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Kroger catalina deals

January 3, 2009 by

If you’re not familiar with catalinas, check out this post where I explain them.

I try to match up coupons I already have with things that I need and if there is a catalina deal to go along with it, it’s even better. I use the dollar of your next purchase coupons to either help lower the cost of things I don’t get coupons for very often (like produce or meat). If I have multiple coupons and it’s something I need or can stockpile, I will do the deal multiple times and use the catalina to help pay for it. Some examples of things that I have stockpiled using catalina offers are: dog treats, yeast, cereal, frozen vegetables, and fruit snacks (this is what I could think of off the top of my head).

I saw these posted on HCW.

Some of them match up well with coupons coming out soon:

This one ends today, but if you could find a way to work it into the instant $5 when you spend $25 on P&G products, it would be nice. I know the Crest toothpastes are 2/$5 and there is a $1.50 E-saver coupon plus there were .75/1 coupons in the 12-28 P&G inserts.

Buy more Save more. When you buy any Crest or Oral-B Products.
Buy 2 or more totaling $10 and get a coupon* for $2 off
Buy 2 or more totaling $20 and get a coupon* for $4 off
Offer applies to purchases on a single shopping trip between 11/2/08 & 1/3/09
*Coupon is dustributed at checkout and good on your next shopping trip. Not redeemable on P&G Products.

Buy any Jell-o Pudding or Gelatin Snacks During 1/2/09 through 1/25/09

Buy 3 get a coupon for $1.50 off next order
Buy 4 get a coupon for $2.00 of next order
Buy 5 get a coupon for $2.50 of next order

*There will be the .50/1 coupons in this week’s paper which will double

Buy Post Shredded Wheat Cereal Save Up to $4.00 OYNOHas a picture of regular, frosted and honey nut shredded Wheat
Details:
Buy Post Shredded Wheat Cereal (10oz or Larger)
Between 1/2 & 1/25

Buy 2 & get 1.00 or
Buy 3 & get 2.50 or
Buy 4 & get 4.00
Coupon off your next order.
offer expires 1/25/09

Kroger Cat: Kraft Salad Dressing B3G$1 B4G$2 B5G$3 OYNO 1/9/09-2/1-09

Buy 3 get $1 oyno
Buy 4 get $2 oyno
Buy 5 get $3 oyno

ARMOUR Meatballs – buy 4, get $2 OYNO (this reportedly expires sometime in February, but I couldn’t find an “official” end date posted)…they are 4/$10 at Kroger right now

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Savings Saturday: CVS ad for 1/4

January 2, 2009 by

I do these coupon match-ups myself and it takes a LOT of time. I don’t mind if you share this information, but please make sure you are giving credit by posting a link back to my blog! Thanks 🙂

I’m posting this a little bit early so people can start planning ahead!

These three items will be “free” after ECBs and coupons this week:

Colgate Total 6 oz, 2in1 4.6 oz, 360 toothbrush or any Max Fresh paste or brush – 2/$5, get $2 ECB (limit 3)
$1.50/1 Colgate Total Aetna coupon
$1 Colgate MaxFresh printable
$1.50 Colgate MaxFresh CVS coupon – check your e-mail!
Colgate Adult or Childrens Toothpaste, any 4 oz.+ .75 (1-24-09)
Colgate Adult Manual Toothbrush, any .75 (1-24-09)
Colgate Total Advanced Whitening, Clean or Fresh Toothpaste, any 4 oz.+ $1 (1-24-09)

*This will be a moneymaker if you got the $1.50 MaxFresh coupon from CVS in your e-mail, but you would need to do two separate transactions to use it more than once….if you did get the coupon, it expires on 1/4, so you need to use it quickly.

