I didn't have as great a third day as I thought I would but still did pretty well! I received an E-Vic Alert this morning indicating that Special K bars were .99 each- which would make the Special K deal a potential $5 moneymaker when you buy 4. E-VICs typically indicate a limit (usually one!) but since the E-VIC alert did not say "limit 1," I hoped it would work on all 4 during a transaction. Unfortunately, it was a no go and only 1 of the 4 bars I picked up this morning totaled .99- the rest were the normal $2 each. Oh well!
Here's what I got:
4 boxes of Special K bars (pickings were slim this morning so I was left w/ Vanilla flavor)
3 boxes of Kahiki Chicken Tempura
3 boxes of Gorton's Popcorn Shrimp
1 box of Bagel Bites, 9 ct.
2 pouches of Bumblebee Salmon (used two $1/1 seafood WTs)
1 box of Bayer Children's Aspirin
1 Campbell's V8 Sweet Red Bell Pepper Soup
1 jar of Nutella Spread
Total spent: $3.25
Total saved: $52.17 or 94%
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Day 2 of Super Doubles - NOTHING out of pocket!
Sometimes things work out strangely well at HT and today was one of those days where the stars (and the register) aligned in just the right way to allow for me to spend absolute no money whatsoever on this haul (yes, you read that way...no $$ at all- not even a penny!):
1 box of Kahiki Egg Rolls
1 small pack of Chinet Napkins
12 boxes of Special K bars
8 Oikos single serve greek yogurts
2 boxes of Kahiki Chicken Tempura
1 small box of Wholly Guacamole
I split my order into three separate transactions - each one showed an overage of .33 but the cashier zeroed it out and I walked out of the store with about $72 worth of stuff without paying a cent. It's not every day you wind up with 100% savings at a grocery store!
I mistakenly thought the Kahiki products were $1 AC- therefore enough to eat up the overage from the Special K deal and leave me with just paying tax.
This is NOT a typical situation at HT- I've had an actual overage happen only once before at another HT and was told I'd need to pick something else out in the store to make up for it. So this is a YMMV.
1 box of Kahiki Egg Rolls
1 small pack of Chinet Napkins
12 boxes of Special K bars
8 Oikos single serve greek yogurts
2 boxes of Kahiki Chicken Tempura
1 small box of Wholly Guacamole
I split my order into three separate transactions - each one showed an overage of .33 but the cashier zeroed it out and I walked out of the store with about $72 worth of stuff without paying a cent. It's not every day you wind up with 100% savings at a grocery store!
I mistakenly thought the Kahiki products were $1 AC- therefore enough to eat up the overage from the Special K deal and leave me with just paying tax.
This is NOT a typical situation at HT- I've had an actual overage happen only once before at another HT and was told I'd need to pick something else out in the store to make up for it. So this is a YMMV.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Super Doubles Brag - Day 1
I did my first Super Doubles trip this week braving the cold in the wee small hours of the morning. Here's what I got:
3 boxes of Campbell's V8 Sweet Red Pepper Soup (this stuff is super yummy!)
3 boxes of Finish Electrasol Tabs
2 boxes of Special K Original Cereal
10 boxes of Special K cereal bars
3 Marie Callendar's Homestyle Creations Meals
2 bars of Toblerone dark chocolate
2 boxes of OreIda Easy Fries
1 Endust Free furniture polish
1 Dawn Direct Foaming Detergent
3 Oikos Single Serve Greek Yogurts
Total before coupons & VIC savings: $102.22
Total after coupons & VIC savings: $5.49
Savings of $96.73 or nearly 95% savings
I split this up into three separate transactions to maximize savings thanks to the Special K promotion. In this promo, you get $5 off your order when you buy 4 Special K products. I used a total of 20 coupons that doubled per Harris Teeter's rules and 3 coupons that did not double (the Electrasol $2.50/1).
Have you stopped by HT yet? How did you fare?
3 boxes of Campbell's V8 Sweet Red Pepper Soup (this stuff is super yummy!)
