Tuesday, October 7, 2008

5 Cans of Progresso Soup for $.50. Free after only one MF coupon

I just saw this posted and haven't confirmed yet, but did get the ad in my junk mail so I know at least in theory it should work.

Byerly's has Progresso soup on sale for 10/$11. There is also a sale that for every 5 General Mills participating products you get $5 off your order. Progresso is one of the products.

The deal should work in sets of 5 like this

5 soup=$5.50
-$5 off for buying 5 participating GM products
Total OOP $.50

There are also MF coupons out for these. I think they are $.50/2. I know I ordered some a few weeks ago and wasn't able to use them at Rainbow. I felt really bad about wasting them and now I am jumping up and down because it will make this into a small money maker.

It is reported that they are limiting this to 20 cans per person. Not sure if this truly means per person, or per transaction as there is usually some leway between the two. The deal is only available until October 9, so hurry and get your soup!!!

Here is a link to the ad and also a link to the their store locator so you can find the closest one.

This weeks Ad

Store locator

October Budget

I'm starting the budget for October. Because of the Glade deal it is a little hard to have exact figures. I had some Catilinas before the month started and being I didn't do anything for September this first post might look a little strange.

October 1

Rainbow
4 Glade Plug-ins $1.79, -2 Bogo Coupons=$4.05 after tax. Used up an old giftcard so no OOP. Recieved 4 $2 OYNO Catilinas.

Target
1.28 lb Grapes. Tried to use a $1/1 lb or more Target coupon, but casher said they were refusing ALL IP coupons, even all Target coupons. Printed a copy off the website at the Kiosk and brought it to CS to show them it was on their site and ask if the cashier was correct. The CSM came over and made a big deal out of the cashier was missinformed and gave me the grapes for free. It wasn't really a big deal to me. I just asked CS to make sure I knew what their policy was.

Cub Round #1
8 Glade Plug-ins $1.99
4 Cheese Nips $1.50
2 Doughnuts $.79
1 Kraft Singles $4.75
1 Kraft string Cheese $4.50
6 Carefree liners $1.39
Sales tax $1.68

Coupons used
2 $5/3 Carefree
4 Bogo Glade Plug-in
4 $1/1 Nabisco Crackers or cookies
2 Free Kraft cheese up to $4.99 WYB 2 Nabisco Crackers

Also used 7 $2 OYNO from previous Glade Plug in purchases
Total OOP $1.46
Recieved 8 $2 OYNO Catininals for the Glade and 1 $4 OYNO for the Cheese Nips

Cub Round #2
5 Hersey's baking chips $1.00
5 120 cnt HomeLife napkins $1.00
1.68lb grapes $3.34
2 Glade Plug-ins $1.99
Sales tax $.71

Coupons used
$3 off WYB 10 Cub in ad coupon for chips and napkins
1 BOGO coupon
5 $1/1 Homelife
Free first lb of grapes $1.99
3 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.05
Recieved 2 $2 OYNO Catilinas

October 2
Target
1.29 grapes $1.29, $1/ 1lb or more of grapes=$.29 OOP

October 3
Target #1
10 pocket folders $.25
2 15oz Johnson's baby wash $3.19
4 CareFree liners $1.09
.98lb grapes
Tax $.37

Coupons used
3 $5/3 Carefree/Johnson's coupons
1 Free grapes coupons $1
Total OOP $1.34

Target #2
Grapes $.29 OOP after coupon
Cub
10 Homelife Napkins $1
12 Glade Plug-Ins $1.99
1.06 lb grapes $2.11
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
Tax $2.10

Coupons used
$3 off 10 in ad Cub coupon
$3 off 4 in ad Cub coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge MF coupons
6 BOGO Glade coupons
10 $1/1 Homelife coupons
1 First lb of grapes free =$1.99
7 $2 OYNO Catilinas
Total OOP $1.07
Recieved 12 $2 OYNO Catilinas

At the bottome of the receipt it says you saved a grand total of $46.93. This is a savings of 102%. Never seen that one before. It must not count the sales tax into the % off that it figures.

