Cheese, Magazine, and Baby's 1st

I am going to start sharing random coupons and deals that I find as I browse various blogs.  I realize that many of you are in to following the coupon blogs, but at the same time many of you are not aware of the good deals to be had out there. There is a $1/1 Kraft 2% Singles available (thanks For the Mommas).  I always try to print any Kraft coupons that become available because they seem to be few and far between.  When paired with a sale, you could get a great deal on cheese.  I don't know about you, but I can never seem to have enough cheese bought up!

For those of you with children, there is a great deal on Parent's magazine (thanks Common Sense with Money).  Barnes and Noble is offering a subscription for $9.97/year, but when you type in code K9B9J4H at checkout, the price is dropped to $1/year.  I already receive Parent's magazine and love it.  There is often a 20% off diapers coupon from Amazon included, along with several other baby coupons. 

Lastly, can you believe that my little baby girl is going to be 1 on Saturday?  If I have said this once as a mom, I have said it a thousand times...where has the time gone???  I will be sure to post pictures of her birthday party next week.  Here she is as a precious little newborn...so incredibly tiny!!!

Summer Fresh Savings

Summer Fresh is having Double Dollar Days this Sunday through Tuesday...meaning they double coupons up to and including a $1.  When I found this out last Wednesday, I immediately began going through my coupons and planning out my trip.  I headed to Summer Fresh early Sunday morning before church armed with my large stack of coupons.  I split my purchases up into two transaction because I had 2 $5 off $50 Summer Fresh purchase coupons.  Here are a few pictures of all my loot.

Since it's kind of hard to see what all I purchased in these pictures, I will break it down for you by the items and the price I paid per item before coupons

1 pkg. mini Oreos ($1.99)
1 pkg. mini Nutter Butters ($1.99)
4 pkg. Cheese Nips ($1.99)
2 pkg. Mentos gum ($1.19)
1 gallon skim milk ($2.89)
1 gallon 2% milk ($3.65)
1 Lysol toilet bowl cleaner ($2.29)
1 Lysol antibacterial wipes ($2.29)
1 Lysol kitchen cleaner ($2.29)
2 Renuzit air fresheners ($1.29)
5 rolls Bounty paper towels ($1.09)
2 Snuggle fabric softeners ($4.31)
1 Jimmy Dean sausage links ($2.49)
1 Jimmy Dean sausage patties ($2.49)
1 pkg. thin bagels ($1.00)
2 bars Olay soap ($2.89)
1 Secret deodorant ($1.55)
2 Fresh Gourmet salad toppers ($2.29)
4 Eggo waffles ($1.50)
1 box Honey Nut Cheerios ($2.50)
8 pkg. Libby's fruit cups ($2.00)
4 boxes Kellog's fruit snacks ($2.00)
1 box Nestle cocoa ($1.00)
1 pkg. Kraft marshmallows ($1.09)
4 snack size chips ahoy ($.49)
4 cans Red Gold rotel ($1.19)
6 cans Red Gold diced tomatoes ($1.00)
1 pkg Dole romaine lettuce ($1.99)
1 Colgate toothbrush ($2.57)
1 Colgate toothpaste ($1.50)
3 Crest toothpaste ($1.50)
2 Reach dental floss ($1.39)

Total before coupons....$135.87.  And after coupons.........


$21.56!!! 

That's right I saved $114.31 and got all of these groceries for $21.56!!!  I love coupon shopping.

Travel Sized Treasures

This week I am in organizing mode at our house.  Closets, dressers, toy boxes...you name it, they are being gone through and items are being discarded left and right.  I'm thinking a garage sale is going to be in my near future.  As I was organizing our bathroom closet, I realized the surplus of travel sized items we have.

This is one of the perks of couponing.  If a coupon doesn't specify a size or exclude travel sizes, you can use it on the travel size items to get them free or sometimes even make a little money.  I counted up 11 bottles of contact solution...each one will last about a month.  I haven't seen a printable coupon for these in awhile, but at the time I was able to make about $1.00 on each one of these. (I'll let you know if that deal ever comes up again.) 

You will also notice about 20 tubes of travel toothpaste.  This has become a running joke around our house because I refuse to buy regular tubes of toothpaste until I can get a coupon deal and get them free.  A couple of months ago we were out of large tubes and I made Brandon use a travel sized tube until I found a good deal.  A week later I was able to score 4 large tubes of toothpaste free!  You know you have become addicted to couponing when it irritates you to pay $1.00 for a tube of toothpaste when you know the next week you will probably be able to get it free. 

One travel sized item that I failed to get a picture of is Tide laundry detergent.  There are almost always $1 coupons for Tide in the newspaper and most of these do not state a size restriction.  You can find the travel-size Tide packages along with all the other travel sized items in the toiletry aisle.  Sure it's just one load, but these would be very handy to take on vacation or just use at home.  I have accumulated about 20 packages...that's 20 loads of laundry free! 

You are better off to use your coupons for the regular sized items, but if you don't need the regular sized you might as well use the coupons for the travel sized items.  There's no need to let them go to waste!  Besides, they are perfect for the travel-sized item restrictions when you carry on your luggage.  You never knew coupons could be so versatile huh?

I will leave you with a picture of my little drummer boy and my little jumparoo!  Have a great week everyone.

Triple Coupons

I know many of you will not be able to take advantage of this triple coupon event at SummerFresh, however, I'm sure you have a grocery store near you that has an event such as this every once in awhile.  This is only the second time I have taken advantage of this wonderful event and I'm glad I did.  Our store generally doubles coupons up to and including $.50, but this week they are tripling those coupons.  This made for some really good deals that I just had to share with you.  Sure it's not like those stories you hear on the Today Show how their total came to $117.49 before coupons and they only paid $.73 after coupons, but for a small town grocery store I think I did fairly well.  Below is a picture of what I bought.  Before coupons, my total came to $45.72.  And after....

Only $14.17!!!  Here is how I did it (Remember all of my coupons $.50 and below were tripled):

Mt. Olive Pickles $1.99 - $.50 coupon = $.49
Skippy Peanut Butter $2.66 - $.50 coupon = $.49
8 Cans of Campbell's soups $.99 each - 4 $.50/2 coupon = $2.00 ($.25 each)
2 Texas Toast Croutons $1.89 each - 2 $.50 coupon = $.78 ($.39 each)
Wacky Mac Pasta $1.69 - $.50 coupon = $.19
2 Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaners $2.00 each - $.50 coupon = $1.00 ($.50 each)
Lysol Kitchen Cleaner $2.00 - $.50 coupon = $.50
Era Detergent $2.98 -$1.00 coupon = $1.98
Finish Dish washing Detergent $3.49 - $.50 coupon = $1.99
4 Totino's pizzas $.99 each - 2 $.50/2 coupon = $1.00 ($.25 each)
Colgate Toothbrush $1.65 - $.40 coupon = $.45
Crest Toothpaste $1.50 - $.50 coupon = FREE
Grapes on sale for $.99/lb = $2.78

The only thing I bought without a coupon was the grapes, but they were still a great price.  I didn't buy anything that I won't use, so if you have that mindset that coupons are only for things that you would never buy...it's not true!  The awesome thing is that even if you don't subscribe to the newspaper, you can still benefit from coupons through A Full Cup.  Every week when the grocery ad comes out, I look through my coupons and search on this website for more.  A little time stretches the dollar a long ways.  And, if you are like me you will become addicted to the savings!  Happy couponing everyone.