Saving Money Makes Money $100 a month!: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

Harris Teeter 7/27 Super Doubles

This was my last day of doing super doubles. Right after I went shopping we headed out to Roanoke for me to take the bar exam!

OOP: $2.88

Saved: $56.40

Left to Spend: $193.74
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $3233.16

Staples 7/26 Paper Deals

I did another Staples paper deal this week. We got the photo paper, the regular paper and the colored paper. I know that they weren't exactly free, but used $5 coupon, and will get Staples rewards as well. I figured that I can use the colored paper for scrapbooking, so got two of the multi-packs in different color schemes :)

OOP: $49.29

Saved: $5

Left to Spend: $196.62

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $3176.76

Man, just noticed I am really starting to get low on my budget. I REALLY hope all these rebates and Gift Cards start coming in the mail soon to supplement that!! I should have about $500 left at this point at my $100/month budget! I am like $300 off!!

Harris Teeter 7/26 Double Coupons

GREAT yogurt coupons in the Sunday paper, and FINALLY foudn the Buitoni, had to ask someone though.

OOP: $3.22

SAved: $59.94

Left to Spend: $245.91
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $3171.76

Rite-Aid 7/25 Razor Deal and FREE jerky!

At Rite-Aid they had the Jack's jerky and chicken nuggets for BOGO free, in the July All You magazine there was a coupon for BOGO free, and in the August All You had a free coupon. I totally did this deal!! Got 30 bags for FREE!!

Also, great deal with the Schick razors because they were on sale for $5.99-$4Q and if you buy $50 worth you get $25 Rite Aid GC.Using the $5/$25 it was basically a moneymaker of $25 minus the tax.

Can't wait to get all my gift cards from Rite Aid and also all my rebate checks back from everything. I bought the Just for Men to use the $5/$25 and $2 just for men coupon. There is a mail in rebate to get the $5.99 (sale price) back on the Just for Men too. Will be filling that out in a few minutes!

OOP: $37.97

Saved: $155.11

Left to Spend: $249.13

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $3111.82

Free Stuff in the Mail

This is what I got free in the mail this week:

-Free sample from Viva paper towels

-Free M&M chocolate relief coupons realchocolate.com (every Friday they give away free coupons)

-Free stuff from the SkinRx gift card deal, lotion and two samples!!

Harris Teeter Super Doubles 7/25

OOP: $5.57

Saved: $66.65 (one penny away from being creepy!)

Left to Spend: $287.08
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $2956.71

Target 7/25 Kashi and Joint Juice

Needed the shelving for my stockpile :0 didn't have a box, so got a 10% discount, yay!

OOP: $14.32

Saved: $16.96

Left to Spend: $292.65

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $2890.06

Walgreens 7/25 to roll RR

I had $2 coupons for the Excedrin and it was a secret deal, so made $2 for each 2 that I bought to roll RR. Also, pens were free with RR. I'm glad they had a good deal that I could roll RR!!

I now have $22 in RR that expire on 8/08.

OOP: ZERO!

SAved: $84.58

Left to Spend: $306.97
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $2873.10

7/25 WalMart for All You magazines

Well, decided to basically start off at WalMart in order to get the All You magazines so that I could do the awesome deal at Rite Aid (will post in a few).

Also, printed some Dentek coupons to get the floss for free, wanted to try the Playtex wipes, and used free Cascade coupon from Home Made Simple booklet. BTW, here is a new link to get another one http://www.startsampling.com/sm/100900/quickQuestion.iphtml?item=100900&source=FEBSO Thanks Sherrie at swaggrabber.com for the new link!

OOP: $20.35
Saved: $9.15

Left to Spend: $306.97

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $2788.52

Safeway 7/25

OOP: $24.60

Saved: $30.65

OMG!! That is such a high total for me at a grocery store. I really wanted the eggs and this is what happens when I am not prepared in a store, at least I will do the MIR for the nuts, but still!

Left to Spend: $327.32
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $2779.37

CVS 7/25 Red Cross First Aid and Newspapers

I did the Johnson and Johnson deal and ended up making $10 ECB because of it, which was awesome because I got some free newspapers and used nut CRT for free nuts, and cheap Cascade :)

OOP: $1.07

Saved: $31.14

Left to Spend: $351.92

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $2748.72

Harris Teeter Day 3, 7/24

Turns out the Dannon singles yogurt wasn't exactly as good a deal as I thought because they were what accounted for much of my total!

