Free, just pay tax

I got two tubes of Crest toothpaste for free and 1 Reach toothbrush for free. I just had to pay tax on the items.

When I bought the toothbrush I had a $1/1 coupon so I got it free. The register printed out a Catalina coupon for $2/2.  If there were more toothbrushes I could have just done another transaction and gotten two more toothbrushes and another coupon. Looks like someone else figured out the same thing because there weren't any left at either Smith's near my house for me to snag a few doing that. I only wanted 6 :( 

Sometimes I wonder if couponing is really worth it because it can be extremely frustrating. I have gone to Smith's 4 times, Walmart twice, and Target once now looking for these toothbrushes and for the dental floss in my previous post but haven't had much luck.

Marie said...

I think the multiple trips and stores is where I hit my couponing limit. I'm lucky to find the time to go shopping at one store! April 29, 2011 9:33 PM

Chris said...

It does take a lot of time!

May 3, 2011 6:21 AM

Family Couponing

I've been looking for Reach dental floss for a week and a half now... Walmart and Target have been stripped clean of the $.88 - $1.00 Reach brand floss.  And here's why, there are coupons for $1.00 off any Reach floss.  I would be making money at wally world if they weren't out of stock. I stopped by Smith's grocery store this morning to see if they had any cheap Reach products.  There were only 3 flosses left. They were $1.05 each, but with my Smith's membership card they were only $1 each.  I got all three for free but I still had to pay tax.

Three dental flosses for only $.20 !  Not super impressive compared to the deals my family has been getting...

See below!

My brother Bently had called me the night before and told me about some of the awesome couponing adventures he and his wife Bonnie have had. Here's what they got the other night:

• 31 Reach toothbrushes (they'll be donating a lot of these)
• 3 pks of lady products
• 1 drink mix 11 oz.
• 5 bags of dog food
• 4 Soleil razors

 Total for all this, only $7.49!!!

My sister-in-law Lydia had an awesome haul at Walgreens the other day. All the stuff in the picture below for $6.21 !!! Holy smokes! I don't know how these people do it!

Walmart 4/26/11

Walmart 4/26/11

Got some free hot sauce, free vinegar, free tuna, free jam, free married ppl product haha, $.25 powerade with price-matching at buy one get one free coupons. Then some good deals on other stuff. I had coupons for everything I bought except the bananas but I price matched those.

Product review-  I LOVE the steamfresh corn.  I had to buy some more this trip because I've eaten all our other bags of it.  I had an entire bag of it for dinner a couple of times now. I know its probably not good to have that much starch and only eat that but its so good I can't stop eating it.

I also got a free avocado... no coupons, no price matching.

I found it in the parking lot on my way to the car. HA.

Walmart 4/19/11

Tuesdays are now officially my shop at Walmart day of the week.  Now that they double coupons up to a max. discounted price of $1.00 per item I got some stuff for free and Walmart actually paid me to take some other things out of the store!  So cool!!!

The chart below summarizes my savings from the trip. The items with a coupon of ex. $.50 that aren't doubled are because the coupon was actually for $1 off 2 of the product but I broke it down into two different line items to make the chart easier to read. (Same with the gum, it was $1.00 off two, and the medical supplies $1.50 off two, so they didn't double)

My bill would have looked a lot better if I didn't buy the cereal... that added a lot of expense.

That's right, they paid me to take the string cheese, tuna, and ketchup out of the store, and the mustard I got completely free. How sweet is that!?!?!

4 comments:

lydia said...

Wow, awesome haul Jordie! I fell asleep with Kate....didn't make it out. Lame, I know. Why didn't they double your gum coupons and all the .75 ones up to a dollar? Just curious. Also, I'm cracking up that you are taking a hobby that is SO time consuming and upping it by scanning your coupons and making fancy spreadsheets. Hmm, you must not have kids yet. ;) LOVE IT!

April 21, 2011 1:32 AM 

Marie said...