Garnier Fructis shampoo, conditioner 10.2-13 oz or styler 2-8.5 oz (excludes serum and deep conditioner) – $2.99, get $2 ECB (limit 1)
$1/1 coupons were in the 11/9 RP, 10/5 RP, 9/14 RP and 6/22 RP. They will also be in the ÂĽ RP insert

Mennen Deodorant or Anti-perspirant – 2/$6, get $3 ECB (limit 1)
Speed Stick 24/7 Antiperspirant/Deodorant, any except .5 oz. B1G1F up to $3.99 (1-24-09) from 1-4 SS insert

Other ECB deals:

Cottonelle bathroom tissue – 20 double rolls – $12.97, get $4 ECB
.50/1 printable here
Cottonelle Toilet Paper, Any 4 Pack + – 12-14-08 SS

Tylenol 8 hr or arthritis value pack – $7.49, get $2 ECB (limit 5)
Tylenol Extra Strength, 8 Hour, or Arthritis Product, any $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
$1 printable coupon here

Zantac 150 or Zantac 75 bonus pack- $9.97, get $2 ECB (limit 1)
$1/1 coupons in 10-26 SS, 11-9 SS, and 12-14 SS
MIR up to $5 in 11-9 SS

Excedrin Migraine or Excedrin PM value pack – $8.99, get $3 ECB (limit 5)
Excedrin Product, any 20 ct.+ $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 SS insert

Advil value pack – $9.99, get $1 ECB (limit 5)
$1/1 printable coupon here

Ziploc freezer bags twin pack – $5.99, get $2 ECB (limit 5)

Cottonelle moist wipes combo pack – $5.98, get $3 ECB (limit 5)

Chase & Sanborn coffee twin pack – $5.99, get $1 ECB (limit 3)

Boost nutrition drink regular, plus, high protein, Smoothie, or Glucose control 6 pk – $6.99, get $1 ECB (limit 2)
$1/1 Boost multipack – All You, January 23, 2009 (issue 1)

Jack Link’s original beef jerky twin pack – $9.99, get $2 ECB (limit 5)
$1/1 Jack Link’s Jerky, Nuggets, Beef & Cheese, or Beef Steak, 5-count or larger multi-pack or canister – All You, January 23, 2009 (issue 1)

Mrs. Fields Milk chocolate chip cookies twin pack – $5, get $1 ECB (limit 5)

Betty Crocker Warm Delights – $3.99, get $1 ECB (limit 3)

Glade PlugIns scented oil refills (2 ct) or candle twin pk – $5.49, get $2 ECB (limit 5)

Glade Sense & Spray starter kit or PlugIns lasting impressions – $6.99, get $2 ECB (limit 5)

Rogaine Men’s 5% or women’s 2% 3 pk – $39.99, get $5 ECB (limit 5)
$5 printable coupon here plus $15 OYNO

Sensodyne toothpaste – $5.99, get $2 ECB (limit 2)
Printable coupons here

Crest Whitestrips – $19.99, get $5 ECB
$5/1 printable here

Lubriderm – $6.99, get $1 ECB (limit 5)
$1 coupon here

University Medical WrinkleFree Eyes – $29.99, get $5 ECB (limit 1)

Spend $15 on Bayer/Aleve/Alka Seltzer products, get $5 ECB: Aleve – $8, Alka Seltzer – $5, Bayer – $5 (limit 1)
Aleve, any 20 ct.+ $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 SS insert
Aleve-D Product, any $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 SS insert
Alka-Seltzer Plus Product, any $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 SS insert
Bayer Aspirin, any 24 ct.+ $1 (2-28-09) from 1-4 SS insert
FORM Bayer Special Half Price Offer up to $10 Refund (mail-in) (1-18-09) from 1-4 SS insert