OOP: $18.03

Saved: $78.84

Here's the totals from 7/23 that I forgot the receipt for:

OOP: $9.57

Saved: $68.13

AND the final totals:

Left to Spend: $352.99
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $2717.58

MIA

I know I've been missing in action lately, but it's all for good reason. I am glad that people are starting to read my blog and hope that you continue to read for more GREAT deals!!

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I took the Virginia Bar Exam in Roanoke, VA. It was a 2-day exam and very very long!!

I will get posting here in order to update all the deals I got some Harris Teeter super doubles, and also my great deals at Rite Aid too!

Sunday, July 26, 2009

50 Free Snapfish photo prints!

I just found this on a blog that I frequent: http://amyinorlando.blogspot.com/

50 Free Prints From Snapfish and MyCokeRewards
http://www.mycokerewards.com/
Enter code: 100877742854 to get 50 free prints from SNAPFISH

I don't even have any rewards on there, just did the code and got my free prints :)

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Harris Teeter Day two of Super Doubles 7/23

Went to Harris Teeter again in order to take advantage of day two of super doubles! I got some great deals, although paid more than yesterday. That's all right though because my husband really wanted the cheese and I really wanted the Luigi's, lol.

Forgot the receipt in the car, will need to update tomorrow...

Sold another bunny!!

Just sold another bunny. This time a tiger-colored mini rex that we think is a female.

Made $10!!

Left to Spend: $380.59

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $2570.61

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Swagbucks, free $5 Amazon GC!

Well, I have been searching daily on swagbucks and had 76 points. I turned in 45 to get a $5 Amazon gift card. I am so happy about this because I basically made $5 for searching things that I would normally type into google.

The best part? Swagbucks uses google as a search engine too!!

You can go to the right side of my blog and scroll down to see the swagbucks link and sign up to start earning bucks yourself for Amazon gift cards!

Harris Teeter Super Doubles 7/22

This is what I got at Harris Teeter today for their super doubles, which is when they double coupons up to $1.99 (like anyone ever has a coupon worth that...).

They had some pretty great deals, and I will prob be going back every day that it is double coupons because you can only use 20 coupons per household per day :(

This is what I got:

4 Easy Mac

1 YoPlus

2 Wholly salsa

2 Turkey Hill Iced Tea

1 Playtex gloves

2 Sucess Rice

1 Mayfield ice cream

1 Chef Boy-R-De

4 Bumble Bee tuna pouches

1Sorrento string cheese

2 Rubbermaid easy find lids containers

1 Lays

1 Loaf of bread

Total OOP: $6.93

SAved: $68.87

I saved 91%!!!!!

Best part, is that I paid full price for the Lays and bread so subtracting that out, $3.50 and $0.97 means that my coupon purchases only cost: $2.46 and tax was ( ihave two separate tax for some reason...) $0.19 and $0.58, subtracting that out means the coupon items cost me about $1.69.

That's the first time that I actually did the darn doubling thing right in order to get the most bang for my buck!

Left to Spend: $380.59
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $2570.61

CVS 7/21

Yesterday I went to CVS in order to take advantage of the great FAECB school supplies. Basically, everything was out... But that's all right because I had rainchecks from last week and a raincheck from Thermacare FAECB back in Dec, was able to use those, and I had a $10/$50 that printed out and used that as well. I had chosen one binder that I thought was the correct one that was free, but it wasn't. When I put that one off the order, I had to add in some filler and the candy was right there, $0.88.

Spent OOP: $12.83

SAved: $87.30

Left to Spend: $387.52

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $2501.74

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

7/20 Target Smart Ones deal and FREE Kashi Cereal

I went to Target yesterday and was able to get in on the Smart Ones deal which is still going on. Basically you buy ten Smart Ones, print out 10 Target printable for $1/1 Smart One, and manufacturer coupon for $4/10. Then you get $14 off your total.

Kashi cereal deal is great, the single serve are $1, and Target Qs are $1, making them free, so I got ten.

Always is on sale for $3.99, used 10 $4 Q from newspaper. Had to get smaller because they were out of the larger, and let me use the coupons for it, YMMV on that though, my Target is super awesome!

Total OOP: $10.10

Saved: $66.00

Left to Spend: $400.35
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $2414.44

Staples 7/19, FREE BACKPACK!!

