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My Farm Fresh Trip 03/10

by Dana Zeliff on
in Farm Fresh Weekly Ads, My Shopping Trip

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You can get all the matchups for my purchases HERE except:
All the yogurts on sale for $2 last week were still on sale at my store!! I bought 6 more=FREE
Milk
Bread
Cilantro-needed for dinner tonight
Tostitos Salsa $2.99 (peelie on chips for $1 off WYB Tostitos and dip) =$0.99
I was already buying the chips
Total Spent: $33.50
Total Saved in Coupons: $37.41 (54%)
Lost $1.75 (3 coupons didn’t double correctly)
Have 200 Labels for Education Points for “LuLu’s” school.
I’m done for the week except for a small trip to HT (look for matchups tomorrow)
See my quick WAGS and Target trips HERE

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Walgreen’s and Target-Quick Trips 03/09/10

by Dana Zeliff on
in My Shopping Trip, Target

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The items on the left are from Target.  This would have been a FREE trip but “Monkeyboy” needed poster board for school.  I needed a “filler” anyways because they didn’t adjust down the coupons.
2 Crest Kids $1.49 each (price cut):
Use 2 $0.50/1 Oral-B or Crest Kids Toothpaste from 02/07 RP insert
PLUS
Use 2 $1/1 Target printable HERE
Final: $0.02 overage
2 Reach Floss $0.97 each:
Use 2 $1/1 Reach Floss from 10/18 RP insert
Final: $0.06 overage
Walgreen’s
The items on the right are from Walgreen’s.  See the coupons used HERE. 
I bought 4 “fillers” of $0.29 each candy for Easter to cover the overage but Opps, I was $0.10 off.
My total OOP was $1.42 which I’m happy with anyways. 
Watch which Reach toothbrushes you purchase!  If your plan is, like me, to use 2 $1/1 and 1 BOGO plus the in-ad coupon you need to be careful of the toothbrushes you buy.  Mixed together are BOGO packs and single packs. 
The BOGO coupon states that it’s on any SINGLE toothbrush.  I bought 1 BOGO pack and 2 singles.  I was only able to use 1 $1/1 plus the BOGO and in-ad coupons because the cashier rang up my in-ad coupon first even though it was on the bottom of the stack.  Even with my fillers my total before tax was only $0.90 so she couldn’t accept the other $1/1 coupon. The toothbrushes and cereal were still FREE though.

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My Farm Fresh Shopping Trip 03/03

by Dana Zeliff on
in Farm Fresh Weekly Ads, My Shopping Trip

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I had the worst luck at Farm Fresh today but it worked out well in the end. See my matchups HERE.
My plan was to only do the ConAgra deal (all that free yogurt plus a Catalina!) First I was unable to get the 2 DanActive and 2 Dannon Coolision Tubes that I needed for the sale. Ok, I improvised. I picked up 2 light n fit (coupon not as good-$2/2 instead of FREE) I still needed another $4 so I grabbed 3 Hunts Diced tomatoes and used $0.45/3 from insert and 1 Chef Boyardee (no coupon) and headed to checkout.

3 of the 4 Kraft cheese didn’t ring up on sale (needed to use last 2 coupons)
The Wesson Oil (part of ConAgra) rang up $2 instead of $2.48
3 Hunts Tomatoes rang up $0.98 each instead of $1 each
Normally, I’d say yeah I got it for cheaper. This time no, it put me under $25 so no $10 CAT.
I was refunded the Kraft money and handed the $10 cash for the Catalina and kept the $0.54 from the under pricing.

Total Originally Paid: $17.67
Total Saved: $35.83 (coupons)
Total Paid after Refund: $2.97!!

