All You Magazine

I wanted to let everyone know about the steal of a deal that the magazine All You is. It is chocked full of coupons. I am currently trying to get my hands on the April Issue but to no avail so far. I found this at Walmart for $2.49. Killer coupons in there too and I am just a magazine girl, so I love looking at the receipes, money saving ideas and meal planning. It was a big score!

I didnt see many killer deals this week looking thru the paper, but here are a few:

Safeway:
2lbs. Tillamook Cheese $3.99
Safeway Peanut Butter $.99 ****killer deal, stock up****
If I wouldn't have pillaged the free Capri Suns last week I would tell you to do the Safeway juice sale too. Buy 5 get $5 off. If you still had some of those capri sun coupons, this could be about $.50 a box. There are a lot of different juices that this include, check out fabulessslyfrugal.com to get all the details.

Albertsons:
Kleenex facial tissue $.75 with in ad coupon (limit 3)
Coffee mate creamer $1 (smaller size) **another killer deal**** coffeemate.com has a printable $.75/1 coupon that will make this $.25 if interested

**Sidebar** Tonight is Mom's Night Out at Columbia Center Mall. I am highly considering skipping out on hula to go and check it out. Lots of free goodie bags to the first 100ish moms, samples, coupons, vendors and my personal fav. pampering! 6-8pm is the time on this. Maybe I will see you there.

Best Deals I see 4/28

While I dont want everyone to run out and take my cheez-its I thought I would share this deal anyway. About a month ago, Walmart had hanging coupons for $2 off two boxes of cheez-its. I grabbed several of them, naturally. I have been eagerly waiting for them to go on sale somewhere. Well, just as they are about to expire (4/30) Albies does not let me down. In today's ad they have Sunshine Cheez- Its on sale for 2 / $3. Put my $2/2 coupon on top of that and it comes out to be $1 for 2 boxes. That is a killer deal. I plan on getting plenty this evening. Hopefully you grabbed these coupons when they were at Wallyworld. If not, let this be a lesson. When you see hanging coupons, grab them, grab plenty of them.

Fiesta Foods has their "Big Coupon" and it is milk for .99! That is a fabulous deal. Yokes and Walmart will also honor this deal so take advantage.

Safeway has some great stuff going on but you have to wait till sat or sun for these to take effect.
Kraft Ranch Dressing $.99
cheez-it $.99 (my coupon expires before then otherwise it would = free cheez-its)
Starbucks Coffee- $5.99, use $1/1 (3/21 SS)

Red Apple While I dont usually shop here, they did have a couple great in store coupons.
Classico Pasta Sauce- BOGO use coupon from coupons.com $1.50/2
All laundry detergent-BOGO use (2)$1/1 (2/7 RP expires 4/30 so use it soon)

Ok friends, that is what appeals to me this week. Happy shopping

Bzz Agent

Ok, so I am a bzzagent. I have not called myself this before, b/c I have never been asked to participate in a campaign. Well, today I got my first campaign and it is for Covergirl Blast. They are sending me this product so I can use it and get the buzz started about this new product. If you have any opinion on Covergirl Blast products I would love to hear about it. Leave me a comment!

$2.59 are you otta your mind?

The other night, I went to Safeway and bought 6 lunchables for the kiddos. Some people ask, do you really use all the stuff you buy, my answer.....of course. I would not normally buy lunchables and in a sense I didn't the other night either. Confused yet? I went to the checkstand with 6 lunchables. I handed over 6 coupons. I left with 6 lunchables. I did not pay one penny. I did not have a member of the 50 chasin me down. Absolutely free! The cashier finished scanning the coupons and said, " your total will be.....nothing."

Is this legit? Absoluetly! There are ways to get cheap-free items. The average person does not take the time to figure out these scenarios. I was asked last week how much time to I spend couponing. I said a couple hours a week. After thinking about that more I think I spend more. It is fun, one might even say a hobby for me now. I am still in what I call the "honeymooning" phase of couponing. I go to multiple stores to get many deals each week. Admittedly, I am kept awake some nights thinking that I may not get everything I want from a sale because others might beat me to it. Silly, I know. I spend probably closer to 5-7 hours a week pouring over ads and scheming up ways to save money. It is not a chore but a challenge. I think that once I get crazy stocked up on everything I will be out of the honeymooning phase, but until then, Coupon On!

BOOM!

My favorite stores to frequent are Walgreens (mainly for non food items), Albertsons (grocery), Yokes (doubler action and fresh meat and produce). I included a pic of a recent trip to Walgreens while my friend Jen was in town. I was teachin her the ropes of couponing and spent $2.59 for everything in the photo.

3- dawn dish soaps

4- Starbucks Frapps

4- cans of Lindsey Olives

3- Crest Pro Health toothpastes

3- toothbrushes

1- pack of Rolaids

2- of the best candy in the world! York Peppermint Patties!

Quaker Sale

Ok peeps, Quaker sale starts today. Not supertastic prices, but $1/box is still great. Especially for granola bars that we seem to fly through. This sale is at Albertsons. You can obtain the manufacturer coupon necessary to make this work from the Wednesday Tri City Herald or pick up one of the Yokes monthly ad books. Free at customer service. You will need one coupon for every 5 items you buy. Check out fistfulofcoupons.com to get the low down.

Another great sale is at Safeway. They are running a sale for pop tarts, cereal and my personal fav. nut clusters. Those are so tasty in yogurt! Here are a couple scenarios:

Buy 5 Kellogs pop tarts= $1/each
use $1.25/3 (3/28 RP)

Total oop is $3.75 not bad if you like pop tarts

another scenario
Buy 5 Nature Valley Nut Clusters= $1.50/ each
use $1/1 (2/21 SS)
or $.40/1 (3/7 SS)

Totally oop is $2.50-5.50 depending on coupons you couple this with.

Ok, well now you know my plans for the day.....pillage the local stores. Have a good one!

Victorious!

Just got home from Safeway. Damage done!

Total out of pocket: $9.94

10 boxes of cereal

15 boxes of fruit snacks

4 bottles of salad dressing

1 bagged salad

1 ice cream

Couponing Maddness

Loving couponing this month. As a matter of fact it has been keeping me up at night. Pathetic, I know. If I get woke up in the night, I will lay there thinking about the deals at different stores and not able to go back to sleep. It is a sickness, really. Well, I got up just before 3 this morning and changed a bed a kid peed in. Love doing that! Not! I layed in bed for the next hour and then got up to plan out my assault. I created the $10 challenge for myself, to see how much I could get for this amount of money. Here is the scenario I came up with:
11 boxes of cereal
15 boxes of fruit snacks
5 salad dressings
__________
$8.50 out of pocket

That is killer! I love doing this. I am really excited to have Karrie the coupon queen coming to do a class for all my friends and I. I love saving money. Last month the total saved was $114.30. Not crazy amazing, but amazing none the less. I would tell you that I have been saving the money for fun things, but that is not the case. Our water heater went out last month and we had a couple medical bills that pretty much devoured that and a lot more. Oh well, God is so good to provide for my family. And I dont just mean scrape by provide, He really does it with some flair!

Ok, well I am gonna go, Safeway just opened. I hope you all have a grand day
Jaimie