We went to Staples on Sunday and were able to get all the FAR, plus the $1AR photo paper. We knew that the backpacks were free for any of them in the rewards, so I let my husband pick out any one that he wanted. He had to pick out the most expensive one, I think it's for laptops or something, but anyways. I figure he deserved it after putting up with all my crazy couponing!

we spent a lot of money, so hopefully the rebate check arrives soon!!

spent: $145.87

too bad we didn't have any coupons :(

Left to Spend: $410.45

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $2348.44

Last Week Edy's Single Serve Deal

I inadvertently forget to add in last week my husband and I went to Target with the $1 Edy's printable and got 20 single serve cups, paid $2.87 and saved $20.00!!!

Too bad the coupon is now expired, because we were going to get some yesterday when we went back to Target

Left to Spend: $556.32
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $2348.44

New Totals!

Well, last post was so long, though I would add in the new totals in a new post :)

Also, should have done final totals for Rite Aid as well:
Total OOP: $46.62, yeah HUGE OOP for me!
Saved: $36.00

will be submitting for rebates totaling- $25 Rite Aid GC, $2, $2.69, and $5
so will end up costing like- $46.62-$25-$2-$2.69-$5= $11.93 for all that, taking the toilet paper alone would be like $2 per 12 pack, or $0.02778/roll, basically $0.03 a roll for toilet paper, almost free for me!!

So, drumroll please, here are the new totals:
Left to Spend: $558.69
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $2328.44

Basically, I am counting all all these rebates to come back so that I can add that money back to my left to spend column... Still waiting on Rite-Aid rebate submitted from last month too!!

7/18 Tons of toilet paper at Rite-Aid, and lots of Always at CVS, and Target Fuel for School Rebate!!

Saturday was soo crazy!! I did Rite-Aid, CVS, AND Target in order to take advantage of all the great deals they had there.

At Rite-Aid I knew they were having rebate #61 sales. I really wanted more toilet paper, cause I was freaking that we were running low (maybe, but not really, lol, we had like 10 4 packs stashed in the bathroom before this sale, anyways...). I wanted to get in on the deal so I did three transactions using the $5/$25 that Rite-Aid has available this month.

Totals:
Spent OOP: $19.83
Saved: $9.00

spent OOP: $15.59
Saved: $8.00

Spent OOP: $11.20
Saved: $19.00

At CVS, I wante dto take advantage of the email Q's for $4 off $20 and $5 off $20, so I did three transactions there too. I also had a raincheck for ten of the Always Infinity packs from when they were on sale for $4.99 a few weeks ago and we had $4 coupons from the P&G.

Totals:
Spent OOP: $0.22
SAved: $40.60

SpentOOP: $1.17
Saved: $73.47

Spent OOP: $1.46
Saved: $74.98

And, finally, we went to Target so that I could get in on the Kellogg's Fuel for School rebate deal. Here are my transactions because you can actually still get in on these great deals!!

Transaction 1:
-10 SOBE Life Water- $1 each
Used 4 BOGO free coupons that I printed online
Total- $6.13
Saved: $9.20
Get $5 gc

Transaction 2:
-5 Keebler Fudge Shop Cookies - $2.54 each
Used 4 $1 off one coupons, and 1 $0.55 off one coupon
-5 Eggo items- $1.50 each
Used 3 $1 off egoo coupons
Used $5 gc from previous transaction
Total: $8.03
Saved: $19.00
Got $5 gc

Transaction 3:
-6 Kellogg's cereals- $1.88 each
Used 2 $1 off 1 coupons, 2 $1.50 off 2 coupons
-10 Olay body quench trial size- $0.99
Used 10 $1/1 that do not exclude trial size
-1 Tylenol trial size- $0.97
Used one $1 off any tylenol printable, did not exclude trial size
-4 Morningstar products- $3.34 each
Used 2 $2/2 Target printable coupons, and 2 $1 printable
Used $5 GC, from previous transaction
Total: $7.53
SAved: $36.66

Total for three transactions:
OOP: $21.69
Saved: $64.86

Will submit one Fuel for School at my home and one at my mom's home, and get back $10 for each rebate, making total cost:
$21.69-$10-$10= $1.69 for ALL that stuff!! So happy if this works out!

Free Stuff in the Mail

This is what I got free in the mail in the week ending on July 18, 2009. I was soo pleasantly surprised to see it because I hadn't realized that I signed up for the free sample from Scott, but apparently I did and boy was I happy.

