Sunday, January 31, 2010

Deals

So this week was a good one for a couple of good deals. The first was at Rite Aid for the P & G rebate (spend $100 in P & G products, get $35 back.) Here are the scenarios:

Transaction #1
1 Olay bar soap at 2.50
1 Ivory bar soap at 2.50
4 Bounty paper towels at 1.99 (7.96 total)
1 Duracell battery at 6.00
2 Pantene shampoos at 4.99 (9.98 total)
2 Dawn dishsoaps at 1.99 (3.98 total)
32.92 total of P & G products
1.98 tax
34.90 total

Used the following coupons:
5.00 off 25.00 purchase
1.00 off Olay soap
1.00 off Ivory soap
1.00 off two Bounty paper towels
.25 off Bounty paper towels
.50 off Bounty paper towels
3.00 off two Pantene products
.25 off Dawn (used 2)
1.00 off Duracell (Rite Aid peelie coupon from package)
.75 off Duracell

Spent 21.15 (Used 20.00 Rite Aid rebate earned previously and 1.15 out of pocket)

Transaction #2:
4 Old Spice Red Zone deodorants at 3.99 (15.96 total)
1 Secret deodorant at 4.99
3 Olay face washes at 4.99 (14.97 total)
1 Gilette Fusion shaving gel at 4.49
40.41 of P & G products
2.42 tax
42.83 total

Used the following coupons:
5.00 of 25.00 purchase
.25 off Secret
3.00 off Olay cleanser
1.00 off Olay cleanser (used 2)
1.50 off Fusion shaving gel
4.99 off with free Secret deodorant when you buy two Old Spice
1.00 off Old Spice deodorant (used 4)

Spent 19.67 (Used 20.00 Rite Aid rebate earned previously)

Transaction #3:
1 Olay moisturizer at 9.99
1 Pampers jumbo pack diapers at 11.99
1 Always at 6.99
1 Always at 3.99
32.96 total P & G products
1.98 tax
34.94 total

Used the following coupons:
5.00 off 25.00 purchase
3.00 off Pampers
6.99 off with free Always coupon
1.00 Olay moisturizer

Spent 18.95 (Used 19.00 Rite Aid rebate earned previously)

P & G product total = 106.29
Total spent after coupons = 59.77 (used only rebates that I had earned previously and 1.15 out of pocket)
Will get back 35.00 P & G rebate, 2.00 Pampers rebate and 1.00 Fusion rebate
All in all, I spent 21.77 for all that!


The second great deal was at Meijer - stocked up on cheese!

Transaction #1 (did this same one three times):
6 Kraft cheese (shredded, cubes or snack) at 3 for 5.00 = 10.00
Get 1.00 off instantly when you buy 3 in one transaction = 2.00 off
Used 3 1.00 off 2 coupons = 3.00 off
Total = 5.00
Used 5.00 Meijer coupon from last week's trip
Got 5.00 Meijer coupon for buying 5 Kraft products

So I did the first one and paid with the 5.00 coupon I already had and then used the 5.00 coupons I got each time to pay for the next.

Then I bought 6 Philadelphia cream cheese blocks at 1.25 (7.25 total), used 1.00 off 3 cream cheese Meijer mealbox (used 2) and used 1.00 off 4 cream cheese manufacturer's coupon. Paid with the 5.00 Meijer and earned another.

I also bought a paper so for 2.00, I got 18 bags of cheese, 6 blocks of cream cheese and two candy bars!

We definitely won't need cheese for a while :)

3 comments:

Heather said...

What in the WORLD!! You are so gifted my friend!! They should have you on Good Morning America!! I'm serious! That is crazy! Do they really let you check out 3 separate times?? Where do you get all those coupons??? Our grocery store does NOTHING, NOTHING, no coupons, rewards, and even you have a separate manufacture's coupon they will NOT double it on any account. FRUSTRATING! It's amazing that the State of California is in so much debt and yet is the most expensive place to live in the US!!!

Heather Nicole said...

Goodness!!! That is AWESOME!!! have you just learned how to work the coupons on your own or have you learned from someone. i use coupons when i have them, but wow....you are awesome!!! 18 bags of cheese!!!

Kristi said...

Hi Heathers :)

I get the coupons out of the Sunday papers, but also print a lot of them online. The cheese coupon came from coupons.com. Some may say that that's a lot of cheese (and it is) BUT it freezes so well and you don't have to thaw it beforehand unless you need to use it on something that you're not going to bake. I visit a lot of other sites to see what deals they are posting, but I also review the ads and see what I can come up with. The Rite Aid scenario was all mine. CA Heather - I will do some research and see what I can find .. I think there'a a couple of bloggers who live there that you might be able to gain some insight from.