Vlog of Walmart Deals this Week 1.24.10

Total Spent = $36.51

Vlog of this Week's Walgreens Deals 1.24.10

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $65.49

Total After Rebates = $7.18

Total Saved = $58.31 or 89%

This is the link of the list I followed and mentioned in the Vlog.

Vlog of This Week's Target Deals 1.24.10

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $23.94

Total OOP = $15.44

Total Saved = $8.50 or 36%

Total Deals for the Week!! Great Savings!

Big Lots Smart Shop this Week!

Total Before Sales = $142.00

Total Spent = $35.50

Total Saved = $106.50 or 75%

CVS Smart Shop this Week

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $63.48

Total Spent = $11.02

Total Saved = $52.46 or 83%

Walgreens Smart Shopping this Week!

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $54.15

Total Spent After Rebates = $6.64

Total Saved = $47.51 -- 88%

CVS Shop 1/9/10 - VLOG!

Total Before Sales and Coupons: $72.24

Total Spent: $17.26

Total Saved: $54.98 or 76%

(I know I only said $50.99 savings, but I wasn't adding in my savings on the Welch's Sparkling Juice. Which, after looking at the receipt, it was on sale for $.99, with a $1/1 making it, not $1, but FREE!)

Walgreens Smart Shop 1/9

Total Before Savings and Coupons: $40.60

Total OOP: $18.73

Total Saved: $21.87 or 54%

Total Register Rewards Spent: $2

T0tal Register Rewards Received: $10

Target Smart Shop 1/9 VLOG!!

Troy and I purchased a great little hand held video camera at the Base Exchange for our Christmas to one another. I LOVE it! Therefore, I am going to begin doing my shop posts via VLOGGING.

Up first, Target:

Total Before Sales and Coupons: $16.22

Total Spent: $10.74

Total Saved: $5.68 or 35%

Smart Savings this Week!

WALGREENS

Total Before Coupons and Sales = $32.59

Total Spent = $1.91!!

Total Saved = $30.68 or 94%

So, this was obviously an amazing shop! I pretty much followed this list. However, I had $8 in Extra Care Bucks that were expiring today, so I used them on this order. I usually try to roll my ECB's over, meaning if I use $8, I try to also earn $8, but there was just nothing on sale with ECB earnings that I needed or wanted.

The Snickers and chapstick were a register line grab. Walgreens has a coupon policy that you have to have as many items as you do coupons. So, I usually find myself grabbing one or two less than $1 items to meet that policy.

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TARGET

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $10.97

Total Spent = $3.98

Total Saved = $6.99 or 64%

I used a couple of the deals on this list to make these transactions. The batteries -- FREE!!!

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CVS

Total Before Sales and Coupons = $26.41
Total Spent = $2.89
Total Saved = $23.52 or 89%!!

This was the same situation as the Walgreens shop. I had $16 in Register Rewards that expired today. I did, however, receive $8 back in Register Rewards so I did a little better at rolling them over here. The milk, garlic powder and baking sheet were not on sale, but I was looking for items to purchase to use my Rewards.

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Commisary (On Base)

Total Spent = $12.15

See all of those orange stickers? That means these items were in the damaged goods clearance corner and I had a coupon for most of them!

Cake Mix = $.67/ea with $.55/2 coupon = $.40 each

French's Onions = $1.95 with $.75/1 coupon = $1.20

The tomato paste was only $.37

The spaghetti sauce was $.72

The tomato sauce was $.30

And the Commisary usually has good deals on produce. The oranges were $2.49 for a 4 lb bag, and the zucchini was $.39 per pound.

Smart Shop 12/12

Walmart

I pretty much just followed this list verbatim.

Total Spent: $6.19!!

Total Saved with Coupons: $8.52 or 60%

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Target

Again, I followed this list. I haven't finished this shop. The Target I went to didn't have the Mr. Potato Head Spud Buds, so I'll be going to another Target for those.

Total Before Savings: $26.57

Total Spent OOP: $9.67

Received $5 Gift Card

Total Spent after Card: $4.67

Total Saved: $22.14 or 83%

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BX (on the Air Force Base)

I went there yesterday to check out sales since I was on base. Also, Troy and I were pricing camcorders which is what we are getting one another for Christmas. The above conditioner, which by the way, smells AMAZING, was $3.99 and had an attached form for a FULL rebate!!!

This isn't specific to the BX. This is Organix brand conditioner, so look out for it at your usual stores and see if you see any with the rebate form.

Total Spent after Rebate: NOTHING!!!

Total Spent This Week after Rebates: $10.85

Total Saved: $34.65 -- 76%

Kimmy's Saturday Smart Shop 12/5

The savings were great at Walgreens this week, as usual...

