Brags thread....brag about your deal from today

I am thinking this can be a running thread...for anyone to post their best deal from the last day or so. What store and what did you get and a total. Hoping it will be fun and inspiring.

I went to Jewel (supervalu store) and did this:

10 Kraft Easy Mac cups
6 Kraft Bagelfuls
6 8 oz bags of Kraft shredded cheese
3 bags OreIda fries
1 OreIda Steams
12 Homelife plastic bags 15-20 ct
Jewel brand doz eggs
paid $4 and change (included tax)

Yesterday at Jewel:
12 Ragu sauces
6 Motts 6pack cups
1 3 pound Chicken breasts
4 TGI Fridays appetizers
2 Stouffers Lean Cuisine
2 California Kitchen Pizzas
3 Nestea 12 packs of bottles
paid $3.88 with tax

Jewel this morning..just a quickie.
4 Kraft Singles
4 Easy Mac boxes
4 Dannon yogurts
1 Yo plus
1 8 oz butter
2 boxes of envelopes
$1.26 with tax

I don't have any current deals, but I have one from Food Lion from about a month ago, where I got 6 lbs of Land o Frost Premium turkey lunchmeat for free, another 6 lbs for half price; these were from a FS deal. I also got 3 free Palermo's Primo Thin pizzas, and 6 1 lb bags of free Purina Natural Choice cat food. My total was $14. The total was around $75 originally. I put most of the lunch meat in the freezer, as it was in vacuum-packed bags, it freezes very well. This was all just pure luck, as the pizza coupons were provided by the company, after I alerted them that they were sending out different coupons with their pizza push/pull stick, than was advertised. I never asked for anything, but they thanked me for alerting them, as the pizza sticks should have arrived with the correct coupon. Very nice family-owned company.

Cat food coupons were collected from Sunday inserts, I had around 20 in all that I traded for,and would have used more at FL, except they only had 6 on the shelf. The lunchmeat coupons came from a FS sweepstakes, every one who entered could download and print a coupon page with two coupons, one for a free pkg, the other for a $1 off. I was able to print 6 of these, and used all 12 coupons. FL had the lunchmeat on sale, so I was able to get the six bags at half off retail price with the sale and $1 off coupons. It's really hard to get good deals around here, because of mediocre sales and limited double and triple coupon policies. A lot don't accept internet coupons. Those of you who live in areas with lots of stores with more liberal coupon policies are lucky.

Where did you find the Lawry's Taco seasonings 65 cents coupon?

Barb09 said: Great deas! Thanks for sharing..love the inspiration.

Today was another quickie (I do Jewel almost every weekday morning)

5 12 packs of Diet Pepsi ($5/11 sale used 5 $2 soda WTs)
20 Easy Mac cups (Free with 4 $5 pasta WTs and $5 overage with instant $5 store deduction)
40 Lawry's Taco seasonings (on sale .50 each free with 31 .65/1 coupons $7 overage with instant $7 store deduction)
2 Near East couscous
10 Dannon Fruit on the bottom yogurst
Gallon of milk
Paid $4 and change and $1.70 of that was tax)
It's great to read of others' deals, but it would be even greater to try to replicate them. Would you consider posting which coupons/from where? Or how you structured the deal? Or how you manage your coupons? If it's too much trouble, I understand. But I will defnitely stay tuned (ie--read it regularly) if I get to see how folks are managing this. Thanks OP! PS--Is FS a competitor with FL?

Gertrude23 said: PS--Is FS a competitor with FL?

FS is a reference to a forum here on FatWallet, the Free stuff forum. FL was just a short cut for Food Lion, so I didn't have to keep typing out Food Lion. The Food Network sweepstakes that yielded the Land o Frost coupons was posted in the Free Stuff (FS) forum, as was the Palermo Pizza push-pull oven stick. The store I did my dealing at was Food Lion (FL).

I just did the Unilever/AWI deal that many stores participated in, and provided rebate forms in their ads. It ended today at my local Jubilee. Jubilee had Unilever products on sale, plus I had a coupon for the Snuggle Fabric Softener that came with a sample I received through the FS forum.

I bought:
2 jars of Hellman's Mayo @ $3.69 each on sale, regular $3.99
2 containers of Breyer's Ice Cream @ $3.00 each regular $5.99
1 bottle of Snuggle Fabric Softener @ $2.49 each regular $3.99

Used the 50¢ coupon, which was doubled to $1

Total for purchase was $14.87. I get back a $5 certificate to be used during a future purchase, so my cost for the above comes out to $9.87. Not a great deal, but a decent one. Sure beats paying $23.95 regular retail!

I agree that it helps if people show how they pull the deal together. I tried giving sources for my coupons, and the sales I took advantage of.