3 boxes of Finish Electrasol Tabs
2 boxes of Special K Original Cereal
10 boxes of Special K cereal bars
3 Marie Callendar's Homestyle Creations Meals
2 bars of Toblerone dark chocolate
2 boxes of OreIda Easy Fries
1 Endust Free furniture polish
1 Dawn Direct Foaming Detergent
3 Oikos Single Serve Greek Yogurts
Total before coupons & VIC savings: $102.22
Total after coupons & VIC savings: $5.49
Savings of $96.73 or nearly 95% savings
I split this up into three separate transactions to maximize savings thanks to the Special K promotion. In this promo, you get $5 off your order when you buy 4 Special K products. I used a total of 20 coupons that doubled per Harris Teeter's rules and 3 coupons that did not double (the Electrasol $2.50/1).
Have you stopped by HT yet? How did you fare?
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Super Doubles @ HT starting tomorrow...
It's been a loooooooong time since a special couponing event has happened at HT and finally one will be rolling our way again beginning tomorrow. Super Doubles Week kicks the New Year off with a bang- and the big stash of q's in this past week's inserts provide a welcome boost to the potential freebies to be had. You should see how skinny my binder became at the end of 2009 thanks to all the expired coupons- it looked positively pitiful!
Jenny at Southern Savers has an excellent match-up list posted already - click here for all the delightful match-ups.
My personal faves are the Special K bars and Oikos greek yogurts. I plan on breaking up my visits into several small transactions to take the most advantage of the Special K deal (get $5 off your order when you purchase 4 Special K items in your transaction- with the $1/2 q that came out in this past week's insert, that makes for $1 moneymaker). I picked up 22 copies of the Sunday paper this weekend- all for a little under $6 thanks to saved up Register Rewards and Walgreen's low price on the paper.
Jenny at Southern Savers has an excellent match-up list posted already - click here for all the delightful match-ups.
My personal faves are the Special K bars and Oikos greek yogurts. I plan on breaking up my visits into several small transactions to take the most advantage of the Special K deal (get $5 off your order when you purchase 4 Special K items in your transaction- with the $1/2 q that came out in this past week's insert, that makes for $1 moneymaker). I picked up 22 copies of the Sunday paper this weekend- all for a little under $6 thanks to saved up Register Rewards and Walgreen's low price on the paper.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
P&G deal at Harris Teeter this week
Harris Teeter has a good P&G deal going on this week that you may want to take advantage of by tomorrow (12/31/09) as all 11/29 P&G insert q's will expire on that date. When you buy $25 worth of qualifying items, you'll get a mail-in-certificate for a $10 prepaid VISA card. This $25 total is blissfully BEFORE coupons. You can work out many scenarios where you'll only be out of pocket about $15 or so. Here's the deal I worked out:
1 Gillette Body Wash
2 Herbal Essences Shampoos
1 Oral-B toothbrush
3 Crest with Scope 6 oz. toothpastes
1 Pantene Shampoo
1 Olay Body Wash
1 Olay Body Lotion
I used P&G insert q's for all but the Pantene- I used a $2/1 Vocalpoint Mailer I had received a while ago for the Pantene. I also used a $5 Walgreens Register Reward as my HT accepts these as competitor coupons (yay!).
Total before coupons & VIC discounts: $46.04
Total after coupons & VIC discounts : $11.21
Savings: $34.83 or 75%
Figuring in the $10 prepaid VISA card I'll later receive, it's like I paid $1.21 for these items. Can I get a holla???
1 Gillette Body Wash
2 Herbal Essences Shampoos
1 Oral-B toothbrush
3 Crest with Scope 6 oz. toothpastes
1 Pantene Shampoo
1 Olay Body Wash
1 Olay Body Lotion
I used P&G insert q's for all but the Pantene- I used a $2/1 Vocalpoint Mailer I had received a while ago for the Pantene. I also used a $5 Walgreens Register Reward as my HT accepts these as competitor coupons (yay!).
Total before coupons & VIC discounts: $46.04
Total after coupons & VIC discounts : $11.21
Savings: $34.83 or 75%
Figuring in the $10 prepaid VISA card I'll later receive, it's like I paid $1.21 for these items. Can I get a holla???
Mad Moneymaker at Walgreen's this Month!
If you have any $30/1 Bayer Contour/Breeze meter q's lying around, now through the end of January would be an excellent time to use them! Walgreen's has a monthlong deal going on where you can make $13 in Register Rewards when you buy one Bayer Contour and one Bayer Breeze meter in the same transaction!
