Rite Aid and Price Chopper 5/23/11

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile.  Holly is a handful!
Anyways I was able to score some great deals at Rite Aid this week and picked up a few things at Price Chopper.
RA

Total: 34.10

Total OOP: $4.88

I went in planning to use my $10 UPS but my total before any UPS was $4.88 so a good thing but more OOP.  I ended up using the $3UPS I got from this trans and the $10 UPS to get Holly a 6foot pool and a tube floaty thing.  That out of pocket was less than $7!!

What I got:

4 body wash- sale 4/$10 get $3UPS

2 10pk breathe right strips- $5.99 each

2 peroxide B1G1 Free- $1.59 for both.

Candy $1.50

Here is how I did it:

I used 4 $1 caress body wash coupons from 5/22 inserts

I had a rain check for the breath rights from last week.  So $2.99 after rain check.

I had the FREE coupon from RA ($5.99) a $1 VV and a $1.50 man coupon from a free sample.

I also used a $3 off $15.

Price Chopper

Total: $27.25

Total OOP after coupons/rain checks/card: $12.51

Here is what I got:

8 Tuna at $1.19 each- $9.52

2 500ct Q-Tips reg $3.99- $7.98

2 Kraft Dressings $2.50 each- $5

1 Price Chopper pasta- $1

Almost 4lbs of onions- $3.75

How I did it:

Rain check for the tuna at $.50 each x 8- $4

Q-Tips 2/$5 had 2 $.30 coupons- $3.80

Dressing 2/$5 I had a store coupon for buy two Kraft get FREE pasta and a MAN for a $1/2 Kraft- $$4

Rain check for the onions $.49 a lbs.

Stockpiling.

My goal with coupons is to save my family money.  By using coupons and matching them to sales I am able to save the most money.  With the new show of Extream Couponing you always see the people have HUGE stockpiles of everything.  Now- as the name of the show implies, they have extream stockpiles.  Some so big they will Never use all of the items in their stock before they die.
The goal for me with stockpiling is to have enough of any given item until the next sale comes around.  Lets say pasta is on sale for $1 and you have a $.50/1 coupon.  If your store doubles then it's free!  So instead of buying 1 pasta I'm going to buy a few.  I want enough pasta to last about 3-4 months untill the next sale and coupon comes along.
It's important to me not to hoard things.  When getting something we use for free I really have to tell myself A. I WILL donate this, B. Do I really need this now?  It is pretty easy for me to get toothpaste and deodorant for free so I have to practice controll or donate these when sales come up.
Here is my stockpile.  I am set for a long time on:  Toothpaste, floss, deodorant, body wash, face wash, lotion, toilet paper, and hair gel for Mack.

4 Hair gel, 4 Face wash, 2 Shampoos 1Conditioner, 15 mens/womens deodorant, 8 Floss (Free and paid $5 to "buy" these), 9 tubes of toothpaste, 2 toothbrushes, 6 Liners and 1 feminine pads. 

 2 lotions, 6 body wash, 1 sunscreen.

3 nice razors, 2 reg razors, 3 body wash, 18 bars of soap.

A crap load of tp.  When your pregnant you need a lot!  hehe.

4 boxes or cereal.

As you can see some things I have WAY to much of.  These items will be donated and the rest we will use!
I was able to score a decent deal on laundry detergent so I have one of the giant containers (just opened) and 3 of the small purex containers as well.

Price Chopper 5/20/11

I went to Price Chopper today looking to score some of the "midnight Deals".  AS suspected the really good deals were sold out.  BUT they gave me a rain check for most of them!  I was still able to score a few of the unadvertised deals.
Here's what I got:

Total: $82.24

Total OOP: $ $38.09!  Over 50% savings!!

Some of my good deals.

4 FREE toothpastes

2 FREE deodorants

4 boxes of cat food for $2- $.50 each!

1.5 lbs lunch meet for $8

6 fresh bagels $2.24

30 beers for $10.99!

Everything else I got for good deals too, just not super great. 

My rain checks are for canned tuna- $.50 each.  Onions $.49lbs and a free 2oz hand sanitizer.

Long week and Rite Aid trip. 5/17/11

I'll start with my trip to RA today.

Total: $29.83 

Total OOP: $6.73!

