No crazy deals, but I'm super excited!

I (Charlie) still coupon/deal shop, but I just haven't been as impressed as I used to be.

But this week I am excited about Fred Meyer & Whole Foods.

I love it when I can stock up on food that I feel good feeding my family, and it's stuff I wouldn't normally buy because of the prices.

So this week at Whole Foods I got:

Sambazon Organic Juice, 10.5 oz – $2.00

$2/1 Sambazon Organic Juice coupon

Final Price: FREE!

Think Thin Bars, Crunch & Regular - $1.29

$1/1 Think Thin Coupon, regular & crunch

Final Price: $0.29 Each!

Total spent: $6.96 for many days of snacks!

This week at Fred Meyer I got:

Buy 10, Save $5 Event

10 Mom's Best Cereal - $1.49

($0.99 after $5 savings)

8 Small Bags of Goldfish, Whole Grain - $1.49

($0.99 after $5 savings)

2 Half Gallons of Almond Breeze Milk - $2.49

($1.99 after $5 savings)

- 2) $0.55/1 blinkie coupons

$1.44 each

Total Spent: $20.70, regularly $51!!!

60% SAVINGS

For this week's Whole Foods Deals visit: Money Saving Mom

The Frugal Find

For this week's Fred Meyer Deals visit: Frugal Living NW

Great Target & Safeway Deals

I know, maybe you thought I dropped off the planet.

Maybe I went coo-coo & ran away.

Well, maybe I did, but I'm back just briefly!

I have a sudden burst of energy and enthusiasm because of the deals I got today.

Maybe it's because I have been 'couponing' for a year now, I just don't excited about much these days.

Target: ALL of this for FREE PLUS I have a credit of $1.14 on a gift card!!!

Target has an unadvertised special on Curel Lotion, buy 2 get a $5 gift card.

I found an extra $2 MQ for the foot lotion at the store & made it into a MoneyMaker!!

I used the $5 Gift Card to buy the Candles/Spray and still have $1.14 left on the Gift Card!!

Curel Foot Lotion, $3.99

- $2 MQ

Curel Hand Lotion, $3.29

- $1 MQ

Paid $4.28 and got a $5 Gift Card

All the candles & spray were on clearance, plus various Target & Manuf. Coupon $3.86

- $5 Gift Card

Still have a balance of $1.14 on the card!!!

Woo Hoo!!! That was awesome!

To see more Target deals, visit Frugal Living NW

Safeway: $2.98

To top it off, a FREE Grande Starbucks drink Catalina printed, so while I was doing this transaction I had Alexis go to the Starbucks Kiosk in Safeway & get my FREE coffee going!!

Nivea Lip Care is $1 (until 10/25 I believe) and there were some rocking' coupons making them FREE or MoneyMakers especially with Safeway Doubles!!!

I did this in 2 transactions because you get a maximum of 4 coupons doubled at one time.

Starbucks Double Shot, $3.99 (with in-ad coupon) X2

- $2/2 Manufacturer Coupon

- $.50 Double Coupon

Nivea Lip Care, $1.00 x4

- 2 $1/1 Manufacturer Coupons from 10/2RP

-$3/2 Manufacturer Coupons from 10/2 RP

- $1.50 Double Coupon ($.50 x 3)

Total: $2.98

By 'buying' the Nivea Lip Care (+ doubles) it helped pay for the Double Shot, which of course will be included with Christmas Gift Baskets!!

The other Nivea Lip Cares in the photo were purchased to help lower the cost of my boring regular groceries!!

To see the rest of the Safeway Double Coupon deals, visit Frugal Living NW

Winco Deals as of 8/22

This week's Winco deals are brought to you by:

The Frugal Find

$2 OFF 8th Continent Soy Milk

This is a great coupon!!

Copy & Paste from The Frugal Find:

This VERY popular $2/1 8th Continent Soy Milk Coupon is back! It’s good on the 1/2 gallon containers. These are regularly prices anywhere from $2.18 - $2.75 at Food Maxx, Winco, and Walmart! Let the site fully load and then a box will pop up – DO NOT get your coupon there, instead look in the very top right of the screen for this image…

The most recent price I checked was at Food Maxx and Winco:

8th Continent Soy Milk 1/2 Gallon – $2.28 / $2.58
$2/1 8th Continent Soy Milk
Final Price: $0.18

Last time this coupon was out I found it at Walmart as well…

8th Continent Soy Milk, 1/2 gallon, $2.73
$2/1 8th Continent Soy Milk
Final Price: $0.73

Thanks, The Frugal Find

Safeway Deals for 8/17-8/23 ((Double Deals))

Remember that if the listings don't show using Safeway's Double Coupon (up to 4), add yours in.

This week's Safeway deals are brought to you by:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Frugal Living NW

and click here to see a listing of all their Safeway posts.

Thrifty and Thriving

Albertsons Deals for 8/17-8/23

I haven't heard/read any talk of Twice The Values coming to us this week.

