Saved ~80% by Rolling Catalina Deals at Shaws

Tonight was a pretty exciting shopping night at Shaws. After missing out on Sunday newspapers for several weeks recently, I bought some coupon inserts online just for this deal. I've never bought them online before - they just arrived in the mail today.
I cut out all of the good Big G coupons and headed to Shaws twice tonight.

There's a Catalina deal running through 10/22 on certain Big G products. If you buy $25 worth of those products, a $10 coupon prints out that you can use on your next purchase. I went at night, when the store was dead and I could hog the registers, and I did ten transactions back to back each time, using the coupon from one to pay for the next one.

The great thing about catalina deals is they usually go by the regular (Pre-sale) price to generate the coupon that prints out. Since most of the items were on sale for (on average) about 20% off - you only had to spend about $20 to get the $10 coupon.
Armed with a ream of duplicate coupons for those sale items, I got an additional chunk off. The other great thing about Shaws is that they double coupons up to 99 cents... so I used all the "50 cents off 1" coupons before going for the "$1 off 2" versions. I don't know the exact total, but the regular price of everything I brought home was probably around $520 and I spent $31 the first trip and about $45 the second trip, plus have an unused $10 coupon from the 20th transaction. I may go back tomorrow for one or two more transactions, but I'm mostly done.

So here's what I got for my $65:

20 cans of Progresso soup
16 Microwaveable tubs of Progresso soup
40 bags of Chex Mix (8 oz) -all different flavors
15 Betty Crocker Warming Delights Brownie Bowls
10 Pouches of Betty Crocker cookie mix
26 Bags of Green Giant Steamer frozen vegetables
21 Boxes of Pilsbury Savorings frozen pastries
4 six-packs of Yo Kids yogurt
2 Pilsbury pie crusts
12 boxes Nature Valley Granola bars
9 Fruit Gushers snacks (Printed out an ADDITIONAL $3.50 coupon with the $10)
6 Pillsbury refrigerated ready-bake cookie dough (Printed out ADDITIONAL $4 coupon)

Somehow, we got all the frozen stuff into the little freezer. Removing boxes from things that are bagged inside helped a lot. That, along with removing a turkey that we're going to cook this weekend.

There's a new $5/$15 catalina deal on some Heinz products (Weight Watchers, Ore Ida, etc) starting Friday. Some details over at Wicked Cool Deals if you're interested.

Diapers, Wipes, etc. $11 PROFIT after rebates!

Nice quick moneymaking trip to Rite Aid today!

They have a $10 rebate this week when you buy 3 packs of Huggies.
I bought 3 packs of the Huggies Pure&Natural diapers for $11 each on sale.
-$5 off $25 purchase coupon
-$11 coupon (one free pack) from previous Rite Aid rebate -came in the mail yesterday
-2x $3 Huggies Mfr coupons
-2x $2 Rite Aid Huggies coupons earned from watching ad clips on their website
-$10 Rebate
= PROFIT $3 after rebate!

(I think this qualifies for a $.75/pack rebate from Caregivers Marketplace, too.)
*Even if you don't have the free pack of Huggies coupon, you can get all the others and pay next to nothing for 3 packs.

THEN I got:

4 Tubs of Huggies Wipes at $2.50 each
1 Package of Mounds snack size for $1 (Hey, I was hungry!)
1 Bottle of Proantiox something or other $6.99 (what is it??, good PROFIT!)
2 Bottles Clean & Clear face wash for $9
-$5 off $20 purchase coupon from watching ads on RiteAid website
-2x $3 Clean & Clear Rite Aid coupons from watching ads
-2x $2 Clean & Clear printable coupons
-$3 Proantiox Rite Aid coupon from watching ads
-4x $2 off Huggies product printable coupons!
-$1 Huggies wipes rebate
-$7 Proantiox rebate
=$7.01 PROFIT after rebates (would have been $8 without the Mounds bars!)

BUT WAIT, There's MORE!
Rite Aid is also running their Gift of Savings program concurrently! When you register your purchases online for rebates, you also can earn up to $20 back if you spend over $100 (before coupons, I think) before October 17!

So even though I spent only $7.99 out of pocket today, I think my purchases will give me $33 and $26.99 toward the program, which earns me another $10 (for spending $51 to $100)!

Gotta love it!

All This FREE, Plus $6 Profit

Hauled ALL THIS in today from Rite-Aid, CVS, and Walgreens, along with $6 total profit after rebates! I managed to net a small profit at each store making these purhases. Using gift cards and reward coupons I already had, I think I spent less than 5 dollars out of pocket, too!

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CVS - ~$2 PROFIT!
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Bought 2x Dyna Pep Energy Micro-Shot (2-pk.), $4.99
-$4.99 Extra Bucks for each(limit 2)
=FREE

Bought 2 bottles of Listerine, $3.99
-$2 Extra Bucks for each(limit 3)
-2x $2 off coupons
=FREE

Bought $8 worth of newspapers
-$5 off $25 coupon
-$5 Extra bucks I got for answering a CVS survey (not from a purchase)

PROFIT - ~$2

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Walgreens - 4 Transactions, ~$2 PROFIT
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Because of the one coupon per item rule and the inability to use register reward coupons to buy the same product and get more register rewards, I had to do 4 transactions to get all of this stuff. I also padded my order with some clearance candy bars, not only so I could use more coupons but also because candy bars are yummy.
**Transaction #1
Trident "Layers" Gum 2 for $2
-$1 off 2 coupon
-$1 register reward
=FREE
2x Boxes of Band Aids @ $2.49 each
-2x $1 coupons
-$3 Register reward when you buy 2
=FREE
True North Crackers $3
-$1 coupon
-$3 Register Reward
=PROFIT $1
Carefree Pantiliners $1.99
-$1 coupon
-$1.99 register reward
=PROFIT $1
+2x $.37 clearance chocolate bars
+2x $.22 clearance chocolate bars
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PROFIT=$0.85

