For Bill

If you haven't read about Bill, you can read about it on my Crockpot Cruise blog post: Not a happy anniversary.

This is a poem I wrote several years ago:


Forever
Stuck in time, forever a teen
Never growing up,
Somehow it seems
That time has flown by,
The years have gone fast
But I remember the past.
Watching my children,
Remembering my own childhood,
Brothers and sisters
Should grow old together.
But you’re gone forever.
Stuck in time,
Forever a teen.

Bill and my sister Kristie at my grandparent's house

Plastic red tablecloths for 25 cents each

Today I was in United picking up a few things that were on sale and looked through the Christmas clearance bins at the front. They had red plastic tablecloths marked down to 25 cents. I bought all 8 of them. I can use one for our Valentine's party, and they are super handy just to have around.

Nescafe Free Sample Review: Peppermint Mocha

A while back, through the All You magazine, I signed up to get some free samples of Nescafe instant coffee. I got them yesterday and I tried the first one this morning: peppermint mocha. Oh my goodness! It was wonderful! It was so easy to heat the water in the microwave and just stir it in and it tasted really yummy. If you like coffee and want something easy and yummy to have on hand, I highly recommend trying the Nescafe Peppermint Mocha!

Wal-Mart Deals 12-29-11

I had to go into Enid today to deposit a check, so I went into Wal-Mart. I had some $2 Excedrin coupons I was wanting to use. I got 6 bottles of Excedrin for $1.24 each. They were $3.24 and I had $2 off coupons. Want to know something funny that I have noticed? Excedrin Migraine and Extra Strength Excedrin have the exact same active ingredients in them in the same amounts (acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine), but the Excedrin Migraine costs more! The "migraine" medicine was $3.68.

I also got some mini-muffin liners that were 1/2 price because they were "holiday" muffin liners. The gold ones are the nice foil muffin liners, and the red ones are just red with white dots. I figure the kids aren't going to care what their muffins are in and I seem to have a hard time finding mini-muffin liners when I need them. So I stocked up.

Found any good deals?

Anyone found any good after-holiday deals? I haven't been out shopping, but I'm anxious to hear about your great deals. Be sure and e-mail them to me if you've found any and I'll share them on the blog!

United Sale Ad: December 28th-January 3rd

This week at United:

Totino's Pizzas: 4/$5 instantly save $1 off four, making them 4/$4.

Boneless, skinless chicken breast: $1.69 a pound

Keebler club or townhouse crackers: 2/$5, use with $1 off two coupon, making them 2/$4

Green Giant canned vegetables: 59 cents each. Use with 50 cents off two coupon to get for 34 cents a can

General Mills Chex cereals: 2/$5, use with $1 off two coupon, making them 2/$4

Jumbo Food's Ad: December 28th-January 3rd

On sale this week at Jumbo's:

Bone-in split fryer breasts: 97 cents a pound

Eat Smart veggie tray: $6.99
Eat Smart meat and cheese tray: $9.99
Hormel turkey, ham, and cheese tray: $9.99
Hormel Cheeseball tray: $11.99
Hormel supreme party tray: $14.99

Coke & Dr. Pepper 20 packs: $4.98

Alka-Seltzer Plus Cough & Cold relief: $5.09, use with $2 off coupons to get them for $3.09

After Christmas Sales

Now is the time to start looking for stuff to put back for next year. The last couple of years I have scored really cute gift boxes or bags for 1/2 off right after Christmas and put them back for the next year. I don't care for wrapping gifts, so I love having bags or boxes to use!

If you can find plain or solid colored ones, they can be used throughout the year.

If you have willpower (which I don't have much of, LOL), buy Christmas candy on markdown and use the reds for Valentine activities/treat bags and the greens for St. Patrick's Day.

Be sure and share your great finds with me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I'll post them on the blog. Send the details and pictures (if you have some).

K-Mart Ad December 26th-31st

This week at K-Mart:

All their holiday storage stuff is on sale. If you need storage containers, check it out. Who cares if they are red? LOL.

2 Liter Pepsi, 10/$10

General Mills cereals: 4/$10

Shop your way Rewards members: get a $5 K-Mart award card if you buy 4 or more Hershey's pieces, drops, or mini's (on sale 4/$10). Get a $5 K-Mart award card when you spend $25 on Planter's or Nabisco products (Nabisco crackers are on sale 2/$4, Planter's nuts 2/$6). Get a $5 K-Mart Reward card when you spend $20 on Quaker products. Quaker cereals are on sale 4/$10.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you are all having a wonderful and blessed holiday with your families.

Review of Idahoan Cheesy Hash Brown potatoes

This week, Tom, Tasha, and I tried the free box of Idahoan FarmHouse Fix'n Cheesy Hash Browns.

And well...honestly, I was underwhelmed. I mean, they were okay and we ate them. But they seemed kind of bland to me. I cannot really say what they needed, but they needed something. More seasoning, perhaps? I can definitely say that I will not be going out and buying them again.

Walgreen's weekly ad December 25th-31st

Coming up at Walgreen's:

Digital photo prints, 9 cents each with order of 100 or more. Use code Merry9

Store coupon for 12 pack Pepsi products: 3/$10

Store coupon for 8 oz Folger's Instant Coffee: $4.99. Use with $1 off 2 Folgers 3 oz or larger coffee to get for $4.49 each. I haven't bought instant coffee in forever, so I really don't know if this is a good deal.

Store coupon for Ajax dish liquid, 89 cents each

Robitussin and Advil cold products: $5.99. There were recently $1 coupons on these, making them $4.99

12 pack Cottonelle bath tissue, pre-priced $5, there were 75 cent off coupons in All You magazine recently which would make these $4.25 each.

Folger's coffee. Classic roast (11.3 oz), Black Silk (10.3 oz.): $3.49. Classic Decaf (11.3 oz): $4.49. Limit 2. In-store coupons for 50 cents off making them $2.99 and $3.99. Use with $1 off 2 3 oz or larger Folger's manufacturer coupons to get for: $2.49 and $3.49 each.

Swagbucks Holiday Bucks

Swagbucks is currently doing Holiday Bucks. If you collect all 5 by Monday night you get a 12 Swagbuck bonus. I didn't have very good luck with the Halloween or Thanksgiving Holiday bucks, but maybe I'll have better luck with the Christmas ones!

Have you tried Swagbucks yet?

Finally went to the Doctor

Since my Christmas vacation started a couple of days early, I decided to go to the doctor yesterday. Luckily, they had a cancellation and I got right in. No bronchitis! Praise God! But I did have a sinus infection. She gave me steroid pills (to dry up the snot-her words, LOL), antibiotics, prescription cough medicine (with Sudafed and narcotic cough syrup). I don't know if it's the steroids or the Sudafed but I am WIDE awake at 4:00 a.m., been up about an hour. LOL. Either way, I already seem to be feeling better (afraid to brag on it too soon. HA!).

Are you ready for Christmas?

Is everyone ready for Christmas? I just finished wrapping the last of the gifts. I hope. Well, actually I only wrapped a couple, the rest I used gift boxes and gift bags and envelopes. LOL.

The next few days are going to be super busy for me and I don't know how much I'll be on here. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Jumbo Foods Ad December 21st-27th

This week at Jumbo's:

Coke/Dr. Pepper 20 packs: $4.98

County Fair Brown & Serve rolls: 99 cents

John Morrel cocktail smokies: 2/$4

Green Giant vegetables, 69 cents a can. Use with 50 cents off two coupon to get for 44 cents each

Aldi Produce specials December 21st-27th

1 # broccoli crowns: 99 cents

10# bag of potatoes: $1.49

Celery: 69 cents

3# bag of sweet potatoes: 99 cents

4# bag of oranges: $1.39

Gold pineapple: 99 cents

United Sale Ad: December 21st-27th

This week at United:

Best Choice butter quarters: $1.99

12 pack Pepsi products: 3/$9.99

Best Choice Brown & Serve rolls: 99 cents

Libby's canned vegetables:59 cents each. use with $1 off 4 coupon to get them for 34 cents each.

Best Choice all purpose flour: 99 cents

Bird's Eye frozen vegetables: $1, use with 50 cent off two coupon to get for 75 cents a bag

Sara Lee 100% whole wheat bread: $1.79

Keebler or Kellogg snack crackers: 2/$4, use with $1 off two Keebler coupons to get for 2/$3

Best Choice canned pumpkin: $1

Need a last minute Christmas gift?

I still have 3 coupon binders left, $15 each! Let me know if you need one!

Walgreen's Ad: I apologize

I apologize, but I just did not get to the Walgreen's ad yet. Not feeling well and going non-stop the last week and a half has about done me in. So, you guys might want to check it out:

Walgreen's Weekly Ad: December 18th-24th

Jumbo's One Day Sales Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Today at Jumbo's one day sale, they have:

Extra lean ground beef: $1.99 a pound

Gevalia ground coffee, 12 oz., all flavors, $5.49

Kraft Miracle Whip, 40 oz., original only, $3.99

Jumbo Hamburger buns, 8 ct. 79 cents

Well...may have spoke too soon

I may have spoke too soon about getting over this junk without bronchitis. I've had a really deep cough the last few days and I am not feeling that great. Boo!

Share your great deals!

