca and My spending the $50 to get the 2--$14 catalinas for buying Kimberly Clark Products...we stocked up on Cottonelle, Goodnights, Purex and Cereal). The rest of my trips this week will be under $5 each.

We walked in surprised to find an extra 50% off clearance toys. Combining it with my $5/$20 Kmart Toys coupons and the $5/$50 we did our Birthday Shopping, Christmas Shopping along with picking up the Double Deals.







My $11.00 bargain!!!!!!




I rolled my my 2--$14.00 Catalinas (each a separate transaction) ... I got the Little Tikes Fire Station With Blower, originally $99.99 for a mere $11.00(which will be great with my $2.00 Step 2 Fire Truck I picked up at a garage sale last month) and A Leapster originally $49.99 for $3.50. I spent another $100 out of the Christmas/birthday budget for over $500 worth of toys and games. Many of these will go for Toys for Tots. Becca and Dee are shooting each other with Nerf
guns as I write. ($2.50 each).














This picture does not include everything, our games and toys are already put away, along with gifts I don't want certain people to see for Christmas and Birthday Gifts.

and even better... my Gluten-free Chex are on sale 4/$6.00 less 2--$1.00 coupons for a Total of $2.00 for four boxes or $.50 each. Becca, Doc and I each ran through with 4 and scored 12 boxes of Gluten-free Cereal for $6.00 after coupons.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Becca's FREE Movie Deal: Redbox 7/5-7/7


Get a free movie rental at Redbox locations from 7/5 through 7/7, when you use the code 7HE79B at checkout. To use the code you will need to visit your local Redbox location, select “Rent with Promo Code,” enter code, select movie and continue to check out. This code expires on 7/7 at midnight CST.

What are you going to rent?