Hi fellow couponers, my apologies for not blogging last week, my husband was in the hospital, and then home for the entire week, which really throws a monkey wrench in my week it seems. Then we had Beryl to contend with, the holiday......tough week for me. The only thing I did do last week, I took advantage of the WD bogo baby back ribs.....they were really nice ones. Other than that, didn't see too much of interest.
Same with the Publix ad this week, not much of interest this week either for me. I May end up doing my shopping at Walmart, since their everyday prices are generally lower that the other stores. We'll see, if I find anything noteworthy, I'll let you'all know, and if you find something I've missed, you let me know. God Bless and have a great rest of the week. Rhonda Goff
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Saturday 5/19/12
I broke my own rule today by shopping on a Saturday! I just plain ran out of week this week! I only shopped at Publix this week, I never made it to Winn Dixie. I only saved about 38% today, not a stellar performance by any means, but I did make some good buys.
Aunt Jemima Frozen Waffles & French Toast were bogo at $2.79, had mfg coups SS 5/6 for $1 off 2, making those .89 per package. Land O lakes fresh buttery taste spread was bogo at $2.55, coups SS 3/18 for .40 off 1, making those .87 each. Del Monte canned veggies were bogo at $1.39, I had mfg RP 5/13 coups for $1 off 5, making those .49 per can and Del Monte tomatoes were bogo at $1.59, same coups applied, they were .59 each. Pedigree Dentasticks were bogo at $3.59, coups RP 4/29 for $1 off 2, those came in at $1.29 each. Truvia was $3.99, had a Publix coup for $1off 1 yellow flyer and a mfg for .75/1 printable making those 2.24 each. Ballpark hot dogs were $3 each, coupon for .75 off 2, RP 5/6 made those $2.62 each. Pepsi 2 liters were buy 2 get 1 free, had coups from Pepsico Moments booklet from 4/29 for .55 off 1, making shoe .71 each. Secret deodorant was $2.89 had coups for $1 off 1 P&G 4/29 making those $1.89 each. Seattles Best Coffee was $5.99, had coups for $1.50 off 1 SS 4/22 making those $4.49 per bag. Not great but I am running really low on coffee. My favorite deal of the day was Ace Self Adhering Elastic Bandages were $4.49each, Publix had a coupon in the Green flyer for $5 off 2 of them, then I went on line (Southersavers.com) and printed coupons for $2 off 1..making those FREE. I used a total of 45 coupons today! I had to buy milk, bread, eggs, meat, cooking wine, biscuits for a recipe, sugar for a recipe and several other things that I had no coupons for. I spent $185.38 for $298.02 in groceries. I probably should have sat this week out, but I just was out of so many staple items. Unless there is some earth shattering deals next week, I probably won't shop. I hope you did better than I did, but like I've said before....if I wasn't couponning....The $112.64 that I saved today, would have been in their cash register instead of my bank account! So in that respect, this was also a win for me!
Hopefully, you all know that SS is Smart Source and RP is Redplum , I'm pretty sure you all know that, but just in case, there you have it.
Have a great rest of the weekend....God Bless and see you next week.....Rhonda Goff
Aunt Jemima Frozen Waffles & French Toast were bogo at $2.79, had mfg coups SS 5/6 for $1 off 2, making those .89 per package. Land O lakes fresh buttery taste spread was bogo at $2.55, coups SS 3/18 for .40 off 1, making those .87 each. Del Monte canned veggies were bogo at $1.39, I had mfg RP 5/13 coups for $1 off 5, making those .49 per can and Del Monte tomatoes were bogo at $1.59, same coups applied, they were .59 each. Pedigree Dentasticks were bogo at $3.59, coups RP 4/29 for $1 off 2, those came in at $1.29 each. Truvia was $3.99, had a Publix coup for $1off 1 yellow flyer and a mfg for .75/1 printable making those 2.24 each. Ballpark hot dogs were $3 each, coupon for .75 off 2, RP 5/6 made those $2.62 each. Pepsi 2 liters were buy 2 get 1 free, had coups from Pepsico Moments booklet from 4/29 for .55 off 1, making shoe .71 each. Secret deodorant was $2.89 had coups for $1 off 1 P&G 4/29 making those $1.89 each. Seattles Best Coffee was $5.99, had coups for $1.50 off 1 SS 4/22 making those $4.49 per bag. Not great but I am running really low on coffee. My favorite deal of the day was Ace Self Adhering Elastic Bandages were $4.49each, Publix had a coupon in the Green flyer for $5 off 2 of them, then I went on line (Southersavers.com) and printed coupons for $2 off 1..making those FREE. I used a total of 45 coupons today! I had to buy milk, bread, eggs, meat, cooking wine, biscuits for a recipe, sugar for a recipe and several other things that I had no coupons for. I spent $185.38 for $298.02 in groceries. I probably should have sat this week out, but I just was out of so many staple items. Unless there is some earth shattering deals next week, I probably won't shop. I hope you did better than I did, but like I've said before....if I wasn't couponning....The $112.64 that I saved today, would have been in their cash register instead of my bank account! So in that respect, this was also a win for me!
