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You may remember from last month that I am a Dollar General ambassador this year. This has already been eye opening for me as it’s pushed me to shop more regularly in my store. The more time I spend there, the more deals I find!
This month I was given the challenge to have a summer party with a $20 Dollar General budget. My local store doesn’t sell meat, but I was able to get most everything else I needed to have a few families over to join us for hamburgers and hot dogs.
First, you may think “why shop at Dollar General?” Well, many of their regular priced items beat grocery store prices everyday! Plus they take coupons!
I hit the $1 deals first. There are a ton of items regularly a dollar, so you could get stuck here for a while finding deals.
I grabbed BBQ sauce for 50¢ each after a coupon, plus baked beans and brown sugar (which I also had a coupon for). They also had hamburger and hot dog buns on sale for $1. I went ahead and also grabbed paper goods plus a few hefty zipper bags for left overs.
My girls favorite find was Kool-Aid Jammers regularly $2 (a price many grocery stores currently have on sale). Pair this with a current coupon and an Ibotta offer and you’ve got kids drinks for $1.25 a box. My last big find of the day was a huge box of 100 Popsicles regularly $3.25 that had a $1.50 mail in rebate on the box! That ought to cover dessert for our dinner.
I know my mission was entertaining, but I got a little side tracked in the $1 deals, and grabbed some cleaning sponges for 50¢ after coupons and a few FREE Air Wick air fresheners. We’ll call that a required part of getting ready to have company over.
In case you want to get all these deals, head over and see the coupons and deals and print a shopping list.
My last stop was to check out the clearance section. You can never leave Dollar General without at least glancing through everything. This week they had some fun toys and little activities marked 50% off. So we grabbed some paint by number kits, bouncy balls and water toys. Each item was 50¢ or less, some were more like 10¢ so it was hard to not grab them. I may not use them all for our party, but they will be great to put in our OCC boxes this fall!
All in all our dinner party is pretty set. I only spent $15 of the $20 I had, so we’ll probably save the leftover bit for some milk and sweet tea.
Check out today’s top printable coupons! I am looking forward to using the International Delight coupon, it looks super refreshing on a hot day! Get a nice deal at Publix when you pair it with a store coupon from the Grocery flyer.
Grocery
.50/1 Banquet breakfast sandwiches, 2.7-3.4 oz 2 ct. printable
$1 off Chavrie cheese printable
.65/1 International Delight iced coffee printable
$1 off Perdue frozen item printable
Personal Care
B2G1 Dial bar soap 8 pk. + or body wash 16 oz + printable
$1 off Lava bars, twin pk. or (2) singles printable
.75/1 St. Ives apricot scrub, excl trial size printable
Household
$1 off 2000 Flushes product printable
See the full list of new coupons in today’s newsletter!
Happy first day of summer! I’m pretty sure in my neck of the woods it’s been summer for at least a month, but I’ll take the special day and all the freebies and sales that go with it. We had a simple grocery week this week. No coupons actually just grabbing sales on produce items.
I went to Dollar General and Bi-Lo. Though my DG trip was really paid for by a gift card that was sent for me to share my trip with you guys. So I did. Everything I bought I put into a separate list of deals, and I’ll map out later tonight exactly why I went.
Bi-Lo would be our real trip this week, budget wise. I ran in for produce and yogurt. Sadly they didn’t sell the type of yogurt I wanted (hard to believe I know with the 100 different types of yogurt these days), so we just grabbed produce. I still managed to save a chunk though! I also grabbed a beef roast for Sunday dinner. Wanna come and join us?
Bi-Lo:
Total before sales and coupons: $45.12
Total Spent: $28.93
Total Saved: $16.10 or 36%
I didn’t grab anything that I could have used a coupon on. So no guilt for not couponing. I did miss a few deals that would have been great to grab while we were in the store, but it was one of those unplanned moments to shop. As a mama you take those when you can.
How was your saving this week? Leave a a link to your savings post, or a comment below. You can also use #southernsavers to share on Instagram or Facebook.
Kellogg’s Family Rewards has some great coupons and rewards. Right now you can score a Free Monsters University movie ticket when you enter 6 codes from specially marked Kellogg’s products.