Remember if you want to share your great deals, e-mail pictures (if you want to) and details to me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I will post them on the blog.

Food Pyramid 12-15

After our Victim's Impact Panel meeting in Stillwater last night, we hit Food Pyramid. I spent $8.62 and got:

4 cans of Dole Tropical Fruit, on sale for 99 cents a can. I had 50 cent off coupons that doubled, making them 49 cents a can.

4 cans of Libby's fruit cocktail and 4 cans of Libby's peaches, on sale for $1.19 a pound. With my $1 off two coupon, that made them .69 cents each.

My best deal of the night: 4 cans of Green Giant green beans, on sale for 45 cents a can. With 50 cents off two coupons that doubled, that made them free plus I made 5 cents each! I kind of thought that the coupons would just double up to the amount of the green beans, so I was pleasantly surprised that it took off the extra few cents!

Fridays are Mega Swagbucks Day!

Remember, if you do Swagbucks, Fridays are "Mega Swagbucks Day" where you have a chance to win bigger Swagbucks when you perform searches.

Idahoan FarmHouseFix'ns O'Brien Hash Brown potatoes review

This week, Tom & I tried the free Idahoan FarmHouseFix'ns O'Brien Hash Brown potatoes that we got a while back. We both really liked the flavor and they were very easy to make. You just added milk, boiling water, and margarine, and baked them. However, they were supposed to have green peppers and onions in them and neither one of us could really taste the peppers or onions. That was kind of disappointing. So I don't think I would go out and buy that particular box. Fresh hash brown potatoes with fresh green peppers and onions are much better!

Aldi produce specials December 14th-20th

Broccoli crowns: 99 cents a pound
10# bag of potatoes: $1.69
Celery: 69 cents each
3# bag of sweet potatoes: 99 cents (making them 33 cents a pound)
Gold Pineapple: 99 cents
It also says they have oranges on sale for $1.39 for a 3# bag

Food Pyramid December 14th-20th

If you are going to be near a Food Pyramid grocery store this week, they have their Green Giant canned vegetables on sale for 45 cents a can! Combine that with the 50 cent off two cans of Green Giant vegetables (which they will double) and you could score some free veggies! Obviously, it's probably not worth going way out of your way to do it, but if you're near one anyway, check it out! I'll be in Stillwater Thursday night, so if we have time, maybe we'll run by there.

They also have Best Choice Sugar, 4# bag for $1.69 (limit of one)

Jumbo Foods Ad December 14th-20th

Some of the stuff on sale this week at Jumbo's:

Coke & Dr. Pepper 20 packs: $4.98

8# bag of potatoes: $1.98

John Morrel cocktail smokies: 2/$4

Green Giant canned vegetables 69 cents a can. Use with 50 cents off two coupon to get them for 44 cents a can

United Sale Ad: December 14th-20th

Some of the things on sale at United this week:

Coke & Dr. Pepper products: $4.99

Best Choice canned vegetables: 39 cents a can

Bird's Eye vegetables: $1, use with 50 cent off two coupon to get for 75 cents each

Best Choice Brown & Serve rolls: 99 cents

United

Several weeks ago (the first weekend of October), I did a promotion at United where if you bought $20 worth of certain items and cut the UPC's off and sent them in along with the receipt, you'd get a $6 United gift card back. After almost 12 weeks of waiting, I finally got the card at the end of last week! It's not huge, but it will buy a few things, especially if I use coupons to stretch it!

FINALLY!

After almost two weeks of this sinus/cold stuff, I woke up this morning with at least a little bit of energy! I hope that means it's about over. I'm still stuffy, but not quite as bad. This was one of the worst colds I've had in a long time. But you want to know what was wonderful about it? It didn't turn into bronchitis like almost every cold I used to get would. Yay for having an airway that isn't blocked! LOL!

Progresso Chicken Cheese Enchilada soup review

I got this soup for the first time a while back on sale with coupons (of course. LOL). Anyway, it is some of the best soup I have ever had! Tom & I both loved it. It is very flavorful and has just a bit of a spicy taste. It has chunks of chicken breast in it and is very creamy. If you like soups, definitely try this one! We've had it twice now and loved it both times! Additionally, if gluten allergies are a problem in your home, this soup is gluten free!

Idahoan boxed potatoes review: Loaded baked potato flavor

I had a coupon to try these for free from the All You magazine. So I got them last month and we tried them earlier this week. Tom & I both really liked them. They had a great flavor and they were super easy to make. We chose to bake them since I had an interview to fill a child care spot that night, that way they could just back while I was talking to the potential clients. If you like scalloped or au gratin potatoes, I highly recommend trying these!

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the box. But I have some Idahoan hash brown flavors to try (for free!) next and I'll be sure and take pictures of those for when I review them.

Coupon Class in Enid

I will be having a coupon class in Enid at the Child Care Resource and Referral office at 129 N. University Place in Enid. It will be Saturday, January 7th at 10:00 a.m.! The class is free, but please register by calling me at 580 747 6396 or through e-mailing me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com.

Walgreen's Weekly Ad December 11th-17th

Walgreen's weekly ad for December 11th-17th.

Earn Jingle Cash to spend the next week on qualifying $30 purchases.
For spending
$30, get $5
$50, get $10
$75, get $15
$100, get $20

They have toys, buy one at $6.99, get the second one free

Store coupon for Russel Stover Christmas candy, 39 cents each (great stocking stuffers)

Duracell batteries on sale for $9.99 (16 pack AA or AAA coppertop, 8 pack C or D, 4 pack 9 Volt, Ultra 12 pack AA or AAA) Buy 2 or more participating Duracell batteries, get $5 Register Reward. Buy one participating and get a $2 Register Reward.

Store coupon for Progresso Soups, 4/$5, use with $1 off 4 cans coupon to get them for $1 each.

General Mills cereals, 2/$4 or $2.99 each

Store coupon for money holders: 4/$1

Remember, Fridays are Mega Swagbucks Day!

Remember, if you use Swagbucks, Fridays are Mega Swagbucks Day! I already got 29 Swagbucks for doing a search this morning!

I wanted to say thanks to those of you who have signed up under me. When you get swagbucks for doing searches, I get them too! Thanks to you I have 71 extra swagbucks (so far) from your searches!

And if you haven't signed up for Swagbucks and want to, send me your e-mail address to Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I'll send you a referral!

Atwood's Tax Free Discount Sale: Saturday, December 10th

On Saturday December 10th, Atwood's will be giving a discount equal to the amount of all city, county, and state sales tax. In Enid that would be about an 8.35% discount.

Dollar General Coupon $5 off $25 Saturday December 10th

This Saturday, December 10th, you can use a $5 off $25 purchase at Dollar General coupon to save some $'s at Dollar General. Print it out from the Dollar General website.

Reminder: Coupon Binders for Sale!

Remember, I have coupon binders for sale, $15 each. I have 4 left at this price. You get the binder, 16 nine slot baseball card pages, 2 four slot pages, and 2 three slot pages. You also get 15 labeled dividers and a content page. It is set up so you can organize it the way that works best for you.

Actual binder may vary:

Aldi December 7th-13th

This week at Aldi:

Appleton Farms spiral sliced half ham: $1.69 a pound
Butterball whole turkey: $1.09 a pound

Produce specials (you can price match these at Wal-Mart)
Texas grapegruit: 29 cents each
4# bag of oranges: $1.39
2# bag of honeycrisp apples: $1.98
2# bag of pears: 99 cents
3# bag of fuji, gala, golden delicious, granny smith, or red delicious apples: $1.49

Wednesday special meat buy: Tyson fresh premium young chicken: 69 cents a pound

United Sale Ad: December 7th-13th

This week at United:
16 oz. Hiland butter, $1.99

Buy 5 participating Kraft products, get $5 off: shredded or chunk cheese, Philadelphia cooking cream, sliced cheese, Parmesan cheese, Velveeta

20 pack Coke & Dr. Pepper products: $4.99

16 oz. Best Choice frozen vegetables: 79 cents

Best Choice liquid hand soap: 79 cents

Best Choice all purpose or self rising flour: 99 cents

Green Giant canned vegetables: 5/$3 (60 cents each), use with 50 cents off two to get for 35 cents a can.

Jumbo Foods December 7th-13th

This week at Jumbo's:

Hormel Spiral Cut half or whole ham: $1.88 a pound

Bird's Eye vegetables, 10-16 oz: $1.09, use with 50 cents off two coupons to get for 84 cents each

8 oz Best Choice whipped topping: 69 cents each

Campbell's gravy: 69 cents each. Use with 25 cents off 4 cans coupon to get for 63 cents each.

3 Day sale (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: Dec. 8-10)
Best Choice canned vegetables: 39 cents a can

3# bag yellow onions: $1.29

Pillsbury Grands biscuits: 2/$3. With 40 cents off 3 coupons to get for $1.37 each

Shark Electric Steam Mop review

During the Wal-Mart Black Friday sale (actually Thanksgiving night), I bought a Shark electronic steam mop for $38. I had been wanting something like it for a while because my floors get so nasty. I had put it off because they were pretty pricey and I was afraid it was something that I wouldn't use.