This week's Albertsons deals are brought to you by:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Coupon Connections

Frugal Living NW

Whole Foods Deals for 8/17-8/23

This week's Whole Foods deals are brought to you by:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

There have only been a few times that my Whole Foods has had the same prices as in posts like these, word to the wise.

Walgreens Deals for 8/21-8/27

This week's deals are brought to you by:

Frugal Living NW

Rite Aid Deals for 8/21-8/27

This week's Rite Aid deals are brought to you by:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Frugal Living NW (Courtesy of This Beautiful Frugal Life)

Hip2Save (new 8/21)

So far that's it, I'll add more as I see them.

Target Deals for 8/21-8/27

This weeks Target deals are brought to you by:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

So far that's it, I'll add more when I see them.

Good Mail Day!!

Look what came in the mail!!!

This may not look like a whole bunch, but do you normally get FREE stuff & coupons in the mail? I don't.

What's missing is 2 Rebate checks totaling, $24.17!

The kit in back from Johnson & Johnson is a First Aid Kit (still available) & $15 coupon booklet!!

Kashi TLC Snack Bar & Coupon, still available

Purina ALPO Prime Cuts sample & coupon (NLA), we don't have a dog! I think my daughter signed me up for this one.

John Frieda Frizz Ease Smooth Start sample, NLA.

Garnier Moisture Rescue sample with coupon on reverse! NLA

Rebates:

$12.69 from Rite Aid, Compound W & Crest (see FLNW for past deal)

$11.48 from Staples, Easy Rebate (see earlier post for deal, towards bottom)

I only use my past rebate $ to buy present rebate deals, so no $ leaves my budget for these things!

FREE Corazonas Oatmeal Squares @ Fred Meyer!!!

Note from Proverbs 3120 Project: I did this today, but was only able to get 3 (can print multiples). Since I want the max of 10, I asked the nice Fred Meyer employee to order a box just for me. If you find that your store has been wiped clean you can do the same. Also notice that the FM coupon doesn't expire until 8/16 and the manuf. coupon is good until 12/31.

Fred Meyer has released a new Extra Savings Booklet. You can pick up the booklet at customer service or at the entrance with the weekly ad. Here’s how you can get Oatmeal Squares for FREE:

Corazonas Oatmeal Squares on sale $1 with Extra Savings booklet coupon (page 19) (limit 10)
Use $1/1 coupon (Facebook)
FREE after coupon

Thanks, Frugal Chic Living and Frugal Living NW

Target Deals for 7/24-7/30

Why do we give you links to store deals instead of listing out the best deals here?

Well, we want to point you in the right direction, but just don't have the time or resources to do all that work & frankly why, when they all do it for us?

I know it can be overwhelming going site-to-site and most of the time the scenarios are the same, BUT sometimes they differ.

I recommend

1) Looking through the listings for whichever store you want

2) Jot down the deals you want to do & what coupons are needed

3) Check the other listings for those specific deals to see if they have links to better coupons

that happens frequently!

FINALLY here are the links for this week's deals at Target:

The Frugal Find

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Coupon Connections

Hip 2 Save

Make sure you check out Target's Coupon page on their website too. You can combine their Target Store Coupons (Target Web Coupon) with 1 Manufacturer Coupon!!

Also, Target has TAZO Tea on sale for $2.79

use $1/1 Manufacturer Coupon from the 7/17 SS

making them $1.79/box. STOCK UP price!!

Rite Aid Deals for 7/24-30

Here are the links to this week's deals at Rite Aid:

Frugal Living NW

extra post on Russell Stover's or Whitman's Samplers for $0.50

The Krazy Coupon Lady

see how they show you how to shop Rite Aid this week for $5 or less!

Hip2Save

she highlights her favorite deals in RED

My advice: Look for stuff that has you spending very little money OOP (Out of Pocket) that will yield you +Ups (coupon that is good on your next purchase of anything) and then keep them 'rolling'.

Rolling is when you use a +Ups to pay for an item that generates another +Ups.

If you haven't checked into Rite Aid's Video Value program, I suggest you do.

It's so simple to save money. Just click here, watch a video, then save on the featured product.

You combine those coupons with Manufacturer's Coupons PLUS Rite Aid's own Store Coupons.

August's videos are up & available for you to watch!

TAZO Tea $1.79 at Target!!

I am a Passion Tea Lemonade junky!! Every time I'm at Target I check their Tazo Tea prices because usually they have the lowest price.

Well, I'll be making my 3rd trip there today because I have aquired a 3rd coupon to use!!

Tazo Tea, on sale for $2.79

use $1/1 Tazo Filterbag Tea or Latte (any), from 7/17 SS

Your price: $1.79

Now for me, that's a stock up price!! Especially when these can get near $4 box!

I'll check today to see how long the sale goes for, I was so excited at the price that I forgot to check.

Alexis' FREE Target deals & more back to school

To see a complete weekly back to school line up, go to Beautiful Frugal Life.

Alexis (my 8 year-old) has been wanting to do her own "deals" for sometime now, she was having a hard time understanding why she just couldn't do it right then when she the thought came to her.

