Squeaky Clean

Today I had to make a quick run to Walgreens to pick up a prescription for my mom. I hadn't planned on visiting Walgreens until tomorrow evening when I finished my deal scenarios but what's a girl to do. While I was there  I made great use of my time and picked up 4 bottles of free shampoo. I love this Organix line. It smells yummy it's affordable and my hair loves it. My hair so doesn't tolerate cheap shampoo!!! You don't wanna see it when I use the cheap stuff on it. I rolled the Organix shampoo by doing two transactions. The shampoo is on sale buy one get one free this week so for every two I bought I got a receipt and took the hangtag off (which there are plenty of) and am mailing it in for the rebate. Voila....FREE shampoo. Don't you love free. Especially organic stuff. While I was on my way out the door I cut through the clearance section and bought 4 sets of 2 bamboo cooking utensils on sale for .50. Since oven mitts don't seem to last long around here the 2 packs of clearance for .84 also caught my eye. I bought 5 sets and got to the register and they rang up at .75 cents a piece. I hope they look adorable hanging in my kitchen!!!

  Once I got home with all my  new goodies I remembered one important thing on my list of exciting things to do today and that was to return a ton of produce to Wally World ( for those of you who aren't familiar with that term it means Wal-Mart it's like a theme park in there.) Since I have been shelling out mega bucks this Summer on fresh produce I certainly expect it to last longer than 2 days. Really Wal-Mart we weren't born yesterday we want quality produce not this make shift stuff that is expired by the time you open the fridge the next morning!!! I figure if I pay for and it doesn't last then I will keep taking it back. At first I thought it was a little extreme until I got in line and saw what other people were returning. EWWW WEEE!  That's a story for another day.

  Well I would love to sit and chat but I have many outstanding decorating and cleaning projects ahead. I think I forgot to mention I made a fortune in college decorating peoples houses. I never chose it for a career because I wanted it to stay fun not stressful. Many friends and neighbors have given me the privilege of helping them turn their cookie cutter houses into designer looking homes. I will definitely make an effort to write more about it. I was thinking it would be neat to show you how I purchase alot of decorative items by rolling my RR's and ECB's. We'll talk more about that later. In the meantime, doesn't a banana smoothie sound yummy for lunch? How about a super juicy pork roast for dinner? I have lots to do.

Toodaloo,


The Cute Couponer


P.S. I figured out where my battery charger for my camera is. It' s at my Grandma's! Silly me.  I am going over this weekend to get it. Good pictures will return soon. Thanks for your patience.

Making Money at Staples

Couponing is so going to rock the next few weeks!  I don't know what it is about stores around back to school time but the competition is fierce for them so it's a great benefit to us. All of the future sales can make up for the fact that I dropped my digital camera and cell phone this week and can't find the battery charger. Work was the week from you know where and when I opened the Sunday paper this morning it's like it all went away. So you may have to wait to see my pictures for a few days, unless I figure out the whole cell phone camera thing but let me show you what I picked up.

First up is Staples

2 Photo Plus Papers on sale for 9.99 each
2 Pkg.'s Copy Paper  on sale for 4.99 each
2 1 Subject Notebooks for .25 each

total = $33.01 with tax

I subtracted the $10.00 off  $25.00 Office Depot Competitor Coupon

and voila new total is = $23.01
                        
I submitted 2 rebates for the copy paper at 3.98 each
and two 9.75 rebates for the photo paper and voila
almost $5.00 profit

( It paid for the gas on the way to work)

 Not much was rockin my world at Walgreens but I did stop in for the
 Dr.Scholls for her Rough Skin Eraser (apparently everyone is trying this)
                 
 So I bought 4 tubes and here's the math

 2 Rough Skin Erasers at 6.98 each                                                                                                                minus 1 $5.00 off
Walgreens Coupon in July booklet
the register magically removes $10.00
I paid $5.17 for every two including tax
and got back a Register Reward for $5.00

My feet should feel great by this evening! I am going to sneak into the shower and try
this stuff out after everyone is in bed.

In the meantime check back often this week. There are a ton of sales going on.Yay!!!

Happy Couponing,


The Cute Couponer

Saturday Evening Spent Shopping

  So there is nothing quite like waiting until the last minute to cash in on some killer deals. Don't worry I didn't come home empty handed. I actually did a great job! I found out two of my MIR deals go on for another week so no pressure. 

   First things first I went to Target to cash in on the Scrubbing Bubbles Extend A Clean deal and finally got my Target to accept my overage. Here is how it rolls. The SBEAC is on sale for $6.99 combine the $5.00 manufacturer coupon with the $4.00 Target printable coupon and pick something else to buy that is worth $2.02, I bought two 4th of July hairbows, have the cashier scan it all give them the manufacturer's coupon first and then the store coupon and voila overage. I LOVE COUPONS !!!!! (Don't laugh at me you veteran couponers my Target absolutely refuses overage and ha ha I finally got it to work)

  My next stop was Walgreens (actually 3 different stores) and I cashed in on a few different deals. First the Lysol was on sale for $2.99 B1G1. I Bought 2 used two .50 printables and my total was $1.99 and there was a hidden $1.00 RR and voila two toilet bowl cleaners for $1.00. Now who can I get to come clean my toilets??? Just Kidding!!!!!

  I also did the Herbal Essence Shampoo deal. It was on sale for $1.00 used $1.00 manufacturer's coupon and got back a $1.00 RR and cha-ching free shampoo.

 Last but not least the Old Spice and Gillette Body Wash deal. Yes there was also a deal on them at Target but I didn't do it because of a lack of printable coupons on my part. Now men's body wash was on sale for $4.49 I used my BOGO coupons and paid $4.49 for every two and got back a $4.49 RR.  I did this 4 different times and wanted to do another 3 but they were out of the body wash everywhere so I got as much as I could. Did anyone hear bells ringing. I love shopping for free!!!!

Before I forget for those of you who have a Hobby Lobby they have some great deals 60% off Summer things. I bought the cutest hanging picture frame for $1.35.

Anyway back to yard work in the rain.

Happy Couponing,

The Cute Couponer

Walgreens 7 Days of Photos

While we are waiting on all my pictures to be moved over I wanted to tell you about the special deals going on at Walgreens all this week. If you have any of those disposable cameras or now "old-fashioned" rolls of film pack them up and head to the drug store for a .99 deal of your life. Today only they can develop the rolls for .99 a piece, even though it says one roll only, (my Walgreens was super nice). Then tell them not to cut the pictures and take the negatives and go to Best Buy and have them load all of them onto a CD for one price. How crazy is that. My manager at my Walgreens is the one who told me how to do it. Without the sale it would be fifteen dollars a camera or roll of film. I am taking 15 cameras. How crazy is that.

                                 Happy Photo Day

                                         The Cute Couponer

Foodstamping at CVS and Walgreens

Coming soon foodstamp fun at CVS and Walgreens. Stay tuned.