Starting this February I will be holding Extreme Couponing Workshops. If you are new to couponing, know someone trying to get started, or just have questions this is a detailed 2 hour course that starts at the basics and takes you all the way through advanced topics! It’s a fun class and my goal is for everyone to leave an expert.
I have set up two classes in the Midlands area of South Carolina for February and have more in the works for March. Go here to see more information on the classes and to register.
If you would like a class in your area email me. I am up for traveling and we have lots of family in the Southeast that would love to see us!
Here is a list of what is free, or almost free at the stores that Southern Savers covers this week. To see the coupon matches that make these items free click on the store name.
Kroger
Fiber One Bars – .25¢ ea
French’s Mustard – .19¢ ea
Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers – FREE plus overage
Chex Mix – FREE plus overage
Snapple Drinks – FREE plus overage
Quaker Rice Quakes – FREE
Nature’s Bounty or Sundown Vitamins – various types FREE
Cottonelle Toilet Paper – FREE
Betty Crocker Frosting – FREE plus overage
Colgate Toothpaste – FREE
Publix
Rotel Tomatoes – Money Maker
Toaster Sturdel – .25¢ ea
Yoplait Yogurt 8 for $1
Egg Beaters – .50¢ get free Hunt’s Tomatoes w/ purchase
Muir Glen Tomato paste or Sauce- FREE
Pam Cooking Spray – FREE
Jolly Time Pop Corn – FREE
Bayer Aspirin – FREE
Aleve – .29¢ ea
Alka Seltzer – FREE
Huggies Bath Products – 2 FREE
Cover Girl – some products FREE
L’Oreal Vive Hair Care – 2 FREE
Garnier Fructis Hair Care – FREE
Bi-Lo
Wise Potatoe Chips – .50¢ ea
Blistex – FREE
Food Lion
Food Lion Cocoa Crunchies Cereal – FREE
Rite Aid
Garnier Fructis Hair Care – FREE
Listerine – .49¢ ea after rebate
CVS
Gillette Hair Care – FREE
Walgreens
Revlon Matte Collection product – FREE
Orajel Cold Sore Medication – FREE
AutoExpressions Air Freshener – FREE
Happy Monday! We had a great weekend having my husband home after a week away. In case you are sad to see the week start like we are, here are some freebies to get you going.
1. Free Download from Christianaudio.com – Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God (Unabridged)
2. Get a Free Sample of Orville Redenbaucher Pop Corn when you sign up for Start Making Choices
3. Sample of Poise Pads from Walmart
4. Free Battery Powered Toothbrush for helping your kids learn healthy habits
Great Coupons
If all the organic coupons yesterday didn’t make you happy try these…
$3 off 3 boxes of Special K printable (IE) or printable (FF)
$1 off Purell Hand Sanatizer printable
$2 off South Beach Cereal Bars and $2 off South Beach Meal Bars printable (no print limit so print away)
New Target Grocery printables (loaded yesterday)
$11 off various Scrubbing Bubbles products printables
$2 off Bayer Heart Advantage printable (IE) or printable (FF)
I love free stuff. My post office person… maybe not so much. It does pay for her job though.
Click on the image to sign up.
Get a FREE sample of Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal!
FREE sample of Head & Shoulders Shampoo (and get a coupon for $5 off Crest Whitestrips).