Anyway after a couple of weeks I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. It works really well and my floor looks really nice after I use it. It's not anymore trouble than using a mop and bucket and in some ways easier. What I like most about it is that the floor is almost immediately dry so I don't have to worry about someone falling and it doesn't use chemicals so I don't have to worry about using it when the kids are here. I have found that if I come across a tough spot that doesn't come up that if I hold the mop over it for a moment and let the steam work it will usually come on up. It's not noisy so I don't have to worry about it scaring the kids.

Complaints about it. Well, it doesn't stand up very well. So when I try to put water in it, it's kind of awkward to try and hold it with one hand while pouring the water in with the other. The electric cord is good and long but it also gets in the way a bit. Hopefully as I use it more, I'll get more adept at it.

K-Mart deal

Last week I noticed that one of my pairs of sweat pants that I wear to work in during the winter were getting pretty worn and I had spilled bleach on another pair. So I went to K-Mart to see if they had some. I like the Joe Boxer brand that they carry. They are fuzzy and warm and have pockets in them. They had some and they were on sale for $8.99 (normally $11.99). I had a $3 off coupon (from the Post cereal I bought) so I got them for $7.49 a pair.

Coupon Binders for Sale

I have coupon binders for sale, $15 each. I have 4 left at this price. The next batch may be more depending on how much I get the next group of binders for. Pictures below (actual binder may vary).

Not feeling great

Well, I was fighting off a cold all week and it finally won. I feel lousy which is why I got nothing written yesterday. I took it easy and did nothing pretty much all day long.

More on Coupons by Dede

Well, I wrote about ordering coupons from Coupons by Dede a while back and how they made a slight mistake in my order. I heard back from them on Monday, November 21st saying they would ship out my coupons and give me a store credit. As of Friday, December 2nd I had not got the coupons yet so I e-mailed again. Today I got a response saying that there was a "delay" in shipping out my order and they would get them in the mail tomorrow. She sent me a gift certificate for $1.50. I guess that's my "store credit". Anyway, right now I"m not feeling very impressed with them. I'll probably order again just to see how it goes though. I realize that with everything they do, it's probably inevitable that they'll make mistakes. So...I'll keep you posted!

Friday's are MSBD

Fridays are MSDB: Mega Swagbucks Day at Swagbucks. That means that you have a chance of winning higher amounts when you do searches. Earlier today I got 26 Swagbucks from doing an online search!

Walgreen's Weekly Ad December 4th-10th

Starting Sunday at Walgreen's:

Next week you can earn Jingle Cash at Walgreen's to use on a $30 qualifying purchase the next week.

Store coupon for Royal Gelatin: 5/$1

Store coupon for Domino sugar: $2.29 for a 4# bag. I'm pretty sure that there have been coupons out for that (or coming out this Sunday and I saw them in the sneak peek).

Hershey's & Cadbury Candy, 4/$10 (or $2.99 each), get a $5 coupon towards your next Hershey's purchase when you buy $10 worth.

Store coupon for taper candles: 3/$1 (limit 9 total)

Store coupon for Sharpie markers: 29 cents each (limit 5)

Thera-Flu: 2/$10 and there is a $4 off two coupon coming out on Sunday making it 2/$6

This was a huge ad and I know I missed some stuff. I'll look over it again and see if I can catch it. Be sure and check out the sneak peek ad online!

CK's Deals

My friend CK shared her deals from this week with us:

Had a super great shopping night!

Homeland has limes for .14 each!
I got a giant jar of pickles on sale for 2.79, for 1.79 with my coupon
Organic granola bars and cereal are 2.50 a box with my coupon 1.50
Sargento sliced cheese deli style for 2.99 for 1.99 with my coupon
some canned tomatoes for .25 for three cans and some diced tomatoes with green chilis for free, (they paid me .74 to take em home)
Libby's vegetables in a can for .09/can
Kraft mac and cheese for .20 a box
Saved a total of $82 at homeland in 5 transactions

Comped some great stuff at walmart plus used $40 in coupons, so i saved a bundle there too! Comped avacados for .25 with the Aldi ad
Grapes for .79/pound with the Aldi ad
Braeburn apples for 1.19/lb with the Marvin's ad
Cabbage for .49/pound with the food pyramid ad
Some toilet paper for 6.99 with the kmart ad.

All of the canned foods are for the needy at christmas. I'm pretty excited! :O) Yeah coupons!

Ways to earn points on Swagbucks!

There are several ways to earn points on Swagbucks and probably more that I don't know about yet.

Searches: Use their search box to conduct internet searches (like you would with Google, etc.) and you will randomly be awarded points.

Daily Polls: Each day there is a different poll, you get one swagbuck for voting in it.

NOSO: No obligation Special Offers. Follow the links, fill out the ones you're interested in and skip the rest (I frequently just go through and skip them all). That's usually good for 2-3 points.

Games: There are a whole bunch of games. Some of them are pretty fun. If you enter tournaments you get chances to win big amounts of points, but it costs you points to enter, so you are kind of taking a chance. If you like games and just want to play games, you'll randomly be awarded points at the end of some of the games.

Swagbucks TV: You can watch short videos on Swagbucks TV and your "swag meter" will go up. Once you've reached 100%, you'll receive swagbucks.

Check your Swagbucks inbox: You'll get periodic special offers there. Several of them are really simple like watching a short video and answering a question about it.

Sign up to follow them on Twitter, they send out swag codes that you can enter to get swag bucks.

Follow the Swagbucks blog.

If you use Swagbucks and I've missed anything really obvious, please let me know!

You should try Swagbucks!

Yes, I'm pushing Swagbucks again! LOL. It is really awesome, if you don't believe me, ask some of my friend who use it. If you don't use it, then send me an e-mail at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I'll send you a referral link (I get points when my referrals do searches).

Do you have other great sites that you like to use? Please share them with me! If you will write a paragraph about it, I will post it on the blog. And if I don't use it already, I'll sign up!

Hooray for cold medicine and coupons

Well, everyone around me has a snotty nose and now I have it too. ICK! Thankfully I'm stocked up on cold medicine that I got with coupons so that's a real blessing! On that note, if you have any of the Alka Seltzer Plus $2 off coupons that you won't use, I will use them so please send them my way!

Check for expired coupons

Lots of coupons will be expiring today so check your binders and get rid of the expired ones. Nothing more embarrassing or depressing than thinking you got a great deal and realizing as you're checking out that your coupons are expired. LOL.

Jumbo Foods Ad November 30th-December 6th

Coming up at Jumbo's:

Hot Pockets or Lean Pockets: 3/$5

12 Double Rolls Charmin: $5.99, use with 25 cent off coupon, $5.74

Bar S smoked sausage, 2.5 pound package: $3.99, use with $1 off coupon, $2.99. Please note that this coupon expires on Sunday so be sure and buy it before then if you are going to use it!

Bar S 16 oz bologna 3/$4 (or $1.33 each). Use with 75 cents off two to get for 96 cents each (these coupons also expire Sunday)

Bar S 16 oz hot dogs: $1.09, use with 75 cents off two coupon to get for 72 cents each. (These coupons also expire Sunday)

Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers, 12 oz. 4/$5: Use with 50 cents off two coupon to get them for $1 each.

Pillsbury crescent rolls, 8 oz. 2/$4 I have some 40 cents off two coupons that would make them $1.80 each.

United Sale Ad: November 30th-December 6th

For once I actually got my United sale ad in the mail before the sale actually started. The last several months I've been getting it at the end of the sale or after the sale ended. Anyway, here's a look at what's on sale at United this week:

20 count Charmin basic bathroom tissue, $6.99. Use with 25 cent off coupon to make it $6.74

Select Progresso Soups (tomato basil, creamy mushroom, vegetable or garden vegetable), 99 cents each. Use with $1 off four can coupon and get them for 74 cents a can.

Shedd's Spread Country Crock, 15 oz. $1.19. Use with $1 off coupon from All You magazine to get for 19 cents.


Post Cereals: Cocoa Pebbles, Fruity Pebbles, or Honey Combs, 2/$4. Use with $1 off 2 Post kid's cereals coupons to get for $1.50 a box.

Buy 5 participating Kraft items, save $5:
Kraft E-Z Mac, Kraft mayo or Miracle whip, Kraft pourable salad dressings, A.1. Steak sauce, Bulls-Eye BBQ sauce, Grey Poupon or Dijon mustard, Jello Gelatin or Pudding (6 ct, ready to eat), Jello Tempations, Jell-O No Bakes,

Coke & Dr. Pepper products: $4.99 for a 20 pack

4 Day sale Thursday-Sunday (December 1st-4th)

Kraft BBQ sauce: 89 cents

Libby's vegetables (corn, peas, green beans), 59 cents a can. Use with $1/4 coupon to get for 34 cents a can

United hamburger or hot dog buns, 89 cents

There is a whole lot more so be sure and check out the ad!

Keep an eye out for fall clearance items

With Thanksgiving over and Christmas fast approaching, keep an eye out for fall clearance items. Fall decorative and themed items will be getting marked down. I got some really nice honey colored bowls for $1.50 (a 4 pack) last week. They are big and sturdy and will be great for soups, cereal, etc.