Hopefully, you all know that SS is Smart Source and RP is Redplum , I'm pretty sure you all know that, but just in case, there you have it.
Have a great rest of the weekend....God Bless and see you next week.....Rhonda Goff
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Wednesday 5/16/12 after Walmart Shop
I am always amazed when I come out of Walmart.....I honestly do believe their prices are less than the other stores. Then why don't I shop there more often??? I can't answer that. I did well there today.
The Welch's Sparkling juice was $2.97, not $2.48, however, I did use my $1/1 coupons making those $1.97. I printed the coupon off of coupons.com. Del Monte Pineapple, crushed or slices were .88 each, I had a coupon for $1 off 4, which made them .63 each. The Chef Boy R D cans were .88 each, I had coups for $1 off 4, making those .63 each. That coupon also came from coupons.com. Castleberry Hotdog Chile was .68 each, coupons for $1/2 (also from coupons.com), made those .18 each. Bayer aspirin low dose was $2.22 each, I had coupons for $2.50 off 2 and $1 off 1, bought 5 at $1.05 each. Gillette Good News 5 ct. was $3.47, we have coupons for buy that and get a 4pk of custom Plus 3 for free..the custom pluses were $5.47. I used my bogo coupon and had another coupon for $2 off on the custom pluses.....bought 2 of each which should have been $17.88, take out $10.94 for the 2 free ones, leaves $6.94, with $2 off each of the 2 Custom pluses was $2.94 for 4 packs of razors or .74 per pack of razors! ha. I'm gonna do that one 2 more times. The Gillette coups were in one of the Proctor & Gamble folders. Did not find the 2oz Nivea Creme lotions, or the Gain Dish Soap for .97 but I did find the Reach Floss that was .97 and we had coupons for $1 off 1, making those FREE. I bought a new file folder storage box for my new couponning system that was $7.97, bought my Prell shampoo...never any coupons, but it's what works on my hair, gets it super clean and shiny. Bought rolls, Green peppers and Steakums and FF for dinner tonight also. All in all, I spent $49.51 for ya ready for this....$77.23 in goods! I thought that was well worth my time and energy! Bought a Suave Shampoo & conditioner for .97 each also. Spent $8.19 for church on the 4 cans of Chef Boy R D, the 2 Castelberry Hotdog Chiles, 3 cans of Del Monte Pineapple, 2 packs of Gillette Razors, 2 Reach Dental Flosses, Suave Cream rinse & shampoo...1 of each, not bad for what all I got. Okay, that's it for me for today! Check out Walmart, they do seem to have the best prices.
I'll let you know when I do the Publix/Winn Dixie run. Meanwhile, let me know if you all find some goodies.
God Bless.....Rhonda Goff
The Welch's Sparkling juice was $2.97, not $2.48, however, I did use my $1/1 coupons making those $1.97. I printed the coupon off of coupons.com. Del Monte Pineapple, crushed or slices were .88 each, I had a coupon for $1 off 4, which made them .63 each. The Chef Boy R D cans were .88 each, I had coups for $1 off 4, making those .63 each. That coupon also came from coupons.com. Castleberry Hotdog Chile was .68 each, coupons for $1/2 (also from coupons.com), made those .18 each. Bayer aspirin low dose was $2.22 each, I had coupons for $2.50 off 2 and $1 off 1, bought 5 at $1.05 each. Gillette Good News 5 ct. was $3.47, we have coupons for buy that and get a 4pk of custom Plus 3 for free..the custom pluses were $5.47. I used my bogo coupon and had another coupon for $2 off on the custom pluses.....bought 2 of each which should have been $17.88, take out $10.94 for the 2 free ones, leaves $6.94, with $2 off each of the 2 Custom pluses was $2.94 for 4 packs of razors or .74 per pack of razors! ha. I'm gonna do that one 2 more times. The Gillette coups were in one of the Proctor & Gamble folders. Did not find the 2oz Nivea Creme lotions, or the Gain Dish Soap for .97 but I did find the Reach Floss that was .97 and we had coupons for $1 off 1, making those FREE. I bought a new file folder storage box for my new couponning system that was $7.97, bought my Prell shampoo...never any coupons, but it's what works on my hair, gets it super clean and shiny. Bought rolls, Green peppers and Steakums and FF for dinner tonight also. All in all, I spent $49.51 for ya ready for this....$77.23 in goods! I thought that was well worth my time and energy! Bought a Suave Shampoo & conditioner for .97 each also. Spent $8.19 for church on the 4 cans of Chef Boy R D, the 2 Castelberry Hotdog Chiles, 3 cans of Del Monte Pineapple, 2 packs of Gillette Razors, 2 Reach Dental Flosses, Suave Cream rinse & shampoo...1 of each, not bad for what all I got. Okay, that's it for me for today! Check out Walmart, they do seem to have the best prices.
