Earning gift cards for Christmas

Did you know that you can earn gift cards to use for Christmas (and other occasions) through sites such as Gift Hulk? I usually get Amazon gift cards, but there are lots of other choices, including PayPal cash. If you decide to sign up, be sure and use my sign up link above and you can also enter "cruisingwithcoupons" (no quotes) for extra points when you sign up!

Great giveaway over on Mandy's blog

Mandy is having a great giveaway over on her celebrity blog According 2 Mandy, you can win a free e-book of Melissa Peterman's (from Reba) new book. Go check it out!

Good luck!

Jumbo's deals available this week (through October 30th)

This week, Jumbo's in Enid has 10 pound rolls of hamburger meat on sale for $1.99 a pound. Sadly, this is one of the best deals I've seen on hamburger meat in a while. Showing my age here, but remember when you could get hamburger meat on sale for 99 cents a pound? Sigh...

They also have:
Pork chops for $1.69 a pound
Eat Smart veggie trays for $6.98
Green Giant frozen Valley Fresh Steamers for !.39 (and there were 75 cent coupons for those recently).
Dawn dish liquid (9 oz) for $1

United deals 10-19-12

Last Friday I went to United and got 30 Red Gold items (and filled four 1 gallon water jugs) for $10.53. The Red Gold items were on sale, if you bought 10, you saved $5, plus I had coupons for the Red Gold sloppy joe sauce. I got:
14 cans of tomato sauce (25 cents each after the special)
6 cans of diced tomatoes/green chilis ( like Rotel) (25 cents each after the special)
4 bottles of ketchup (50 cents each after the special)
4 cans of sloppy joe sauce (50 cents each after the special, free with coupon)
2 cans of tomato juice (50 cents each with the special)

Good deals at United through October 23rd

This week United is running one of their buy 10 items get $5 off specials on Red Gold items. You can get  cans of tomato sauce, tomatoes, and diced tomatoes/green chilies (similar to Rotel) for 25 cents after the discount, sloppy joe sauce or tomato juice for 50 cents, and salsa for 75 cents.

Only 13 likes away from a winner!

I'm only 13 likes away from a winner on my Facebook page contest. If you haven't liked my Facebook page yet, head on over there and "like" it and you'll be entered to win one of these binders:

Getting back in the groove

Well, I'm going to try to get back in the groove here. I've been pretty down in the dumps the last few weeks, but it's time to suck it up and move on. LOL.

This past weekend at Staples, they had some items that were 100% back in Staples rewards (which basically means I'll get a coupon for Staples with that money back). The items were Duracell batteries and Staples copy paper. I got two of each (the limit) as well as a package of Avery labels that had an $8 Staples rebate (making them $1.99). So I spent almost $50, but I"ll get all but $2 and the tax back. Keep an eye on the Staples ads, they can have some pretty good deals, especially as it gets closer to Christmas!

Bargains from last month

Here are some bargains I hadn't got around to posting about yet.

First of all from Dollar Tree:
General Mills Cheerios cereal for 50 cents a box after coupons and toothpaste for 25 cents a tube after coupons. I'm pretty excited about Dollar Tree taking coupons! Although they don't really understand their own coupon policy yet, I'm assuming it will get better.

And from Staples. Total after Back to School savings card (on the composition notebooks and computer paper) and Staples Rewards coupon (from turning in ink cartridges) was about $6. The little mini camcorder was on clearance for like $14-$15!