Women of Faith bargain

I keep forgetting to share about my Women of Faith bargain. First of all, I won a gift bag that our group leader was giving away. It had a t-shirt, 2 books, and a worship music CD in it. Then our group leader gave us each little treat bags and in it were $5 coupons good for the Women of Faith vendors. Now in all the years I've been going to Women of Faith, I have avoided the vendors because it's too tempting to buy stuff. So I took my $5 coupon and went looking. I found a devotional/journal book that was $10 and so I bought it, with the coupon, I got it for $5. After I got home, I noticed on the back that it was normally priced $20! So I got a great deal and now I have a nice little hardback journal.

Mandy's Black Friday Deals

Mandy from Work at Home Adventures shared her great Black Friday deals with us!


We had a great day of Black Friday shopping. We started out at Wal-Mart. I got the Shark floor cleaner for $38 which saved $21! It works amazing. I also got towels for $1.28 and kids pajamas for as low as $4.47! We picked up a few other small things. After that, we went home for the night and stayed up. We moved on to Sears where we stood in line for 45 minutes outside. It actually wasn’t too cold. We got a side by side refrigerator we have been wanting. It is normally $1379 and we only paid $699 for it! That savings alone was worth the entire night.

The last place we went to was JC Penney’s. We got my husband a suit jacket for $70 that is normally $180. He also got several shirt/tie sets cheap and some dress pants that are normally $70 for only $25! Over all it was a great night of shopping and we saved a ton of money!

I also went to Old Navy on Thanksgiving day. They had coats that are normally $55 for only $20. I used a coupon which made them $16.50 each!

Walgreen's Weekly Ad: November 27th-December 3rd

This week at Walgreen's:

Hamburger & Tuna Helper on sale for 99 cents, 75 cents off 3 boxes, making them 74 cents each. Remember you can price match at Wal-Mart and they may have a better variety and choice of flavors.

Quaker cereals and granola bars: $2/$5 with a $2 Register Reward

Store coupon for Pringles: 2/$3, use with Pringle's manufacturer coupons to save more.

Lysol Toilet Bowl cleaner, store coupon for $1.99 each. Use with $1 off 2 coupon to make $1.49 each.

Store coupon for Holiday pencils: 6/$1, great for stocking stuffers

Store coupon for holiday sticker books or puzzles: 39 cents each

Store coupon for votive candles: 4/$1

Store coupon for Dawn dishwashing liquid: 99 cents. Use with November 50 cent off coupon (expires Wednesday) to get for 49 cents or with the coupon that came out in today's paper to get for 74 cents. I have a few of the 50 cent coupons left that I won't use. So if anyone needs any, just let me know!

Be sure and check out the online ad for yourself to see if there's anything I missed!

Walgreen's Deals

Well, I guess I missed out on the Cottonelle toilet paper this weekend. They were out. UGH.

Anyway, yesterday I got 4 bags of Hershey's kisses (4/$10) with a $5 Register Reward (good on Hershey's products), 2 packs of hair bands (2/$3) with a $3 Register Reward, and a bottle of naproxen sodium ($2) with a $2 Register Reward.

Today I took those Register Rewards in and got 4 of those plastic candy canes filled with Reese's cups for 84 cents (they were on sale 2/$5) and with my RR's, I only paid tax. I will use them for my own kids for Christmas (including Anthony, Serenity's fiancee)

GREAT Food Pyramid deals 11-25-11

Tom and I hit Food Pyramid today. My total after coupons was $24.91. I had a $10 off $50 Black Friday coupon, plus other coupons. Here's the breakdown. I bought 34 items so with the $10 off coupon, I'll take an additional 29 cents off each item.

Tomato Soup: 12 cans @ 50 cents each, 40 cents off four can coupons, doubled, made them 30 cents each. With the extra 29 cents from the $10 coupon, they were .01 each!

2 boxes of Archway cookies on sale 2/$5 with 45 cent coupon doubled, made them $1.60 each. $1.31 with the extra 29 cents off.

7 bags of C&H sugar, on sale for $2.39. I had four 50 cent off coupons that doubled, bring them down to $1.39 a bag, $1.10 with the extra 29 cents. I had three 75 cent off coupons that brought the rest of them down to $1.64 a bag, $1.35 a bag with the extra 29 cents off.

1 bottle of Gain dishwashing liquid, .99 cents, had a 50 cent coupon that doubled, so free (plus the 29 cents from the $10 coupon!)

3 Dawn with Olay, $1.35 each. Had one $1 off coupon, making one of them 35 cents, 6 cents with the 29 cents. Had two 50 cents off coupons, making the other two 6 cents after the 29 cents taken off.

2 regular Dawn, $1.39 each, two 50 cent coupons that doubled, making them 39 cents each, 10 cents after taking the 29 cents off.

2 boxes of Biscuick, $2.35 with two 50 cents off coupons that doubled. Made them $1.35, $1.06 after the 29 cents.

2 boxes of Progresso Panko bread crumbs, $2.65 each with two 50 cent off coupons that doubled. Made them $1.65 minus the 29 cents, $1.36 each.

3 bottles of Mr. Clean, $3.29 each. Had a buy 2, get 1 free coupon, so that brought them down to $6.58 for two. I used another 50 cent off coupon that doubled, bringing it down to $5.58 for three, minus 29 cents each: $4.71 total or: $1.57 each.

Did you brave the crowds?

Did you brave the crowds and go shopping this Black Friday? If so, what kinds of deals did you get? If you want to share them with me, e-mail me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I'll post them.

We needed a new coffeemaker and Wal-mart had one on sale for $9.44 so I got that, plus a Shark floor cleaner for $38, not sure how much it usually was. It was crazy!!!!! Oh my goodness! I think next time I might just pay full price for a coffeemaker. LOL.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for today? I am thankful for:

My incredible family
Great friends
Coupons

Well, too many things to even list.

Wal-Mart & United Deals 11-23-11

I got done working early today and went to Enid to get a few things.

At United I got
Post kid's cereal, on sale 2/$4, had $1 off two coupon, making them $1.50 a box
Keebler crackers, 2/$4, had $1 off two coupons, making them $1.50 a box
Sara Lee whole wheat bread on sale for $1.79 a loaf, had 55 cent off coupons, $1.24 a load
Hot Pockets on sale for $1.79
Diet Coke/Diet DP $4.99 for 20 packs

Wal-Mart
Libby's vegetables, price matched to Dollar General at 40 cents a can, used $1 off 4 cans coupons, got them for 15 cents a can.
Softsoap hand soap, $2.27, had $2 off 2 coupons, making them $1.27 each. They were the more expensive hand soaps
Free box of Idahoan hash brown potatoes

Got a few other odds and ends, you know, exciting stuff like dog food. LOL.

Have you liked my friend's Facebook page?

Have you liked my friend's Facebook page?

When she reaches 500 likes, she'll be giving away one of her new books Jungle Friends: Mack the Missing Monkey and a copy of her first book Jungle Friends: Leo the Lion and the Big Bug Dilemma plus a set of finger puppets!

Walgreen's Thanksgiving weekend sale November 24th-26th

Great deals to be found at Walgreen's this weekend!

Hallmark studio gift wrap, buy one at $1.99, get 2 free

Arm & Hammer laundry detergent: Buy one at $6.99, get two free. I read on Money Saving Queen that there were coupons for that recently so that could save you even more because you can use one for each bottle you buy.

Get a free $10 Walgreen's gift card with purchase of an Apple I-Tunes multi-pack

Hershey's or Cadbury Christmas candy (7.5 oz to 8.5 oz), 4/$10, get a $5 Register Reward towards your next purchase of Hershey's or Cadbury products.

11 oz Gain dishwashing liquid, store coupon for 99 cents. Combine with 50 cent manufacturer coupon to get for 49 cents!

Cottonelle 12 pack, store coupon for $3.99. Combine with 50 cent off coupon from newspaper or 75 cent coupon from All You magazine to get for $3.50 or $3.24 a 12 pack.

Tuf paper towels, store coupon for 39 cents

Kleenex, $4 for a 4 pack minus Walgreen's coupon in store, $3. Use with 50 cents off Kleenex coupon to get for $2.50

Pillow Pets and Pillow Pet Pee Wees, $12.99 to $29.99, plus get $10 in Register Rewards back on purchases of $30 or more.

Tons of great Register Rewards offers this weekend including several free after Register Rewards like Colgate, Naproxen sodium, Advil PM, ThermaCare, plus many more!

Check out their ad online!

K-Mart Deals 11-21-11

I went to K-Mart tonight and got some good deals:

Free Stove Top Stuffing

shave gels, $2.19, had a 55 cent coupon that doubled, making it $1.09

Nabisco crackers, 1.88 for the first two boxes, $2 for the other two. Had 75 cents off 2 coupons that doubled, making them $1.13 and $1.25 a box.

Nutra-Valley granola bars, $2.50, had a 50 cent off coupon that doubled, making it $1.50

Post Cereals, 4/$10 with $2 in coupons, making them $2 a box. Then I got a $3 catalina coupon for my next purchase at K-mart.

Juicy Juice, $2.50 a pack, had $1/2 coupon, made them $2 a pack. Tom likes juice and these will be good for him to take in his lunches plus I figured Tasha could take some back to college with her after Thanksgiving break

English muffins, $1 a package

Frosting ($1.79 and $2.19 each) and cake mixes ($1.25 each) with 75 cent off frosting/cake coupons that doubled to $1.50 off, making them $1.54 and $1.94 total.

