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Walgreens 10/19-10/25

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As of right now I see nothing that interests me other than the lysol toilet bowl cleaner b1g1f but that only interests me if the right coupons are out. The one I currently have expires before this sale.

added more walgreens scenarios for this week

http://ttbdf.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-walgreens-plan-for-next-week-105.html

Walgreens paid me today

LOL

I got 1 glade flameless wisp candle gift for our sitter and 1 glade scented oil candle holder with 2 scented oil refills (gift for a friend)

Here is how it works out:

glade wisp $5.99 sale
Glade oil candle $3.99 sale
MFQ on wisp -$5.00
MFQ on oil candle -$3.00
Total including tax=$2.53
and they gave me a $3 register reward for buying the wisp candle and I will get a $2.20 rebate on the other candle
so
$2.53 OOP
- $3.00 RR
- $2.20 rebate
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-$2.67 to take these 2 items home and give them as gifts. How 'bout that?!?!

I wish I had more coupons for the wisp but I do have 2 more for the scented oil candle holders and with the rebate they come out to being free! So I am going to go get 2 more and a couple more friends are getting free candle holders for Christmas/Birthdays. Have I ever told you how much I LOVE shopping for free!?!

edited: I just found a $3/1 for the wisp so with the register rewards this would be FREE as well. Sweet! Someone else is getting a wisp for Christmas too. LOL

share a thrifty store with me

Here's mine:

When i was in college, I really really wanted this couch at the thrift store. It was $20 and I only had $10 on me and like $3 in my checking account. I walked out and found a $20 bill right by my truck. I looked around but there were no vehicles anywhere near mine and it wasn't there when I went in and there wasn't a vehicle there when I went in either so I bought the couch with it. I was ecstatic. I was supporting myself and my brother while I was working 3 jobs and going to college full time and he was in highschool and working part-time. We shared a tiny 1 bedroom apartment and he was sleeping on the livingroom floor at the time because I had no couch only an old beat up recliner. It was a godsend. I really think that God was looking out for me and my brother. We always had food, bills paid and an awesome landlord and an incredible neighbor that made sure we were ok. She would always invite us down to her apartment for dinner with her and her daughter. Our manager at our job (I was assistant manager and my brother was a cook/delivery driver) would always send the leftovers home with us every night either one of us worked. I tell ya...I knew 10,000,000,000,000 ways to do something different with fried chicken so we didn't have to eat reheated fried chicken 6-7 days a week. LOL

my grocery store trip today

We decided to have bratwurst and potato salad for lunch. We had no buns in the house nor potato salad, so I ran to the grocery store quick. I ended up getting the soup I was planning on getting at walgreens this week at the store because it was 10 cents a can cheaper. I was using my coupons at the self checkout and the woman who is there to assist people with them and be a runner for the regular cashiers was practically breathing down my neck watching me. I turned around and polietly asked if she needed some help. She said she is required to watch all coupon users at the self checkouts now because someone has been scanning the coupons but putting a blank piece of paper in the coupon slot. The management is trying to decide if they should not allow coupons on the shelf checkout anymore. They are trying to catch the person doing it by watching but with this lady practically breathing on my neck I doubt they are going to catch anyone if she does that to everyone using a coupon. And how lame of someone to do that. Coupons are plentiful, easy to find, and they even have the smartsource dispensers in the store everywhere.

Thrifty (FREE) fun entertainment

Today is HarvestFest in my little town. Nothing to exciting though. A craft fair, chili lunch sponsored by the fire department. They close off downtown for exhibitors. The kids and I are going downtown in a bit to check it out. It is free and my oldest daughter will be super excited by the fire trucks.

