Food Lion, Target and Walgreens

oh my!

:) I've watched the Wizard of Oz too much lately. We ran some errands today and hit up some of our fave spots and one occassional (Food Lion)

Food Lion
5 12-pack Mt Dew (used 5 $2/1 mq's)
5 Chinet lunch plates (used 5 $2/1 mq's)
Total oop: $2.83
Total saved: $29.13 (90%)
(I should insert here that there was a Scott's natural tp flip stuck to one of my other q's that I didn't see. The cashier scanned it and it went through. When I looked up and saw it, I said- oh, I didn't get that, it snuck in my stack. He said, oh, well the register accepted it so don't worry. I said, ok, I won't complain then. :) So I got an additional $1 off that i didn't plan)
Oh, and I also scored a whole slew of $.50/1 VitaminWater tearpad q's. I got a few when I was there a month+ ago, and when I looked today they were still there! I figured, no one is using/taking these, they've been here over a MONTH! so I took a whole bunch. (but not all!)


Target
8 Banana Boat trial size sunscreens (used 8 $1/1 mq's)
2 Swiffer cloth refills (used 1 $1/1 Target q)
1 Target brand diapers (used 1 $1/1 Target q)
[earned $5gc for the swiffer purchase and used it in trans.2 to buy other items]
Total oop: $5.93
Total saved: $15.90 (63%)
with this purchase I copmpleted the Swiffer refill items needed for my gift card, so I will also earn a $10 Visa Debit card from Swiffer


Walgreens
4 Joint Juice 6-packs (used 2 bogo mq's and 2 $2/1 mq's)
2 Iceland Fish Oil capsules (no q's)
2 Puffs Plus (no q's)
3 Starbucks Vanilla Frappuchino (used 3 $1/1 mq's)
3 Contour meters (used 3 $30/1 mq's, adjusted to price- raincheck price of $14.99)
1 Jiffy Pancake mix (should've been two, but they ran out, so I was charged $.22 for one, but didn't get it - I was able to use a $5rr with that charge, so I let the $.22 go)
Total oop: $0
Total put on gift card from esr program: $12.89
RR's earned: $16
Total saved: $80.81 (84%)


Grand Total:
Total cash spent: $8.76
Total rr's earned: $16
Total gift cards to get back: $10

A quick zip through Target

A few things at Target:

4 boxes Fiber One bars
1 ream 500ct paper
1 box animal cookies
Total oop: $.24
Total on gift cards: $9.52

Publix , Food Lion, and Target

Due to the Advantage Buy being in-between specials, I didn't really have any mm's, no time to look around, so I didn't do as great as normal, and I had to buy a bottle of infant tylenol (not on sale, no coupons! *gasp*) for my sick baby, but still did pretty decent. :) Decent enough to have the guy behind me asking me all kinds of questions and saying he was going to have to talk to his wife about coupons! lol. oh and made sure to get in my fave cashier, Ben's, lane. Hi Ben! luv ya!

1 Glucerna cereal
1 Horizon half-gallon milk
3 Michelina pasta al dente
3 Muir Glen tomato sauce
4 Suave hair product
2 Blue Diamond Almonds
1 Tylenol Infant drops
2 Silk Soy milk
2 cans Black Beans
1 pack carrots
1 bag romaine mix
2 Sargento sliced cheese
1 5lb bag red potatoes
Total oop: $20.39
Total savings: $47.40 (60% savings)

Then a quick stop today for a few items I found new coupons for

4 Blue Diamond Almonds
1 Juicy Juice Immunity
total oop: $5.38
Total savings: $13.75 (61% savings)

Three separate trips to Food Lion (two for me and one for Doug, who was very proud of himself for getting the free reusable bag (I didn't ask him about it because I didn't want to overwhelm him :) )
3 Scott Naturals toilet paper
3 Entemenn's Salt&Pepper Pistachios (clearanced, Doug's favorite)
2 reusable Food Lion bags
total oop: $6.86
Total savings: $15.85 (57% savings); my savings on the tp, the item I went in for: 83%

And...at Target, a Special K overdose! :)
20 boxes Special K (various flavors)
total oop: 9.96
Total savings: $74.80 (87% savings)

CVS, Target and Publix

Today's Awesome deals!!
:)

CVS
2 Natural Dentist Oral Rinse (reg price 6.99/ea)
2 Easter Baskets (reg price 1.99/ea)
2 Easter grasses (reg price .79/ea)
Total oop: $1.58
and will get back $10 for Natural Dentist rebate
Total saved: $22.57
Total: Profit $8.42

Target:
4 20 oz. Vitamin Water 10 (reg price 1.39/ea)
2 Snack-size Cheetos (reg price 1.29/ea)
3 Johnson's Buddies Bars (reg price .97/ea)
Total oop: $.92 (on a gift card, $2.21 left on card)
Total Savings: $12.00