Coupons by Dede review

Last week I submitted my first order to Coupons by Dede on Wednesday. I paid $6.04 for 10 Libby's $1/4 vegetable coupons, 20 $1/2 Libby's fruit coupons, and 5 $1/4 Progresso soup coupons. The coupons arrived very quickly, I got them on Friday, that was very impressive. As I checked my order, I discovered that I had 22 fruit and 8 vegetable. That was a little disappointing. I e-mailed them right away and got an e-mail this morning that they would be sending me out the other Libby's coupons and have issued me a store credit (I am not sure for how much).

So, overall, I would definitely recommend Coupons by Dede, I thought that was a very small mistake considering the number of coupons they probably package and mail out each day.

Looking for Black Friday deals?

Are you looking for Black Friday deals? Check out:

Money Saving Queen

and

The Coupon Closet

Both are Oklahoma based sites!

K-Mart doubling coupons up to 99 cents this week!!!

K-Mart is doubling coupons up to 99 cents this week for Shop Your Way Rewards members. I didn't get a circular in my newspaper, so I'm not sure what all is on sale. A friend told me about some of the deals

Post Cereal is 4/$10, there was a $1 off two boxes coupon a couple of weeks ago, which would bring the price down to $2 a box. Plus if you buy 3 boxes, a $3 catalina coupon prints out. If you buy 5, a $4 catalina coupon prints out.

Green Giant 4 pack vegetables are on sale 2/$6 and there was a 50 cent off 2 coupon for those recently, also. If you use your 50 cent off two coupons, they'll bring the price down to 2/$4. If you are a Shop Your Way Rewards member, the coupons should double which will bring your price down to 2/$2 or 25 cents a can!

The French fried onions are on sale 2/$6 and there were also coupons for those recently. The coupons were for 50 cents off one 6 oz, which would make these $2.50 each. If you have the Shop your way rewards card, it will make them $2 each!

If you go to the K-Mart website, you can print off coupons for free items with $25 purchase:
Nestle' toll house chips
Stove top stuffing mix

Libby's Vegetables at Dollar General! 15 Cents a can after coupon!

Today through Wednesday, Libby's vegetables are on sale for 40 cents a can at Dollar General. If you have the $1 off four Libby's vegetables coupon from last week, you can get these for 15 cents a can after coupon! GREAT DEAL!!!!!!!

Frazzled Mom's Walgreen's Deals 11-18-11

Frazzled Mom shared some great Walgreen's deals with us! Thank you!


Kotex pads, 24 count are buy one get one free at $2.99. I had a $1 coupon off of each box..making them.99 and then it spit out a $3 register reward!!! so I made $2 woooot!

Also, the Optic white toothpaste is usually just over $7 and was on sale for $2.99...I used my $1 off coupon making it 1.99 and then it spit out a $1 reg reward..wooot for that too!

Wal-Mart Deals 11-18-11

I went to Wal-Mart last night, too. Got some more great deals.

Box of Idahoan Cheesy Hash brown potatoes: free (with a coupon from the All You magazine)

8 cans Campbell's cream of mushroom/cream of chicken soup. It was on sale for 58 cents a can. I had some $1 off four coupons that a friend had sent me, making them 33 cents a can! Great deal on name brand cream soups!

6 four packs of Libby's vegetables, on sale $2 a pack. I had $1 off four cans coupons, making the cans 25 cents each.

Save-a-Lot Deals from 11-18-11

I went to Save-a-Lot and got some great deals last night. I had two $5 off $25 purchase coupons, so I did two transactions:

Transaction #1:
10 packages of John Morrell Little Smokies
3 packages of Armour meatballs
These were all on sale for $1.99 each. With the $5 off coupon, it made them $1.61 each, pre-tax.

Total with tax was $23.03

Transacation #2:
12 boxes of Totino's pizzas, on sale for $1 each. Had 60 cents off 3 coupons, making them 80 cents each.

12 cans of Libby's pineapples. Had $1 off two coupons, making them 49 cents each

2 bags of frozen shoestring French fries, 79 cents each.

With the $5 off coupon, it brought the pizzas down to 61 cents each, the pineapples down to 30 cents a can, and the fries down to 60 cents a bag.

My total after the $5 coupon and manufacturer coupons was $14.28!!!

I had planned to take pictures when I got home, but I was so tired and cranky that I just put the stuff up. LOL.

Mega Swagbucks Day

Have you tried Swagbucks yet? Today is Mega Swagbucks Day where you can get big numbers of points for searching through Swagbucks. I got all 4 of my Amazon gift cards (they are actually online codes that you use) and will be using them to order some stuff.

If you haven't tried it yet and decide to try, send me your e-mail address at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com and I will send you an invite (I get points for people that I refer).

Walgreen's Weekly Ad: November 20th-26th

Coming up at Walgreen's:

Select Kellogg's cereals: 2/$4 (or $2.79 each)

Store coupon for Charmin basic 6 pack double roll, $2.99, use with 25 cent Charmin coupon, $2.74

Store coupon for Tic-Tacs, 99 cents. Use with $1 off two coupons to make them 98 cents for two packs, or 49 cents each

Store coupon, Buy one Hefty One Zip bags at $3.49, get another free. Use with $1 off of two coupon to make it $2.49 for two boxes.

Viva paper towels, $6.99 each or 2/$12. There is a $3 off two store coupon making them 2/$9 and a manufacturer's coupon in Sunday's paper that you can combine with that and save even more.

Duck E-Z Start printed tape, $1.99, minus coupon in Sunday's paper makes it 99 cents

Store coupon for gift bags or sacks, 8/$1

Holiday tins and containers: 99 cents

2012 planners and calendars: $1 & $2

Excedrin products: buy $20 worth, get $10 in Register Rewards. Use with Excedrin manufacturer coupons for more savings.

CK's Great Deals!

My friend CK tells us about some of the deals she got last night at JCPenney's and Homeland:

Got some super great deals at homeland tonight after i bought a $50 purse at penny's for $19.

I got paid .10 a box to buy two boxes of hot chocolate
6 bags of frozen veggies for $2 or .33 each
Farmland bacon for $1.90 a pound,
Turkeys for .99 a pound and
Ham for 1.99 a pound,
Swanson broth for .30 a can,
Two cans of free cranberry sauce,
Shredded cheese for 1.72/bag,
Whole wheat tortillas for .29

Plus I had a $5 coupon for my whole order which made some more of the stuff free! LOVE ME SOME COUPONS! :O)

Mandy's great clearance deal!

My niece Mandy from Work at Home Adventures shared this great clearance deal she got yesterday at Wal-Mart:

I went into Wal-Mart to try and find a small tote to hold my daughters squinkies. These little toys are all over the house. I found this and it was marked $4.97. I also bought a package of cups that was marked $1.97. When I checked out, the cups rang up $1.50 so I thought wow I saved money. Then the tote rang up for only 50 cents!! I was shocked! I went back and got 5 more and got them all for the same price! You just never know when you might get lucky, but if you do take advantage of the deal!

Save-a-Lot November 13th-26th

Jiffy Corn muffin mix: 45 cents a box
Buyer's Best shoestring potatoes, 32 oz: 79 cents
Totino's frozen pizzas: 10 for $10 (or $1 each), use with 60 cents off 3 coupons to make them 80 cents each
Libby's pineapple, 99 cents. Use with $1 off 2 coupon to make them 49 cents each!!!
John Morrel little smokies, 12 oz: $1.99

Go to Save-a-lot to join their savings club and get a $5 off $25 coupon (this is different than the Facebook coupon from a few weeks ago). You can also get extra coupons for friends you refer that sign up, so I've sent some of you e-mails. LOL.

United-Bird's Eye veggies

I finally got a chance to go through coupons last night. There is a $1 off two Birds Eye vegetable coupon that you can use with the sale of $1 a bag, brings the price down to 75 cents a bag!

Wal-Mart Ad November 16th-24th

Some deals that can be found at Wal-Mart right now:

Libby's 4 pack vegetables: $2, use with $1 off 4 coupon to make them $1 or 25 cents a can!

Campbell's Cream of Chicken or Mushroom soup: use with .30 off three "great for cooking soups" to get them for 50 cents a can!

Wal-Mart Black Friday Ad

Have you seen the Wal-Mart Black Friday ad?

They are doing it different this year. Toy sales will start at 10:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, electronics at midnight on Thanksgiving, and electronics and more at 8:00 a.m. Friday morning.

Are you a big Black Friday shopper? I've done it, but the last few years there hasn't been anything that I've been that interested in getting out of bed at the butt crack of dawn for. LOL

There is way too much to try to list it all here. Check out the ad online and see what you are interested in.

Anyway, There are some really good electronics deals this year:

They have a laptop for $248, another laptop that is $198
A 32 inch LCD tv for $188, A 40 inch LCD tv for $248, several TV's ranging from $98 to $498
Blu-ray player for $49, wi-fi blu-ray player for $89
A HP printer for $19
HP wireless printer for $39


Some of the toy deals:
Bikes ranging from $29 to $99
Lots of movies and games ranging from $1.96 to $28
Board games for $3.88 and $688

Appliance deals (these start at 10:00 p.m. Thursday):
Waffle maker (two slice) for $2.84
Black and Decker griddle, programmable coffee-maker, crock-pot, and blender: $9.44

Coupon Clipping Service

I talked to a friend of mine who has used a coupon clipping service called Coupons by Dede. She has had good luck with them and the one time she had a problem, it was fixed immediately. I have ordered some coupons from there and I will let you know how it goes.