I pretty much followed this list to the letter to make this deal.

Total Before Savings: $63.61

Total Spent: $21.27

Received $8 in Rebates

Total after Rebates = $13.27

Total Saved = $50.34 --- 79%!!!

Commisary Shop

I don't make weekly trips to the Commisary (the grocery store on the Air Base) for two reasons: it is about 35 minutes away and they don't publish weekly sale ads. They do have weekly sales, but you just have to look around for the "manager's specials" as they call them to see what is on sale. However, it is one of the perks of being a military life. The prices are usually average unless the item is on sale and then they are fantastic!

I had a doctor's appointment on base today, so made a trip to see what I could rack up...and the deals were GREAT!!

Total Spent: $31.32

Coupon Savings: $8.69 or 20%

I'm not sure the total savings because they don't print on your receipt the before sale price or the "today you saved..." that most stores do. But, I got some great deals!! Here are the deals:


Oranges = $.59/lb
Fresh Pears = $.69/lb
Cabbage = $.29/lb
Butterball Turkey Bacon = $1.48 with $.55/1 coupon = $.93 each
Marcol Tissues = $.99 with $1/1 coupon = FREE
Marcol Napkins = $1.50 with $1/1 coupon = $.50
Duncan Hines Cake Mix - $.89 with $.55/2 coupon = $.62 each
Kotex Maxi Pads = $2.77 with $1/1 coupon = $1.77
Kotex Tampons = $2.75 with $1/1 coupon = $1.75
Lunchmeat (12 oz) = $2.25 with $1/2 coupon = $1.50 each
Kerr Whole Grain Pretzels = $.49 each


There is also a mark down section in the store that has products that are marked substantially down because of banged up packaging. I got the following deals from that section:


Fleischmans Yeast Strip = $.99 with $.55/1 coupon = $.44
Ban Deoderant = $1.13 with $.40/1 = $.73
Fiber One and Chex = $4.10 total with $1/2 coupon = $1.55 each
Canned Mushrooms (big can) = $.67
Canned Corn and Tomatoes = $.38 each
Canned Saurcraut = $.56 each and they had attached coupons for $2 sausage!!


Oh, and did I mention that purchases on base are TAX FREE?!?!? Sweet deal!

Kimmy's Saturday Smart Shop

Well, this week's shop was actually done on Tuesday since this week is Thanksgiving. I only shopped at Walgreens this week, but really racked up!!

Total Before Savings = $85.44

Total Out of Pocket = $31.09

Total After Rebates = $17.09

Total Savings = $68.35 that's an 80% Savings!!!

I will mail in for a $10 rebate on the Nabisco products, plus got $4 in Register Rewards to spend next time. I got yet again two boxes of cereal under $1.50 a box. The Dinty Moore beef stew makes a good go to meal for Troy if I'm not home or under the weather. Plus, he can take them to work for a quick easy lunch. And the Vanity Fair plates - FREE!!

Kimmy's Saturday Smart Shop

Total Loot This Week

Original Price: $95.58

Total Spent: $31.44

Total Saved: $71.13!!!

Target

Total Spent: $10.35

There were really great deals at Target this week. After sales and coupon match ups Del Monte canned veggies were $.28 a can, Triscuits were $1 a box, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" was an amazing $.45 each. The tomatoes were on one of the clearance end caps of the store, which I was able to match with coupons.


CVS


Total Spent: $11.24

I wouldn't usually have gotten the cold and flu products, but it came with $10 in ECBs, and I had some ECBs to spend that expired this week. The Fiber One was $1.50 a box which you can't beat on good healthy cereal. I've found since couponing that it is completely unnecessary to spend more than $2 a box on any cereal.


Wal Mart


Total Spent: $3.88

Ok, so I will not be going to Wal-Mart any time soon unless they are giving food away. The deals were decent, but the place is a mad house!! We stood in line for over an hour and the place was so crowded. So, I'll be waiting until after the holidays before couponing there again.

That having been said, the best deal here were the bacon wrapped steaks, which I got for $.98! Can't beat that for a steak dinner for two!


Toys'r'Us

Total Spent: $1.99

They are having a Door Buster sale this weekend and had this on sale for $3.99, and I used a $2/1 coupon, making this a great little gift for Zeke for Christmas. Shhh...don't tell him. :)

Walgreens

Total Spent: $3.98

This was kind of a screw up. The cereal was on sale for $2.00 a box and I thought I had a coupon for $1/2, but it was for the wrong brand. So, I made a trip for two boxes of Special K. Oh, well. Troy and I eat tons of cereal and are only buying the healthier choices lately, so it was worth it, I suppose.