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Friday Finals

on 7.23.2010 at 10:48pm
Jenny 12 Comments

This week I  made it out to Kroger for a trip during the Mega Event.  I actually made a video of our trip that I’ll post in the morning (waiting on Youtube tonight).  It was a great Mega Event ad, so if you haven’t made it out you still have all day tomorrow in the south east region or possibly longer if your store sales don’t change until the middle of next week.

Kroger:
Total Before coupons and Sales: $89.44
Total Spent: $37.10
Total Saved: $52.34 or 58.5%

Walgreens:
Total before coupons and sales: $33.82
Total Spent: $8.58
Total Saved: $25.24 or 74.6 %

Our Walgreens ad all outside toys 50% off, on top of a few items being in this weeks ad.  We are about to head out to the beach to I used some Register Rewards to get us some fun beach toys, bubbles, jump ropes and two bug catching kits.  It was a lot of fun to go on a little end of summer shopping spree and I’ve struggled all week keeping them a secret from my kids.  I am never very good with presents,  I want to watch them enjoy them right then!

How did you do this week?  Leave a comment or link to your savings post.

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  • kelli

    I'll probably head out to Kroger for some more mega sale items tomorrow but here are my numbers so far.

    Kroger: I bought 8 lbs of marked down ground beef, lots and lots of cheese and a bunch of other mega sale items.
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $433.39
    Total Spent: $18.46
    Total Saved: $414.93 or 96%
    I started the week with $6 in CATs, now I've got $24!

    Rite Aid
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $316.34
    Total Spent: $78.07
    Total Saved: $238.27 or 75%
    I qualified for $124.30 in SCRs, $60 in gift cards, and $20 certificate for allergy reward (I shop for my mom, so this is for 2 SCR accounts)

    CVS
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $19.37
    Total Spent: $.79
    Total Saved: $18.58 or 96%

    Food Lion
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $22.59
    Total Spent: $3.44
    Total Saved: $19.15 or 85%

    • Iampresley

      Kelli, that's amazing! Can you break down your Kroger trip a little?

      • kelli

        sure thing :) I bought 8 lbs of ground sirloin marked down to $1.89/lb. I paid for that with $6 in cats and the rest in cash, that's where most of my oop was this week.

        I did a few different things for the mega sale. I used family members computers to get extra coupons, so I switched it up a bit over the week.

        example 1:
        6 kraft cheese = $.99 each (after mega sale savings)
        4 Dan-o-nino = $1.50 each (after mega sale savings)
        - (3) $1/2 kraft cheese
        - (4) $.50 off Dan-o-nino (doubled)
        - $5 cat from previous purchase
        = just tax
        got back $5 cat for Kraft and $2 cat for dannon

        example 2:
        4 Kraft cheese = $.99 each (after mega sale savings)
        1 Philly cream cheese = $.99 (after mega sale savings)
        1 Oscar Mayer hot dogs = $2.49 (after mega sale savings)
        2 Spaghettios = $.49 each (after mega sale savings)
        2 Quaker rice cakes = $.49 each (after mega sale savings)
        - (2) $1/2 Kraft cheese
        - $1 off Philly cream cheese
        - $2.49 (free Oscar Mayer hot dogs coupon from Kroger)
        - $1/2 Spaghettios
        - $1/2 Quaker rice cakes
        - $2 cat from previous purchase
        = just tax
        got back $5 cat for Kraft

        example 3
        48 Cesar Bistro Dog Food = $.49 each (after mega sale savings)
        2 Softsoap = $1 each (after mega sale savings)
        - (16) buy 2, get 1 free Cesar Bistro (cashier took off full price for these, $1 each)
        - (2) $.50 off Softsoap (doubled)
        - $5 cat from previous purchase
        - $2 cat from previous purchase
        = $.52 plus tax

  • kelli

    I'll probably head out to Kroger for some more mega sale items tomorrow but here are my numbers so far.

    Kroger: I bought 8 lbs of marked down ground beef, lots and lots of cheese and a bunch of other mega sale items.
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $433.39
    Total Spent: $18.46
    Total Saved: $414.93 or 96%
    I started the week with $6 in CATs, now I've got $24!