United Sale Ad: November 16th-24th

This week at United:

Best Choice flour 5 pounds: 99 cents
Best Choice sugar, 4 pounds: $1.99
Best Choice brown & serve rolls: 99 cents
Best Choice cake mixes: 59 cents
Best Choice canned vegetables (corn, peas, and green beans), 39 cents
Best Choice canned pumpkin: 89 cents
Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese: 4/$5
Swanson broth 14 oz, 2/$1
10 pound or more Best Choice turkeys: 89 cents a pound
20 pack Coke and Dr. Pepper products: $4.99
Campbell's cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soups: 69 cents. Use with 30 cents of 3 "great for cooking soups" coupons to get them for 59 cents each
Hot, Lean, or Croissant pockets: $1.79
16 oz Bird's Eye frozen vegetables: $1.00, use with $1 off two Bird's Eye products to get them for 75 cents a bag!
Best Choice cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup, 59 cents
Best Choice stuffing mix: 69 cents
Several 10 for $10 specials (or $1 each):
Duncan Hines cake mixes
Carnation evaporated milk
Nestle hot cocoa
Knorr Lipton pasta and rice side dishes
Green Giant mushrooms
Cain's restaurant blend tea
Kraft marshmallows
Green Giant specialty corn
Ocean Spray cranberry sauce
Best Choice black olives
Del Monte canned pineapple
Reese artichoke hearts
Pop secret 3 count
Fleischmann's yeast, 3 count
Best choice spices

Now for a confession. With last week being so busy and then being gone all weekend, I am soooo behind on going through coupons. So I am sure I have missed stuff. I hope to get caught up tonight. Anyway, my point is, feel free to point out stuff that I've missed. LOL.

Jumbo Foods Ad November 16th-24th

This week at Jumbo's:

Celery: 2/$1
Yams: 2 pounds/$1
8 oz Cool Whip: 89 cents
Del Monte Vegetables, 59 cents each
Nature's Grain dinner rolls (party flake or natural grain), 12 ct: 10/$10 or $1
20 pack Coca Cola products: $4.98
Libby's canned vegetables: 69 cents each, use with $1 off 4 coupon, brings price down to 44 cents a can
There is a store coupon in this week's ad for 25 cents off a dozen Best Choice eggs


Check out the entire ad here.

Pond Creek coupon class

The Pond Creek coupon class is coming up next Tuesday, November 22nd! E-mail me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com to register or call me at 532-6318. It is being held at the Pond Creek City Library!

Pretty Bummed

Well, noone came to my first class tonight. I was pretty disappointed. But I guess it gives me more time to fine tune it, right?

A chance to help

If your stockpile is getting a little too high and you want the chance to share with a family who needs help. Our church has a family of 5 we are doing a food shower for. The dad recently had back surgery and will be off work for several weeks. He works for a farmer so he doesn't get paid while he is off. With it being Thanksgiving and Christmas time, this is an especially tough time for this to be going on. Anyway, if you have stuff you'd like to donate, let me know and I can get it to the church. But most importantly, keep this family in your prayers. Thanks!

Women of Faith on Crockpot Cruise blog

I'll be talking about my Women of Faith experiences on my Crockpot Cruise blog over the next few days. You can read the first one here:

CK's Walgreen's Deals

My friend CK shared her Walgreen's Deals with us! Thanks CK!

Ziploc bags on sale for 2.29 each, or 2/$4 making them 2.00 each, with a coupon for .55 off each one, making them 1.45 each.

Bounty 6 pk on sale for 5.49, with a $5 off coupon, making them $.49

Cascade on sale for 3.99, with a coupon for $1 off two, making them 3.49 each

Revlon tweezers on sale for $4.99 with a buy one get one 1/2 price making them 2/$7.50- the $1 off walgreen coupon for each one and a $1 off from the newspaper, making that a total of $4 off for the two pair or 3.50 for two pair or 1.75/each. They are the really good ones that tweeze well.

Kotex was on sale for 3.99 with buy one get one half making them 6/2, with a 2 dollar off 2 coupon making them 4/2 or $2 each.

Then I got back $8 in register rewards. My total retail would have been $75.55 and I paid 38.99 and got $8 in rr.

Then our second transaction was two gallons of milk on sale for a bargain price of $3.18 minus our $5 rr, making them .68 each!

Remember! Enid class is tonight, Monday, November 14th!

Remember, my Enid class is tonight at 6:30 p.m. It's at the Child Care Resource and Referral Office in Enid at 129 N. University Place (across from Adam's School).

Walgreen's Weekly Ad: November 13th-November 19th

This week at Walgreen's:

Tide 24-32 load, $5.99, minus the $2 coupon from a couple of weeks ago, makes it $3.99

10 oz. Palmolive dish liquid, 99 cents minus the 25 cent coupon for today's paper: 74 cents

Store coupon for Royal Gelatin: 5/$1

Post Cereals: 2/$5, there was a coupon last week for (I think) $1 off two, which would make it 2/$4

Emerald Nuts, buy 1 at $5.99, get one free. There are coupons in today's paper for Emerald nuts.

Several items are buy $20 worth, get a $5 Register Reward. Remember you can use coupons on these items and save even more!
Febreeze: 20% off
Downy (60 load) or Bounce (120 sheets):$5.99
Cascade powder or gel (60 oz), Action pacs (15 pack): $3.99
Cheer or Gain laundry detergents, 24 or 32 loads: $4.99
Puffs: 56, 68, or 100 sheets: 5/$5
Bounty: 6 rolls: $5.49

Select cold, flu, and allergy products have buy $30 worth and get a $10 Register Reward and buy $20 worth and get a $5 Register Reward:

4 oz Robitussin or Dimetapp, 20 ct Robitussin, 10 ct Advil congestion relief: $4.99
30 ct. Allegra or 25 or 30 ct Zyrtec: $18.99
Vicks Vaper inhaler, Vapo-rub or Baby Rub: $4
Mucinex 6 oz or Delsym 3 oz: $10
14 or 20 ct. Mucinex: $11
12 oz Nyquil or Dayquil, .5 oz Sinex, 20 ct Nature Fusion caplets or 8 oz liquid, 24 ct Dayquil, Nyquil, or Sinex Night: $6.49
Thera-Flu 6 pack vapor patches, 6 packets, 8.3 oz liquid, 24 ct. caplets: $4.99

K-mart November 13th-November 19th

This week at K-Mart:

They have the 10# bag of potatoes for 99 cents again! Did anyone go to the one in Enid and get any this week?

Charmin 12 double or 6 mega rolls or Bounty 6 Big rolls, $6.99. Minus 25 cent coupons from earlier this month, $6.74

General Mills cereals: 4/$10

Forgive me, but I am so bleary-eyed and tired from Women of Faith, I'm not seeing much more. LOL. Feel free to comment or e-mail me with what I've missed.

Product Review: Progresso Creamy Mushroom Soup

Generally, I buy the condensed mushroom soups for cooking, but recently I bought some of the Progresso Creamy Mushroom soup on sale with a coupon. A large can of it was around $1 with the coupon.

I've used it to make roast twice now. It's not condensed, so I just pour it in the bottom of the slow cooker. Instead of having diced mushrooms, it has whole mushroom slices in it which Tom loves. It has a really good flavor and makes our roast taste really scrumptious.

We haven't tried it on it's own, so I can't really say how it is alone. But for cooking and recipes, I'd highly recommend the Progresso Creamy Mushroom soup.

Check today's paper for Saturday one day sales

I am gone today for the Women of Faith conference, but be sure and check out Saturday's News & Eagle to see what Jumbo's Saturday One Day Sale items are! Remember they are usually while supplies last, no rain checks!

Product Review: Planters Peanut Butter

We aren't generally name brand snobs when it comes to most foods. But when it comes to peanut butter, we pretty much have to go name brand. We had been using the Great Value (Wal-Mart) Peanut Butter and the Peter Pan (when I found it on sale) until the whole salmonella thing a few years ago with them. I haven't bought either since then. Just can't bring myself to do it! So since then, regardless of price, I've pretty much stuck to Jif. A few months ago, we were out of peanut butter and I was at the grocery store in Medford. They had a new peanut butter out by Planters. Since it was new, it was on sale. So I thought, well, it's Planters, it's got to be good, right? So I bought it and it got the Tom stamp of approval! He liked it as well, if not better than the Jif! Since then, I've got several great deals on the Planters peanut butter. I got it on sale for 99 cents a jar at United, and even got one jar for 49 cents with a store coupon. We've tried both the creamy and crunchy and they're both really good.

If your family likes peanut butter, I highly recommend giving the Planter's peanut butter a try!

Remember Jumbo Food's One day sale today, Friday November 11th!

Remember, Jumbo Food's is having a One Day Sale today, Friday, November 11th. If you have any $1 off Shedd's Spread Country Crock coupons, you can get there for free today!

Enid class is Monday, November 14th

My very first coupon/saving money class is this Monday, November 14th in Enid. It will be at the Child Care Resource & Referral Office, starting at 6:30 p.m. The class is free, please contact me to enroll!
If I do not answer the phone, please leave a message since I may be busy with my kids.

