Menu Plan Monday!

Sorry for the irregular posting the past month but I really haven't had too much to blog about. I got back to work at my business and haven't done much shopping. I did however make a menu for this next week and I am glad! We have ate out too much this past week because of the lack of a menu.

Monday: Spicy Chicken Soup

Tuesday: Chicken Picatta

Wednesday: Lemon Linguine

Thursday: Salisbury Steak

Friday: Pizza & Bread sticks

Saturday & Sunday: Probably something from the grill


So as you can see, nothing too exciting this week and lots of chicken! I am running out of new recipes to make and haven't had time to search AllRecipes for new ones.

As a side note, I am about to redeem my first gift certificate from SwagBucks!! I have only been a member for about a month I think, if that, and I just do all my searches there instead of google. I am so excited, nothing is better than free money right!

If you haven't signed up here yet you really should!

Click my banner and sign up, it's so easy, just use their website to search the web like you normally do and get paid to do it!

I Don't Have a Problem.....

Ok well maybe I have just a itty bitty problem with obsessively stockpiling.... LOL!

Today my post is part of Frugal Friday posts and it is about saving money in the long run. The past month I have been buying boxes of Electrasol with the 2.50$ coupon that came out recently. I went a little overboard and bought 60 coupons off of Ebay along with the 18 I had out of the Sunday paper.

Now this is not being frugal as of this point and time, because I have spent about 80$ this month buying Electrasol. At Walmart, the 2.50$ off coupon makes each box just 1.00$ which is a huge price discount. They are usually over 4$ a box at Walmart and considerably higher everywhere else. I go through about 2 boxes a month (our dishwasher is constantly running).

This is, however, very frugal in the upcoming months and even years. According to my calculations, I will not run out of Electrasol tablets for the next 5 years or maybe even longer. So I spent about 80$ for a 5 year supply of dishwashing tablets, that in my mind is very frugal indeed! It would have cost me over 300$ for the same supply without a coupon. I saved over 60% just buy using the coupon!


I now have 1968 Electrasol tablets!! Yes I admit I probably did go a little nuts with the coupons, but you never know when and if they will put out another one. I am happy that I have such a large supply, that is one less thing I have to worry about buying. If you do this with as many things as you can, you could save a ton of money off your monthly budget just by not having to buy it! I did this with dishwashing soap, dishwasher tablets, trashbags, toilet paper, and paper towels.

That is my Frugal Friday post, what's yours?

Be sure to check out the post below on easy ways to make a little extra cash at home!

Thankful Tuesday

Today my post is about me being thankful for the little things I have going for me. What I mean is, since I am a stay at home mom we basically live on one income, being my husbands. We don't have as much money as we would like to, and I am sure that applies with all mothers that stay at home.

About a year ago I started looking for ways to bring in a little extra income to help our situation. I do not want to work outside the home because I want to raise my baby myself. So I started looking at paid survey companies and I signed up for a TON of them. All I got was thousands of spam emails per day and no surveys! Well I did not let that discourage me. I kept looking until I finally found a couple of programs that I do make a little money on.

These are certainly not get rich quick schemes by any means. I am happy if I make an extra 50$ a month just sitting at home on my computer doing things I would be doing anyways in my spare time. 50$ is a lot of money to me, that's like paying my phone bill or car insurance or just an extra 50$ in savings. If you are like me, you understand how much any extra money helps.

So as time has progressed I finally found a few places that really do pay off.

One of my favorites is Hits4Pay. This isn't a survey company, you get paid for reading the ads on the site. I always thought these places were a waste of time but I have been successful with this one. They give you a 10$ sign up bonus and pay you .02$ per each ad you read. Right now I have 18.41$ in my account for just for clicking on the ads I get everyday. That's not bad for a couple of minutes a day!

One of my top favorite survey companies is American Consumer Opinion Program. This is a very good company to do survey's from. The thing you need to know about this place is you do not get surveys inside your account. They send you surveys and the sender's name is Anne Parks. Whenever you see these surveys you should definitely do them, they pay great! I just finished a survey about Rimmel Lipstick and earned 5$ in about 10 minutes, which will be credited to my account in less than 2 weeks. I LOVE this company!!

I also do surveys for SurveySavvy. They send surveys to your email too, and some of them are really good! Once you sign up for an account, go fill out the short profile surveys so you will receive more surveys! It takes a little while for them to start coming in but they generally pay very well for short surveys.