Grocery users should familiarize themselves with the freebies in FS, as you not only get lots of samples ( I lost track of when I last bought shampoo, conditioner, deodorant and toothpaste for myself), the samples come with coupons usually better than the Sunday inserts ones. A lot of coupons I use for things like cereal and pasta come from there. A survey for Barilla foods posted there gave me a free 1lb of pasta, and jar of sauce, each month for a year. General Mills cereal samples come with $1 off single box of cereal.

Check stores ads in your area, match coupons to sale items, take advantage of double and triple coupons, if you are lucky to have a store that takes them, and do refunds when available. These combined help to save you money.

catluv said: Where did you find the Lawry's Taco seasonings 65 cents coupon?

There was a .65/1 Any Lawrys seasonings mixes in my area papers inserts that expire 10/31

Yesterday afternoon at Jewel (supervalu store)

20-Kraft Olive Oil dressings (looks like they bought Good Seasonings line) on sale for $2 ($40)
60-koolaids for .25 each $15
Used 20 FREE Kraft dressing WYB 3 Krafts (koolaid was a pp) (-$40)
Store had a buy $20 in Kraft get $5 off instantly deal..so -$10 which covered most of the koolaid
40 Lawrys taco seasonings (used 31 .65/1s) free store had a Buy $20 get $7 of instantly so, $5 of this $7 applied to the koolaid
10 Honey Bunches of Oats on sale 10/$15 used 10-$1/1 coupons (after coupons $5 then $2 of the $7 from the Lawrys applied to this)
used 3 $1 oynso catalina

paid just over $1

AND GOT 20-$1 off your next shopping order catalinas for the Kraft Olive Oil dressings...so, I MADE $18 and change in catalinas

Barb09 said: Store had an instant deduction...buy $20 in unilever get off $7 instantly...this $7 covered all buy .50 of the Lipton Tea

That's the Unilever deal I posted above, but mine was not an instrant deduction. I have to mail-in the rebate form with the cash register receipt, to get a savings certificate on a future purchase at the same store. I wish mine did do the instant deduction, wonder why it was done differently? Maybe Jubilee's registers couldn't be set up to do the instant deduction, and that is why they did the mail-in rebate form. Jubilee never has the instant deduction deals, but Food Lion and Weis's do. Food Lion has Catalina's, and Weis has some system that prints coupons right on the receipt, so maybe a store linking to one of those coupon services is required? Jubilee is a small 3-store chain, and doesn't have the register coupons. The 25th of August was the last day for the Unilever/AWI rebate here. It co-incided with the last weekly ad, which ended the 25th. Haven't seen it at any other stores, or I would do it again elsewhere.

This afternoon did this:

33 Bagelfuls $2 each and used expired $1/1s
30 Easy Mac cups $1 each used 6 $5 off pasta Wts (free)
12 Kraft South Beach Living dressings $2 on sale $1.75/1 Avenu savings and used .75/2 expired

Our store had a spend $20 get $5 off instantly sale...I got $30 off instantly.
My total for my orders was $3.59 ($1.59 was tax)
and I got 3-$3 oynso catalinas
so, I netted $5.41 in catalinas over what I paid.

Tangster, we had that too. But, if you bought 2 at a time you also got a $3/2 coupon...(ours were $5.99 b1g1) so, we paid .59 for each set of 2. I restrained myself to 12 packs, lol.

My basement looks like we are preparing for war, lol. If we had too I could lock the door and live inside and want for nothing (except maybe fresh veggies).

6 boxes of cereal free at Jubilee Foods Saturday. Used the AWI General Foods and AWI Quaker Foods Coupons in the weekly ad. First, the GM was for $6 off your order w/purchase of 4 boxes GM cereals. I bought the biggest box of Cheerios I could, and used the Coupon for the free box I got from the Cheerios Challenge thread in FS. Then bought 3 boxes of the Monster cereals (Frankenberry, Booberry, Count Chocula) on sale 2/$4, which came to 3/$6. The $6 off coupon, plus free Cheerios, made the GM cereals FREE!

The Quaker AWI was for $3 off when you purchase 5 participating products. I had a $1 off 2 boxes Chewey Granola bars I used. Cap'n Crunch cereal was BOGO Free. By the time I used the coupons on 2 boxes of cereal and 3 boxes of granola bars, the cereal ended up totally free, and the granola bars were $1.33 each. I have lots of cereal to feed 1 for a while.

I picked up a 6-pack of Fiber One Strawberry Yogurt cups for $1.50, normally $3.69. They were on sale for $2.50, I used the $1 off coupon that came with the Fiber One samples from FS forum. Not a great deal, but not bad at 25¢ per 6 oz cup.