Info from the flyer:

Cruising with Coupons:
Saving Money on: well…EVERYTHING!
Do you need to save money but you’re not sure where to start?
Interested in using coupons but needing help?
Come join us for a fun and informative class on saving money and using coupons!
The class is free!
Date: Monday, November 14th, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Child Care Resource and Referral Office, 129 N. University Pl., Enid
To register, contact: Tracy Hinton 580-747-6396 or Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com
Visit my blog: cruisingwithcoupons.blogspot.com




I will be giving away this basket of goodies as a door prize:

This weekend

I am leaving early Friday morning for the Women of Faith conference in OKC. I will be gone until late Saturday evening. I have some blogs scheduled to post, but I wanted to give everyone a heads-up in case it takes me a while to get back to you or reply, etc.

Coupon Binders

Here are some more pictures of the coupon binders. Each binder will have 15 regular (9 slot) baseball card pages, 2 four slot pages, and 2 three slot pages, 12 labeled dividers, and an index page. I could use some input on what to charge for these. I've got about $6-$8 into them already with the binders and baseball card pages. That's not counting the ink and cardstock for the cover page and dividers.

You can see the fronts of the binders at this post: Which do you like better?

Aldi's November 9th-15th

This week at Aldi:

Produce:

grapefruit: 39 cents each

Fuji, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Gala apples: 45 cents a pound (3 pound bag for $1.35)

Pears: 2# bag for 98 cents

Honeycrisp apples: 2# bag for $1.98

2# bag of grapes: $1.98

Spiral sliced half-ham: $1.69 a pound

Smoked ham butt portion: $1.39 a pound

Smoked ham shank portion: $1.19 a pound

Special meat buy (today, Wednesday November 9th), ground Italian sausage, $2.49 a pound

Also, remember Aldi's has an aisle with special buys, including toys, etc. You can check out the special buys this week at their ad online.

United Sale ad: November 9th-15th

This week at United:

Hormel Always Tender Bonus Pack assorted pork chops, $1.79 a pound

Best Choice frozen vegetables, 12 or 16 oz: 79 cents

Del Monte canned vegetables: 59 cents a can

Pepsi products 12 packs: 4/$12

Betty Crocker cake mixes: 4/$5. There were coupons recently for 75 cents off cake mix and frosting.

Swanson beef or chicken stock, 26 oz, 2/$5, you can use with the 40 cents off two coupon in last Sunday's paper to get them 2/$4.60

Hiland butter quarters, 16 oz: $2.39



You can go to the Believe in Heroes website to download coupons that match some of the sales at United this week.

Emerald dry roasted peanuts 16 oz original or lightly salted: $2.50; $1.50 after coupon

Spam 12 oz, $2.29, $1.74 after coupon

C&H 4# sugar: 2/$5, 2/$4 after coupon

Colgate Total toothpaste: $3.99, $3.24 after coupon

64 oz Ocean Spray juice: 2/$5, with coupon get a free 4 pack of Ocean Spray sparkling juice with purchase of a 64 oz bottle

24 or 48 count Aleve: $3.19, $2.19 after coupon

Ocean Spray cranberry sauce: 2/$2, 2/$1 after coupon

Heinz 40 oz. squeeze ketchup $2.29, $1.29 after coupon

59 oz. Minute Maid pure squeezed orange juice: $2.99, $1.99 after coupon

Smart Balance Spread, 15 or 16 oz, $2.49, $1.49 after coupon

Kingsford Charcoal briquettes $6.99, with coupon get a free KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce or marinade.

18 or 20 pound Purina Dog Chow dry dog food, $9.99, $7.99 after coupon

64 use All 2X laundry detergent, $8.29, $7.79 after coupon

Clorox bleach: $1.99, $1.74 after coupon

Jumbo Food's One Day Specials, Friday, November 11th

Friday, November 11th, Jumbo Foods in Enid is having some great one day specials. Their one day specials are usually while supplies last, no rain checks.

Hormel Natural Choice Boston Butt Pork Roast (whole in the bag), $1.49 a pound

Large head of iceberg lettuce: $1

Best Choice Red or Yukon Gold potatoes, 5# bag, 2/$5

Best Choice tomatoes, 14.5-15 oz select varieties, 39 cents

Best Choice apple juice: 64 oz, 99 cents

Best Choice coffee, 34.5 oz, supreme or breakfast $5.49

Pillsbury Grand Biscuits, 12-17.3 oz select varieties, 99 cents

BEST DEAL!!!!! Shedd's Spread Country Crock, 15 oz, 99 cents! Use the $1 off Country Crock coupon in the All You magazine and get it for free!!!

Jumbo Foods Ad November 9th-15th

This week at Jumbo's:

4# bag of navel oranges: $2.98

Hershey's baking chips, 8-12 oz: 3/$5

Best Choice vegetables 11-15.25 oz: 2/88 cents

Best Choice cream soup 10.5-10.75 oz: 59 cents each

Banquet meals 5.75-10.5 oz select varieties: 87 cents each

2.5# Bar S Smoked Sausage: $3.99 (there was a coupon off the 2.5 pound sausage a couple of weeks ago. I need to look, but I think it was $1.00 off which would make it $2.99)

Corn King boneless whole ham, 4# for $6.99. You can get the meat department to shave these for you for free and use it for sandwiches.

Red Gold tomato sauce, 8 oz: 4/$1

Wolf Brand chili: 3/$4

Red Gold tomatoes with green chilies 10 oz, 2/$1

Red Gold tomatoes 14.5-15 oz, 4/$3

Charmin basic bath tissue 24 double roll pack: $9.99 (there were Charmin coupons in last week's P&G Brand saver insert)

Sprite, Sprite Zero, or Fresca products: 2 liters, 99 cents

Price Book

These are the price books that I am making to sell at my classes. Each book has 15 pages and a cover page. Each page will be to track the prices of one item. As of right now, I am planning to hole punch them for people to either put into their coupon binders or to put into a binder or folder of their own. I need some input on prices though. I'm not very good at this! Thoughts?

Watch those Register Reward expiration dates!

If you are going to Walgreen's to do some of your coupon shopping, be sure and watch your Register Reward expiration dates. They can sneak up on you and expire. I've noticed they usually expire two weeks from the date issued. I recently had a couple of $1 RR's expire because I forgot about them. I looked for them on the day that I thought they expired and couldn't find them. So I thought I must have used them and didn't remember. Well, turns out I hadn't. I found them a few days later. UGH. $2 down the drain! I don't like that!

So, pick a spot to put your RR's in your coupon binder (or whatever you use) and make sure you use them before they expire!

Have you tried Swagbucks?

Have you tried Swagbucks? I signed up for it a few months ago after hearing Money Saving Queen talk about it. I have earned almost 2000 points as of yesterday. The points can be redeemed towards gift cards or tons of other things in the Swag Store. Most of my points were earned through doing searches on Swagbucks (rather than Google), some by doing surveys, and some by using Swagcodes. I turned in some of my points yesterday towards Amazon gift cards and plan to turn in some more today. It is 450 points for a $5 gift card so I should be able to get $20 worth with what I have so far. If you haven't signed up and do decide to sign up, please sign up under me because I get credit for that.

If you are interested, let me know and I'll figure out how to send you an invitation.

Product Review: Red Gold Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies

I have decided to do some product reviews of items that I have bought on sale and/or with coupons that we might not have tried before.

First item up is: Red Gold Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies (similar to Rotel). I bought these at United for 25 cents a can a few weeks ago. I used a couple of cans with a block of Velveeta cheese to make nacho dip recently. This turned out so much better than using salsa (which is what I normally use). The dip was spicy but not so spicy I couldn't eat it (I'm a wimp when it comes to spicy food). I also used a can this past weekend in some homemade cheese sauce I made and it also turned out really well.

Bottom line, I was impressed with the Red Gold Diced Tomatoes and Green Chilies product. I will definitely buy it again! (Note, it is on sale for 50 cents a can starting Wednesday, November 9th at Jumbo's in Enid).

K-mart Ad November 6th-12th

This week at K-mart:

They have 10 pound bags of potatoes for 99 cents! This is a great price. It says "not available in all stores" so I would call before making a special trip to see if they have it.

Post Honey Bunches of Oats cereals (13-17 oz) or Fruity Pebble's treats (6.2 oz): 4/$10 plus Shop Your Way Rewards members get a free 59 oz Tropicana orange juice when you buy 4 participating products. There was a coupon in Sunday's paper for $1 off two Post cereals which would bring your cost down to $2 a box (if you have two coupons you can use)

Scott 8 regular (1,000 ct) or 12 extra-soft double rolls, Scott 6 mega rolls paper towels or Cottonelle 12 rolls bath tissue: 2/$10. Plus there was a 50 cent off Cottonelle coupon in Sunday's paper, which would bring it down to $4.50 per package.

Shop your way Rewards members get a free 2 liter of 7-up with the purchase of 4 twelve packs of 7-up products (on sale 4/$12).

Wesson vegetable oil 48 oz, Shop Your Way Reward member's super coupon, $2.49 each, limit 5 with coupon

All laundry detergent or All Baby Care, Snuggle 50 oz, or All Small & Mighty 32 oz, $2.99 each with Shop Your Way Rewards Member super coupon. There was a 50 cents off All coupon in yesterday's paper which you can combine with this store coupon to make them $2.49 each.

