Freebie Friday

This week was THE week for razors and shaving cream deals it seems. My favorite deal this week was at CVS and all of this was free after Extra Care Bucks. Here's how I did it.

Herbal Essences on sale 2/$4.97 used 2, $1 off coupons = $2.97
Skintimate Shave Cream $2.19 each, bought 2, used 2, $1.50 off printables = $1.38
Schick Hydro 5 Razor and blades, $7.99 each, used $4 off the razor and $2 off the blades coupon = $9.98

Pair all that with a $5 off $25 coupon I received from scanning my card brought my total to $9.91 for all this.

What I got back was $10 Extra Care Bucks because of the promotion this week -- if you spend $20 on Skintimate, Edge or Schick you receive $10 for your next purchase.

All FREE! Yeah!

When to Stock Up?

I always question whether or not to stock up on certain items but there are some thing I just can't STAND playing full price for now that I coupon faithfully. One of these items is shaving cream.

This week I stocked up thanks to a super sale at Walgreens. With an in-ad coupon the Pure Silk shaving cream, regularly priced $2.49, were $.99. Pair that with an $.80 off coupon (that was in the 7/10 RedPlum) and I walked out of the store paying $.81 for 4 cans of shaving cream which was the coupon limit.

I liked this sale so much that I went back the next day, bought 4 more using the rest of my coupons and also bought 3 packs of  Trident Vitality Gum (also on sale for $.79 each, and I used a $2/3 coupon from the 7/24 paper). Walked out of Walgreens with a $1.18 bill.

2 trips. 8 shaving creams. 3 packs of gum = $1.99

Freebie Friday

Have I mentioned I like shopping for free? I actually didn't do a whole lot of shopping this week just stopped at Target and Shaws (took advantage of their $1 doublers!) Here is what I managed to get free:

Target
2 Papermate Pens used $1 off coupon printed from Target.com. These were on sale for $1 = FREE
2 Scotch tape used $.50 off coupon printed from Target.com. These were on sale for $.50 = FREE
Revlon Emery Boards $1.28 (I think), I used a CAT coupon for $2 off Revlon nail purchase = FREE
Jif to Go, used a coupon for a free 8 pack which I received in the mail = FREE

Shaws
Teddy Grahams, used $1 off any Nabisco product wyb 1 gallon of milk. These were 10/$10= FREE
Grain Berry crackers on price cut $2/4, use $1 off any Grain Berry product and $1 doubler = FREE

And the rest of the week I spent organizing my kitchen. I finally got a shelf for the basement. Yay!

A Few Days Late - Freebies

Better late than never, right? I was away this weekend so I didn't get to post my Friday Freebie but last week I got all this free. My car really needed to be washed and thanks to my Dad I got my car washed FREE with the coupon.

The second picture was a giveaway from Right@Home (a giveaway) and a Pandora bracelet which I got from filling in a survey.

The last picture is from a quick shopping trip to Whole Foods and Rite Aid. All free.

Maine versus Mass

This past weekend I tried to get in a little R&R up in Maine (which is why my Friday Freebie post didn't end up going up), but while I was up there I decided to do a little experiment with coupon inserts.

I bought two papers in Maine -- Seacost Online which publishes on Saturday and the Maine Telegram on Sunday -- and my hunch was right.  Between those two papers AND my Boston Globe subscription I got so many coupons that were the same, but few were different. The one thing I noticed that was different was the values of the coupons in the paper. We could get in the Boston paper $1 off 2 whereas Maine would get $.40 off one. I took a picture before I sliced and diced the paper just to show the difference.

It looks like every time I head to another state, I'll be sure to grab a paper and start to look for coupons for different values via eBay or a clipping service.

Close to $100 in FREE in less than 3 hours ....

So last week, I got over $50 worth of free stuff in under two hours - this weekend I gave myself a goal of getting $75 for free. (Now this was just what I got today - I am not including the $50 of free stuff I got during the week.)

Here is what I got:

6 Vitamin Waters
2 Honest Teas
7 Boxes of Nexcare Band-aids
3 Nexcare Band-aids travel sizes
5 Marcal 4-packs of toilet paper
11 Marcal Paper Towels
1 Bisquick pancake mix
3 2-Liter Diet Dr. Pepper
8 Gudlens Mustard
6 Raydovac Batteries
1 Muffin Mix
1 Pillsbury Cake Mix
3 Nature Bounty Vitamins
9 Sensodyne ProNamel
2 Pampers
4 Cans of Tuna
1 Pantene Smoothly Creme
1 Hersheys Air Delight

Total $96.48 ... whoo hoo! My biggest score was getting diapers for free - that was something I had to prove to my husband that I could do. lol

Under $4 at Staples

While I was out killing time the other night I decided to take a quick trip to Staples and pick up a few things that I wanted to buy to make my wedding planning easier. The end result all this is going to cost me $3.83 and I didn't use a coupon! (because I left my coupons on the printer at work...egads!)

Here's how I did it:
Staples paper $5.99 - $5.74  mail in rebate = end result $.25
Bic pencils $.25 (bought 2)
Gluesticks $1
Stickies $.25 (bought 2)
Staples glue $.01
Sharpies $1

Total regular retail would have been $22.76. A 87% savings. Whoo hoo!