Just a funny thing:

I was all elated about having received the free toilet paper and wipes in the mail and then my husband said to me "it's just toilet paper, who cares?" I, of course, had to say "But it was FREE!!" smiling ear to ear. Then he repeated the comments and I decided to recite the parable of the lost sheep and tell him even though it was one roll of toilet paper that I rejoiced because it found it's way to me and that toilet paper and sheep are connected because they are both cottony, lol. It was such a silly conversation.

But, the odd thing that came of it was that on Sat I was able to actually increase my flock by 7200 fold, seriously. I got 6 12 rolls of Scott Extra Soft at Rite-Aid. But, I digress...

Restaurant.com 80% off Code

Well, just tried this. I haven't used restaurant.com before, but it's worth a shot in order to save some cash and try a new restaurant. Thanks swaggrabber.com for the information!

First, go to cashbaq.com and sign up so you will get $5 credit to your account. And the best part is they give 10% back when you make a purchase at restaurant.com through their site.
Here's the link: http://www.cashbaq.com/?refer=492133

Next, go to restaurant.com through the website after you sign up and click on their icon and put in your zip code and find a restaurant that you would like to go to on the site. $25 gift certificates are on sale right now for $2, and $10 are on sale right now for $0.60. You need to use offer code NAPKIN in order to get the sale though.

Finally, go to your email and print off the gift certificate and you will be able to use it immidiately.

A nice thing is that you can pay using paypal and tell cashbaq that you want your cashback from them to be paid to your paypal, so it all evens out in the end and you get a GREAT meal at a LOW price!!

Let me know if this helped you, even a bit :)

Monday, July 20, 2009

What to do with Cascade rinse agent?

I just found this post: http://cuttingcouponsinkc.blogspot.com/2009/06/homemade-automatic-shower-cleaner.html#comment-form

It explains what you can do with the Cascade Rinse Agent that we get for free with the coupon from Home Made Simple.

Here's the link for the coupon booklet, it's pretty cool because you get alot of great P&G coupons in it.
http://www.startsampling.com/sm/100900/quickQuestion.iphtml?item=100900&source=

I'm basically going to use this recipe to make cleaner to clean my shower because I don't have the Scrubbing bubbles automatic shower cleaner thing.

Staples 7/12

This was from the Staples deal last week where there was a $5 off $20 coupon in the newspaper ad. I got three ads, but only used two coupons. I needed some file folders and hanging files so that I can actually do a filing project for all our documents here, so I figured I'd use the overage to get them for free. I had gotten a $25 gift card from Staples when I had bought some paper and photo paper previously when we went in to buy some ink. I also got a check in the mail for $7.98 from Staples from the paper previously. I get to add that money to my budget because it is money that I made off that deal. But I won't add the gift card because I used it on this deal so that makes it even for my tally list.

Luckily, I will be getting back a bunch of rebates on this as well.

Spent: $15.75 Saved: $6.96

Spent: $8.74 Saved: $21.36

Here's the new numbers.

Left to Spend: $628.85

Made: $1051
Money Saved: $2038.53

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Walgreens 7/11

Got some more listerine and some reach! Also, nice little gifts for my nephew.

Spent: Nothing because used gift card and RR

SAved: $53.31

Left to Spend: $635.36
Made: $1051

Money Saved: $2010.21

7/11 CVS

Building up the ECB!

transaction 1:
Spent:$ 2.22
saved:$ 14.28
87%

Transactions 2:

Spent: $ 3.34
Saved: $ 11.26
77%

Left to Spend: $635.36

Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1956.90

7/11, Rite aid and Slurpie day

Today was free slurpie day, did you get yours?! I got three and my husband got four.

Here is my rite aid deals too, they had a new $5 off $25 too.

Spent: $ 16.39
Saved: $ 12.00
42%

Left to Spend: $650.92
Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1931.36

Target 7/14

I believe this deal might still be going on, not sure though. A-1 sauces had $2 Q, so I printed a bunch and was able to get them that way, Kashi tastes good, so had to try some other products there. also, Pictureka card game is $6ish and has $5 printable at coupons.com.

Spent: $12.50

SAved: $ 70.31
85%

Had another Target run, no pic. The edy's single serve are $1.19 and have $1 Target printable:

Spent: $ 2.87
Saved: $ 21.00
88%

New totals:

Left to Spend: $667.31

Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1919.36

Free Stuff in the Mail

Free samples in the mail and a rebate check and gift card from Staples!