I'll let you know when I do the Publix/Winn Dixie run. Meanwhile, let me know if you all find some goodies.
God Bless.....Rhonda Goff
Wednesday 5/16/12
Hi all, I've been looking over the sales beginning tomorrow at Publix.....looks like a fairly good week out there. I've made a list....one for our church food pantry and one for us. Couponistas were told we would be receiving a $100 donation for the Church Food Pantry and I've been putting together a list for the pantry, if you know me, you know I have to have a plan....I HOPE we can turn the $100 donation into at least $175 in value for the pantry, doubling it would be even better! I've also put a list together for Walmart, I intend to stop there today for a few things. There are a few FREE items at Walmart ie. Reach floss is rumored to be .86...I've searched for this one before, but I will look again....there is a coup for $1 off from RPlum on 3/04...we'll see, also Sun Drop drinks, 2L $1, coup for $1 off from SS 5/6 makes that free. Gain Dish washing liquid is 9 oz. for .97, coup for 1/1 in Ebony magazine. Suave Naturals Shampoo & conditioners are .96, coup for .50 off 1 makes those .46. Nivea Creme lotion 2oz is $1.97, $2 off coup from RP 4/29 makes that free. Now remember, I have not done any of these, I just plan to check them out today and see if they are for real.
I will also be putting together a list for Winn Dixie for us and the Food Pantry. I want to make sure we get the best values for the $$. By shopping all 3 stores, that should be doable.
FYI on FB under Vidalia Onions, there is a coupon for .50 off 5# of Vidalia Onions.
For us True Blue Truvia users......There is a store coupon in the Yellow Publix flier that ends on 5/18 for $1 off and .75/1 mfg coupons out there making those $2.24 per package. Not too bad.
Okay, heading out today to do errands and will stop by Walmart to see what I can stir up. If you find things that everyone wants to know about, please let us know and we will share it!
God Bless and happy couponning! Rhonda Goff
I will also be putting together a list for Winn Dixie for us and the Food Pantry. I want to make sure we get the best values for the $$. By shopping all 3 stores, that should be doable.
FYI on FB under Vidalia Onions, there is a coupon for .50 off 5# of Vidalia Onions.
For us True Blue Truvia users......There is a store coupon in the Yellow Publix flier that ends on 5/18 for $1 off and .75/1 mfg coupons out there making those $2.24 per package. Not too bad.
Okay, heading out today to do errands and will stop by Walmart to see what I can stir up. If you find things that everyone wants to know about, please let us know and we will share it!
God Bless and happy couponning! Rhonda Goff
Friday, May 11, 2012
Friday 5/11/12
Hi fellow couponers. Well, another week has gone by....and again I did not shop drug stores this week, and very little at the grocery stores. I was on the other side of town for a doctor appt. yesterday, so I did a quick Whole Foods Market run and stopped at a very old Publix store over there. Here's how I did.
Whole Foods Market I spent $84.01 and used $12 in coupons that I found on line. Not a stellar performance, but considering the things I bought are not readily available on the Westside.....since we don't have a big health food store! I did pretty well. We do have a small one in OP, but they don't carry a lot. At any rate, I went to the Wholefoods.com website, looked over the sales, went to their coupon section and printed out what I needed and took off. FYI....their coupons are good for the entire month of May. I bought 2 boxes of Nature's Rancher Black Angus Burgers were $7.99, coupon for $1 off, made those $6.99. I know you are thinking....pricey, but considering that these are NO antibiotics, no hormones and totally vegetable fed cattle, it was a good deal for us. 6 per box at $1.16 per burger is not bad for something that's good for you, just my humble opinion. Also bought ground organic turkey for $3.99 per pound. Organic Tortilla Chips and Organic Salsa, I had coupons for both, salsa ended up at $1 and chips (huge bag) $2.49. Thinkthin crunch bars were $1.25 and I had a store coup for $1 off and a mfg. coup for $1 off, actually made $$ on those. Cliff mojo bars were $1 each, had a coupon for $1/2, ended up at .50 each. 7th generation Liquid dish soap (Lavender my favorite) was on sale for $3, had a coupon for $1 off. Crofter fruit spreads were $4.29, I had a coupon for $1 off 2, these are all fruit no added anything. Bought a bag of organic yellow onions, organic green beans, organic walnuts and pistachio nuts, organic bananas and organic parsley. I truly have to be very careful in this store, I want everything in there! It's a beautiful store with so many exotic things, just be careful, not everything in there is organic....some is billed as "all natural" which is different. One thing I didn't find was Walnut butter, I love love walnut butter....great on Waffles with SF Maple syrup!