She's starting to understand now that we wait for the deals to come along, and when they do, we pounce on them!!

So yesterday/today she did her 2nd/3rd round of FREEBIES!

She's going to keep one package of pens & donate the 2nd when the school supply drives start popping up.

Here's what she did:

Buy (2) Bic Cristal Pens $ .50 Use $1/2 Bic printable coupon (office supplies category) no longer available Final Price = 2 FREE

Bengay Original or Vanishing Scent $4.24, Regular Price

Use $5.00/1 – Bengay Product, excludes trial size – (coupons.com) Final Price: FREE!

Great job Alexis!!

Since I homeschool my kids I'm not obligated to buy your standard school supplies every year & we get to reuse a lot of materials that we didn't use up last year.

But our church does a school supply drive right before school starts & I love being able to give as much as we can!!

Here are a few more great school supply deals that I picked up.

RoseArt Washable Watercolor Paint, 16 ct $1.00

Scotch Magic Tape, Bonus size $0.50

use $0.50/1 Target Coupon = FREE

Wet Ones, 15ct $0.97 - $0.99

use $0.50/1 Target coupon = $0.47 - $0.49

PaperMate Pens, $1.02-$1.12

use $1/1 Target Coupon (Stationery Category) = $0.02 - $0.12

Walgreens Deals for 7/10-16

Frugal Living NW has posted the deals for Walgreens here.

Remember those of us in the Portland area DO NOT have the same Rewards program as the rest of the nation.

For the rest that are outside the PDX area, you may find these listings helpful:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

Target Deals for 7/10-16

Here are this weeks deal:

The Krazy Coupon Lady

The Frugal Find

I'll add more as they become available.

Remember to check out the New Target printable coupons

Rite Aid Deals for 7/10-16

Here are this weeks links to the Rite Aid Deals, 7/10-16:

Frugal Living NW (Courtesy of This Beautiful Frugal Life)

The Krazy Coupon Lady

You can:

make money buying Compound W this week

make money buying Crest Pro-Health Enamel Shield toothpaste

pay $0.99 for Clear Eyes

get free Noxema disposable razors (3-4ct)

and many food items for $1 or less!!

Staples Back to School Sales Week of 7/10

Here are the best deals at Staples starting next week, on July 10th. This list is courtest of Frugal Living & Having Fun, thanks!

One Penny Sale (Sunday – Wednesday) Limit 2 Each *$5 Minimum Purchase

• Staples Arrowhead Cap Erasers (Pink) – 12/Pack – $0.01
• Staples School Glue (4oz.) – $0.01
• Bic Round Stic Ball Point Pens (Black 8/Pack) – $0.01

$0.25 Specials (All Week) Limit 2 Each

• Slider Pencil Case Assorted Colors $0.25
• Bic Student Choice Mechanical Pencils (5/Pack) – $0.25
• Stickies 1/2″ Tape Flags (Assorted Colors) – $0.25
• 2-Pocket Poly Folder (Assorted Colors) – $0.25

$1 Specials (All Week) Limit 2 Each

• Staples Mini-Stapler (Assorted Colors) – $1
• Staples Paper Clips (Assorted Colors and Sizes) – $1
• Westcott 5″ Scissors (2/Pk.) – $1
• Westcott 5″ Scissors 7″ – $1
• Staples Glue Sticks 4/pk. – $1
• Sharpie Permanent Markers – Fine Tip/Black 5/Pack – $1
• Staples 3-Hole Binder Punch – $1
• Staples Mini Writing Pads, Legal Ruled (3.5″ x 5.25″) Yellow 3/Pack – $1
• Staples Letter-Size Writing Pad – $1
• Staples 5.5″ x 4.25″ Fat Memmo Book (200 Sheets) – $1
• Post-It Die-Cut Notes (2/Pk.) – $1
• Top – Bound Journal With Pen (Assorted Colors) – $1

$2 Specials (All Week) Limit 2

• Crayola Write Start Colored Pencils 8/Pack – $2
• Staedtler Xcellence 10-piece Math Set – $2
• Zebra Z-Grip Animal Print Ballpoint Retractable Pens 5/Pack – $2
• Staples RollerBall Pens (0.7mm-black) 12/pk. – $2
• Staples Hype Retractable Highlighters (4/pk.) Assorted – $2
• Staples 3″x5″ Faux Leather Memo Book 80-Sheets – $2
• Staples 3.4″ x 3.4″ memo Pad- Twirl – $2

Thanks, The Frugal Find

Easy Rebate Deals: (Limit 2)

Staples 8.5″ x 11″ Multipurpose Paper 500 Sheets/Ream – $5.99
Send-in for a $5.74 Staples Easy Rebate
Final Price: $0.25 each after Staples Easy Rebate

HP Everyday 8.5″ x 11″ Photo Paper (50/Pack) – $9.99
Send-In for a $8.99 Staples Easy Rebate
Final Price: $1 after Rebate