Last night CVS
90% off table has peach sour rings 2lb bags normally $5 had two coupons for buy 2 get $1 off bought 4 paid$2 got $2 off-free yipee
The free after ECB in ad foundation I also had a $1 off coupon so for
$4.96 I got 1 bottle foundation 8lbs peach rings +$5.96 ECB back

I have been on a break from posting...here is what I did today

Jewel had a special...buy $10 worth of participating products get $3 off instantly...so, in sets of $7

10 Kelloggs poptarts 12 ct(5/$10 minus $6 off and then 5 $1/2 coupons)
10 Diet Cokes 2 liter(10/$10 used 10 $1 soda Wts so $3 overage)
4 Welch's squeeze jams ($4/10 minus $3 off)
10 Homelife napkins ($10/10 minus 10 $1/1 coupons so $3 overage)
10 Daisy sourcream (10/$10 minus the $3 off then 10 .50/1 coupons)
4 Superpretzels (4/$10 minus the $3)
3 Sargento Deli slices (3/$10 minus the $3 off and 2 .50/1)
5 Palmolive Dish soaps (5/$10 minus the $3 off)
5 Chicago Tribunes (great coupons in it this week)

The total was $83 used a $6/80 coupon
Used 4 $6 off groceries WTs
Used a $10 catalina
Used a $3 catalina
Used 2-$2 catalinas

paid $1.98 ($1.70 of that was tax)

Catalinas have been sooooo easy to earn the last few weeks.

Last week buy 9 Progresso soups for $8.91 get a $10 catalina.
I was doing this
Buy 9 soups
used 4 .50/2 coupons
used 3-$2 catalinas
paid $1.07 and got a $10 catalina

Turned a BUNCH of $2 cats into $10 cats and got LOTS AND LOTS of free soup. So, those are the $10 cats I am spending this week.

Glade plug ins were $1.49 and paying in $2 catalinas. I did about 300 of them thoughout 2 weeks using B1G1 coupons and earned $2 catlinas to pay for them...this way.

60 Glade gel plug ins. $90
30 B1G1 coupons...total $45
used 22 $2 catalinas.
Earned $120 in catalinas...paid about $6 tax

The Glade deal ends tomorrow. I have a couple hundred $$s in cats left to spend from this alone.

Fuze teas were $1
Buy 4 get $3 catalina
use 2 B1G1 coupons and 1 $2 catalina...pay .07 and get a $3 catalina.

For those that say coupons don't pay for milk, veggies, meat, etc...I remind that catalinas do! I put maybe $20-$25 cash into earning mosre than $500 in catalinas in 2 weeks. (we have to pay tax here on even food items)

Publix 50% off frozen Kashi entre = 1.79 - 2.00 off coupon from kashi website
8 oclock coffee BOGO = 4.99 for two. 1.00 off coupon x 2 = 1.50 each
I loaded up on the above with other groceries.

2 Bic Soliel razors and a tube of Colgate Mint beads toothpaste, lunch at Fazoli's (Baked spagetti & a water) spent 8 cents!!!

I traded in $214 in catalinas for a $214 Jewel GC today! Now, the catalinas are coupons...but a GC has no expiration date AND covers taxes!!

Almost $800 in the "beer" co. (no beer purchase required) "free money" rebates just since JUNE 08!!! I post these when I find them and have been for years. Think I have 6 of these posted in the grocery forum right now.

These are so easy. Basically you receives ALL of your money back for buying FOOD!!! Usually these are rebates for the food items you buy anyway-deli items, pizza, chicken, beef, salty snacks, seafood, etc. There is even 1 to buy a "pumpkin" and yet another to buy "mums" (flowers).

In the past the beer co. rebates amounted to maybe 6-8 per year, but recently (since this summer) the amount of these has just exploded. Think in Sept. and (so far) in Oct. there has been 12 different of these rebate offers.

GzusFreak said: Spent $23 after coupons and catalinas on $97 at Kroger yesterday. Made $42.50 profit at CVS yesterday after MIR.

And today I checked my mailbox and there was a $300 check from AlphaBuzz for a Mobile Diaries study, that I was simply WAY over paid for!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!!!

what did do for the cvs deal? pm me if u want

Pepperidge Farm Frozen Garlic Toast on sale at Kroger for $1.80 - $1 cellfire coupon somehow made it .72 cents out the door
score

GzusFreak said: lakies said: Wow, Obber, that is great! Both the quitting smoking and the deals. There's a book Ellen D talked about that is supposed to help with quitting smoking...it talks about the psychological hold it has on you and how to break that. I got it for DH last year and he no longer smokes cigs but *sigh* took up cigars. I don't remember the name--I'll see if he does. Good luck!

eta: Found it! It is the "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr--it's $10.17 at Amazon.


I quit smoking before I even finished this book! I can't give too much of the book away but I give it 2 thumbs up!

Thank you both! I will be purchasing that book. Maybe my DH will read it as well!!