I really love Mindfield Online! I love all of the survey companies that send surveys straight to my email because I have a a habit of forgetting to log in and check for them. They have short surveys about your demographics that you should fill out to be included in a broader range of surveys, but even if you don't you will still get them! I just checked my account and I haven't fill out any of the profile surveys except for the general one and I receive quite a few surveys to my email, and most of them are 5$ surveys! I think the lowest one I ever saw was 3$ and I have seen them go up to 10$. Sometimes you won't qualify for certain surveys but that usually doesn't happen to me.

InboxDollars and SendEarnings are basically the same company. When you log in to you account everything lookls exactly the same, but they are different companies! You can make money from both of them seperatly. They send you paid emails which you earn a couple of cents clicking on them, and they also have paid surveys! You get .50$ per survey and they are usually pretty short. You also get a 5$ sign up bonus. You can usually take a few surveys a day so if you did 2 a day for 1.00$ per day, on each site, that would be 60$ a month! I like this place too, and clicking the emails do add up!

CreationRewards is a really neat place. You earn points and the points can be cashed in to buy all kinds of stuff including gift certificates to places like Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Walmart, or you can even receive a paper check from them! It is very easy to accumulate earnings here because there are 2 surveys you can do every single day and if you do both of them you earn 220 points. You can earn a 5$ Amazon giftcard with 1000 points so if you did both surveys everyday, you could have enough points for a 5$ giftcard in 5 days! You can see that it is easy to accumulate points here. You can also earn points by visiting certain websites and paid emails, but the surveys are the fastest way to get your points.

The is a cool new concept a few places are coming out with now, search the internet on their site and earn points! Redeem your points for all kinds of cool stuff! The one I like the best is SwagBucks. You do your regular internet surfing and if you are anything like me, you do about 20 google searches a day, LOL. Anyways, do your searches and you get rewarded SwagBucks! You can also get randomly rewarded too. Earn enough SwagBucks and redeem them for just about anything! 115 SwagBucks gets you a 10$ Barnes and Noble giftcard. I am sure going to love this place, I have only been using it for like half a day and already have 10 SwagBucks, woohoo!






Lastly, there is this cool new place called Scour which is like a type of search engine. This is almost just like the one above. You can search by going to the site and doing any kind of search that you would do on Google or Yahoo or any of those places or you can download their toolbar. You get points each time you search and you will randomly get bonus points! I just started trying this and it seems really cool. I will post an update once I use it more and see what all it has to offer.

Those are all the places I have had success with thus far. I have a few more I am trying out to see if they amount to anything before I let my readers know about them. The best thing about these places is they are tried and true and you don't have to go through all the trouble like I did trying to find the ones that actually do pay off! Check them out =)

This post doubles as my Works for Me Wednesday post. If you would like to see more WFMW posts go here.

My Menu This Week

Ok so now since you have seen what I bought for groceries this week, I will give you the recipes I am using to cook all week! I didn't have to buy a whole lot because I have almost everything I needed in my stockpile. I am getting very good at cooking and I only make a meal once per 30 days, so I am always trying new stuff. Being that these recipes are new to me and I haven't tried them before, I cannot vouch for how tasty they are =) I always check the reviews though and they seem really good so I am sure it will all be yummy!

Menu:

Monday

Brown Sugar Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and mac&cheese
Find the Brown Sugar Meatloaf here.


Tuesday

Garlic Chicken with Pasta and Breadsticks
Find the Garlic Chicken recipe here.

I am cooking the garlic chicken per the recipe, and serving spaghetti on the side with Pillsbury breadsticks.


Wednesday

Ham Steaks with mashed potatoes and broccoli/cheese.
(No recipe for these, just cooking the ham steaks I found in the freezer)


Thursday

Homemade pizza & cheesy breadsticks


Friday

Salisbury Steak with mashed potatoes and a veggie
Find the Salisbury Steak recipe here.


Saturday

Leftovers or something the hubby cooks


Sunday

Homemade enchiladas
(recipe on the back of the Hatch enchilada sauce)

Good Deal Alert

If you have an HEB grocery store near you, they have Boston Pork Butt Roasts on sale for 1$ per pound. The limit is 2. I have never used this kind of meat before but for 1$ per pound I was willing to try it. I am hoping to make atleast 3 meals out of it!

