Monday, January 30, 2012

They paid me....

I must warn you that it doesn't happen this perfect every time. After some consideration and a lot

of waiting they actually paid me to take the products out of the store!

As you probably know every Sunday all the store ads change. I normally do my couponing on Sundays because otherwise every thing is already taken, but I remembered one of the cashiers at Walgreens told me that you could come in on Saturday evening when they were posting ads and stickers for the next weeks sale and you could go ahead and get the sale ahead of time. So I tried it...And it worked! The only problem was the sale prices for the next week weren't in the computer systems yet so the cashier had to manually enter them. That's what I meant when I said "after a lot of waiting." One top of that - because the sale prices weren't in the computers and they had to be manually entered that mean't any deals with Register Rewards wouldn't print. So what they did for me was either subtract the Register Rewards that I would have gotten from my total or if it was a perfect match up like (i.e. pay $2.00 and receive $2.00) they would just pay me cash! So here's how it worked:



Walgreens:


Transaction #1-

Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover, 32oz (On sale from the previous week)

Buy 2, Receive $2.00 RR

Original Price: $5.99 ea

Sale Price: $3.00

Coupons: use 2 $2.00/1 - Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover

Pay: $2.00, Receive: $2.00 RR

Final Price: FREE -Even exchange because of the computer system



Transaction #2 -

M&M's 9.9 to 14oz bags

Buy 2

Original Price: $3.79 ea

Sale Price: 2/ $5.00 ($2.50 ea)

Coupons: use 2 $1.00/1 M&M's brand chocolate candies, 9.9oz or larger

And use $1.00/ 2 M&M's chocolate candies - Walgreens coupon

Final Price: $1.00 each (now that I think about it I only ended up paying $1.07 for both - don't know how)


Transaction #3 -

St. Joesph Enteric Aspirin, 36 ct (bought 2 )

Buy 1, Receive $2.00 RR

Original Price: 2.49 ea

Sale Price: $2.00 with $2.00 RR

Final Price: FREE! They paid me $4.00 because of the computer system



Over all - I came out of the store with $3.00 more dollars than I had before I went in! :)



CVS:


Transaction #1-

Tom's of Maine Deodorant, 2.25oz

Buy 1, Receive $3.00 Extra Bucks

Original Price: $4.99

Sale: $3.99 with $3.00 EB

Final Price: FREE, plus I made $3.00 on this purchase. Here's why!

I used $4.00 extra bucks from last week to pay the $3.99 that I owed on the deodorant, plus I received $3.00 EB for the purchase.



Transaction #2 -

Tom's of Maine Deodorant, 2.25oz
Buy 1, Receive $3.00 Extra Bucks
Original Price: $4.99
Sale: $3.99 with $3.00 EB

Final Price: $1.07 - I used my $3.00 EB from transaction #1, and I still got $3.00 EB back again



Transaction #3 -

American Greeting Cards

Buy 3, Receive $3.00 Extra Bucks

Original Price: $0.99

Pay: 2.97, Receive $3.00

Final Price: FREE - I used my $3.00 EB from transaction #2, and I still got $3.00 EB back on this purchase as well



Target:


DVD Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Original Price: $9.00

Sale Price: $7.00

Coupon: $3.00 off 1 DVD Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs or Planet 51

Final Price: $4.00



This was a great coupon week for me!!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

I'm back at it...

Schick Intuition Razor 1 ct., or Cartridges, 4 ct. $8.49 (regular price: $11.99),
Buy 1, Receive $3.00 Extra Bucks, Limit 1Use
Coupons: $2.00/1 Schick Intuition Razor or Refill from SS 1/15 (exp 2/26)
Pay $6.49, Receive $3.00 Extra Bucks
Final Price: $3.49


Special K cereal (regular $4.99 a box)
Sale: 3/$10 with $4 EB
Coupons: $1.00 off 2 boxes
Pay: $9.00 Receive: $4.oo EB
I used $5.00 in Extra bucks from a previous purchase and only $4.00 out of pocket plus I got the $4.00 EBs back so I technically got 3 boxes of cereal for FREE!!


Huggies Wipes, 216 pack $5.99
Coupons: used 2 $0.75/1 Huggies Baby Wipes, any 64 ct. or larger from SS1/15
Final Price: $5.24 each - That's $0.02 a wipe!

Triaminic childrens medicine:
Original Price: $6.49 each
Sale: 2/$10 with $5.00 RR (making it 2/$5)
Coupons: Used $3 off 2 Triaminic children's medicine
Final Price: $7.00 Received: $5.00 back
$1.00 for each


I purchased all of this for $5.00!


Arnold Palmers -
Original price: $0.99 each
Sale: $.50 a piece
Final Price: $2.00 for 4

Splenda -
Original Price: $5.49 a box
Sale: $2.99 each
Coupons: Used 2/ $2.00 off 1 box
Final Price: $0.99 each

Nice! Aluminum Foil (25 sq ft)-
Original Price: 1.39
Sale: $1.00
Final Price: $1.00

Kleenex -
Original Price: $1.39 each
Sale: $0.99
Final Price: $0.99

Suave Shampoo and Conditioner -
Original Price: $2.00 ea
Coupons: Used 1/ B2G1 FREE
Final Price: $1.33 each

My total came out to about $10.00 and I used $5 RR I had received from the Triaminic purchase.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Another shot at a cake!!

I don't know much about professional cake baking but I do know that I want to start making them. So I was finally able to get the essential tools that I needed to start really trying to bake and decorate cakes! I plan on trying to bake more new and exciting cakes this year. You'll have to check them out. Hopefully I'll get better as I go. Here's my attempt! Not the best but hey I'm still a newby!! Plus I learned what not to do next time :)
This is a rose cake that I made for grandmas birthday. She was a good sport and let me experiment on her!! I dare not put the picture of the cake that was the inspiration for this next to it because then you would see just how bad it is- ha!
So- I created the roses by piping them on with a special tip using a certain technique. Really wasn't that complicated. That's really all there was to this cake (yeah right), but ill spare you all the extras because those are all the time consuming parts. Total, this cake took me 5 hours of labor time plus 24 hrs of freezing time. I'll post more as they come






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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

2 month pictures



















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