KOHLS HAUL!!!

Yeah, I basically got a great deal of stuff from Kohls. I bought the $5 off online, 20 of them, and this is everything that we got! Paid $0.08 lol, got huge savings!

Spent: $0.08

SAVED: $251.09!!!!!!

Left to Spend: $682.68

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1828.05

Rite Aid great Listerine deal! 6/27

Rite Aid had a great deal where you buy a certain amount of listerine you could double dip on two rebates. Of course I did this because I really love listerine!

Spent: $ 9.89
Saved: $ 18.86
66%

Left to Spend: $682.76
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1576.96

CVS with Always Infinity 6/26

Great deals on Always Inifinity again.

Spent: $ 3.76
Saved: $ 49.32
93%

Left to Spend: $692.65

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1558.10

Harris Teeter double-take on Super Doubles

I basically got the same stuff, lots and lots of yogurt and more cheese for all that meat I got last time.

Spent: $ 43.49
Saved: $ 89.79
67%

Left to Spend: $696.41
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1508.78

WalMart 6/25

Those are trial size axe that were free after coupon and the dentex floss was also free after coupon along with the Reach floss. I needed All You mages too for this month, got 5...

Spent $ 12.76
Saved:$ 27.00
Percent Saved: 68%

Left to Spend: $739.90

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1418.99

Harris Teeter Super Doubles 6/25

Harris Teeter decided to try to do some Super Doubles, it wasn't really that great, but I went and here's what I got. I did like the great deal on meat and cheese for sandwhiches though...

Spent: $ 32.76
SaveD: $ 59.22
Percent Saved:64%

Left to Spend: $752.66
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1391.99

CVS 6/18

Needed to start building up ECB, so did razor deal even though I have like 100 already (even after selling a ton!) and Aveeno deal cause my husband needed shaving cream.

Spent: NOTHING, gc

Saved: $ 49.11
100%

Left to Spend: $785.42

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1332.77

What I bought 6/21, little bit of everywhere

I went to Walgreens and did the deal where you buy the caksters and they end up being free! I also got all that Aquafresh there as well. As if I need more toothpaste...

Spent nothing out of pocket cause of Walgreens gift cards :)
Saved: $47.94

Did CVS to do the Aveeno deal! AWESOME :) The infinity were $4.99 and there was $4 Q, totally great deal, also did the clearanced bounty and Thermacare for ECB.

Spent:$ 0.44
Saved:$ 50.31
Percent Saved: 99%
ECB earned: 14.98 (yay!)

Rite-aid
Tried doing some Oral B rebates
Spent: $0 because of GC I had previously received
Saved:$3.14

Left to Spend: $785.42
Made: $1051
Money Saved: $1283.66

Target and CVS 6/17/09

I went to both Target and CVS. The blue thing has photos in it.

CVS
Date: 6/17
OOP: $0.00 (on prescription GC)
Saved: $ 22.94
SAved %: 100%

Target

Date: 6/17

Spent: $1.37
Savings:$18.52
% Saved: 93%

New Totals:

Left to Spend: $785.86

Made: $1051

Money Saved: $1182.27

Shoppers trip! 6/13/09

I went to the Shoppers in Frederickburg because they double $1 and triple $0.50 and under. I got lots more stuff, but this was the best of it as far as the deals went. The rest was basically meat and fridge stuff, already put away.

Date: 6/13
Spent: $45.60
Savings: $53.08

% Saved: 54%

Left to Spend: $787.23
Made: $1051 (almost close to the total that I allow myself to spend!!)
Money Saved: $1140.81

Stuff bought before the move from Michigan to Virginia

Great Meijer deal. Too bad there aren't any here in NoVA! But that's all right because it seems that many stores here actually double to $0.99, which is pretty awesome.

I have no clue how much this was, although I do know that I got each of the chicken breasts for about $1 cause of the great deal, and the Velveeta produced some catalina that I used on the meat. Basically, I know how much I paid. I will just leave it as is for the totals because I don't know how much i paid, and also how much I saved...

AHHHH, great KMart doubles deal. I really miss the Kmarts doubling, cause they don't here in VA. But that's all right because it seems like there are so many restrictions now. Don't know how much this cost either, or how much saved.

Should I guess do a guestimate??