Miralax, 30 doses – $18.99, get $3 ECB
$2/1 printable coupon here

Spend $20 on the following Johnson & Johnson products, get $10 ECB: Zyrtec- $13, Motrin – $9, Sudafed – $7, Mylanta – $6, Pepcid – $15, Chlidren’s Tylenol/Motrin – 2/$11, Tylenol Cold & Sinus – $6, Benadryl allergy – $5, Tylenol Extra Strength/PM/arthritis – $8.50, Pediacare/Sudafed Children’s – $6, Children’s Tylenol Plus/Motrin Cold – $6, Band Aid – $3, EPT pregnancy test – $15, Carefree/Stayfree/OB – 2/$9, Neosporin – $5, Viactiv – $6, Imodium – $13, Listerine – 4.50, Listerine Whitening Pen – $10, Listerine Whitening Strips – $20 (Limit 1)
CVS $2.50/10 pain relief CRT
$2.50/1 Zyrtec from 12-7 RP insert
$1/1 Motrin printable here
$1/1 Sudafed printable here
$1/1 Mylanta here
$1/1 Pepcid Product, Any – 12-14-08 RP
$1/1 Benadryl printable here
$1 Tylenol printable coupon here
.50/1 Carefree printable here
$1/1 Stayfree printable here
$1/1 Neosporin printable here
$1/1 Imodium printable here
$2/1 Listerine whitening strips printable here
Tylenol Childrens, Childrens Plus, Childrens Motrin, or Pediacare, no trial $2.50 on 2 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Tylenol Cold, Sinus or Allergy Product, any except trail size $1 (4-4-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Tylenol Extra Strength, 8 Hour, or Arthritis Product, any $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Tylenol Infants, Infants Motrin or Simply Soothing, excludes trial size $2.50 on 2 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Tylenol PM or Simply Sleep Product, any except trial size $1 (6-15-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Viactiv Flavor Glides Dietary Supplement, any $1 (2-28-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Viactiv Soft Chews Dietary Supplement, any $1 (2-28-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Stayfree Product, any B1G1F up to $7.50 (3-1-09) from 1-4 RP insert
o.b. Product, any except trial size $1 (3-1-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Motrin Product, any except trial size $1 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Carefree Product, any 34 ct.+ $1 on 2 (3-1-09) from 1-4 RP insert

Slim Fast Optima bars or shakes (6 ct) – $6.49, get $2 ECB
$1.25/1 printable here
Slim-Fast Bars, any Multi-pack $1.25 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert
Slim Fast Ready-to-Drink Multi-Pack or Powder Canister, any $1.40 (3-31-09) from 1-4 RP insert

Alli starter kit, twin pack – $59.99, get $10 ECB (limit 1)
$5/1 printable here

Bausch & Lomb ReNu MultiPlus twin pack or Alaway eye itch relief – $12.99, get $3
$1/1 printable here

Buy $20 of Mega-T green tea gum, drink mix, or caplets, get $10 ECB (limit 5)
$1 any mega-t product printable or $1.50 MIR printable here

Spend $15 on Futuro braces, supports, or compression hosiery, get $5 ECB (limit 1)

Visine tears – $5.49, get $1 ECB (limit 1)
$2/1 Visine Tears Product, Any -09-28-08 RP

Spend $20, on Thera Tears, SteriLid cleanser, liquid gel, or nutrition capsules, get $5 ECB (limit 1)

BOGO free deals:
All CVS Pharmacy vitamins/minerals/herbs
Use $3/15 CVS/Pharmacy purchase coupon
All laundry detergent
$1/1 printable here
All L’Oreal cosmetics
Progresso soups
$1.10/1 printable coupon here
.50/2 Progresso Soup, Any Flavor – 12-07-08 SS

Other deals:
*Pepsi 8 pk – 5/$10
*Palmolive – .97 (limit 6)
Palmolive Dish Liquid, any .25 (1-24-09) from 1-4 SS
*CVS products BOGO 50% off – over 1,300 products to choose from

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More scenarios for the Kroger $5 off $25 P&G promotion

January 2, 2009 by


The details for the Kroger P&G instant $5 off when you spend $25 on participating items promotion are posted here. This post also includes links to other participating products and coupon match-ups.