One thing I really like about your couponing is that it's not all shampoo, toothpaste, etc. I swear some people stock up on that stuff just to say that they saved money and then never actually use it.

April 21, 2011 1:37 AM 

the Villamor's said...

I agree w/ Marie....i have a friend who has hoards of drug store items(toothpaste and soap)...all for free but you can't eat body wash! This couponing takes a lot of thought and time and i want to have something I can eat at the end of the trip!!

April 21, 2011 2:42 AM 

leela said...

Good job. I wish I had read your post before I went to Walmart. I somehow misunderstood the doubling up to a dollar concept. I thought they doubled a coupon up to 1 dollar more in value, not that it was coupon + doubling does not exceed $1. So I ended up buying a bunch of stuff that I didn't need. Ha ha. I was a fool!!

April 21, 2011 7:32 AM 

Walmart 4/14/11

Walmart Trip 4-14-11

My shopping list with the price matching on it.

 All the coupons I used in this trip:

My cute hubby snuck this picture of me walking to the checkout stand.

At home unloading my goods... yes I'm in pajamas. And Ellie if you're reading this, these are the pj pants you bought me a couple of years ago when I spent the night at your house and didn't have pj's with me :)

The checkout lady told me that Walmart in Orem, UT now DOUBLES COUPONS up to $1.00 on TUESDAYS!!!! I about had a heart attack I was SO freaking excited! If I had know that I would have gotten the carnation evaporated milk, the pickles, and vinegar for FREE!!!! I would have gotten the cookie mix for $.20 an extra $.40 off of yogurt (basically giving me one for free), and another $.25 off the jam.

Now I know, and I'm only shopping there on Tuesdays! Oh my goodness, I'm so excited about this!! Now I know I'll be able to get some stuff for free, YIPPEEE!!!!  Too bad not all Wally Worlds are doing this.  Apparently Lindon, UT Walmart is doing this too.

Total savings in coupons about $22. Total savings in Price Matching, not quite sure but I probably saved about $65-70 with price matching.

3 comments:

Ellie said...

jordan, you are so super cute! my mom and i use coupons all the time now. no one really does double coupons in centerville. but your blog is private again...what's up with that? add my other email elliemurphy@live.com

April 19, 2011 6:13 AM 

the Villamor's said...

what?? doubling coupons up to $1? what an opportunity!

April 19, 2011 5:59 PM 

Marie said...

That's an awesome discovery about Wal-Mart. At least we'll know to ask at other Wal-Marts if they do something similar. Maybe some of the coupon sites you visit have already told you about this, but smartsource.com also has online coupons, which you can print and use on top of coupons.com coupons. Pretty awesome!

April 20, 2011 6:59 AM 

Target

I think that shopping with coupons at Target is frustrating...

It is nice because you can combine a manufacturer coupon with a Target coupon for extra savings but honestly I think Target prices are more expensive that Walmart so it would be just as cheap to only use the manufacturer coupon at Walmart.

Here's what I got at Target for about $15.  I had a gift card too (thanks Mom) so I only had to pay $3 OOP (out of pocket)

Not the most successful trip and the cashier wouldn't let me use all my coupons... He wouldn't let me do all 4 waters and all 4 packs of gum in one purchase because the coupons said only one per transaction. If he knew anything he'd know that it's okay...  So I just ended up going through someone else's line to get the other 2 waters and 2 packs of gum. Lame. 

1 comments:

Marie said...

I've never been super impressed with Target's cashiers, but we love their $5 movie rack!

April 20, 2011 7:00 AM

Coupons

Too bad they didn't have this coupon out last week on www.coupons.com

I would have saved about $7.50 if I had this coupon for half of my powerades... although most of what I bought wasn't Powerade Zero but I would have bought those instead if I had the coupons. Dangit!! I searched everywhere for coupons like this last week but there were none to be had.  Well I'll go ahead and print them and be ready for next time powerade is on sale for $.39 each... with this they would have been about $.20 each. Craziness.