**Transaction #2
Murine Earwax Removal Kit $6 (turns 3 Transaction $1 rewards into one $6 reward.)
-6 Register rewards
=FREE
+2x $.22 chocolate bars (to use 3 register reward slips)
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Total cost = $0.44

**Transaction #3
Trident "Layers" Gum 2 for $2
-$1 off 2 coupon
-$1 register reward
=FREE
2x Boxes of Band Aids @ $2.49 each
-2x $1 coupons
-$3 Register reward when you buy 2
=FREE
True North Crackers $3
-$1 coupon
-$3 Register Reward
=PROFIT $1
Carefree Pantiliners $1.99
-$1 coupon
-$1.99 register reward
=PROFIT $1
+$0.37 clearance chocolate bar
+$0.22 clearance chocolate bar
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PROFIT = $1.41

Transaction #4
True North Crackers $3
-$1 coupon
-$3 Register Reward
=PROFIT $1
+2x $.37 clearance chocolate bars
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PROFIT = $0.26

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Rite Aid - 2 Transactions, ~$2 PROFIT!
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Did 2 transactions to use two $5/$25 printable coupons. Spent NO cash, since I'm still using $25 gift cards from transferring prescriptions a few months ago. Turning them into CASH by scoring rebate deals.
**Transaction #1
10x $2.99 Johnson& Johnson Baby wash/shampoo/baby oil bottles on sale (Total $29.90)
-$5/25 Rite Aid coupon
-10x $1 coupons
-$15 Single Check Rebate
=FREE (10-cent profit, actually) after rebate

**Transaction #2
3x $6.49 Air Wick Freshmatic Starter Kit (these are stinky like Lysol. I wont use them @ home)
-3x $6 coupon
Cost =$1.47
3x $2.50 Healthy Choice Fresh Mixers
-3x $2 coupon
Cost = $1.50
Wet Ones $1.99
-$1 coupon
-$1 Rebate
=FREE after rebate
6x Act II popcorn balls (3/$1 sale)
-2x $1 off 2 coupons
=FREE
-$5 off $25 purchase Rite Aid coupon
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PROFIT $2 after rebate

(*PLUS, I think I racked up over $50 credit toward the Fall Gift of Savings deal, which may earn me another $10 gift card all by itself! Will jump to $20 once I reach $100 buying diapers there next week!)
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FIVE coupon inserts in today's paper!

If you clip coupons, and you didn't get a Sunday newspaper today, you're missing out.

The Boston Globe had FIVE inserts - two from Smartsource, two from Redplum, and one from General Mills. My local paper (less than half the price) had four of the inserts, which is rare.

Haven't thumbed through yet, but with all those coupons, it's bound to be worth buying several copies.

End of a Season

My local CVS has all of their summer junk on 90% OFF clearance I loaded a cart with 20-cent party napkins, bubble soap, water balloons, beach balls, some inflatable water squirty thing, a pair of 80-cent croc-style flipflops, and a pantload of other sundries, and it only came to about 12 bucks. Add a bottle of ajax dish detergent (free after $1 printable coupon), a Lifelock home theft system CD (Free after extra bucks) and some clearance snacks to break $20 and use a $4 off coupon to boot!

Regular price for everything I got was probably close to $200. I paid $13 in Extra Care Bucks and about one buck in cash, with $3 ECB back.

Not sure if every CVS is doing 90% clearance, but it's worth a shot. They had some colorful plastic dinnerware as well. You could buy a whole set for picnics for a couple bucks.

Got 5 free pints of Starbucks, plus $$ back @ Walgreens

Yeah, so remember when Starbucks was giving away coupons for free pints of their ice cream a while back? They came in handy this week at Walgreens.
(There are also $2 off coupons from Sunday papers a month or more back and $1 printable coupons that are still available that you can use.)

Walgreens has Starbucks ice cream for $3 a pint, with a $5 reward that prints out when you buy $15 worth. I bought 5, used $12 in coupons, and got $5 back. Profit:$3, plus lots of ice cream.
Even just using the $1 printable coupon it works out to a buck a pint, which is really good unless you don't like coffee ice cream. Starbucks only makes coffee-based flavors.

Also got free Aquafresh toothpaste after rewards and a $2 coupon the Walgreens register printed out last week, Plus a free scrubbing bubbles shower cleaner, which was $6.99 after register rewards minus $7 printable coupon. We already have the motorized sprayer machine hanging in the shower, but it comes with two bottles of the refill PLUS a 4-pack of energizer batteries to run the machine. I feel bad trashing the sprayer part, but for free batteries and 2 refills, it was a good deal.

I also got a free Glade scented oil warmer with 2 bottles of the oil in it, after a coupon and register reward.

Because Walgreens only lets you use one coupon peritem, I had to pad my order with some non-free things in order to pay with last week's register rewards - so it wasn't entirely free. I need to figure out some cheap item that I actually will use that will work. When they had 9-cent school supplies this summer, they came in handy for that.

Free Photo Collage @ Walgreens

You can get a free 8 by 10 photo collage at Walgreens.com photo (pick up in store) today and tomorrow using the coupon code FUNDAY. Just ordered mine. You can probably make a "collage" using just one photo if you want to print out an 8 by 10 to frame.