CVS
6 Welches grape juice $2.50 Used raincheck
25 boxes of cookies, clearanced to $.25 each
1 small notebook $.62
6 cans Swanson brooth $.50
1 Secret Deo $2.50
1 CVS vitamin D $2.99
3 Gallons milk $3.19
Coupons used
$10 ECB
$27.96 ECB
Total OOP $.97 on gift card
Received $2.99 ECB for Vitamins and $9 for the 6 juice
---20 boxes of cookies are for Simple Supper so I will receive $5

October 4
Cub #1
4 Great Northern Beans 1.63
10 Campbells' cream of mushroom soup $.99
6 Kidney Beans $1.59
Grapes $2.61
Cub 2 pk milk $6.58
Cub chocolate milk $3.99
Eggs $1.65

Coupons used
$3 off 10 Cub in ad coupon
$1 off chocolate milk in Cub booklet
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/2 Campbells
5 $2 OYNo Coupons
Total OOP $24.15
Recieved
--$27.28 was items for Simple Supper so I will receive that back.

Walmart
2 Eggs $1.23
20 Corn Muffin mix $.38
1 Johnson's baby wash 9 oz $2.17
1 Johnson's baby wash 15 oz $3.27
4 Carefree Liners $1.08
Cabbage $.79
2 Celerey $.79
Tax $.35

Coupons used
2 $5/3 Johnson's/Carefree MF

Total OOP $12.54
Recieved
--$8.83 was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Cub #2
10 Campbells cream soupons $1
Sue bee Honey $3
Wheat Thins $3.50
3 Cheese Nips $1.50
8 Glade Plug-Ins $1.99
Grapes $2.05
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
9 CareFree $1.39
Tax $1.03

Coupons used
$3 off 10 Cub in ad coupon
$3 off 4 Cub in ad coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge Icecream
3 $1/1 Nabisco
4 BOGO Glade $1.99
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/3 Campbell's
1 $1/1 Sue Bee honey peelie
1 Free Wheat Thins WYB Kraft products
1 $4 OYNO
3 $5/3 Carefree MF
8 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.35
Recieved $4 OYNO, 8 $2 OYNO
--$6 was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Cub #3
4 Stone Ridge Ice Cream $2.50
10 Campbell's cream soup $1
1 dougnut $.75
Grapes $2.13
9 Carefree liners $1.39
Tax $.65

Coupons used
3 $5/3 Carefree MF
$3 off 10 Cub coupon
$3 off 4 Cub coupon
Free Grapes $1.99
3 $.25/3 Campbell's coupon
4 $.75/1 Stone Ridge Coupon
2 $2 OYNO
$4 OYNO
Total OOP $.65
Recieved
--$4 Was for Simple Supper so I'll get that back

Rainbow
8 Glade Plug-Ins $1.79
Tax $.93

Coupons used
4 BOGO coupons $1.79
4 $2 OYNO
Total OOP $.09
Recieved 8 $2 OYNO Catilinas

October
5
Cub foods
Bread $1.19
OOP $1.19

Total Spent This Round $43.18
Total Spent This Month $43.18
Total to Recieve from Simple Supper $51.11
Total Left for the Month $92.93 + OYNO coupons

Updates

I don't seem to be doing very well keeping up with the blog. It seems like since school started I've been going a lot of other things and haven't even been turning on the computer. I have wonderful intentions to keep up with it, but it seems to be the easiest thing to let slip because I'm not really sure anyone actually reads this.

Another reason why the blog has been suffering is that we are expecting in April. Although I am feeling much better this time around, I just don't have the energy to stay up until 2 am most nights and type up grocery lists.

Hopefully as I start to have a little more energy I will be able to get caught up on things and be posting more often. I have gotten about half the coupons clipped and filed, but that still leaves around 20+ inserts to go through.

I'm going to start October's budget and completely skip over September. I probably spend around $95 instead of $85. Not too bad, but still over budget. Lately there have been a lot of free items or money makes which will make this coming month a great stock up month.

I'm not holding as close to the $85 as before. With being pregnant, I don't have the energy to find the great deals and drive around to get them. Plus, I want to make sure I am getting the extra tings the baby will need, which aren't always on sale. I don't really want to go over, but if I do I'm not making a big deal out of it unless it is by a whole bunch.