Target/Walgreen's

Ran out to Target to get some ribbon for the tree tonight and got a couple of great deals.

2 Cheez-It's and 3 Keebler Fudge Shoppe cookies - $10.00, used the $1 off 3 cookies and 2 $.75 Cheez-It's IP coupons I posted about yesterday so they were $7.50 and I received a $5 gift card. I plan to go back and get some more this week - I didn't have all my coupons with me - duh!

There is a really good deal with the Boogle game at Target. It is on sale for $12.00 and they are also running a promotion that when you buy any Hasbro game over $10.00 you will get a Hasbro card game for free. What makes this even better is that in yesterday's Daily Herald's USA Today, there is a $5.00 coupon for Boogle! I hope you didn't recycle your USA Today yet if you get it. So, for $7.90 total (inc. tax) I got a great gift for one of my nieces! :-)

If you have read my blog for a while, you know that my daughter takes a Propel to school every single day and so when it's cheap, I stock up! Well, I thought I stocked up enough when Jewel had them for $.47 a while back but apparently my kids have gone through them and she tells me she needs more. So, I have bought enough the last couple of weeks to get her through and have been hoping for a sale soon. Well, while we were at Target she saw a display on the side of an endcap and they had the 12 pack of Propel powder packets and asked if she could try them. They are on clearance for $2.96 a box. She says they taste just like the regular Propel bottles! Yay - I am going back to get more because now she can mix these into regular water bottles (which I try really hard not to spend much $$ on at all!) and instead of $.75-$1.00 per day, we will be at around $.30-$.35 per day - yay! The only thing that would make it better is if there were a coupon out there for them. I looked, there isn't. Don't buy them all, save some on the shelves for me, ok? :-)

We stopped at Walgreen's too but this is NOT such a great story! I did really well until the register!

2 Nestle Chocolate Chips - used Wags ad coupon - $1.99 and IP coupon for $1.00 from http://www.verybestbaking.com/ so $.99 each.

2 Chinet dinner plates - BOGO at $2.99 with Wags ad coupon. I used 2 $1.00 mfg coupons from 11/22SS. There have been blinkies out there too - I saw them at Jewel just the other day. I need paper plates like I need a hole in the head but for $.50 a pack - gotta get them!

2 100 count light sets - BOGO - $3.99

4 Kleenex - BOGO at $2.19 (comes off instantly) - used 4 $.75 IP coupons from http://www.kmart.com/. I don't know if these are still available so hopefully you printed them last week when I posted about it. $1.38 or $.35 per box!

3 12-pk of Diet Coke - used $1/2 coupon that I picked up at Jewel months ago. - $10.00 - get $2 RR

I bought a couple of other things - Amanda was with me so of course I always end up buying something I don't intend to buy. :-) My total was $20.97 so I give her 2 $8.00 RR's and 1 $2.00 RR - let me just say here that when I got to the register, NO ONE was behind me - at this point though there are about 4 people behind me and NOBODY else is open at another cash register - the photo guy wasn't even there! - That said, my total should have been $2.97 and she says, $9.87 and I swipe my debit card with the fleeting thought that I though it would be less than that. Hmmmm....... well I take my stuff out and look at the receipt in the car and see that there is 1 $8RR and 2 - two - $2 RR's! Ugh, she scanned the $2 one twice! I was so flustered by being a "pain" up at the register that I didn't stop to really pay attention and ended up losing $6.00!! There is no way that I could go back and say anything because they just throw the RR's in their envelope and she wouldn't be able to tell which were mine! Maybe I'll start putting my initials on them or something so that if this happens again, I can go back and say, "nope look, I gave you 2 $8 ones and 1 $2 one". Ugh, I am soooo mad at myself for letting that happen. Oh well, I guess I have done enough money makers at Wags to cover it. :-)

Speaking of money makers, the 4 day sale will be really good this week! They are going to give you $5 RR when you spend $25.00. This has to be after coupons and RR's so your oop will be $25.00 but I plan on buying things that will generate RR's, such as the Renu saline solution and the Wheat Thins and Triscuits, Triaminic strips, etc. This way, I can take my RR's over to Jewel and get groceries with them! LOVE IT!! When you go into Walgreen's, go over to the pharmacy, they have a Diabetes and You magazine that is free but has lots of coupons including a $1/2 coupon for Nabisco crackers. I will be stacking these with the $1/2 mfg. coupons from the Nabisco Holiday booklet that is on display at Jewel.

Happy Shopping!