If you have an Albertsons grocery store near you, they have Wholly Salsa on sale this week for .99$ and there are 1.00$ coupons that came out a few week's ago which mean free salsa!! I picked up 8 boxes this week and am thinking about going back and getting another 8 or so, it looks very yummy!

My Shopping This Week

There has not been very many great coupon deals lately, but I have managed to snag a couple! Recently the 2.50$ off of Electrasol coupon came out and I use this stuff A LOT so I got about 15 copies of the newspaper and I bought another 40 coupons off of Ebay. I am planning on getting a 2-3 year stockpile this time around. So here is how I did this week:

Walmart:

(17) boxes of Electrasol - 59.50$
(3) cans of Campbell's cheddar cheese soup - 3.72$
(2) bags of Texas Toast croutons - 2.12$
(1) package of ready made pizza crusts - 3.64$
(1) can of GV crescent rolls - 1.46$
(2) packages of Pioneer brown gravy mix - 1.00$
(1) bottle of Adam's almond extract - 2.13$
(1) box of GV cream cheese - 1.07$
(2) boxes of Pillsbury bread sticks - 3.88$
(1) 10lb. bag of potatoes - 3.50$

Total Before Coupons - 83.42$

Coupons Used:

(17) 2.50$ off Electrasol
(1) .40$ off 2 Pillsbury bread sticks
(1) .30$ off 3 Campbell's soups
(2) .55$ off Texas Toast

Total After Coupons - 39.12$




HEB:


(1) 9.41 lb. Boston Pork Butt Roast - 9.41$
(10) French's Worcestershire sauce - 8.30$

Total Before Coupons - 17.71$

Coupons Used:

(10) Free French's Worcestershire sauce

Total After Coupons - 9.41$



CVS:


(7) 12 packs of Pepsi
(1) 20 oz. Pepsi

Total Before Coupons - 24.45$

Coupons Used:

19.96$ ECB
2.59$ ECB

Total After Coupons - .04$
Got back 10$ in ECB's for buying Pepsi



So those are the deals I have gotten this week. I have already went over my monthly budget for January because of buying sooooo many Electrasols. They equal out to 1.00$ per box after coupon and I have bought 54 boxes already and still have another 24 coupons to use!

I'm Back! Yipee!

Well I finally feel like I *kinda* have everything under enough control so I can start putting time into my blog again! I really missed being away and I can't wait to get back into it. Just to let you know, I have not stopped couponing.... NEVER! Coupons are a way of life for me. I have gotten a ton of great deals but I quit taking pictures of them some while ago, I guess I will be starting that up again soon!

I am going to keep a spread sheet of exactly how much I spend every time I go shopping, I haven't started yet but I think I know where all of my receipts are. Even if I can't find them, I can always start a little late and it would still be pretty accurate for 2009 =)

Yes I admit it, I have gotten a bit lazy since the baby come.

Anyways, you will never believe the most coolest thing ever I got in 2008 (well besides my baby ofcourse)!!!!! I am not sure if you knew about this, but back in December, Amazon had a customer vote thing where you could vote on what you wanted to be able to buy for a certain price. The thing with the most votes kept it's price, which was a hugely discounted price on Amazon. Anyways, I never thought too much about this but I was just messing around one day and I voted on Round 6, the KitchenAid Pro 600 Series. The price was 79.00$!!! By luck I was checking emails one day and I clicked on the one that said Amazon Vote or something like that. They said I was invited to a "race" to try and buy the mixer for the special 79.00$ price. The catch was, there was only 500 mixers available and far far more people than that racing for it.


Well I have always wanted one of these mixers ever since I learned how to cook, or should I say, I taught myself how to enjoy cooking. I got up that morning and waited by my computer for an hour until 7:00AM when the race would start. I didn't think I had any chance at all because the Amazon forums were going crazy with people saying they were racing for it. I gave it a shot and I so could not believe it when I saw it in my shopping cart! I raced through the checkout, and I got it 2 days later! It was so HUGE! OMG I did not know these things were gigantic. Thank god I have high cabinets or I would have been sorely disappointed not being able to leave it on the counter (it wouldn't fit under the cabinets either).

So here's the kicker.... I discovered KitchenAid had a rebate going for the purchase of select mixers. a 50$$$$ REBATE!! Mine happened to be one of the models so I sent in everything required and I didn't think I would be getting the rebate because of how low the price was that I paid. I was started to get bummed out here the past few days because it still hadn't came yet... And imagine my surprise when I checked my mail box and saw something from KitchenAid, opened it up, and saw this!