There are new loadable P&G E-saver coupons. Although they are not as good as last time, you can still get some good deals.

Here’s a scenario using manufacturer’s coupons and the new loadable E-saver coupons:

Buy 1 Crest toothpaste – $2.50
$1.50/1 E-saver loadable coupon
.75/1 from 12-28 P&G insert

Gillette Fusion manual – $7.79
$4/1 from 12-28 P&G insert

Swiffer refill – $4.39
$.50 from E-saver
$1 from home mailer

2 Old Spice red zone – $3.89
$1/2 from 12-28 P&G insert
$1/2 E-saver

1 Olay Ribbons – $3.99
$1/1 from 12-28 P&G insert
$1 Esaver

Buy 2 Daisy sour cream – 2/$4
.50/1 printable coupon here (will double if your store doubles)

Cottonelle toilet paper – $1.19
.50/1 manufacturer’s coupon from 12-14 inserts (will double if your stores double)
.50/1 loadable shortcuts.com coupon

Total before coupons = $31.64
Total after coupons = $16.39

Total after instant $5 off – $11.39

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My New Years "Challenges": $40 a week grocery budget and more savings!

January 2, 2009 by

I thought I’d share my personal New Years “challenges” (I don’t want to use “resolution”) with you all to explain some of the changes on my blog. Feel free to participate, too, if you’d like!

My weekly posts will basically stay the same, but beginning on Sunday, I will be making these two weekly changes:

*Mondays will change from “More Savings Monday” to “Menu Planning Monday”

*Saturday will still be “Savings Saturday” but I will also post my total savings for that week

Here are my challenges for the year:

*$40 a week grocery budget (this is for a family of four) – This will include all of my groceries. I do an overall monthly budget, but rather than allotting a certain amount for the month, I am going to try to stay within the $40/week to make it easier for everyone to follow. I do my grocery shopping on Saturday, so the details from this will be posted in “Savings Saturday” but my menu for the week will be posted on Mondays.

At this point, my grocery budget does not include paper products. I don’t really budget for these things because I basically have a six month to year supply of most of these products thanks to CVS/Walgreens. Any additional paper products I do buy will most likely be covered by ECBs or RRs. It also does not include health & beauty products (I have at least a year supply of most of these and buy most of the rest using ECBs or RRs) and does not include our expenses for eating out. This comes out of a separate category in our budget.

The $40/week will be based on my out of pocket expenses. If I use gift cards, coupons, RR, or ECBs, those will not count toward the $40 weekly budget.

**I wanted to add that I see this as a possibility for me because I have a stockpile of items already to work with. If you don’t have a stockpile, it may cost you a little bit more to get started, but I will be posting items that you should stock up on while they are super cheap as they come along. Also, two of the major grocery stores around me triple coupons up to .39 and double coupons up to .50. We also don’t have any food allergies or dietary restrictions that we have to accommodate and I don’t have any babies eating baby food or formula right now.

*Meeting the following savings goals without touching our monthly paychecks

Each month, we save for some things such as auto maintenance/registration; property insurance/taxes/HOA fees (we do our own escrow after a bad experience with our escrow company a few years back); planned vacations; clothing, and long term emergency planning. If you don’t have an ING account, this is a great place to keep all of your “extra” savings accounts because you can create sub accounts and track everyone in one place.

The following savings accounts will not be funded through our monthly paychecks. I will use the “extra” things I do to fund these accounts. You can follow my savings progress through the tickers on the right side bar of the blog.

*Gift savings – This will include Christmas gifts, birthday gifts, and other gifts that we need to pay for throughout the year.