You get a $5 Register Reward for the Contour Purchase, a $5 Register Reward for the Breeze purchase and another $3 Register Reward for buying 2 Bayer items in the same transaction. Here in NC, you'll likely pay about $2.30 in taxes for the meters. If, like our family, no one in yours has diabetes, you can then donate these to a local charity that takes them.
One tip: a poster on a forum has indicated that the Contour boxes that come with a package of A1C strips with them will not count toward this deal so only pick out a Contour that comes by itself!
You get a $5 Register Reward for the Contour Purchase, a $5 Register Reward for the Breeze purchase and another $3 Register Reward for buying 2 Bayer items in the same transaction. Here in NC, you'll likely pay about $2.30 in taxes for the meters. If, like our family, no one in yours has diabetes, you can then donate these to a local charity that takes them.
One tip: a poster on a forum has indicated that the Contour boxes that come with a package of A1C strips with them will not count toward this deal so only pick out a Contour that comes by itself!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Brags...
Lucked into a very good deal at SuperTarget recently- they put their 93% lean ground beef patties on temporary price cut for a day this past week. One pound (4 patties) were marked down to $2.19 to get them off the shelves. With the $2 off beef Yellowtail wt's, I ended up getting several packs for 19 cents each!
Last night, I made cheeseburgers, brown & wild rice, sweet peas and steamed asparagus for dinner feeding four for a total cost of about $2.25- the brown & wild rice was a freebie at Kroger after coupon, the sweet peas were a freebie after coupon from HT, the ground beef was 19 cents and the asparagus was $1.99 this week at Super Target. It's amazing what you can make with so little if you time your purchases right with sales & coupons and STOCKPILE.
Some good deals to be found this week- you can get all the match-ups from www.southernsavers.com and see Lowe's Foods list on www.hotcouponworld.com. My personal favorites are FREE Sobe Lifewaters at HT if you have any .50/1 tearpad/hangtag q's, cheap Breyer's Ice Cream with an insert q at Harris Teeter, All Laundry Detergent for 99 cents after insert coupon at Food Lion and a great potential moneymaker with McCormick spices at Lowe's. There's not much going on at Kroger this week unfortunately..hopefull they're be another great mega event after the holidays.
You can find prime rib roast on sale just about everywhere this week for $6.99/lb. I picked up a 4 lb roast at Harris Teeter for just over $11 after using a $3 off winetag coupon, a $5 Walgreen's Register Reward, a $5/40 store coupon (I did buy other items in this transaction to qualify) and submission of a $4 Mail-in-Rebate for prime rib that I've been holding on to for just the right time. Considering this roast would normally cost over $40, this is a bargain. I'm just hoping I can cook it right!
Last night, I made cheeseburgers, brown & wild rice, sweet peas and steamed asparagus for dinner feeding four for a total cost of about $2.25- the brown & wild rice was a freebie at Kroger after coupon, the sweet peas were a freebie after coupon from HT, the ground beef was 19 cents and the asparagus was $1.99 this week at Super Target. It's amazing what you can make with so little if you time your purchases right with sales & coupons and STOCKPILE.
Some good deals to be found this week- you can get all the match-ups from www.southernsavers.com and see Lowe's Foods list on www.hotcouponworld.com. My personal favorites are FREE Sobe Lifewaters at HT if you have any .50/1 tearpad/hangtag q's, cheap Breyer's Ice Cream with an insert q at Harris Teeter, All Laundry Detergent for 99 cents after insert coupon at Food Lion and a great potential moneymaker with McCormick spices at Lowe's. There's not much going on at Kroger this week unfortunately..hopefull they're be another great mega event after the holidays.
You can find prime rib roast on sale just about everywhere this week for $6.99/lb. I picked up a 4 lb roast at Harris Teeter for just over $11 after using a $3 off winetag coupon, a $5 Walgreen's Register Reward, a $5/40 store coupon (I did buy other items in this transaction to qualify) and submission of a $4 Mail-in-Rebate for prime rib that I've been holding on to for just the right time. Considering this roast would normally cost over $40, this is a bargain. I'm just hoping I can cook it right!
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