This was too good to be true but it was! I got a KitchenAid Pro 600 Series (brand new) for 19$!!!! Is this like the deal of the century or what?

So to wrap it up =) I am going to revamp my blog a bit and figure out where I am going to take off, and I am so glad to be back around! I also got a new email address that is much easier to check so please email me if you would like to, I promise I will get back the same day =) My last email was so hard to get in to and it had so much spam going I just quit logging in, it drove me crazy! texascoupondiva @ stx.rr.com

30% Cashback through Live.com!

Just letting everybody know about a pretty cool deal through Live.com! If you need to buy anything off Ebay and you have been putting it off, you might want to consider doing it now while you can get 30% off.

My son's birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks and I needed to buy some stuff for him so I finally took an advantage of it now, plus some stuff I have been wanting forever =) This is what I have bought so far:

Lego Star Wars PS3
Lego Batman PS3
New ac adapter for my laptop
Betty Crocker's 100 piece cake decorating kit (be wanting FOREVER!)
Foodsaver 2840 machine

All of this stuff was brand new and I paid 250$ for it through Paypal, BUT in 60 days I will getting back about 70$ through Live.com back to my Paypal account which makes everything I got about 180$ and that is including shipping! Not the best deal I know, but considering the PS3 games were 50$ a piece and the Foodsaver is 150$ retail, I think I did pretty good!

All you have to do is go to Live.com and type in "cheap wii" in the search box. The next page will bring up a bunch of search results, right above them you should see a banner that says something along the lines of "Buy Wii cheap! You may get 30% cashback if Paypal eligible" and it will have a Ebay web address. Click that and them just search for whatever you want to buy, but it has to be a buy it now auction to get the cashback. Click on buy it now and on the confirm page you will see a banner towards the bottom that says how much cashback you will get if you buy it. That's how you know you will get cashback, if you don't see this banner then you won't get any cashback. Buy your item and wait a few minutes and check your Ebay messages and click on the "You earned cashback" and follow the directions!

You have to click on the banner on the Live.com search page to actually get in on the cashback, if you don't do this you won't see any cashback offers.

I hope this helped somebody! Don't wait too long because the 30% cashback is a huge special, it is usually only 8%!

CVS Deals

I only go in to CVS about 1 or 2 times a month now because the deals are really lacking, but this month I actually went about 10 times or so =) They had a great deal on toilet paper and paper towels and I couldn't miss the chance to re-stock! Let's hope October will bring some great deals as well, I really miss my weekly CVS shopping!

Transaction #1:

(2) bags of Skittles - 1.50$
(7) various clearanced summer toys - 2.44$
(2) pairs of clearanced ladies sandals - .68$
(8) bottles of Dawn dish soap - 7.92$
(2) Covergirl Wet Slicks - 11.98$

Coupons Used:

(6) .50$ off Dawn
(2) 1.00$ off Dawn Hand Renewal
(1) 1.00$ off Covergirl
(1) BOGO free Covergirl
(1) 2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
5.00$ ECB
5.00$ ECB

Total After Coupons - .68$
Earned 5.99$ ECB's




Transaction #2 and #3:

#2:

(1) Nivea for men bodywash - 4.99$
(1) Adidas deoderant - 4.99$
(1) clearanced coloring book - .99$

Coupons Used:

(1) 1.00$ off Nivea
(1) 1.00$ off Adidas
2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
5.00$ ECB

Total After Coupons - 1.97$
ECB's Earned: 4.99$ for Nivea & 4.00$ for Adidas


#3:

(1) 12 pack of Pepsi - 3.00$
(4) packages of Cottonelle toilet paper - 25.96$

Coupons Used:

(4) .50$ off Cottonelle
2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
4.00$ ECB
4.99$ ECB
11.98$ ECB

Total After Coupons - 4.32$
ECB's Earned: 10$ for Cottonelle





Transaction #4:

(4) packages of Cottonelle toilet paper 25.96$

Coupons Used:

(4) .50$ off Cottonelle
(1) 2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
(1) 10.00$ ECB

Total After Coupons - 12.95$
ECB's Earned: 10$ for Cottonelle





Transaction #5:

(3) 12 packs of Pepsi - 9.00$
(2) boxes of Crest Pro Health toothpaste - 5.98$

Coupons Used:

(2) .75$ off Crest
2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
10.00$ ECB

Total After Coupons - 1.48$
ECB's Earned: 4.00$ for Crest & 3.00$ for Pepsi





Transaction #6:

(4) packages of Viva paper towels - 25.96$
(lost receipt for the toothpaste, nivea, and adidas so didn't post that deal)

Coupons Used:

(4) .50$ off Viva
2$ off 10$ CVS coupon
4.00$ ECB
4.00$ ECB
4.99$ ECB
5.99$ ECB

Total After Coupons - 3.23$
ECB's Earned: 10$ for Viva

HEB Deals

Transaction #1:

(15) cans of Mighty Dog dog food - 8.85$
(5) bags of Purina Healthful Life cat food - 10.90$
(1) bag of M&M's - .50$

Total Before Coupons - 20.32$

Coupons Used:

(5) free bag of Purina Healthful life
(15) free can of Mighty Dog

Total After Coupons - .87$




Transaction #2:

(2) bags of Senseo coffee pods - 6.78$
(1) box of Wheat Thins - 2.99$
(3) packages of Koolaid - .60$
(1) package of Oscar Mayer roast beef - 2.99$

Total Before Coupons - 13.41$

Coupons Used:

(1) free OM lunchmeat WYB Wheat Thins (HEB coupon)
(1) free Wheat Thins WYB Kraft
(1) .75$ off 2 bags of Senseo

Total After Coupons - 6.68$




Transaction #3

(3) boxes of Ronzini pasta - 2.76$
(5) boxes of Wheat Thins - 14.95$
(24) packages of Koolaid - 4.80$
(3) cans of Crystal Light - 9.87$
(1) bag of Green Giant steamers - 1.27$
(5) packs of Oscar Mayer lunchmeat - 14.95$
(2) Cascade dishwasher rinse - 5.18$

Total Before Coupons - 54.18$

Coupons Used:

(3) 1.00$ off Ronzini pasta
(5) free Wheat Thins WYB Kraft
(5) free OM lunchmeat WYB Wheat Thins (HEB Coupon)
(3) free Crystal Light WYB Kraft
(1) 1.00$ off Green Giant
(2) free Cascade

Total After Coupons - 8.25$




Transaction #4

(8) boxes of Ronzini pasta - 8.56$
(5) cans of Crystal Light - 16.45$
(5) boxes of Wheat Thins - 14.95$
(1) bag of Senseo coffee pods - 3.39$
(5) packs of Oscar Mayer lunchmeat - 14.95$
(30) packages of Koolaid - 6.00$

Total Before Coupons - 61.50$

Coupons Used:

(5) free Crystal Light WYB Kraft
(5) free OM lunchmeat WYB Wheat Thins (HEB Coupon)
(5) free Wheat Thins WYB Kraft
(8) 1.00$ off Ronzini

Total After Coupons - 7.15$




Transaction #5:

(3) cans of Crystal Light - 9.87$
(3) bottles of Kraft dressing - 6.48$
(7) packages of Kraft singles - 24.36$
(39) packages of Koolaid - 7.80$
(1) carton of eggs - 1.78$
(4) bags of Purina Healthful Life - 8.72$
(1) bottle of Cascade dishwasher rinse - 2.59$

Total Before Coupons - 71.78$

Coupons Used:

(4) free Purina Healthful Life
(7) free Kraft singles WYB Kraft
(3) free Crystal Light WYB Kraft
(3) free Kraft dressing WYB Kraft
(1) free Cascade

Total After Coupons - 11.18$

Walmart Deals

Here are all of my Walmart deals from 9-1-08 till today.

Transaction #1:

(2) packages of Luvs diapers - 15.94$
(3) baseball canteens - .30$ (clearanced)
(4) Clearasil pads - 8.00$ (clearanced)
(1) 3 pack of Mini-DV tapes - 12.44$
(4) Clearasil gel wash - 8.00$ (clearanced)
(1) Clearasil face scrub - 2.00$ (clearanced)
(1) measuring cup set - 1.00$ (clearanced)
(1) Maybelline mascara - 1.00$ (clearanced)
(5) baby shorts - 2.50$ (clearanced)
(11) wash clothes - 1.10$ (clearanced)
(2) Rubbermaid water bottles - 1.00$ (clearanced)