got another razor today

I bought another fusion razor. Used a RR from the febreeze deal and had to buy a pack of gum because the price after my MFQ on the razor was $4.99 and the RR was for $5. It wouldn't go through if I tried it so I got a pack of gum to go along with it. I ended up pay $1.52 OOP for the transaction. Not bad at all. Hubby tried the one I got the other night and really liked it so it is actually cheaper just to buy the other razor with the coupon rather than the refills. Figures, huh? LOL

cheap smoking

so my hubby smokes. He is really good about not smoking in the house, not smoking in the vehicle with the kids but he doesn't want to quit smoking and I can't force him to so I told him he has to smoke cheaper cigarrettes. My parents and my brother make their own cigarrettes using a hand held device that you put the tobacco in, press it down and slide a tube with a filter on it on the nozzle and you slide back the filling part and it makes a cigarrette. I found today an automatic maker with a hand crank. Uses the same tubes but no packing the tobbacco etc. I made him some cigarrettes today and it is a handy little device. It will save money. Granted him quitting smoking would save even more but like I said I can't force him to.

1 lb bag of tobbacco is $16 (makes 4 cartons)
4 boxes of tubes is $6.50 (200 tubes per box so 4 boxes will make 4 cartons)

so total cost for 4 cartons (which will last 2 months or more) is $5.63 a carton
or 56.3 cents a pack, just under 3 cents a cigarrette.
Much more affordable then his newports, cheapest carton price is $38.15
or $3.82 a pack or 19.1 cents a cigarrette.

I was putting stuff away

and got to thinking. When I get busy at work in November and December, I think I am going to give myself a break from my deal finding. I know what you are thinking....ya right, she is NOT going to quit... but I am.... for awhile. I will still post when I find stuff that is a good deal but I am not going to be as devoted as I am now. I will be so busy with work and the holidays and 3 birthdays (mine, oldest Daugher's 3rd and my mom's), not to mention Dh's hunting when I become basically a single parent for almost a week. I plan to still collect my coupons but not do as much with them. I was talking with Hubby tonight after my recent walgreens trip and he said don't you think you have enough stuff. and I got to thinking I do, I really do have plenty. I have gift baskets that I am making for everyone in our families and I have enough stuff to fill them so I seriously think a couple month break is in order....starting in November LOL. It will be really nice to use up stuff I have stockpiled and then I can start over again concentrating on refilling the stockpile. Yep...that's what I am going to do. So anyway I am going to take a new pic of my recently expanded basement stockpile and my other stockpiles...besides groceries and you tell me if I have enough and can take a break...I will do that tommorrow and post the pics. Everyone is asleep now so I don't want to try to go to the basement right now.

ahhh darn

Walgreens took the Nivea off the FAR so if you bought it and haven't entered your receipt yet, don't bother. I entered my receipt the day I bought it (I don't forget it this way) and I got the rebate.

looky looky

What I got for $2.41 or $11.41 depending on how you look at the deal..I am going with $2.41 because it looks like a better deal even though $11.41 for everything isn't bad either. LOL













How did I do that?



you wanna know?



Ok I'll tell ya.

Everything came from Walgreens.

$8.99 Gillete fusion Razor

$ 5.00 2 pert plus on sale

$13.98 2 febreeze noticables

$ 4.98 2 febreeze air freshners

$ 8.37 3 soft soap handsoap

$ 1.98 2 toilet tabs

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$43.30

-$5.40 soft soap in flyer coupon

-$0.99 toilet bowl tabs

-$5.00 pert plus ESC

-$10 febreeze noticables MFQ (2)

-$2 febreeze air freshners MFQ (2)

-$1.05 softsoap hand soap MFQ (3)

-$4 gillete fusion razor MFQ (1)
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$14.86total

$2.03 tax

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$16.89 due

-$5.48 gift card balance

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$11.41 OOP

Got back $9 in RR. So if I count the $9 back on this transaction I spent $2.41. If I count it as a coupon on a future transaction this transaction cost me $11.41. Still not bad for what I got.

A VERY BIG THANK YOU

to 2 very special friends....Jenera and Tori. you both rock!! I loved the envelopes you sent. As soon as I got them the possibilities started running through my head. LOL. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

Sundays coupon preview is up

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Looks like it could be a good week to get 2 papers depending on what you need and the sales.

Walgreens plan for 10/12-10/18

Here is the preview-courtesy of hotcouponworld.

My plan is:

10 Renuzit super odor neutralizer (b1g1f store sale)=$14.95
10 coupons for $1/1 -$10.00
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$4.95 or roughly 50 cents a piece.

