Thursday, March 12, 2009

Old Navy coupons

Old Navy has a coupon give away going on each week on their site. I just found out about it this afternoon, so I don't have a lot of details yet, but wanted to give everyone a heads up.

It seems like they are offering some great coupons online through their weekly ad site. They are hidden in the site and you need to scroll over them then click to see what the coupon is for.

The offers range from
$75/$100 purchase -yes that is posted correctly
$50/$100
20% off
15% off
10% off
5% off


Once you find a coupon you will be able to print it from your computer and use it in store. There is a very limited # of $75/$100. I think it might be 1000.

I'm not sure if you find and print one coupon if you will be allowed to keep looking for a better coupon. Someone had said it was a limit of one coupon, but it wasn't clear if it was one of each type or one total per computer.

The new coupons reset this evening sometime, 3-12-09. I guess last week they reset around 7:00pm eastern time.

This is the link right here. When I clicked on it to get the link it said they are updating so it might be sooner then I though. Happy hunting. Hope you find a great coupon!!

Kraft Cheese deal at Cub this week

Just wanted to let you know about a good deal at Cub this week with the buy $25 get $10. Credit goes to Vicki Oldfather for letting me know the details. Thanks Vicki!

This is what you need to buy;

4 - Kraft 2% cheese - $10
3 - Crystal light 12 qt - $9
3 - Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs - $7.50
$26.50 total
Less - .75 x 4 - Kraft cheese
Less 2.00 x 3 - Crystal Light/100 calorie pack
$17.50
Get back $10 OYNO, $2 OYNO, $3 OYNO

Net - $2.50!!!!

The $.75/1 are blinkies for Kraft 2% cheese. They were in store the past two months, but are gone now. I'm sure many of you picked some up.

I haven't ever seen the $2/crystal light and 100 calorie pack, but I've heard that it is a new tearpad found at Cub this week.

Hope some of you have the cheese coupons and can find the tearpads. It makes for a great deal. I'm sad to say that I had a ton of cheese coupons, but used them all up on Sunday so I'll be missing out on this deal.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Huggies IPs have reset

Basically the title says it all. The Huggies $3/1 and $5/1 have reset. If you printed them last week you should be able to print them again. Also try printing at coupons.com and also at couponbug.com. I was able to print a second set there even though I was maxed out at coupons.com.

There is a change in the wording on the new set of coupons. Instead of Gentle Care or Natural Fit "product" it now says "diaper." This means that the coupons are ONLY valid on the diapers now. I know that it's been nice to get the wipes with the $5 coupons, but make sure you watch which set of coupons you are using if you plan on getting more wipes. I know I will have to try and keep them separate so that I don't use the ones valid on the wipe on diapers when I finally find some at WG. I want to save those and get more wipes with them at Target.

Also, just an FYI; I did try the small tub of wipes last night at Target. They were $2.39? or something like that. I was wondering if we would be allowed overage on them. The coupon did beep, but it was K1'd so everything went fine. Personally, I'm going to need lots of wipes so I don't plan on wasting the $5 IPs on little tubs, but it is nice to know if you are looking for some overage that it will probably work. Just make sure to get the wipe bags or tubs labled "Gentle Care" so that they match the coupon.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Baby items

I'm stocking up on things like diapers and wipes for baby. I know when I started the blog I was including most of the H&B items into the $85 grocery budget, but for now I've decided to keep these separate. I haven't been doing CVS or WG for months and that is were most of the free H&B items come from.

I do want to track how much I end up spending on baby though, and I also thought it might give some of you good ideas on cheap baby items in case I forget to highlight what I find in another post.

This is what I ended up with last week. Most/all the items from WG were purchased in order to create an overage in RR for the diaper deal this week. I wanted to build up some free money to use for the diapers this week.

Target 3-6-09
4 184ct refill pks Huggies Gentle Care wipes $5.99
Tax $1.56
-4 $5 Gentle Care product IPs
Total $5.52

Target 3-7-09
3 184ct refill pks Huggies Gentle Care wipes $5.99
Tax $1.17
-3 $5 Gentle Care Product IPs
Total $4.13

Target 3-07-09
2 184ct refill pks Huggies Gentle Care wipes $5.99
1 64ct tub Huggies Gentle Care $2.49
Tax $.98
-3 $5 Gentle Care Product IPs
Total $.45

Starting out at WG I had two gift cards. I actually thought one was empty and almost threw it away, but it ended up with around $13 on it. Glad the lady checked for me!! So far all the OOP I've spent has been on these two gift cards.

