After a long weekend of celebrating the 4th of July, you may have missed a few deals. Here’s your chance to catch up on all of the deals still running.
Back to School Price List & Supplies Guide
Have you printed the $1 off Hefty Trash Bags coupon yet? If not, make sure to do so to get some good deals on trash bags!
If you shop at CVS, Winn-Dixie or Walgreens, you can get some great deals. If you’re already stocked up, you could also donate them.
Deal Ideas:
CVS – 7/13-7/19
Buy:
Hefty CinchSak, 28-45 ct or Easy Flaps, 40-85 ct., $6.99 (Sale begins 7/13 at CVS)
Use:
-$1 off Hefty trash bags printable
makes it $5.99
Walgreens – 7/13-7/19
Buy:
Hefty Trash Bags, 13 gal, 30 gal 28 pk, or 39 gal 18 pk., $5.99
Use:
-$1 off Hefty trash bags printable
makes it $4.99
Winn Dixie – Ends 7/15
Buy:
Hefty Assorted Trash Bags, 18-80 ct $6.99
Use:
-$1 off Hefty trash bags printable
makes it $5.99
Right now in our home, we’re working on homeschooling our three oldest girls. Our twins were always very motivated to read and do schoolwork with little external motivation needed from us. When we started homeschooling our middle daughter (now 6-year-old) we realized that we would need to take a different approach. She’s a child filled with joy who doesn’t mind learning, but putting in extra work or practice is not in her personality. Parents already struggle with comparing their kids and when you are homeschooling this becomes more of an internal fight. I will not force you to be like your sisters… repeated 1 million times a day.
Right now our largest struggle is practicing reading. She has come a long way in the last year, but when she struggles she gives up. Reading is over for the day and getting her to practice again is like driving a nail in a brick wall. Seriously. I know I’m not the only one with a kid like this, so maybe a small moment of sharing will help us all.
So, we came up with a goal for her! If she reads 100 books this month, I will take her for some one-on-one time to Build-A-Bear (we already had a $25 gift card from an awesome Aunt). We made a little progress chart and hung it up so she could track her reading. As she reads, we shades in every 10 books. I am requiring that the books she reads be read to a big sister or adult so that we can help with words she doesn’t know (and to hold her accountable).
After coming up with this idea, she read 12 books in the first 24 hours. I know some are thinking… great your bribing her. Yep, I’m not ashamed to say that I see she has no internal motivation for this and that an outside reward needed to be given. We did add one more element to our plan that is good for all of us, a weekly library trip!
This is actually huge for her and me. It’s time carved out of our week for us to go together and pick out books, plus it’s me trying my hardest to not rack up huge library fees. The library seems innocent and free unless you live like us… That means we both need a goal tracking chart. Our current plan is keeping all library books in a set basket in the house with a fun ribbon tag showing how many books we checked out this week. That number is key to finding them all next week! Also I go all out and get library text message reminders and set up a Google calendar reminder for the monday before they are due. We will not pay late fines…
One more tip in all of this for homeschooling families. If you are like us and follow co-op program (we do Classical Conversations) go ahead and start doing your history and science reading now. You’ll be a few weeks ahead on reading and will avoid the struggle of the books all being checked out when it’s the week everyone needs them. Here’s my favorite book reading guide for Classical folks. Look at how productive we just got all trying to motivate a 6 year old to read!
Want to use the chart? You can print it here.
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There is a great new cereal coupon to print! Get $1 off a giant size of Honey Bunches of Oats. These boxes are large, so stock up and have cereal for a while.
We don’t always see a lot of cereal coupon, especially valid on the giant size, so print your copies.
Honey Bunches of Oats Coupon
-$1 off Honey Bunches of Oats Giant Size Cereal (18 oz or larger) printable
It’s not currently on sale anywhere at the moment but print your coupons so you will be ready for a sale.
If you’re going to be purchasing General Mills cereal soon, see if you can find boxes that are specially marked with codes to get a FREE digital HD movie! You’ll need two different codes to get the movie.
Once you enter the codes on the website, you’ll select your movie (from titles like Night at the Museum, We Bought a Zoo, and more), and then choose to redeem through Target Ticket, Vudu, or Google Play.
Participating Cereals:
Honey Nut Cheerios
Fruity Cheerios
Frosted Cheerios
Lucky Charms
Reese’s Puffs
Trix
Cocoa Puffs
Golden Grahams
Head to Publix to get a great deal on General Mills cereal!
Buy:
(2) Reese’s Puff Cereal, 11.5-13 oz, B1G1 at $3.99 ($1.99)
Use:
-(2) .50/1 General Mills Reese’s Puffs cereal printable
Makes it 99¢ each + a FREE digital movie!