*Baby emergency fund – If you follow Dave Ramsey, you know that this is. Basically it’s $1000 that you keep on hand to cover any emergencies

*Rolling entertainment fund – We have a monthly entertainment budget, but this will cover any spur of the moment “extras” like a weekend getaway or an unplanned family excursion. It’s “rolling” because if we use the money, I’d like to rebuild it 🙂

Here are the ways that I plan to fund these savings accounts:

*Mystery shopping

*Payment from various survey companies – Mysurvey.com and Pinecone Research are my two favorites right now

*Checks from rebates (I earned about $800 last year from rebates and many of the rebates I submitted were for products I bought for “free” using ECBs or RRs)

*Garage sales – we have two community garage sales each year

*Ebay sales – every six months or so, we do a clean out of our house and items that are not being donated or sold at our garage sale get listed on Ebay

*Payment from articles that I write for Associated Content

*Money from our cash back rewards credit cards – this works well for us because we pay these cards off in full every month….I don’t recommend this route if you’re not in a position to do that

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Coupons for 2009

January 2, 2009 by

The coupon preview for this Sunday’s inserts is up on Taylortown. There will be FIVE inserts this week, so it will definitely be worth it to get a paper!

If your goal is to start a stockpile this year, here are some coupons that would be worth getting in multiples:

*Electrasol $2.50/1 any powerball tabs, gelpacs or quantum (expires 2-1-09) – This will be a HOT coupon. They are on price cut at Target for $3.25 right now, making it .75/box. I still have about 16 boxes of these that I got for .40/each this summer.

*Birds Eye Steamfresh Vegetable or Rice Variety, any .35 (expires 2-14-09) – if your grocery stores triple coupons, these go on sale 10/$10 every few months, which would make them free with this coupon! I have a freezer full from the last time they went on sale and I had coupons 🙂

*Jell-O Pudding Snacks or Gelatin Snacks, any .50 (expires 2-1-09)

*Kleenex Lotion Facial Tissue .40 (2-28-09) – look for 10/$10 sales making these .20/each if your stores double coupons

*Johnsons Baby Product or Johnsons Buddies Product, any except trial size $1 (expires 3-31-09) – you can get almost free Buddy bars and they are great to have on hand to stock up on other Johnsons products (baby lotion, shampoo, body wash, etc.) when the stores have Johnsons stock up sales

*Tylenol Infants, Infants Motrin or Simply Soothing, excludes trial size $2.50 on 2 (expires 3-31-09)

*Tylenol Childrens, Childrens Plus, Childrens Motrin, or Pediacare, no trial $2.50 on 2 (expires 3-31-09)

If you are getting multiples of a variety of coupons, the best deal I have found is through The Coupon Clippers. She posts the coupons for the Sunday inserts on Saturday morning. All of these will likely go fast.

PRINTABLE COUPONS
New coupons are up on Coupons.com since it’s the start of a new month. These can be printed from the Coupons.com logo at the top of the blog or from the blue sidebar on the blog. Print them fast before they’re gone!

Here are a few good ones:
*$1/1 Kraft or Polly-O string cheese

*.50/1 No Yolks noodles (if your grocery stores double, this makes for free or very cheap noodles)

*$1/2 Cheerios – use these with the CVS value packs

*$1.10/2 Old El Paso products – these can be used on ANY Old El Paso products – use these to get your taco seasoning for cheap 🙂

*.50/1 Wacky Mac pasta (if your stores double, more free or very cheap pasta!)

Smartsource.com coupons
*$1/1 Flat Earth chips – these are SO good!

*$1/1 Baked Lays (combine this with the $1/1 printable Target Frito Lay chips coupon for some cheap chips!)

*.50/1 Wacky Mac pasta

*.40/1 Idahoan potato products, 4 oz or larger (if your stores double, this will be a good deal)

*$3/2 Johnsons Red Cross First Aid products – stock up on items for your first aid kit. Trial “trial sized” first aid kits are .99 at Target, so you get $1 overage if you buy 2. They also have the gauze and first aid tape that you can get for almost nothing using this coupon.

Also check out the printable offers available from Cool Savings!

Sign up for these great (and free) coupon books:

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