Other great places to save!

So this past weekend I journeyed to my local Savers thrift store and found some amazing shoes. For all of my friends out in the healthcare field, I just wanted to brag that I found Sanitas aka Danskos. They are those amazing clogs we all wear!

Well I found a barely used pair for $15.00!!!!
These retail anywhere from $80.00-$140.00

While I may not have had a coupon for my shoes, I got them at a stellar price and they were hardly worn.

So next time you see a thrift store, don't be afraid to stop, you never know what little pot of gold might be waiting for you!

CVS amazing Extra Bucks!

Today I went to CVS, it was a small trip but a successful one!

Garnier cleansing towelettes $5.00 each, used 3 $2.00 off coupons making it 3/$9.00 but to get the deal even sweeter I received $5.00 in extra bucks from my purchase! Making these $1.33 each after extra bucks!

The Pantene shampoo/conditioner was 2/$6.97, used the $3.00/2 coupon from this past Sunday's paper, then received 2EB making this 2/$1.97!

Elnett hairspray is always getting rave reviews but I am too cheap to shell out $12.00+ for it. Well today my CVS had it on clearance for $7.89! I had a $3.00 off manufacturers coupon which made this less than $5.00! There is a coupon on target.com right now that you can use as well.

The toothpaste was $2.79 and I had a $0.75 off coupon, but combined with the $2.00 extra bucks I got back it was only $0.04! I really love Colgate total toothpaste, especially when it's cheap!

So many of you are wondering, what is this extra bucks nonsense?
Well each week CVS has certain items that will reward you extra bucks. They print at the bottom of the receipt and you can use them like cash next time you are at CVS!

So for this week I made $11.00 in extra bucks
2 for each toothpaste, 4 total
2 from Pantene
5 from garnier

I had $12 left from last week so here is how I purchased my items
Transaction #1
Pantene $6.97
Colgate $2.79
Colgate $2.79
-$3.00 Pantene coupon
-$1.50 Colgate coupons
-$7.00 extra bucks
Tax $1.17
Subtotal $1.05
Total $2.22
And $6 in extra bucks printed on my receipt!

Transaction #2
3 Garnier towelettes 3/$15.00
1 Elnett hairspray $7.89
-6.00 Garnier coupons
-$3.00 Elnett coupon
-$11.00 in extra bucks
Tax $1.66
Subtotal $2.89
Total $4.55
And $5.00 extra bucks printed on my receipt!

So make those extra bucks work for you!
I only spent $6.77 out of pocket just by putting my extra bucks to work! And still have $5.00 for next week!
Retail at CVS for all of this would have been $54.45, yikes!
I saved $47.68 which is 88%

I hope this helps you see that you don't always need coupons to save money. Get an extra care card at CVS and you will be on you way to some extra bucks!

Where to find coupons

Whenever I tell people I love to use coupons the first thing they ask me is 

“Where do you get them?”

Well, I subscribe to my local newspaper, so I receive inserts every Sunday.

However, there are some great online resources as well

www.coupons.com

http://www.smartsource.com

AllYou Magazine

 http://www.redplum.com/

Extreme Couponing TLC Reality Series

So TLC has renewed “Extreme Couponing” for another season. I’m sure many of you have watched it and thought wow, can I really save that much money? Well, the simple answer is NO this is TV people. I love coupons, and I love a great deal, but I don’t love creating “extreme” mayhem at the grocery store. I do not save 99% on every transaction that I do.  Some of the people featured on this show are hoarders. Have any of you seen that reality series? It’s scary. Anyways, I just wanted to put a disclaimer out that I will not teach you how to “extreme coupon” like the TV show.  What do you guys think of the show? 

Got Allergies?

Here is a great high value coupon for Zyrtec

$5.00 off Zyrtec Coupon!

Beginners couponing at Target/How to “Stack” coupons

Target is one of my favorite places to coupon! Not only does Target have stellar deals, but you can stack Target coupons with Manufactures coupons. A lot of you might not know about stacking, but in essence stacking is when you can use two coupons, one from the store and one from the manufacturer. It’s a great deal! Target updates their coupons weekly on their website

Click Here for Target Coupons

I absolutely love all the great deals that I get from Target. I also ALWAYS bring my reusable bags because for every bag you bring/use you get 5 cents off your purchase. Sounds like a waste, but seriously when you’re picking up items for super cheap 5 cents can be a lot!

Here is a great Target deal this week that shows how you can use Target coupons with Manufacture coupons:

Benefiber retails for about $6.94 at my Supertarget (38 doses)

Use the target coupon from their website
$3.00 off Benefiber Target Coupon

As well as the manufacturers coupon from the Benefiber website

$2.00 off Benefiber MF Coupon

For a grand total of $5.00 off of your benefiber! In the end you only pay $1.96 for a bottle of benefiber!

Got questions about how a stack works? Comment below

6/12/2011

This weeks trip proved to be pretty successful! I got everything pictured from CVS or Walgreens, so anyone can do these deals, whether you live in Arizona or California!

2 paper towels $0.50 each
Lysol toilet cleaner, buy 1 @ $2.99 get 1 free, - $1.00 manufactures coupon
Dove bars, buy 1 @ $2.19 get 1 for $0.01, -$0.50 CVS "magic" coupon (see later post) and - $0.75 manufacture coupon. **from now on I will refer to manufacture coupons as MFs
Soda, 3/$10 and recieve $3.00 in extra bucks (CVS coupons that print on your reciept, you can use it like cash on anything in the store)
Garnier Moisturizer, sale price $4.99, -$2.00 MF
Colgate toothbrush, $2.99, recieved $2.00 in register rewards (similar to CVS extra bucks)
Bayer aspirin, $3.00, -$2.00EB, -$1.00 MF
Motrin PM (can't remember the deal off the top of my head)
Schick Razor, $8.99, -$4.00 MF, received $4.00 in RRs
Dove Bags, 2/$6.00, -2/$1.00 MF, recieved $1.00 in RRs

yes it seems confusing, I'm going to try to make more user friendly posts in the future!

My new blog!

So as many of you know I am obsessed with coupons! I have decided to start a blog in order to help educate my friends and family on how to better use coupons in your daily lives! It is so easy and you will save so much money! I hope that this blog will be useful for, like the title says, Everyone!