Other Cereal Coupons
-.50/1 General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios Regular or Medley Crunch Cereal , SS 7/13
-.75/1 General Mills Golden Grahams cereal printable
-$1/3 General Mills Big G Cereals , SS 7/13
-$1/2 General Mills Big G cereals, SS 6/01 (exp 07/12)
Here are the coupons that expiring this weekend! You can save on Ziploc bags, Cheerios Protein cereal, Pine-Sol, and more!
Go ahead and print any of them that you think you may need within the next couple of days. Remember, you can get (2) prints per computer!
Coupons Expiring Soon:
-$1/2 Ziploc bags printable
-$1/2 Planters nuts or peanut butter, 6 oz+ printable
-$1 off General Mills Cheerios Protein cereal printable
-$1 off 9Lives Dry Cat Food, 12 lb +, (zip 03103) printable
-.25/1 Mardi Gras napkin package printable
-.50/1 Pine-Sol multi-purpose solution cleaner printable
-$1/2 Oscar Mayer Portable Protein Packs printable
-.55/1 Horizon mac & cheese printable
Are you or someone you know expecting? Don’t miss a new 40% Off Cartwheel offer for Maternity Clothing. This Cartwheel offer includes Liz Lange for Target and Be Maternity clothing too.
-40% off All Maternity Clothing, Target Cartwheel printable
-$5$/30 Women’s Apparel purchase, Target (exp 07/19) printable
You can also print out a $5 off $30 Women’s Apparel Purchase Coupon and use it along with the Cartwheel offer or get a Mobile Coupon for $5 off $25 Apparel Purchase when you text OFFERS to 827438.
Cartwheel coupon valid thru 7/12. Offer excludes nursing bras and Clearance. Valid in-store only.
See more Target deals.
Target will be running a sweet promotion on laundry products where you get a $10 Target Gift Card when you purchase 3 included laundry products.
This deal does not start until 7/13; but you will want to print and clip your coupons now!
If these deals below look good to you, check out the Target weekly ad when it posts this Saturday for the full list of sales!
Participating Products
Tide Oxi, 7.12 lb, $10
Downy, 150 load softener, $10
Downy Unstopables 19.5 oz, $10
Bounce Dryer Sheets, 240 ct., $10
Gain Laundry Detergent, 150 oz, $14
Tide Pods or Gain Flings, 57 ct., $15
Deal Ideas
Buy:
(6) Tide Oxi Powder, 7.12 lb, $10
Use:
(3) –B1G1 Tide Free or Oxi, up to $12.99, excl trial size, PG 7/06
Total Due: $30
Get Back: (2) $10 Gift Card
-$10 Visa Card wyb $30 in P&G Laundry Products, Mail-In Rebate
(makes it all FREE!)
*Note: there is a $1 Target mobile coupon, but you must spend $30 after coupons for the rebate. If you use this Target coupon, you will not quality for the rebate.
Buy:
(3) Tide Oxi Powder, 7.12 lb, $10
Use:
(3) -$2 off Tide Oxi Powder, printable
-$1 off Tide detergent, 46 oz+ or Tide Oxi stain remover, excl trial size, Target mobile coupon – text CLEAN to 827438
Total Due: $23
Get back: $10 Gift Card
(makes it $4.33 each)
Buy:
(3) Downy Fabric Softener or Unstopables, 150 Load or 19.5 oz, $10
Use:
-$1 off Gain Fireworks, 9.7 oz+ or Downy Unstoppables, 13.2 oz+, Target mobile coupon – text CLEAN to 827438
-$3/2 Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables, Bounce Bursts or Gain Fireworks, excl trial size, PG 7/06
-$1 off Tide Tide Pods, Gain Flings, Downy Unstopables, Bounce Bursts or Gain Fireworks , excl trial/travel size , RP 7/13
Total Due: $26
Get Back: $10 Gift Card
(makes it $5.33 each)
The deal is available 7/13-7/19.
Even when you don’t have a chance to do something really special for date night, it’s important to sit down and chat. This week for Frugal Date Friday we’re going to talk about having a weekly check-in.
Having a weekly check-in is an easy way to make sure you and your spouse are on the same page. There are 5 standard questions that are typically used for this check-in. You can talk about things beyond these 5 questions, but the questions are a good place to start. This helps you to both have realistic expectations for the week and solve problems before they can become a bigger issue.
So, how does it work?
To get started, pick a day. For us, it is most convenient on Sunday, but any day will work. You can do this while taking a walk, enjoying a cup of coffee together, or sitting on the couch. Next, you need to come up with a list of questions to ask each week. Read More→