 

Last weeks trip:

OOP was only about $17!!

Things have been pretty busy around here.  Holly has been pretty grumpy from allergies and making life for us all a little harder.  Family was visiting this weekend.  Just all around busy busy week.  

Allergies! :(

I'm still pretty up set and worked up about this so please excuse my rambling and length.
My DH has really bad allergies.  Needing shots allergies.  My LO I fear is on the same path.  The last week or so she was coughing in the morning, and slight runny nose.  Nothing during the day or night, no fever.  Yesterday morning she actually vomited phlegm.  Her nose was all stuffed up and coughing for about a half hour.  That night she had coughed a couple times in her sleep.
Last night on our way home she was freaking out.  Crying so hard she was choking herself.  I had to pull over twice.  My DH passed us on the way home and stopped and saw her freaking.  He said it looks just like an allergy attack from when he was a kid.  Earlier that day her eyes were red a puffy and she was rubbing them.
Then came this morning.  I've been thanking god over and over again today that we are co-sleeping.  Even my DH- who has been pushing really hard to get her out of our bed said the same thing.  She was gagging and choking on the phlegm and vomited that up.  Her nose was really runny/stuffy (if that makes sense).
So off we went to the Dr.  She said it really sounds like allergies but because she is so young she doesn't want to diagnose her yet.  For now she said hope its a cold....
Thank god she is sleeping with us.  Thank god I am exclusively nursing.  I couldn't imagine how much worse they would be if she was on formula.  I don't even want to think about what could have happened had I not been right there this morning.

Family day! 5/7/11

Mack has finally had a few days off, yay!!  So today at Drivers Village they had an animal adoption drive with tons of different rescue groups.  Shorty and Hercules from Pit  Boss on Animal Planet.  They were doing photos but the line was super long!  So no picture for us.  :(  We did see a bunch of really beautiful dogs and cats for adoption!  Holly even got to pet the softest rabbit.  
It was really nice to be able to spend time together as a family! 

Happy mothers day everyone!

p.s. Keep your eyes open for tomorrows paper.  There is only going to be one insert, smart source, but there should be some good coupons available!

Holly's 4 month appt! 5/5/11

So I took Holly to her 4 month appointment today.  She turned 4 months on the 4/30/11.  She now weighs 14lbs and is 25inches long!!  I can't believe how big she has gotten!  She started out as my little peanut who was swimming in new born clothes to 6 month close that are loose.  Gosh, I just can't believe it.
She has even been sitting up a bit on her own.  Tuesday she sat on her own for about 5-10seconds. Today she sat on her own for over a minute!!  WOW.  Here comes picture over load!!

Sitting up for the first time!

 Snuggling her puppy.

 I found a foot!  :)

She LOVES her monkey!!

First Rite Aid Trip. Not great. :( 5/3/11

gOk So I wanted to try the drug store game.  I have a Rite Aids close to me so I thought I would start there.  They have some good deals this week with a lot of UP rewards (it's like RA cash).  Anyways I had 5 transactions planned out for a total of $14.49.  The first trans I had planned I couldn't do because they were out of the products I was looking for.  These items came with $8 UPs so without this my OOP should have been $19.40.  I did end up getting a couple items I had not planned on.  My total OOP was $32.71.  I saved $47.96 with sales, coupons and UPs.  I also have $4UPs to use next time and received 4 surveys for $3 off $15 purchase.  Here's what I got:

Total: $80.67

Total OOP: $32.71 and $4UPs

Transaction 1

2 Gillette Fusion razors sale $9.99 w/ $5UPs each

   2 $4 off Gillette Fusion razors

Total OOP: $11.98 got $10UPs

Transaction 2
2 Dial 3pk bar soaps 2/$3 w/ $1UP
2 Pantene shamp/cond 2/$7
   1 $1 off two pantene prod.
2 Excedrin Migraine $1.99
   2 $1 off exc migraine
2 Excederine Extra Strength
   2 $1 off exc ext strength
Total OOP: $.96!  Got $1UP
(I used the $10 ups from trans 1)