Publix:
Today's Publix trip was better. I got overage on some items, and not others. The oh-so very interesting thing was that the cashier, who is visually impaired, but extremely friendly (whenever I go to this store, I try to get in his lane if he's working)needed the manager to help on marking down a couple of the overage coupons. The first transaction, one manager came over and helped him out. For the second transaction, the first mgr had disappeared and another manager came over. This one said, "go ahead and run it". He said "but it's over the amount" she said "it's ok, we'll get it back, I'll explain it later". HUH! So based on this conversation- they DO get reimbursed the full face value of the coupon!! REALLY good to know!
1 Kashi Frozen meal (reg price 3.79/ea)
4 Breyers ice Cream (reg price 4.99/ea)
4 Cool Whip (reg price 1.49/ea)
2 Cedar Lane Wraps (reg price 2.99/ea)
2 Orville Redenbacher Popcorns (reg price 4.89/ea)
2 5lb bags Domino Sugar (reg price 1.99/ea)
2 Knox Gelatin (reg price 1.39/ea)
4 Sundown Vitamins (reg price 2.99/ea)
1 Sundown Vitamins (reg price 3.29/ea)
1 Sundown Vitamins (reg price 3.59/ea)
3 Pace Salsa
4 Birdseye Frozen veggies (reg price 1.79/ea)
2 Birdseye Frozen veggies (reg price 2.39/ea)
5 I Can't Believe it's Not Butter (reg price 2.39/ea)
5 Duncan Hines Cake Mix (reg price 1.59/ea)
10 Chex Mix (reg price 2.79/ea)
1 Kraft Dressing (reg. price 2.69/ea)
1 Gerber Fruit Puffs (reg price 2.19/ea)
2 Kraft Miracle Whip (reg price 3.99/ea)
1 Horizon Organic Milk (reg price 3.99/ea)
4 Ronzoni Angel Hair (reg price 1.39/ea)
1 McCormick Vanilla Extract (reg price 8.49/ea)
3 Jello Cook-n-Serve puddings (reg price 1.09/ea)
5 Bayer Aspirin (reg price 2.69/ea)
1 Pineapple (reg price 4.99/ea)
Total oop: 34.07
Total Savings: $172.74

coupons used: (all $.50 and less are doubled)
1 Free Kashi Frozen meal
4 $.75/1 Breyers ice Cream (+bogo deal)
2 $.65/2 Cool Whip (+bogo deal)
2 $.55/1 Orville Reddenbacher Popcorns (+bogo deal)
2 $.35/1 5lb bags Domino Sugar
2 $4/1 Knox Gelatin (got overage on one of two)
6 $1/1 Sundown Vitamins
3 $6/2 (Publix)Sundown Vitamins
3 $4/1 Pace Salsa (got overage on 2 of 3)
6 $.35/1 Birdseye Frozen veggies (+ 50% off deal)
5 $.50/1 I Can't Believe it's Not Butter (+bogo deal)
5 $.35/1 Duncan Hines Cake Mix (+bogo deal)
10 Chex Mix (+bogo deal)
1 $1.50/1 Kraft Dressing (+bogo deal)
1 $3/1 Gerber Baby food Item
1 $1/2 Kraft Miracle Whip (+bogo deal)
1 $1/1 Horizon Organic Milk
1 $1/1 Horizon Organic Milk Publix store q
1 $1/1 McCormick Spice or Extract (+bogo deal)
1 $1 off 3 Jello puddings wyb 1/2 gallon or larger milk
5 $2/1 Bayer Aspirin Publix store q
1 $2/1 Bayer Aspirin Kroger catalina/mq
4 $1/1 Bayer Aspirin mq
1 $.75/1 Pineapple


SO! Grand total spent today oop (not including $ on Target gift card): $35.65, and got $243.88 worth of items.
And will get $10 back for the Mail-in-Rebate on Natural Dentist products.

Yeseterday and today's deals

Target, Publix, CVS and Walgreens...

Target
5 12-packs Mountain Dew
3 Almay make-up remover pad packs
2 Band-Aid travel packs
1 Johnson & Johnson First Aid kit
2 Quaker Oatmeal (each box has $4 of coupons inside)
Total oop: $5.48

Publix
Publix was not as good as last week- this cashier/manager refused to take two of my competitor coupons, and denied overage. I could have had an additional $20 off my total oop and another 18 Gerber two-packs, but still got some decent deals.
8 Morningstar Farms products
6 Uncle Ben's Rice
2 Gerber Organic 2-packs
3 jars Pace
2 Coffeemate
1 bag fun-size Twix
1 bag fun-size Nestle Crunch
1 dozen eggs
3 boxes Gorton's tilapia
2 bags romaine lettuce
2 containers egg salad
Total oop: $29.63
plus coupon cost (purchased Morningstar coupons from ebay): $6.50 = total oop $36.13
Total saved: $84.23

CVS
2 boxes Scrubbing Bubbles Action Scrubbers
2 PAAS Egg coloring kits
total oop: $.54
ecb's earned: $3.98

Walgreens
2 Glade soy Candles
2 Natural Shimmers Chapsticks
2 Softsoap Coconut Body Scrub
2 easter duck bubbles
2 One-A-Day vitamin packs
1 Skintimate Raspberry Rain
Total oop: $5.60
esr's to receive: $3.28