Weekly Wrap-up?

Sunday
CVS - a very small trip mostly to spend some EB on cokes! $5.??

Monday
Nothing

Tuesday
Sam's Club - $1.78 for decongestant

Wednesday
CVS - $1.99 for milk

Thursday
Nothing

Friday
Walgreens - $2.87
Kroger - $14.10

Saturday
Have to run into town because I have to get an iron - I've put it off as long as possible, but mine is just not getting the job done anymore. Also need pantyhose; these won't be in my weekly grocery budget/ totals but while I'm in town I'll probably look for a few things at Wal-Mart & CVS so I may have a couple more totals to post.

My favorite deal this week was a non-grocery buy. My son needs shoes; 15 years old, size 13 foot & he needs shoes... Last Sunday night after church I attended the Friends & Family Sale at Sears with a good friend. While I was there I happened to see athletic shoes on clearance for $29.99, buy one get one 1/2 price. So Friday I dragged him into Sears to try on shoes, thinking (according to the sign) they were still buy one get one 1/2 price. Imagine, if you will, my joy when I checked out & discovered they were actually buy one get one FREE!!!! Yes, thank you very much, B1G1! Soooo happy about this; now, they're not his normal name brand but he's okay with that & I'm very, very okay with it.

I Went Krogering Today

1 box Glad ForceFlex Trash Bags, $6.99
used $1.00 printable

4 cans Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup
used 40¢/4 coupon (doubled to 80¢)

2 Glade Scented Oil Candle Tins, $2.49 ea
used (2) $1.50 Glade Scented Oil Candle Holders (found in tins purchased previously)

2 Glade Scented Oil Candle Refills, $2.49 ea
used (2) Free Refill wyb Holders (found in store dispenser tonight!)

5 pouches Starkist Tuna, $1.00 ea
used (5) 50¢ printables from coupons.com (doubled to $1.00 ea)

2 cans Hunts Tomatoes, 89¢ ea
used 50¢/2 printable (doubled to $1.00)

1 jar Jif Crunchy Peanut Butter, $2.69
used 55¢ coupon (doubled to $1.10) this was my last coupon from the few booklets I was able to find at Publix in August - the one & only time I've been!

4 Hormel Compleats, $2.00 ea
used (2) $2.00 coupons from October All You
used (2) B1G1 coupons from August? All You

8 pouches Bumblebee Tuna, $1.00 each
used (3) 55¢ coupons (bonus to $1.00 ea), not sure which insert they were from, I purchased them online
used (5) $1.00 printables from SmartSource

8 Mentos Gum, clearance 79¢
used (8) 55¢ coupons (bonus to 79¢ ea)

3 lb bag apples, $1.99

5 Healthy Choice Frozen Entrees, $2.37 ea
buy 10, get $5.00 promo item
used (4) $2.00 printable coupons

5 Green Giant Steamers, $1.99 ea
buy 10, get $5.00 promo item
used (5) 50¢ printable coupons (doubled to $1.00 ea)

1 box Mrs Pauls fish sticks, $3.99
used $1.50 printable coupon

2 loaves Healthy Life bread, b1g1 $2.39
used (2) 50¢ coupons (doubled to $1.00 ea)

Here's the deal with my coupons tonight. Hormel Compleats B1G1 coupons - I told the cashier they were on sale for $2.00 each but when she scanned them she pushed whatever button puts in the default or maximum amount so they went through for $2.79 each. Same thing with the free candle refills, they went through for $3.49 each. And on my Healthy Choice entrees, I thought I had 5 coupons, but as I was going through them I realized I had miscounted so I picked up the fish sticks to make my 10 items, but then I forgot to put back one of the Healthy Choice... So, big surprise, I had 11 items on the promotion so only 45¢ per item...LOL Someday I'll get it right! Oh well, still not bad!

Mfg Cpn Savings $50.56
Bonus Cpn Savings $10.72
Kroger Plus Savings $30.89
Total Savings (86%) $92.17

Oh yeah - I almost forgot the cherry on top... Notice I purchased four Glade products; this qualifies for the $5.00 SC Johnson rebate!

Small Walgreens Trip

Ran in Walgreens this afternoon to pick up some picture I had uploaded before I went to town. While I was there I also bought:

1 Gillette Fusion MVP Manual Razor, $8.99
used $4.00 coupon from P& G insert
Got back $6 RR

1 pkg Noxema Razors, $4.99
used $2.00 coupon on package
Got back $2 RR

1 jar Jif crunchy peanut butter, $2.00

1 pkg Playtex disposable gloves, $2.29
used $1.00 mfg coupon (from insert a while back)
used $1.30 in-ad store coupon

Used $8 RR from Theraflu deal last week

Total OOP including 90¢ tax, $2.87
Total RR used $8
Total RR earned $8

SC Johnson Rebate

Sorry I haven't posted this yet; I figure everyone has already seen it, but just in case...

SC Johnson is offering a $5.00 rebate when you buy 3 SC Johnson products. Go here for the rebate form. It is good through 6/30/2010 and there is a limit of three rebates per household. Awesome!!

Last Saturday night at Kroger I bought two scented oil candle tins and two scented oil candle refills. All four items were on sale for $2.49. I used (2) $1.50 off scented oil candle holders & (2) free scented oil candle refill when you buy the scented oil candle holder. I did this twice, once in with my groceries and once with just these four items. The transaction with only the four Glade products came to $2.10. Hmmm, a $5.00 rebate on $2.10 purchase. I'm okay with that; I hope they are too!

So far So Good!

No grocery store trips yet this week, CVS Sunday night spend $10 EB $5 and change OOP for 3 cartons of cokes, 3 bags Halloween candy, 2 bottles of conditioner & 2 bottles of shampoo (keep thinking there was something else that trip - maybe I'll dig through my purse & find my receipt...LOL.) CVS today, $1.99 for a gallon of milk.

Of course, I'm sure there will be some grocery shopping at some point...LOL I have to go to Kroger to see if Glade scented oil candle tins are still on sale because I just can't remember when the sale is/was supposed to end.

I did make a trip to town last Saturday night, $14.22 at Kroger (2 transactions), $7.51 at Wally World, $1.89 at Walgreens and $15 and change at CVS (okay, I took hubby's card and splurged on the Tide & Dawn Deal again before it ended, I checked out between 11:45 pm and midnight, just made it in time! Got 3 Tide, 7 Dawn Hand Renewal, shampoo, conditioner, Reinventing Beauty magazine - really not a bad trip!) Don't know what that brought last week's total to; I'm kinda afraid to figure it because I did stock up on Tide. But I am soooo much happier doing laundry now!!!!

In my mail today...

A small box containing a Nature Valley Trail Mix Cranberry & Pomegranate Bar, the cutest little bag of Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters, a 50¢ coupon for Nature Valley Granola Bars & a 75¢ coupon for a bag of Nature Valley Granola Nut Clusters.

and, a box from My Blog Spark containing a Yoplait Less Sugar, More Fun prize pack which includes a coupon for a free package any flavor Yoplait Kids Cup yogurt or Yoplait Trix Multipack Yogurt, a travel cooler with the Yoplait Kids logo on the front (so cute), a color-changing spoon, a reuseable placemat with games, and a fuzzy tangle puzzle. This might be connected to the giveaway coming soon!

Getting Ready for My First Giveaway...

which will hopefully be coming later this week or early next week!