Total Before Coupons - 54.28$

Coupons Used:

(9) 2.00$ off any Clearasil
(2) 5.00$ off any Luvs

Total After Coupons - 26.28$




Transaction #2:

(13) Maybelline mascaras - 13.00$ (clearanced)
(10) Kotex liners - 10.00$
(3) Clearasil gel wash - 6.00$ (clearanced)
(2) Clearasil face wash - 4.00$ (clearanced)
(1) Rubbermaid water bottle - .50$ (clearanced)
(4) Kens salad dressing - 3.34$
(1) CD-RW 5 pack - 5.47$
(1) kids water bottle - .75$ (clearanced)
(4) packages of gravy mix - 2.24$
(3) lbs of bananas - 1.20$
(1) loaf of GV bread - .78$
(1) package of GV hamburger buns - 1.13$

Total Before Coupons - 48.16$

Coupons Used:

(10) 1.00$ off Kotex
(13) 1.00$ off Maybelline
(5) 2.00$ off Clearasil
(4) 1.00$ off Kens salad dressing

Total After Coupons - 11.16$




Transaction #3:

(16) 10 pack of Schick razors - 31.52$
(20) Kraft easy mac cups - 15.00$
(1) baby shorts - .50$ (clearanced)
(2) bell pepper - 1.00$
(1) package of Senseo coffee pods - 4.12$

Total Before Coupons - 52.14$

Coupons Used:

(1) free bag of Senseo coffee pods
(16) 2.00$ off Schick razors
(10) 1.00$ off 2 easy mac cups

Total After Coupons - 6.02$





Transaction #4:

(5) Kotex liners - 5.00$
(2) Febreeze candles - 11.94$
(2) Febreeze refills - 9.74$
(6) tiny notebooks - 3.00$
(1) On-Cor salisbury steaks - 2.08$
(1) On-Cor pork riblets - 2.62$
(8) packs of Trident gum - 10.24$
(4) packs of "bankers boxes" - 4.00$
(1) bottle of GV cheese whiz - 2.37$
(1) package of GV hamburger buns - 1.13$
(2) Dove trial size conditioner - 1.50$
(10) Kraft easy mac cups - 7.50$
(3) boxes of Rozini pasta - 9.00$
(1) package of dry yeast - .87$
(2) mini staple puller - .20$
(1) can of rotel tomatoes - .92$
(1) bottle of 5th seasons black pepper - 1.00$
(2) packages of Kraft singles - 7.46$
(2) bags of semi sweet chocolate chips - 2.00$


Total Before Coupons - 92.17$

Coupons Used:

(5) 1.00$ off Kotex
(4) BOGO Trident gum
(4) .75$ off Trident gum
(2) 2.00$ off any Dove
(4) 5.00$ off Febreeze
(2) free Kraft singles WYB Kraft
(6) 1.00$ off Ronzini
(5) 1.00$ off 2 Kraft easy mac cups

Total After Coupons - 27.18$





Transaction #5:

(10) bottles of Kens salad dressing - 10.70$
(16) packs of Kotex liners - 16.00$
(15) boxes of Kraft mac & cheese - 9.90$
(5) packs of Kraft singles - 17.76$

Total Before Coupons - 54.36$

Coupons Used:

(10) 1.00$ off Kens dressing
(16) 1.00$ off Kotex
(5) free Kraft singles WYB Kraft

Total After Coupons - 11.68$




Transaction #6:

(12) packages of Oscar Mayer - 27.04$
(2) packages of GV hotdog buns - 2.26$
(12) boxes of Kraft mac & cheese - 7.92$
(15) packages of Taco Bell seasoning - 7.50$
(9) boxes of Jello - 7.02$

Total Before Coupons - 51.74$

Coupons Used:

(12) free OM hot dogs WYB Kraft

Total After Coupons - 26.74$





Transaction #7:

(19) Green Giant steamers - 23.18$
(3) packages of Oscar Mayer hot dogs - 7.50$
(9) Johnson buddies - 8.73$
(9) packs of Koolaid - 1.80$
(1) pack of GV hot dog buns - 1.13$
(1) loaf of french bread - 1.50$
(1) pack of HP printer paper - 4.97$

Total Before Coupons - 49.84$

Coupons Used:

(3) free OM hot dogs WYB Kraft
(3) 3.00$ off WYB 3 Johnsons
(1) 3.00$ off HP paper
(19) 1.00$ off Green Giant