Will go back later for cheez-Its and Softsoap

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Farm Fresh and Target Trip 02/24

by Dana Zeliff on
in Farm Fresh Weekly Ads, My Shopping Trip, Target

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Farm Fresh
You can see matchups for everything purchased HERE except:
Uncrustables $2.99-$1/1 printable HERE=$0.99
Thomas English Muffins $2.50-$1/1 from school=$0.50
Grande Tortilla Chips $1.99
Garlic
2 milk
2 bread
Other than a quick HT trip later this week for a few cheap items (post tomorrow) I’m done shopping for the week.
Total Spent:  $30.16
Total Saved: $16.59 (coupons)
PLUS $7 Catalina for GM Promotion!
Target
The only purchases from my list HERE was the Quaker deal and Johnson Buddies
Orbit Gum (select varities) reduced to $1.50 used $1/1 printable HERE=$0.50
“LuLu’s” B-day decorations!!! ($7.92)
Checkout the markdown section in the back!
30pks of Quaker Oatmeal: $3.48-$1 coupon from insert=$2.48 (regular $6.99)
Crayola Box (saving for Easter)$2.48 (regular $9.99)
Box of 30 Chip Singles $4.24 (regular $8.49)
8 pk of Notebooks $0.98 (regular $3.99)
Total Spent: $24.07
Total Saved: $24.74
($4.50 coupons, $2 Quaker, $18.28 markdowns)

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My 2nd Harris Teeter Super Doubles Trip 02/18

by Dana Zeliff on
in Harris Teeter Weekly Ad, My Shopping Trip

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You can find everything I purchased HERE except:

3 Edy’s Ice Cream $2.97, paid $0.97 each
Butterball Turkey Sausage also priced at $2.50, paid $1
3 Kings Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (4ct), $1/1 printable for any-no longer available $1.39 each, FREE

Total Paid:  $8.86
Total Saved: $69.06
$53.81 coupons, $15.25 VIC savings

Still have more coupons to use!!
Like the coupon mentioned HERE yesterday, $1/1 Campbell’s Select Harvest soup $2=FREE *GONE*

Hope you’re making out with GREAT deals!

See my 1st trip HERE

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My 1st Harris Teeter Super Doubles Trip 02/17

by Dana Zeliff on
in Harris Teeter Weekly Ad, My Shopping Trip

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You can find all the matchup’s for my purchases HERE
**It’s noted in the comments section of that post that the Reynolds Foil and Rhodes Roll coupons had exclusions for those specific items.
Everything was FREE except $0.25 each for the rolls, $0.65 each for the shampoo, and $0.34 each for the cereal.  I actually PAID for cereal!  Hubby LOVES Raisin Bran Extra! and I was down to 16 boxes of cereal (9 Cheerios) so I paid for 2 boxes, Gasp 🙂
Total Paid=$2.56
Total Saved=$62.51
$53.99 in coupons, $8.52 VIC savings!!!!!
I’ll be back tomorrow!

PLUS 1 Sure had a Try Me FREE sticker, so I can submit for a $2.89 rebate, MONEYMAKER!
Must have sticker for rebate form

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My WAGS trip 02/14

by Dana Zeliff on
in My Shopping Trip

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My Walgreens trip didn’t work out exactly like it should have but I still did okay.
Here is what it was SUPPOSED to be:

Transaction1:
2 Crest Rinse $7-2 $2/1 coupons=$3
1 Venus Razor $8.99-$2/1 coupon=$6.99
1 Olay Body Wash $9.99-FREE WYB razor coupon
1 sticker book as filler $0.69
Use $3 RR from last week
Total=$8.66*  
Received $2.50 RR for Crest and $4 RR for Razor

Transaction2:
1 Venus Razor $8.99-$2/1 coupon=$6.99
1 Olay Body Wash $9.99-FREE WYB razor coupon
1 Olay Body Wash $5.29-Used $1/1 Body Wash+50%off=$2.65
1 sticker book as filler $0.69
Use $2.50 RR from Crest Rinse
Total=$7.95**
Receieved $4 RR back for Razor

*Actually paid=$9.66 (cashier took off price of razor not body wash so I lost $1)
**Actually Paid=$11.72 (cashier took off price of razor not body wash so I lost $1) plus $5.29 Olay didn’t ring up 50% off, so I got a refund of $2.77
Total OOP $18.61
Still have $8 worth of RR
Will submit for Oil of Olay Rebate for $15 back, so a $4.39 moneymaker (remember I lost $2 for razor coupons)

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