Walgreens #1
Colgate $3.29
Vaseline lotion $2.69
-$1.50/1 MF Vaseline
-$.75/1 MF Colgate
+$.39 tax
Total OOP $4.12 Received $2.00 and $3.50 RR

#2
3 Sambcal? cold and flu $12.99
7 Dove trail size deo $.99
1 Dove 2pk $2.99
Tax $.64
- 2 $1.50/2 MF Dove Deo
-3 $10 ESC from monthly WG book
-3 $4 IP for Sambcal
-$3.50 RR
Total OOP $1.03
Received $10 for Dove

#3
Colgate $3.29
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Blink eye drops $7.99
2 Valentine peeps (filler) $.25
Tax $.42
-$2/1 MF blink
-$1.50/1 MF Vaseline
-$.75/1 MF Colgate
-$10 RR
Total OOP $.64 Received $8.00 RR $2.00 and $3.50 RR

#4
8 Dove bars $.99
Peeps $.39 (filler)
tax $.54
-$8 RR
Total OOP $.85 Recieved $10 RR

Round #5
Colgate $3.29
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Blink eye drops $7.99
Tax $.39
-$2/1 MF blink
-$1.50/1 MF Vaseline
-$10 RR
Total OOP $.86 Received $8.00 RR $2.00 and $3.50 RR

Round #6
8 Dove bars $.99
2 Reach toothbruchs $.99
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Tax $.82
-2 $1/1 MF Reach
-$1.50/1 MF Vaseline
-$8.00 RR
Total OOP $1.91 Received $10 and $2 RR

#7
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Tax $.18
-$1.50
Total OOP $1.37 received $2 RR
Here is where things get strange because for some reason I my gift card was deducted for two transactions although I only bought one lotion. Although my OOP was only $1.37 I lost another $1.37 along the way so it's like I paid 2.74 and received $2 RR. I just realized this and although it's a small difference, I kind of feel cheated because I worked hard to build up my overage.

#8
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Tax $.18
-$1.50
Total OOP $1.37 received $2 RR

#9
Vaseline lotion $2.69
Tax $.18
-$1.50
Total OOP $1.37 received $2 RR


In the end I still have $5.39 on one gift card and $14.21 on the other for a total of $19.60. I also have an one $8, 2 $3.50, and 7? $2 RR. It's either 7-8 I just can't remember right now. I know I have just over/under $50 between the gift cards and the RR.

So my total spent on gift cards was $13.52, plus the mysterious $1.37 deduction for a total of $14.89. If I have $29 in RR what means I am up $14.11 overall.

I admit it did take a lot of time and energy, but I only stopped at WG what were on the way to there places I was going so it didn't use extra gas and the shopping part of the process didn't really take all that long.

Budget update

I figured that I should get this down before the week starts and I run out of energy and end up throwing out all the reciepts from this weekend because they are clogging up my purse.

I didn't make it out much last week so not really a whole lot to track.

Target 3-5-09
29 various packages of London Broil and Top Round steak
1 dz eggs $1.25
Used 29 $2/1 TC
Total $8.01

Target 3-7-09 Savage
5 packages Top Round
-5 $2/1 TC
Total $2.10

Target 3-7-09 Burnsville
10 packages various meat/steak
-10 $2/1 TC
Total $5.73

Cub 3-8-09
10 Kraft cheese, shredded and block $2.50=$25
-10 $.75/1 Blinkie
-$10 OYNO
Total OOP $7.50 received $10 OYNO for spending $25 and $2 OYNO because I bought 3 2% blocks of kraft cheese.

Round #2
12 Kraft cheese slices $2.22=$26.64
-12 $.75/1 blinkies
-$10 OYNO
-$2 OYNO
Total OOP $5.64 received $10 OYNO for spending $25

Round #3
10 Kraft cheese, shredded and block $2.50=$25
-9 $.75/1 Blinkie
-$10 OYNO
Total OOP $8.25 received $10 OYNO for spending $25 and $2 OYNO because I bought 3 2% blocks of kraft cheese.



Jason went out for me tonight and got this while I was updating.
Cub 3-8-09
2lb bag white onions $1.79
5lb bag of potatoes $2.50
2 64oz Land-O-Lakes OJ $2.29
2 Cub syrup $2.29
2 Baby carrots $1.59
-BOGO carrots in ad coupon
-BOGO syrup in ad coupon
-BOGO OJ in ad coupon
Total $10.46
Jason also got washer fluid and then used
-$10 RR
-$2 RR
Cause of this I am adding $1.54 back into the cash side of the budget being that is the overage from the $2 OYNO which was used on the washer fluid.

Total for last trip -$1.54
Total the past week $35.69
Total for the month $41.40
Total left to spend $43.60

Hope that made sense to everyone.

Mott's IP to match up with the Target IP

Just wanted post that I found a IP for Mott's products. Right now Target have a printable coupon for $1/1 any 4 or 6pk applesauce. The IP should be for $.55/1. Price checking the applesauce was $1.67 at Shakopee and $1.87 in Chaska. Using both coupons it would range from $.12 to $.32 per 6pk.