Transaction 3 (This is where things got REALLY messed up because I wasn't paying attention and got a couple things I wasn't planning on getting.)
2 Oreos $4.79 each!  (The sign said 2 each.  Apparently they are for the single check rebates but either way I wouldn't have gotten these if I had known.)
   1 $1 off oreos from VV (Video Values)
1 Chocolate Rabitte $.50
Milk Bone Treats $2.99 get $1UP
   1 $1 off milk bone
Pup-peronie treats $3.99 get $1UP (these were supposed to be $2.99 also)
   1 $1 off pup treats
Dawn Dish soap $.99
   1 $.50 off dawn
Raid Ant bait $2.99 get $1UP
2 OB toothbrushes $2.99 get $2UPs each
   1 $1 off OB toothbrush
   1 $.75 off OB toothbrush
Total OOP: $18.77 Got $6UPs
Used the $1 UP from trans 3 and 2 $1VV coupons

Transaction 4
2 Fructise Shampoos 2/$5
   1 $1 off two
Total OOP: $1
Used 3 Single dollar UPS from trans 3.

So for my first trip I guess I didn't do to badly and learned a lesson. 

Walmart 5/2/11

So I decided to take a quick trip to Walmart with Holly today.  After walking around and seeing all of the lights and colors she is now passes out on my chest.  :)  I wanted to pick up the free razors, cat litter and a few other good deals.  I was sad to find that they were out of the razors.  I'll have to try again next week.  Here's what I got:

Total: $30.65  

Total OOP: $12.25! 

Total savings was over 50%

I would have done a $1 better but for some reason one of the flosses rang up for $1.97 and I just caught it.

4 Cat Litter 10lbs $1.77 I got it for $.67 each!

4 $1.10 off any.  These were IP from last month.

2 Gain 40ct dryer sheets $1.87 got it for $.87 each

2 $1 of detergent or dryer sheets from 4/17 insert

1 Nivea Body wash $3 got it for FREE

1 $3 off Nivea body was from 4/17 unsert

1 Senokot $5.84 got it for $2.84

1 $3 off any

2 Floss 1@ $.88  1@ $1.97 Both for FREE plus $2.15 money maker!

2 $2.50 off floss from 4/17 insert

Kotex Liners $1.24 got for $.24

1 $1 off any liner 

I also picked up some bannanas and a pineapple.  Mack likes bagels and cream cheese so I had to get some of those- but no sale or coupons.  All in all I did pretty well!

This weekend Holly did really well sleeping by herself at Grandpas!

This was the third time in her 4 months of life to sleep by herself!  Shes growing so fast!!!!

Deals I'm excited for! 5/1-5/7/11

So I'm pretty excited for some deals this week:
Target:
Whisker Cat Treats- On sale for $.94
Use the $1 off two from 5/1 insert
I may or may not do this deal at Target. 
Aveeno Baby or Sun care sale *8.99 each
Buy 2 ($17.98) Use 2 $1 off Target coupons (Avail on Targets Web)
1 $3 off Man from 4/17.  If you have 2 of these even better!
Get a $10 Target gift card
Total OOP: $14 or $11 for both

Walmart:
Tidy Cats Litter 10lbs for $1.77
use $1.10 off any size- Only $.67 each!
(Coupon was avail online last month)
Head and Shoulders Price matching to KMart w/ in add coupon $3.50
Use B1G1 free coupon from 4/17  Each 1.75!
Nivea
Razors 4ct $1.97
use $2 off coupon from 5/1 insert or still avail at redplum.com
FREE after coupon!

Rite Aid:
Gillette Fushion pro glide or Man razor $9.99 Get $5UP reward (limit 2)
$4 off 1
total oop $5.99 with $5 UPS!
Milk bones $2.99 Get $1UP reward
use $1 off
Pup-peroni $2.99 Get $1UP reward
use $1 off

Theres some decent deals at Price Chopper too!
2lbs of Strawberries for $2.99
2lbs of Green peppers for $3.49
Ball park franks B1G1- there was a coupon for $1 off in 5/1 insert and online
Chicken breast on sale for $1.99

Sunday Paper 5/1/11

Good Morning!  Make sure to pick up a Sunday paper today!  Some regions are getting up to 6 inserts!  Including a P&G and Target depending on where you are!  I picked up two and when I see what I received may have to get another one!  Hope you get all the good coupons!