The kotex is a good deal but I won't be buying any since I am stocked up.
On page 12 there are plastic tumblers 8/$1. We will be getting some of them because my oldest daughter saw them and said she needed a new cup.

That is it for me that week as of now. I almost always end up looking again a few times before the week and finding more though.

My walgreens plan for next week 10/5-10/11

Here is my planned purchases
Here is the ad preview...courtesy of hotcouponworld.

2 bags of 3 musketeers and 2 bags of snickers $10
2 MFQ $1/2 -$ 2
MIR on 4 -$ 4
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$4 for 4 bags of candy for Halloween

4 campbells soup (use in ad coupon to get sale price) 69 cents each=$2.76
1 MFQ 40 cents/4 -$0.40
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$2.36 for 4 cans or .59/can
not a great deal but better than I can get it for in the grocery store around here and it is for FIL's Christmas gift basket. I might do this deal a couple times because I have a couple coupons and FIL loves soup.

Added:

I found a couple more deals that I will be taking advantage of

Glade scented oil candle holder $3.99
MFQ -$2.00
Total $1.99
MIR -$2.20
.21 money made (that oughtta cover the taxes)
Doing that deal twice

Glade Wisp $5.99
MFQ -$3.00
total $2.99
RR - $3.00
.01 money made(not including tax so this one will cost me a few pennies OOP)

Glade scented oil candle refills
$1.99 sale (X3) $5.97
MFQ B2G1F -$1.99
Total OOP $3.98
MIR ($1 each) -$3.30
Total OOP .68 plus tax for 3 packs of refills...sweet!!

Glade carpet and room powder
$1.99 sale
-$1 MFQ
-$1.10 MIR
-0.11 total not including tax once again I will just pay the tax on this item, which should only be 11 or 12 cents

my stockpile is growing...

a little bit anyway. All these super cheap toilet bowl cleaner tabs and free pert plus. I had intended on holding back a bit on the stockpiling for a while but when I get stuff free, I can't help myself. So 9 bottles of Pert and 12 toilet tabs later...I believe I am done at Walgreens for the week...However..If the other gift cards come in, I will be buying another Nivea body wash for Hubby since it is FAR and it will be put right back on my giftcard at the end of the month and possibly another 4 toilet bowl tabs. But I think Hubby is good on his shampoo now. LOL 11 bottles total~9 pert and 2 Suave for men. Yep...That'll last a year, maybe longer.

$30 challenge

$11.78 balance
-$2.36 pert plus and toilet bowl tabs @Walgreens
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$9.42 left...Woot!

Did you know

that cleaning out the back of your fridge...where all the mechanical stuff is...will save on your electric bill, also cleaning out your furnace vents helps you furnance run more efficently. Ok so I knew those things in theory. It is really common sense stuff but I did it today. I called a heating and cooling company to have them come and give our furnace a tune up because it has been quite awhile. When I was on hold, they had a message playing about changing your furnace filter often and cleaning out the ductwork can improve efficiency by as much as X% (I don't remember the percentage because I was trying to break up a fight between the kids during the time I was on hold). The next message was about cleaning dust and pet hair out of the fridge to improve efficency. Hmmmmm....interesting? So anyway I cleaned it and I don't know if I will see a smaller electric bill but it was pretty nasty. Oh and it is not a thrifty thing to have someone come and tune up your furnace but it needs to be done and honestly, neither hubby nor I know the first thing about our furnace, other than how to change the filter and light the pilot light.

Doubling coupons

Some Kmarts are doubling coupons up to $2 until 10/5. Unfortunately neither of the 2 that are in my area are. :CRY: Neither one is convenient though either. One is 30 minutes one way and the other is 35 minutes the other way :sigh: So I won't be taking part in this but if you have a local Kmart that is participating, let me know all the deals you are getting, so I can be green with envy. I was stoked too. My employee discount applies to all Sears Holdings companies. Gosh that would have been a brag and picture worthy trip for sure. It's alright though. It is not like I really *need* anything else around here.