Free Toliet Paper, Right on!

This week there were a slew of free and cheap items after rebate. To make the best use of all of them and score 4, 12packs of Cottonelle here's what I did:

Transaction 1:
1 Cottonelle $6.49
1 Cramp 911 $6.99
1 Chestal Honey Cough Syrup $7.99
1 Stopain $6.99

Coupons:
$5.00 on $25.00
$0.50 Cottonelle (some regions got $1.00, not me)
$1.00 Chestal Cough Syrup pdf printable

Paid:
$21.96 OOP

Will get back $20.98 in SCRs!

Transaction 2:
1 Cottonelle $6.49
1 Cold calm $7.99
1 Kerasal $6.99
2 Joint Juice $5.99

Coupons:
$5.00 on $25.00
$1.00 Cold calm printable pdf
$1.00 Kerasal printable
$5.99 Joint Juice bogo

Paid:
$14.61 OOP

Will get back 13.00 SCRs!

Transaction 3:
1 Arth arrest $14.99
1 Salonpas $5.49
1 Cottonelle $6.49

Coupons:
$5.00 on $25.00
$1.00 on 12pk of cottonelle from all you

Paid:
20.97 OOP

Will get back $20.48 in SCRs!

Transaction 4:
1 Cottonelle $6.49
1 Cystex $6.99
1 Sinus Buster $8.99
1 Back aid $3.49
2 Snickers Marathon $1.49

Coupons:
$5.00 on $25.00
$0.50 Cottonelle

Paid:
$20.46 OOP

Will get back $17.49 in SCRS, plus $5.00 SCR 10 and $5.00 SCR 148 for buying $25.00 of Cottonelle!

Total For all Four Transactions (Everything in photo plus 2, 12packs of TP that are missing from the photo) OOP was $78.00, Total SCRS is $81.95, for a money maker of $3.95!! That's right 48 rolls of TP and over $140.00 of product for Free, plus Rite aid paid me $3.95 to carry it out.

Rite Aid Deals 7/11, $2.25 MoneyMaker

This week's Rite Aid deals weren't as great as the past couple weeks, but I was still able to come out ahead.

Bought:
1 Coppertone Sunscreen $8.99 (counts towards the $25.00 skincare giftcard)
2 Suave Professionals
1 J&J non-stick pads $3.99, rang up $3.59 with Wellness discount
1 Crest with Scope $2.69
1 Crest 3D white $2.99
1 Tampax $2.99

Coupons:
$5.00 off $20 RA
$3.00 Coppertone Value Video
$2.00 Coppertone In ad
$1.00 Coppertone printable from company's site
$2.00 J&J nonstick pad printable (these had $1.00 peelies)
$2.00 J&J in ad
$1.00 Crest 3D (from a mailer, or use the RP 6/27)
$1.00 Tampax from the 7/4 P&G
$2.00 Get a free Suave product, from a mailer

Paid:
$6.46 OOP (1.21 was sales tax)-$2.25 Money Maker after Up+and SCRs below. If I was paying attention I would have paid with Up+ rewards from last week, but I was holding out hoping the next Rite Aid I went to would have the Neutrogena clinical box set...they didn't, so I'm crossing my fingers I'll be able to snag one on Wednesday when they get them back in stock.

Got back:
$1.00 Suave UP+, $1.00 Coppertone Up+, $1.00 J&J Up+

SCRS:
$2.00 crest, $2.69 crest, $1.00 tampax

Busy Week=Few Shopping Trips

I've been meaning to head over to CVS to do a few deals, but in all honesty I've been so busy at work I've been getting out late and sleeping in until 10-11am every day this week. Yesterday I bought some Schick Hydro coupons on e-bay (hoping they'll arrive by Saturday so I can do some Target Deals).

This week the hydro is on sale at ShopRite for just $4.99! So I'm planning on doing a price match at Target.

The transaction will look like this:

Buy two Hydros at $4.99 each (price match)
Pay nothing OOP
Get a $5.00 Target gift card for buying the two razors!

Cross your fingers the USPS will come through for me :)

Shop Rite ConAgra Catalina Deal

Cindy over at LivingRichWithCoupons.com alerted her readers to a wonderful unadvertised catalina deal at ShopRite this week.