Enter 1 code and you’ll get 2 music downloads, 4 codes and you’ll get a Mike pillow case, 6 codes gets you the movie ticket. It looks like the participating products are mostly boxes of Kellogg’s kid’s cereals.
See more reward programs!
Here are all of the top drug store deal starting 6/23. It is a great week to go shopping! You can get fully stocked on toothpaste, rinse, diapers, and more.
You can see the full weekly ad & scenario for each store here:
CVS
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$2 ECB WYB (5) SmartWater 700 ml, Vitaminwater 20 oz, Gold Peak, Honest Tea, Fuze 16.9 oz or Powerade 32 oz, $1, limit 1
(makes it 60¢ ea.) - $10 ECB WYB DermaSilk products, , limit 1
(excludes trial size and clearance)
DermaSilk 1 Minute Wrinkle Eraser, $19.99
-$10 off DermaSilk product, excl trial size printable (limit reached)
-$5 off DermaSilk products, excl. trial/travel size (regional), RP 6/2
(use $5 off, makes it $4.99) - $1 ECB WYB Tom’s of Maine Deodorant 2.25 oz or Toothpaste 4.7-5.5 oz, $3.99, limit 1
-$2/2 Tom’s of Maine toothpaste or mouthwash, excl trial size and under 4 oz, SS 4/21
-$2/2 Tom’s of Maine deodorant, SS 4/21
(buy (2), use $2/2, makes it $2.49 ea.) Read More→
Here is the list of extra Commissary deals and coupons for 6/21 brought to you by MyMilitarySavings.com! No extra coupons this week but a pretty good deal on cat litter.
All coupons and deals are intended for use at your local commissary and all deals and discounts are for military personnel and their family members. (Active & Retired)
Please leave a comment with any extra deals you find this week! See all of the Commissary deals.
Extra Deals
- AMP Energy Drink, $1.50
(good through 6/30) - Ball Park Frozen Beef Patties, $4.99
-.75/2 Ball Park products, RP 6/2
-$1/2 Ball Park products (regional), RP 6/2
(use $1/2, makes it $4.49 ea.) Read More→
This week you’ll have the opportunity to win vacations, cash, grills, home theater system, and more! There are a lot of sweepstakes again this week with most of them not ending until August!
Remember to check previous sweepstakes posts for more opportunities to win.
Sweepstakes
Grill, Bicycle, and more from Resolve (ends 8/5)
$5 gift card Instant Win Game from Subway (ends 7/1)
Trip to Miami and more from Fruit20 (ends 8/13)
LED Smart HDTV Home Theater System and more from Mike and Mike (ends 8/15)
$10,000 and more from Norton (ends 8/25)
Trip to Disney World and more from International Delight (ends 7/12)
$50,000 and more from Fazoli’s (ends 8/31)
Trip to New York and more from John Frieda (ends 6/30)
Trip to 2014 FIFA World Cup and more from McDonald’s (ends 7/7)
See more Sweepstakes!
Check out these fun restaurant deals including many Free and B1G1 deals. You could get Free Orange Chicken from Panda Express today and B1G1 Entrees from Spaghetti Warehouse on 6/25! This could make for a great night out with the family!
Bob Evans: Free Cup of Coffee (exp 7/12)
Jamba Juice: B1G1 Smoothies (exp 6/27)
Spaghetti Warehouse: B1G1 Entrees (6/25 only)
Panda Express: FREE Orange Chicken (after 9 pm, 6/21 only)
Long John Silvers: Free Side of Onion Rings (exp 6/22)
Souplantation: Free Meal With Adult Meal & (2) Beverages (exp 6/23)
Boston Market: Free Dessert with Meal (exp 6/25)
Kum & Go: Free Fountain Drink (exp 6/30)
See more dining deals.
If you have a Facebook Account, you can “Like” Michael Phelps to get a Shutterfly Coupon Code for a FREE Photo Book!
To get the deal, you will click get your code. A new tab will open with the code. The code is valid for a FREE hardcover 8×8 photo book.
You must request your coupon code before 6/30, but you have until 7/31 to use it. You will owe shipping which will be around $7.99, but that is a great price for a photo book!
Keep in mind that you can always “unlike” him after you get your code…
See more photo deals.