Try the new Quaker True Delights bar. (Anything with chocolate please…)
FREE Winter Wonder Guide filled with activities to do with your baby or toddler. (This one you get right away)
There is a new site called Delicious Living that has a large group of printable organic coupons. Wait it gets better… they are all PDFs! Kashi, Lundberg, Knudsen big health food names…
Go here to print the coupons and print/save what you want. (I really don’t know how long these will be up as PDFs)
Here are the coupons available:
Boxed Canned Goods
Save $1.00 On any box of Kashi Vive cereal EX 2-28-09
Save $1.00 Off any one box of Kashi Granola cereal EX 03-31-09
Health Valley Organic $1.00 Off Any 2 products Ex 12-31-09
35¢ Off your purchase of any Florida Crystals sugar product EX 3-31-09
Snack Food Coupons
Save 50 cents On a bag of Popcorn, Indiana – good on any size & flavor 06-30-09
Save 75 cents on any Lundberg Rice Chips
Beverage Coupons
$1 off Two bottles of Embodi (no ex)
75 cents off Any R.W. Knudsen Family® Product EX 12-31-09
75 cents off Any Santa Cruz Organic® Product Ex 12-31-09
75 cents off when you buy one 32 oz. Santa Cruz Organic juice product EX 2-28-09
$1.00 off Any 4 Steaz individual products or 1 four-pack
Other
$1.00 off Any Meyenberg Product 12-31-09
Save 55 cents on any Lundberg Gourmet Blend 1lb rice bag
Vitamin, Herb and Supplement Coupons
$3.00 off Any Earthrise product EX 02-28-09
$5.00 off Any Garden of Life supplement Ex 03-31-09
$2.00 OFF On any Slice of Life Gummy Vitamins for Adults Ex 01-31-09
$1.00 off On any all-natural Zenergize product
(thanks to Slick Deals for the list of coupons)
Do you have a Longhorn Steakhouse in your city? Guess what they will pay you to eat there! They are constantly seeking mystery shoppers for lunch and dinner at all their locations. Melanie (our Bi-Lo deal gal) posted about it a month or so ago, I signed up and completed a mystery shop and this weekend we got our compensation!
Here are the details:
Go here and sign up. After you register they will email you with available “shops” in your area. We had our first assignment within 48 hours of registering! Each household is able to mystery shop for Longhorn’s twice a year (sorry no weekly date nights). You will get your check within 4 weeks of your shop. (We got our’s in 3 weeks).
You can choose either a lunch or dinner shop, dinner reimbursement is slightly higher. If you choose lunch you will be reimbursed $25 towards your meal and $10 for filling out the survey. Dinner is reimbursed at $30 for the meal and $10 for the survey.
Their requirements for our dinner shop were to order at least 1 appetizer, 1 entree, 1 dessert and 1 drink(soda or anything else). You can split items if you like between guests. My husband and I shared the appetizer and dessert but each had our own entree. After reimbursement and including tax and tip we paid $17 for a meal of so much food we had to take home three boxes!
You submit your survey online after shopping, it will take a good 20 minutes but for $40 back that wasn’t to bad to me.
A tip from Melanie: The lunch shops are more sought after so if you don’t care when you go just try for a dinner one.
Since the frugal blogging world is all talking about e coupons with paper coupons and the legitimacy of it I thought I would quickly give you my two cents too. You will notice that this week’s deals still include them matched with paper coupons so that gives you a tip to my take…
First as background I have had extensive conversations with the planners/designers of Cellfire.They found this site a while back and had a lot of questions about us couponers so I tried to fill them in. I told them up front the best part of e coupons was that we could use them with paper coupons.Here is the summary of what they said.
While their goal is make it where you can only use one coupon they know that people can and will use 2 coupons for now.They also are eager for people to use their system and do not want to deter anyone from using it.
E coupons are a business folks. Shortcuts, and Cellfire need and want you to use their coupons. They long to show the manufacturers that this is the route to coupon distribution and thus take the money from Smart Source and other normal coupon distributors and put it into their own pockets. Also there are some pretty good kick backs from Kroger in all this for these companies as you are now loyal to Kroger since your e coupons only work there!!
They do hope to limit use of e coupons however will it happen? I honestly doubt it. Think about the differences between an e coupon and a paper coupon. If you were forced to pick one over the other many of us would always choose a paper coupon. Forcing that decision would be really bad for their business…
- The e coupon will never double
- You might have numerous paper coupons for the same item, you will only get 1 e coupon.
- You can have various amounts off for one item in paper coupons and thus can choose the best coupon for that store. E coupons give you no choice.
Keeping those in mind, and realizing that the e coupon folks know those same issues, they are not going to force your hand anytime soon.
Now for the legitimacy of it. First we covered that they know you are doing it and would prefer your business. Second how would you propose to not use both coupons together?
- Being able to load over 100 e coupons to your card you cannot be expected to remember what coupons were there every time you shopped.
I just loaded a bunch of Food Lion coupons (as well as direct links to print most of them). In case you haven’t found where the Food Lion coupons moved too, look at the top of your page and you will see a button that say “Food Lion Coupons“. It makes it much easier for me to update them, and hopefully easier for you to find them.
The baby coupons are the same coupons we had the last quarter. You can get a free Gerber baby food item, and FREE Food Lion baby wipes!