Total After Coupons - 11.34$




Transaction #8

(9) bottles of Kraft dressing - 21.96$
(3) TGI Fridays frozen snacks - 7.68$
(15) packs of Kotex liners - 15.00$
(27) packages of Koolaid - 5.40$

Total Before Coupons - 50.57$

Coupons Used:

(9) free Kraft dressing WYB Kraft
(3) 3.00$ off TGI Fridays
(14) 1.00$ off Kotex

Total After Coupons - 5.61$

Life Update

I am really sorry that I haven't been keeping up with things lately, I am behind at everything I normally do... and I never thought I would be. The baby does have a lot to do with it because I like to hold him all the time and it's hard to get anything done, I guess I could put him down and do stuff but I just don't want to, I would rather be holding him =) So now that a new month is starting tomorrow I am going to try and set some resolutions to follow and get myself back on track. I am actually so behind on stuff that I had a ton of the Kraft free coupons that were going to expire tonight that I almost did not use! Luckily I did remember and got to the stores to use them, and I still have to make another trip tonight to use the rest of my 9/30 expiring coupons.

Just letting myself get behind for the past 2 months have made me extremely lazy, and I really do not like that. I guess from not doing anything like I used to do has made me get into the habit of not doing anything, and that is a really hard habit to break! If anybody has any ideas on how to make myself start doing stuff again please let me know, I need a motivation makeover!

I am not really liking how I do my deal postings, all of them on Sunday and such, so I am going to start posting them each time I go shopping. This will be easier for me and you, mainly because I won't be posting 30 deals at a time, and it gives you a chance to copy my deals before the sales are over. I think this will work out nicely.

I still haven't gone back to work on my normal stay at home computer job... I am just so burnt out on it after doing it for the past 5, almost 6, years. I know the extra income really helps us so I have to get back to it, but I just really do not like doing it anymore. I guess I don't have too much to complain about though, I am sure other people have it worse than I do so I am grateful for what I do have.

Anyways, I think that's about all I have to say for now. I am going to post all of my deals up to today and then I will start posting each one as I do it =)

I hope everybody has been doing great with couponing!

Good Deal Alert @ Walmart

If your Walmart has a clearance section be sure to check it for Maybelline Great Lash mascara in the 2 for 1 packages, they were clearanced to 1.00$ in my store and I had 13 coupons so I got 26 free tubes of mascara!!

Super Savings Sunday - Walmart Edition

I always find time and energy to go shopping at Walmart because I can usually get a ton of great deals there, I go to Walmart atleast 2 times a week, sometimes more. Here is all of my Walmart deals for the past month or so.

Transaction #1:


(6) Schick Intuition razors - 23.94$ (price matched to CVS)
(12) Huggies Clean Team wipes - 19.68$
(10) bags of Kotex liners - 10.00$
(11) packages of Land o' Frost lunch meat - 26.07$
(4) pouches of Starkist tuna - 3.36$
Total Before Coupons - 83.05$ Coupons Used:

(6) 4.00$ off Schick razors
(6) 3.00$ off 2 Huggies
(10) 1.00$ off Kotex
(11) free Land o' Frost lunch meat
(2) 1.00$ off 2 Starkist

Total After Coupons - 3.11$



Transaction #2


(10) Huggies Clean Team wipes - 16.40$
(10) Schick disposable razors - 19.70$
(1) box of GV hamburger patties - 13.98$
(1) unknown item (can't remember) - 5.94$
(4) Huggies travel size wipes - 3.92$
(1) GV cooking spray - 1.46$
(1) bag of Kotex liners - 1.00$
(2) loaves of GV bread - 1.56$
(1) carton of eggs - 1.27$
(1) GV hamburger buns - 1.13$
(1) 5lb sack of potatoes - 2.27$
(1) kids yogurt - 2.24$
(4) packages of Farmland ham steaks - 11.92$
(4) boxes of GV stuffing - 3.44$
(4) boxes of HandiVac bags - 11.92$

Total Before Coupons - 82.61$ Coupons Used:

(5) 3.00$ off 2 Huggies Clean Team
(10) 2.00$ off Schick razors
(1) 1.00$ off Kotex
(4) 2.00$ off Farmland steaks
(4) 2.00$ off HandiVac
(4) 1.00$ off Huggies wipes
Total After Coupons - 44.13$