I am sure there is stuff I have missed, so be sure and check out K-mart's ad online.

Sign up for my Enid or Pond Creek class!

I will be teaching classes on using coupons and saving money in both Enid and Pond Creek.

The Enid one is:
Monday, November 14th at the Child Care Resource and Referral office at 129 N. University Place. Starts at 6:30 p.m.

The Pond Creek one is:
Tuesday, November 22nd at the Pond Creek City Library. It starts at 6:30 p.m.

E-mail me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com or call me to enroll!

I plan to be done with my binders by then and selling them. I'll post a picture of the completed project when I get done.

How do you organize your trips?

My friend Frazzled Mom asked an excellent question in the comment section. So I'm posting it so I can write a blog about it. She wants to know how you organize your trips? And how do you keep track at the register? Post in the comment section and let me know!

Count Chocula cereal for 99 cents a box!

I was in Jumbo's picking up the Diet Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke 20 packs and the 10 pound bag of potatoes that were on sale when I saw Count Chocula marked down to 99 cents a box! Tom loves Count Chocula and I'm sure the kids will enjoy it too. They didn't expire until next August so the only reason I can figure they marked them down was that they must have been seasonal for Halloween.

United Bargains November 5th, 2011

I went to United this morning and got:

5 jars of peanut butter (99 cents a jar, they subbed Jif because they were out of Planters).
2 bottles of Gillette Body wash (32 cents each after rain checks and coupons)
1 tub of Country Crock butter (19 cents after coupon)
refilled 4 gallons of water (not pictured)
1 dozen eggs ($1.19 on sale, minus 50 cents from the rain check coupon for 69 cents)

My total was $8.99!

Walgreen's Weekly Ad: November 6th-November 12th

Here is Walgreen's specials for next week. Be sure to check out their weekly ad sneak peek for yourselves in case I miss anything!

Pepsi 12 pack products: 3/$12, plus a store coupon to get a free 12 pack of Diet Pepsi with purchase of three 12 packs. Makes it 4/$12.

Cottonelle, pre-priced $5 minus 50 cent coupon in Sunday's paper, $4.50. There are also 75 cent off 12 pack coupons in the All You magazine which would bring it down to $4.25

Progresso soups: 18.5 or 19 oz, store coupon 4/$5. There are coupons for $1 off four cans which would bring your price down to $1 a can.

Store coupon for 99 cents each: Scotch tape magic tape with dispenser: 3/4 inch by 300 inches or 1/2 inch by 450 inches 7-10 pack clasp envelopes.

Store coupon for Carefree panti-liners, 99 cents. Minus a 50 cent coupon from Sunday's paper, making it 49 cents.

Buy $10 of participating Suave products and get $3 in Register Rewards. I know I have some Suave coupons, I'll have to check my binder.

Photo Freebies at Walgreen's November 4th & 5th!

Today and tomorrow at Walgreen's, you can get 25 free 4x6 photo prints or a free desktop calendar.

The code for the photos is: FREE4X6

The code for the calendar is: FREEFORU

What if you run into problems?

It is probably unavoidable that you will run into some kind of problem when you're couponing. Frequently, the problem is with an untrained cashier. I had a cashier who griped the entire time she was scanning my coupons as if those 35 cent coupons were coming directly out of her pocket!

What is the best way to handle these problems? Make sure you are in the right. Ask to see the coupon just to double check the small print (remember my $3 only good in Canada coupon? LOL).

Remain calm and friendly. (this one is a real challenge for me!). When I used some of my Bar S coupons last Saturday, I had the cashier try to tell me that I couldn't use them on the garlic bologna because it was for original only. Which is NOT what it said at all. It said "ANY package of 16 oz Bar S franks or bologna". I patiently pointed that out to her. Turns out the reason the coupon wouldn't scan was because the meat was marked down so it wasn't scanned into the register using the bar code (which I had tried to tell her already, but whatever, LOL).

Next, if necessary, call a manager over and ask them for help. Still remain calm and friendly (again, still a challenge for me). On Saturday on the same United trip, I had a manager get really hateful with me because he was going to have to "manually enter every one of those coupons". I had 6 coupons. It wasn't like I had 100 of them! I just bit my tongue and let it go (although I am still considering writing a letter to the corporate office)

What if things cannot get worked out and you KNOW you are right? Sometimes you just have to walk away and try again later. But whatever you do, do not let it discourage you from using coupons. Cashiers and managers have bad days, just like we do. Just take a deep breath and walk away. If you're still bothered by it a few days later, you can look into writing a letter to the company to voice your concerns.

Share YOUR great deals!

Remember, if you want to share your great deals on my blog,just e-mail them to me at Tracy.Hinton@gmail.com (and pictures too, if you want to) and I will post them! People love reading about great deals!

Frazzled Mom's K-Mart Deals!

Frazzled Mom also shared her K-Mart deals from yesterday with us. BIG thanks to her! And I love her response to the customer behind her!

some of my favorite deals at K-Mart 11/2/11

Most of these were also achieved because I am a "shop your way rewards" member. Most of those deals are good through November 5th.

1) Folgers Coffee: reg price 4.69 / sale price 2.99 / I got 5 for a final price of 14.95 and savings of $8.50
2) Smart Source Plates: reg price 4.29 / sale price 2.79 for a savings of $1.50
3) Northern Bath Tissue 24 double roll pack/ reg price 15.49 / sale price 12.99 for a savings of $2.50
4) Bouty select-a-size Paper towels 16 pack / reg price 17.99 / sale price 12.99 / coupon for 1.00 for a final price of 11.99 and a savings of $6.00
5) Scrubbing Bubbles Bathroom Cleaner 22oz / Reg price 3.49 ea / sale price 2 for 5.00 / coupon for $2 off 2 for a final price of $3.00 for both and a savings of $3.98
6) Glade Air Freshener / Reg price 3.19 / sale price 2 for $5 / coupon for $1 off 2 for a final price of $4 for both and a savings of $2.38
7) Chef Boy-ar-dee cans / reg price $1.49 / sale price 10 for $10 for a final price of $10 and a savings of $4.90
8 ) Clairol haircolor / Reg price 7.79 ea / sale price BOGO 1/2 off / plus a coupon of $2 for a final price of $ 9.68 for both and a savings of $5.90
9) Venus Embrace Razor with 5 blades / reg price 10.49 / sale price 8.99 / coupon for $2 off for a final price of $6.99 and a savings of $3.50
10)Gillette Mach 3 Disposable Razor 3 pack/ reg price 8.29 / sale price 6.99 / coupon for $2 for a final price of $4.99 and a savings of $3.30
11) Excedrin 80 Count Migraine Medication / Reg price 12.99 / Sale price 6.99 / Coupon for $2 for a final price of $4.99 and a savings of $8.00
12) Softsoap (the larger size) reg price 2.79 ea / sale price 2.29 /
coupon for $2 off 2 for a final price of $2.58 and a savings of $3.00
13) Duracell 8 count AA batteries: reg price $8.79 / sale price $5.00 / coupon for 0.75 for a final price of $4.25 and a savings of 4.54

I also snagged several 1/2 off Halloween things and several other couponed items as well. The total savings listed above is $58.00. I actually had a woman behind me in line that was very interested in my deals and got herself a flyers so that she could find those things too, lol. She said "are you an extreme couponer?" I told her "No, I just try to match sales to coupons on items that I normally buy anyway."

Frazzled Mom's Walgreen's Deals!

Frazzled Mom shared her great Walgreen's trip from yesterday! Thanks for the picture and for sharing!

1)Gain laundry detergent: Reg price: 7.99 ea / sale price: 4.99 / coupon 0.50 = final price 4.49 / savings of $3.50
2)Tide laundry detergent: Reg price 9.49 ea / sale price: 5.99 / coupon 2.00 = final price 3.99 / savings of $5.50
3)Old Spice body wash: Reg price 4.49 ea / on sale at buy one, get one 1/2 off / I had two coupons, one for 1.00 off and one for buy one get one free. I THINK my final price on these is 2.36 for both..but I am honestly not positive, lol...what do you think? /savings of $6.62
4) Aveeno hand lotion: Reg price 2.99 ea / sale price 2.39 / coupon $3 off 2 / final price: 1.78 for both / savings of $4.20
5) Coke 12 packs: Reg price 4.99 ea / sale price at 3 for $12/ final price 12.00 for 3 / savings of $2.97
6)Pringles: Reg price 1.99 / sale price 2 for $3 / coupon $1 off of 4 cans/ final price $5 for 4 cans / savings of $2.96
7) General Mills Cereal: Reg price 2.99 ea/ sale price 2 for $4 / coupon$1 off 3 / final price on 4 boxes 7.00 / $4.96
Campbell's Soup: Reg price 1.29 ea / sale price 0.59 / coupon for 0.40 off 2 / final price 0.78 for 2 cans / $1.80
9) Colgate toothpaste: Reg price 3.49 ea / sale price 2 for 3.00 / coupon for 0.50 off / final price 2.50 for two / $4.48 (Plus a $2 Register Reward!)

Total savings of items listed: $36.99 - I consider this my earnings for the 45 minutes I spent in the store..not bad!