Diapers, Deals, and Charity!

    

So my friend Maggie Nowland asked how to save on diapers because they buy them every month for the food pantry. Well to Maggie all the rest of you out there that buy diapers for your baby or to donate to charity this one is for you!

First you gotta find out who has diapers on sale and then match that up with manufacturers coupons from the Sunday newspaper. So for example CVS has Pampers on sale this week 2 for $19.There are manufacturer coupons out there for Pampers 10-30-2011 newspaper Proctor and Gamble insert has a $2,00 off 2 packages and 11-27-2011 Proctor and Gamble insert has $1.00 off 2 packages of Pampers coupons.

Now if you do not have the paper or the coupons ask around. Your family, friends, neighbors, Facebook friends or church may have some. I have posted before on Facebook that I was looking for a certain coupon or insert and have had people more than willing to give them to me. Also my church has a box that anyone can donate coupons or receive them. It's a great idea that has helped many thanks to my friend Angee Perry!

Now coupons are $ that you don't have to spend out of your own pocket so find some.: ) To sweet this deal CVS has included Pampers with certain items this week that if you purchase a total of $30 or more then they will give you a gift card for $10. I called my local CVS and they said one of those is a prepaid VISA! Now I have not done this deal yet but they told me you can do this deal 5 times and so that would mean 5 $10 VISA gift cards. I would call the store first to see how their supply is on these before I went if you want to buy a lot of these. Anyway if the Visa can be used after the first transaction I would use it on the second so that you reduce your out of pocket expense.

So it would look like this

4 packages of Pampers for $36 + tax

receive $10 Visa

So after you use the Visa in the future you only have $26 + tax in 4 packages of diapers or about $6.50+tax a pack. Not bad huh?

Now CVS also has a loyalty card that you need to scan to get this deal and it will also keep track of how many packages you buy this year and for every 6 packages of a certain brand you buy they will reward you in a day or 2 when you stop back in with a coupon for a 7^th package of diapers for free! They have a machine that looks like an ATM at most of the stores. Scan your card there and that coupon should print along with any others they have for you. I hope this helps and I hope lots of you save your coupons to help your local food pantry and my friend Maggie Nowland. Or better yet go pick up some diapers yourself to donate.: )

Blessings,

Sharon

How I Saved Soooo Much!

     So when I went to CVS on Thanksgiving day I was armed with my CVS card (if you don't have one get one) $10 in extra bucks ( these are like store credit I have from an earlier purchase) a $5 off a $25 purchase coupon and a $6 off a $30 purchase coupon and a stack of manufacturers coupons I had matched up with what was on sale for that day to maximize my savings. I had told my husband it was going to be epic because I had never had a $5 off $25 and a $6 off of $30 at the same time that I was able to use in the same day.
     $163.21 is the amount that my register receipt said I saved and I only spent $15.06 and I walked out with  about $20.00 in extra bucks ( more store credit) and of course all the merchadise in my picture which included the following
1 Snuggie
1 Conair Hair dryer
2 Rice Chex
1 LA Looks Hair Gel
1 Quantum Finish Powerballs
2 Wet n Wild Nail Sets
1 Phillips Earbuds
2 Hershey's drops
2 Listerine Pocker Packs
2 Snickers Peanut Butter Bars
2 Twix Bars
1 Balance Bar
1 Be Koool
1 Bayer Advanced
1 CVS Dental Flossers
1 Colgate Total
1 Starbucks Double Shot
1 Fiber One Brownies
1 Carmex
1 Kleenex Cool Touch
1 Excedrin Pm
1 Excedrin Extra Strength
1 Advil
1 CVS AA Alkaline
1 Cepacol
2 Gum toothbrushes with bonus travel caps
1 Irish Spring Deodorant
1 Pepto Bismol
1 Soft Lips
1 Oral-B Vitality
2 Caramels
     So all in all I consider it an excellent day when I walk out with more extra bucks in my hand than amount of $ I spent.: ) For that I am truly thankful!

The Most Wonderful Day of the Year!

     If you know me you know I love to save money and a few years ago I discovered that I could save a lot of it on Thanksgiving. That's right, Thanksgiving. I know when some stores started being open on that day over 10 years ago I said I would never shop then.

     Well after so many years I realized that if they were gonna be open I might as well enjoy the savings and I discovered a store where I could save $70-$150 just by going and shopping there on Thanksgiving morning with some preparation from one of my favorite couponing websites www.couponmom.com.

     At the website they match up the sales ad with the manufacturers coupons that are out for the same product to maximize your savings and when I realized that Thanksgiving was the biggest day of the year for this I went out to discover what all the fuss was about in 2009. Well I went to CVS! That's right CVS and low and behold no one else was there at 8am sooooooo I was free to pick up lots of merchandise for an amazing amount of savings!

     Since then more people have been learning about couponing and this Thanksgiving I had a little company but not much. I am posting pictures of all the things that I bought that day and my receipt totals and savings just to prove to you that yes you can get free products from the stores like candy bars, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and Advil. Some times you can even make $$$$$ off the deal. If it's free generally it's for me and if I can make $ off of it all the better.

More to come later this week on how I got all of this!

Sharon