Publix....this was an old store, they didn't even carry their own brand of organic milk! ha. I did the Barilla Pasta/sauce deal. Not a real great deal, but since the pasta was bogo, I used my coupon for if you buy one pasta and 1 sauce, you get .55 off. I wanted to get the Welches juices, but they were not 100% juices, we use them at church for communion, but they have to be the 100% juice, those were not the ones on sale. I bought 2 of my new favorite laundry softener....Purex Crystals...these smell fabulous and the smell lasts way longer than the Downey or anything else I've found. I had $1 off coupons for those. Not a great sale day in this Publix, spent $55.87 for $71.53 in items....not my best effort, but sometimes you just need stuff.
Okay, that's it for this week. I hope you all did better than I did, but again, I feel like every dollar I DON"T give them, is a win for our household!
Have a great weekend and a great Mother's Day for all of you hard-working moms out there. God Bless and see you next week.......Rhonda Goff
Whole Foods Market I spent $84.01 and used $12 in coupons that I found on line. Not a stellar performance, but considering the things I bought are not readily available on the Westside.....since we don't have a big health food store! I did pretty well. We do have a small one in OP, but they don't carry a lot. At any rate, I went to the Wholefoods.com website, looked over the sales, went to their coupon section and printed out what I needed and took off. FYI....their coupons are good for the entire month of May. I bought 2 boxes of Nature's Rancher Black Angus Burgers were $7.99, coupon for $1 off, made those $6.99. I know you are thinking....pricey, but considering that these are NO antibiotics, no hormones and totally vegetable fed cattle, it was a good deal for us. 6 per box at $1.16 per burger is not bad for something that's good for you, just my humble opinion. Also bought ground organic turkey for $3.99 per pound. Organic Tortilla Chips and Organic Salsa, I had coupons for both, salsa ended up at $1 and chips (huge bag) $2.49. Thinkthin crunch bars were $1.25 and I had a store coup for $1 off and a mfg. coup for $1 off, actually made $$ on those. Cliff mojo bars were $1 each, had a coupon for $1/2, ended up at .50 each. 7th generation Liquid dish soap (Lavender my favorite) was on sale for $3, had a coupon for $1 off. Crofter fruit spreads were $4.29, I had a coupon for $1 off 2, these are all fruit no added anything. Bought a bag of organic yellow onions, organic green beans, organic walnuts and pistachio nuts, organic bananas and organic parsley. I truly have to be very careful in this store, I want everything in there! It's a beautiful store with so many exotic things, just be careful, not everything in there is organic....some is billed as "all natural" which is different. One thing I didn't find was Walnut butter, I love love walnut butter....great on Waffles with SF Maple syrup!
Publix....this was an old store, they didn't even carry their own brand of organic milk! ha. I did the Barilla Pasta/sauce deal. Not a real great deal, but since the pasta was bogo, I used my coupon for if you buy one pasta and 1 sauce, you get .55 off. I wanted to get the Welches juices, but they were not 100% juices, we use them at church for communion, but they have to be the 100% juice, those were not the ones on sale. I bought 2 of my new favorite laundry softener....Purex Crystals...these smell fabulous and the smell lasts way longer than the Downey or anything else I've found. I had $1 off coupons for those. Not a great sale day in this Publix, spent $55.87 for $71.53 in items....not my best effort, but sometimes you just need stuff.
Okay, that's it for this week. I hope you all did better than I did, but again, I feel like every dollar I DON"T give them, is a win for our household!
Have a great weekend and a great Mother's Day for all of you hard-working moms out there. God Bless and see you next week.......Rhonda Goff
Friday, May 4, 2012
Friday 5/4/12
I have not shopped for groceries this week, just picked up a few things (with my husband along and no coupons)...well, you know how that turned out....oh, look at that? Oh, lets get one of these.....oh, this looks so good. He's on restriction from the grocery store!