The advertised deal is: Buy 10 selected ConAgra products get a $3.00 catalina. The unadvertised deal is that a $5.00 on your next shopping order (5/23-5/29) also prints.

I was lucky to have a training during the day today, so I worked 9-5 and headed over to ShopRite after work. I bought everything in the photo (two transactions of ten items a piece, plus two free chocolate milks) for $16.32. Plus I got back $13.00 in Catalinas making my total just $3.32! I plan to go back tomorrow or Saturday to do several more transactions like this:

Buy 10 products at $1.00 a piece= $10.00
Minus one $3.00 catalina= $7.00
Get back $8.00 in catalinas (one, $3.00 and one, $5.00) $1.00 moneymaker per transaction!

My transactions today were a little higher because the popcorn was $1.59, not $1.00. If I do three more transactions my OOP will be $37.32 and I'll have $28.00 in Cats to use on future grocery transactions making my total just $9.32 for 50 grocery items that retail for about $65.00! And what's even better is I just got a postcard in the mail stating that my local post office/letter carrier is participating in the national food drive this Saturday, so I won't even have to drive anywhere to drop everything off!

Rite Aid $6.58 Money Maker!

I love my local Rite Aids (well two of them at least). I have to admit when I first started couponing it was a struggle with the locations closest to me. But now that we have a better working relationship and they have a copy of the coupon policy, I almost never have problems using coupons anymore.

Here's what I got last trip:
1 bag of sunchips $2.79
1 burt's bees chapstick $2.99
2 listerine mouthwashes (hoping E likes these, I wanted to get the regular wash but they weren't included in the sale and rang up regular price) $6.00
1 Dove conditioner $3.00
1 Dove hair spray $3.00
1 Aveeno lotion (the other two were separate transactions but I'm including their prices here) $3.69, $3.69, $3.49 (not sure why stores less than a mile apart have a $0.20 price difference, but this happens a lot)
1 bag of cadbury mini eggs on clearance for $0.39
1 Vitamin water $1.25

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $20 VV
1, Free vitamin water
1, Free sunchips
1, $2.50 off 2 dove products
2, $1.00 off smart rinse
3, $2.00 off RA in ad aveeno
3, $1.00 off aveeno printable
1, $2.00 off RA wellness cosmetic
1, $1.00 off RA wellness seasonal product (mini eggs)

Total of three transactions:
$4.42 ($0.67 was tax)

SCRS:
$3.00 Listerine, $3.00 dove, $5.00 aveeno for a $6.58 MoneyMaker! Even the young male cashier was impressed, and and usually takes a lot of savings for young male cashiers to take notice!

Saturday Savings

Here's a peak at how I spent my afternoon.

Target:
2 Merona Bags on clerance for $5.00 a piece
2 pairs of St. Paddy's day themed boxers $3.50 a piece
Minus 2, $5.00 off Merona Men's apparel coupons and 2, $5.00 off Merona handbag coupons
= $1.00 for EVERYTHING! score!




Rite Aid
2 Everlast vitamins $19.99 bogo
1 Dove soap 4pk $4.99
1 Burt's Bees lip balm (I'm addicted to these) $2.99
1 Kotex tampons $3.49
Minus 1, bogo everlast printable pdf, 1, $1.00 off kotex, 1, $2.00 off cosmetics RA wellness, 1, $2.00 off vitamins RA wellness
= 1.54 OOP and will get back $3.49 SCR on the kotex for a $1.95 Money Maker!


Trip to the mall
Aeropostale Earrings 3pk $10.50 minus $10.00 off any purchase printable=$0.54. The young male cashier looked at the earrings, rang them in and then said, "yeah right on" as he scanned the coupon. I just smiled, and thought to myself, man when did I get so old?, I swear I was the only non-teen in the store.

After Aeropostale we headed to Godiva to snag a free piece of chocolate, gotta love that chocolate club! Probably my favorite key chain scan card.

CVS Savings $17.11 saved- Paid $0.80 tax!

Made a quick run to CVS to use a $1 off panteen CRT that printed from the magical coupon printing machine.