Transaction #3:


(12) Huggies Clean Team wipes - 19.68$
(4) travel size Shout wipes - 3.88$
(5) Farmland ham steaks - 14.90$
(4) Farmland diced ham - 10.72$
(1) Taco Bell taco shells - 1.08$
(1) bag of Tostitos - 3.28$
(10) Glade oil warmers - 39.40$
(1) box of Joy ice cream cones - 1.00$
(1) 5lb sack of potatoes - 2.27$
(1) can of baking powder - .82$
(3) boxes of Rubbermaid containers - 7.50$
(1) 10lb roll of hamburger meat - 15.54$
(1) 1.23lb of onion - 1.08$
(1) jar of Best Maid pickles - 2.58$
(1) bell pepper - .50$
(1) unknown item (can't remember) - 2.98$
(6) packets of Taco Bell seasoning - 3.00$
(1) tub of Country Crock butter - 2.50$
(1) Hersey's baking cocoa - 4.64$
(1) Pina Colada drink mix - 3.28$
(3) cans of Rotel tomatoes - 2.76$
(1) GV brand Velveeta cheese block - 4.12$

Total Before Coupons - 148.06$ Coupons Used:

(6) 3.00$ off 2 Huggies
(4) .75$ off Shout
(9) 2.00$ off Farmland
(10) 4.00$ off Glade oil warmers
(3) 2.00$ off Rubbermaid
(1) .55$ off Country Crock
(1) .25$ off Best Maid

Total After Coupons - 62.26$



Transaction #4


(10) Huggies Clean Team - 16.40$
(4) Glade oil warmers - 11.36$
(1) package of boys underwear - 7.97$
(1) clearance Harry Potter toy - 1.00$
(1) Spiderman boys shoes - 15.00$
(1) bottle of Pepsi - 1.38$
(1) package of boys socks - 6.50$
(1) clearanced toy - 4.00$
(12) boxes of mac & cheese - 6.00$
(6) packages of Pioneer brown gravy mix - 3.00$
(1) loaf of GV bread - .78$
(12) Taco Bell seasonings - 6.00$
(3) boxes of Jello - 1.50$
(9) Kraft Singles - 22.32$
(6) Suave body washes - 6.00$

Total Before Coupons - 108.40$ Coupons Used:

(5) 3.00$ off 2 Huggies
(4) 4.00$ off Glade warmers
(9) free Kraft Singles WYB Kraft
(3) BOGO free Suave
(2) 2.00$ off 3 Suave

Total After Coupons - 51.08$



Transaction #5:


(9) Farmland ham steaks - 26.82$
(6) Farmland sliced ham - 18.96$
(5) Farmland diced ham - 13.40$
(1) box of Kleenex - 1.52$
(1) school supplies box - .97$
(1) Senseo coffee pods - 4.12$
(10) All You magazines - 17.77$
(1) GV hamburger buns - 1.13$

Total Before Coupons - 83.13$ Coupons Used:

(20) 2.00$ off Farmland

Total After Coupons - 45.13$



Transaction #7:


(9) Crystal Lights cans - 26.82$
(10) travel size Dove conditioner - 7.50$
(6) Taco Bell seasonings - 3.00$
(4) boxes of Pop Tarts - 5.00$ (clearanced)
(15) boxes of mac & cheese - 7.50$
(5) cans of GV tomato paste - 2.10$
(5) cans of GV tomato sauce - 2.00$
(1) can of GV raisins - 2.13$ (clearanced)
(1) bottle of GV apricot jelly - 1.28$
(3) bags of Jet Puffed marshmallows - 2.64$
(1) bottle of GV ketchup - 2.17$
(2) bags of chili mix - 3.32$ (clearanced)
(1) bag of GV split peas - .76$
(1) 5lb sack of potatoes - 2.27$
(3) boxes of Jello - 1.50$

Total Before Coupons - 71.35$ Coupons Used:

(10) 2.00$ off any size Dove
(9) free Crystal Light WYB Kraft
(2) 1.00$ off 2 Pop Tarts

Total After Coupons - 22.53$



Transaction #8:


(5) All You magazines - 8.85$
(8) boxes of Pop Tarts - 10.00$

Total Before Coupons - 19.58$

Coupons Used:

(4) 1.00$ off 2 Pop Tarts

Total After Coupons - 15.58$