IF you are going to try filing your coupon inserts by date, instead of cutting them all out and putting in your books, I found a website that posts what we have coming up in the next week's inserts. And she lists them in Alpha order......so I printed them out to put in my folders with my inserts for this week. It should make it easier to find something when you need it. The site is CuckooForCouponsDeals.com. I am hoping this will prove to be the answer for quickly finding what I need when sales come up. I plan on numbering my pages in the insert as I go and placing the page number on the alpha list. I still intend to cut out and file my staple items so I can find those easily too. This will be a trial and error experience I'm sure, but for now, this is my plan. I will keep you posted on how it's working out for me. If you are already on this system, please feel free to let me know how you do it, and what works for you. I just don't want to see a really good sale and not know or can't find my coupons for the item.
Okay, looking forward to hearing from you on this system or anything else you might want to say.
God Bless and have a great weekend.......Rhonda Goff
IF you are going to try filing your coupon inserts by date, instead of cutting them all out and putting in your books, I found a website that posts what we have coming up in the next week's inserts. And she lists them in Alpha order......so I printed them out to put in my folders with my inserts for this week. It should make it easier to find something when you need it. The site is CuckooForCouponsDeals.com. I am hoping this will prove to be the answer for quickly finding what I need when sales come up. I plan on numbering my pages in the insert as I go and placing the page number on the alpha list. I still intend to cut out and file my staple items so I can find those easily too. This will be a trial and error experience I'm sure, but for now, this is my plan. I will keep you posted on how it's working out for me. If you are already on this system, please feel free to let me know how you do it, and what works for you. I just don't want to see a really good sale and not know or can't find my coupons for the item.
Okay, looking forward to hearing from you on this system or anything else you might want to say.
God Bless and have a great weekend.......Rhonda Goff
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Tuesday, 5/1/12
Just got back from 2 Walgreen's stores. I bought 24 rolls of quilted Northern TP for .99....here's how I did it.
1st stor
Deal 1 Bought 2 Starbucks Refreshers for $1.49 each, coupon in Pepsico book 4/26 made them FREE.
Bought 1 Kotex U Sleek Tampons for $3.99, had a coup from SS 3/25 for $1 off, made
Bought 1 pkg. of Quilted Northern TP for $5.99, no coupon. My $6 RR from the previous
deal paid for my TP, so I only had to pay for my Benefiber!
2nd Store
Deal 1 Bought the Noxema Disposable Razors for $3.99 no coup got back $2 in RR
Bought 2 more Colgate Optic White TP 2/$7 had coups for $1off each one, making them
$5 again and got back $3 in RR
Deal 2 Bought 1 12pk of Quilted Northern TP, for $5.99, used my $5 in RR, cost me .99. Plus I
bought a .30 filler item to make my coups come out right.
My total OOP was $37.64...only reason is was so high was because of my stupid Benefiber! Total value was $69.87. I saved $32.23 all in all. Not a bad day. I was super excited about the TP deal.
Okay, get on out there and see what you can save too!
God Bless and happy shopping.....Rhonda Goff.
1st stor
Deal 1 Bought 2 Starbucks Refreshers for $1.49 each, coupon in Pepsico book 4/26 made them FREE.
Bought 1 Kotex U Sleek Tampons for $3.99, had a coup from SS 3/25 for $1 off, made
them $2.99 and got back $3 in Register Rewards.
Bought 2 Colgate Optic White Tooth paste at 2/$7, had coups for $1 off each one from
SS 4/15, making them $5 for 2 and got back $3 in Register rewards. Spent $7.99 out
of pocket, got back $6 in RR to apply to my next deal.
Deal 2 Bought my Benefiber....NO COUPON, NO SALE but I needed it for $13.99...Bought 1 pkg. of Quilted Northern TP for $5.99, no coupon. My $6 RR from the previous
deal paid for my TP, so I only had to pay for my Benefiber!
2nd Store
Deal 1 Bought the Noxema Disposable Razors for $3.99 no coup got back $2 in RR
Bought 2 more Colgate Optic White TP 2/$7 had coups for $1off each one, making them
$5 again and got back $3 in RR
Deal 2 Bought 1 12pk of Quilted Northern TP, for $5.99, used my $5 in RR, cost me .99. Plus I
bought a .30 filler item to make my coups come out right.
My total OOP was $37.64...only reason is was so high was because of my stupid Benefiber! Total value was $69.87. I saved $32.23 all in all. Not a bad day. I was super excited about the TP deal.
Okay, get on out there and see what you can save too!
God Bless and happy shopping.....Rhonda Goff.
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