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This week I took some pictures of some flowers in my family:
My Grandma’s scarlet sisters
A bumblebee having his way with my dad’s urban hollyhocks
My own Gerber daisies:
Pink Lady…
…and her Twisted Sister
And then I took some pictures of the little people in my family:
Emily’s baby Sammy charmed me with his sweet smile
Sophie thinks things are lookin’ up
Joshua has fun racing down my parents driveway. I love his joy!
And I love this one of Sophie. I just want to kiss her face!
This was a great week at CVS! I had some great deals with competitors coupons, that my CVS accepts, and also I got FOUR CRTs after months of not getting any!! YAY!! They were for products, which I will happily take, but I am crossing my fingers that they will start popping out some dollar-off CRTs for me as well. (Please CVS?? Please??) Anyhoo, here’s what I got at CVS this week:
Batteries!! I can’t believe how fast we go thru them!!
I got 4 pkgs. of AA’s at $5.29 each and donated $1 to CVS’ efforts to raise $$ for ALS: So my total was $22.16.
I used:
CVS $3/$15 (expired but they take it for 2 weeks)
One 75 cent off Duracell coupon
Four $2 off Walgreens EasySaver Duracell coupons
10 ECBs
I paid 43 cents cash and got back 10 ECBs!!! Now that is how I like to buy batteries!!
Next, I had to get some of those OFF Power Pad lantern thingies. The mosquitoes are already really bad at our house and I am tired of them biting my babies! So I got:
Two Off lanterns $10.99 each
Three SoyJoy bars
Total = $24.98
I used:
CVS $3/$15 coupon
B1F1 FREE OFF lantern coupon
$3 off OFF lantern coupon
Two $1 off OFF coupons from Walgreens ES Catalog
Buy two, get one free Soy Joy coupon
I paid with 4 ECB and $1.69 cash and got back 4 ECB for the Soy Joy! ( I had bought my 4th Soy Joy on a previous transaction).
Of course, I also had to get some Pampers!! I ALWAYS get diapers when they are on ECBs whether I need them or not, because they WILL get used! So…
Pampers Cruisers $13.99
OFF spray $3.49 (I hate mosquitoes, k???)
CVS Cotton Swabs $3.19
CVS ChapBlock $1.99
Colgate Total $2.49
My total was $25.14
I used:
CVS $4/$20 email coupon (thanks CVS!)
$1.50 Pampers q from Cheerios box
$1 Pampers Rite Aid q
$1 OFF Walgreens ES Catalog q
75-cents off OFF q
$2 off CVS skincare q
$1.50 Colgate printable
$1 Colgate Target q
FREE CVS Chapblock q from email (My CVS didn’t have the right kind, so the cashier let me substitute)
I paid with 10 ECB and 71 cents cash and got back 7 ECB! 3 for the Pampers, 2 for the cotton swabs, and 2 for the Colgate. YAY!
Well that’s all for me this week!! To see more of my CVS adventures check out this post at my BFF Luanne’s blog. (If it asks you for a password, just hit cancel. I don’t know what is up with that!) I have decided to do her CVS shopping for her and we hit ’em hard on Tuesday!!
Fore more great CVSers, go check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!
I had so many super savings this week, I decided to break them up into two posts! You can see my CVS post here, but this one is alll about Kroger! I started off the week at Kroger to work the Daytona 500 promotion, where if you bought 10 of certain items, you got $3 off your order at checkout. You could do this up to three times per transaction. I did it twice in one transaction, and here is what I got:
That’s TEN jars of Ragu, two 5-packs of Kraft Mac & Cheese, and eight boxes of Fruit Roll-ups that counted towards the Daytona deal. I had 50-cents-off two Ragu coupons, which after the promotion made the Ragu just 78 cents each! I had 80-cents-off two coupons for the Fruit Roll-ups, which after the promotion made them only 87 cents each – but then I had a nice surprise when I was rewarded at checkout with a $3.50 catalina for buying the Fruit roll-ups!! So that makes them even cheaper!! I had a FREE coupon for the Cake mix and the tuna pouch which had printed for me on previous Kroger receipts. All in all, after all the coupons and promotions I paid $30.25 for all this and got back $3.50 to spend on my next order. Woohoo!
Then I heard about this hot Planters coupon (buy 3 participating Kraft/Nabisco items, get $3 off Planters nuts) from Money Saving Mom, and found out there was also a Catalina deal for Planters at Kroger. So I did this:
Eight pkgs. of Kraft Mac & Cheese 77 cents each
Three Planters Honey roasted peanuts $3.19 each
One pkg. Kraft Deli Select singles
I used three of the $3 off Planters q’s and a FREE coupon for the cheese from Sunday’s Parade magazine, and my $3.50 Catalina from the Fruit Roll-Ups deal, and paid a total of $6.23 and got a Catalina for $4 off my next order for buying the Planters!
THEN, I heard about some more great deals from Jamie at Thrifty in the Cincy (all you Dayton-area readers should bookmark her! She has all the local Kroger and Meijer deals!!) So, I took more Planters coupons as well as some others and did THIS:
Eight pkgs. of Kraft Mac & Cheese at 77 cents each
Two Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts $3.19 each
One Planters Cocktail Peanuts $2.99
One pkg. Kraft Deli Select Singles $3.19
Three Lawry’s marinades $1 each
Two Cottonelle 4-pks 99 cents each
I used three of the $3 off Planters q’s
One FREE Kraft cheese coupon from Parade magazine
Three 50 cents off Lawry’s coupons, doubled which made the Lawry’s FREE
Two 25-cents-off Cottonelle coupons, doubled to 50 cents (making them 49 cents!)
My $4 off Catalina from the earlier Planters transaction
I paid a total of $3.61 and got another $4 catalina to use on my next transaction!! I LOVE YOU KROGER!!!
The Planters deal is buy 3, get $4 buy 4, get $5, buy 5, get $6.50…I have some more coupons so I will be going back for this again next week! It ends July 13th. I now have enough Mac & Cheese to last the rest of the year!!
That’s all for my adventures in Krogering For more great money savers, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!