    Rite Aid
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $316.34
    Total Spent: $78.07
    Total Saved: $238.27 or 75%
    I qualified for $124.30 in SCRs, $60 in gift cards, and $20 certificate for allergy reward (I shop for my mom, so this is for 2 SCR accounts)

    CVS
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $19.37
    Total Spent: $.79
    Total Saved: $18.58 or 96%

    Food Lion
    Total Before coupons and Sales: $22.59
    Total Spent: $3.44
    Total Saved: $19.15 or 85%

  • http://www.brilliantmoms.blogspot.com Brilliantmoms

    It looks like a lot of people are starting to love Rite Aid.

    • Brooke

      What took ya'll so long? I've been MAKING money with them since I started couponing in November, well before up rewards.

  • Heidi

    $176 worth of stuff at Publix for $46! :)

  • Pinkandblackcrazy

    so just on school supplies from publix
    2- 10 packs of pens- .50 ea
    4 – 10 packs of mechanical pencils- .50 ea
    6 – pilot pen 2 packs – .09 ea

  • Faith

    $66.52 worth of products for $37.57 at Walmart this week. Some of the highlights were:

    (2) Finish 20 packs detergent $2.97
    (2) $2.50 off mq
    Final price $0.47 each

    (4) Gillette body washes $2.97
    (2) $2.00 off 1 mq
    (2) B1G1 mq
    Final price: $0.49 each

    (3) Bic Twilight razors 4 pack $3.97
    (3) $3.00 off mq
    Final price: $0.97 each
    (not as good as free at Publix, but my Publix limits you to 1 and you have to ask at the service desk)

    (4) Nexcare bandages $1.50
    (4) $1.00 off mq
    Final price: $0.50 each

    (1) Clorox II bleach $3.86
    (1) $2.00 off mq
    Final price: $1.86

  • Beth

    Rite Aid.
    $784.84 before sales and Qs
    Total spent OOP $168.98
    Quailfied for $218 SCR and $161.29 in gift cards.
    Please keep in mind that this is for 3 cards. 1 for my family, 1 for the battered womens shelter where I volunteer and 1 for a homeless shelter where my husband volunteers. God greatly blessed the ministries with such an awesome week just at Rite Aid!!!

  • Sarahbeth1210

    CVS: Pampers Box (next weeks ad) and 4th of July decorations (clearance)

    OOP: 12.97
    Saved: 23.35
    Left over ECB: 10.00

    Target:
    Calculator, 6 packs of glue, 4 boxes of crayons, 4 boxes of colored pencils, 2 packs of markers, LadyBug Lunchbox

    OOP: 10.26
    SAved: 13.99 (Used gift card)

    WAGS

    2 packs of dividers, 4 art boxes, 15 rulers, 2 packs of printer paper, 2 newspapers, 2 highlighters

    OOP: 9.94
    Saved: 25.20
    (Have rainchecks for the .19 pens and the .29 sheet protectors)

    Kroger
    2 packs of fruit cups, 2 coffee creamers, dixie plates, mouthwash, 3 danonino yogurts, 3 danonino smoothies, milk, bread, 10 cokes, 8 juices, chips, 4 packs of scissors, sour cream, 4 gerber toddler meals, bananas, onion, hamburger meat, oatmeal, 5 packs of Kroger veggies, 6 Kraft easy macs, 13 cheeses (shredded, bar, and slices), cottenelle, 2 cans of alpo, pads

    OOP: 0.00 (nothing)
    Saved: 177.78 (paid 72.25 with a gift card I won from Save at Home MOmmy and saved 105.53 with coupons and Sales)

    Total OOP: 33.17

  • Helen

    My best shopping trip this week was at Krogers. Got 20 cans of Satin Care Shaving Cream, 18 Oral B Indicator toothbrushes and 5 boxes of Crayola Crayons for $14.57.

    Used 20-$1.00 off any Satin Care plus Satin care was in the Mega 10 sale–$1.99 – $1.00- .50 for 49 cents a can.

    Use 9- $2.00 off 2 on the toothbrushes, on sale for $1.00 each so free.

    Crayon were 25 cents a box.

    Got the $2.00 catalina for next purchase.

    Receipt shows $39.00 in coupons, $67.52 in Store & plus card savings. 90% total savings.

    Also went back to use the 50 cent off on Crest that was on sale for $1.00 and got 5 of those free with the doubled coupon.