Bought:
1 Skintimate $3.49
1 Panteen conditioner $2.99
1 Panteen Shampoo $2.99
1 Stride gum $0.99
1 Dawn dish soap $0.96

Coupons:
$0.50 stride gum
$2.00 skintimate
$3.00 off 2 panteen
$1.00 off panteen crt
$4.92 ECBS

Paid:
$0.80 (all tax)

Got back $6.99 in ECBs ($1.00 was from my green bag tag)

$50 worth of Product at CVS= $3.10 moneymaker

The OOP on this transaction could have been much better if I had been paying more attention to the math, but I was trying to be quick, so here's what I got:

Bought:
4 packages of stayfree pads (24ct)
1 Olay body lotion $8.99
3 clean and clean astringents at $5.49 each
2 oral b toothbrushes at $2.99 each

Coupons:
1, $2.00 off olay cvs crt
1, $4.00 off $20 skincare purchase cvs crt
1, bogo oral b $2.99
1, $1.00 off oral b tooth brush (expires today!)
1, $1.00 off stayfree (metro ny didn't get a stayfree coupon)
2, bogo stayfree

and $19.99 in ECBS

Paid:
$5.89 out of pocket ($1.05 was sales tax). I was overcharged by a dollar, but it was the manager so I didn't want to raise a fuss, since in the past she hasn't been very agreeable, I'm hoping this will put us on better terms. I also could have bought another item worth a quarter and used another $5.00 ecb, ugg.

Plus, I got back $15.00 in ECBS and I'll send in for the olay rebate and get back $8.99, so really a money maker of $3.10.

Johnson and Johnson for FREE, $16.41 Money Maker!

So the Rite Aid I typically go to now knows me and they tend to believe me when I tell them things like, "yes, you can use a bogo coupon on a bogo 1/2 off". If in doubt they refer to the coupon policy that I gave them. The other one about 3 blocks from the first, not so much. I have to fight with them (in a nice way, usually) constantly. So much so, I almost dread stepping in the store. In any case between the two stores I was able to get everything I needed.

Transaction 1

Bought:
1 KY yours and mine $14.99 (the bottles are inside the package, yes I checked this time)
1 Johnson and Johnson baby bath $4.29

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $20 RA
1, $1.00 off J&J Man. (for some reason this one didn't scan and I was too tired to fight)
1, $1.00 off J&J RA in ad
1, $2.00 off KY (I didn't have anymore of the $5.00 off)
1, $2.00 off skin care item $2.99 or more wellness CRT

Paid:
$10.14 OOP ($19.28 towards spend $50.00 get $25.00 SCR on J&J products)

Transaction 2

Bought:
1 J&J oatmeal baby lotion $4.29
1 J&J oatmeal baby bath $4.29
1 visine $7.49
1 Neosporin $3.99
1 Band Aid $1.99

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $20 RA
1, $3.00 visine RA in ad
1, $2.00 visine Man.
1, $3.00 off bandaid and neosporin
1, $1.00 off J&J RA in ad
1, $1.00 off J&J Value Video
1, $1.00 off J&J Man.
1, $1.00 off J&J Man.

Paid:
$5.44 OOP ($22.05 towards SCR)

Transaction 3

Bought:
2 Cortaid $3.99 each
3 First Aid tape $1.99 each
2 Renpure shampoos $6.99 bogo

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off 20 RA
2, $2.00 off cortaid
1, $3.00 of renpure RA value video
3, $1.00 off J&J first aid product

Paid:
$Zero, I paid with a gift card I got from the heart health rebate ($13.95 to the SCR)

Total for all 3 transactions= $15.58! and I qualify for the $25.00 J&J rebate for a money maker of $9.42! Plus I'll submit for the $6.99 Renpure try me free rebate (on a hang tag around the bottle), making this deal a $16.41 moneymaker!! Plus I'll auction the KY off on e-bay hopefully for $10 bucks or so.

Note: Transaction 3 would have cost $5.50 if I hadn't paid with a gift card, making the OOP $21.08, still a $3.92 money maker (even if you never bothered to submit for the Renpure)!