Hostess coupon

Vote here and get a coupon for $.75 off a Hostess 100 calorie snack pack.

Walgreens Coupon

Hey Friends. There is a $5 off $20 purchase Walgreens coupon for this weekend. There are a bunch of different scenarios here. I really hope my Walgreens gift card is in the mailbox waiting for me at home.

Deal at Old Navy

Hello! Just got an email from Old Navy that from September 19-21 you can get 20% off and free shipping if you use the promo code BFF. It is their Best Friends Weekend. You can also take a friend to the store and then tell the cashier the code as well and get 20% off. I just browsed through the kids stuff and there were a lot of great deals to maybe get stuff for next summer's wardrobe for $2.99, then take the 20% off of that. Not bad! So check it out if you like to shop Old Navy!

Wal-Mart Muir Glen- watch out!

I have a saga to tell of my trip to Wal-mart last night to pick up more tomatoes...but I should type it at home as opposed to work.

I do want to warn you though - last night the tomoatoes were marked $1.14/can on the shelf but rang up $1.27. Danger.

Fareway made me sad today

I think I'm done shopping at Fareway. I went in there because they had 2 things on sale which I also had coupons for. Of course, it's me so I picked up a few other things too. Anyway, when I got to the checkout, they told me that they're not taking internet/printed coupons anymore. I returned the items that I had coupons for, but ended up getting the other few items because they were things that I needed to make dinner tonight. It made me sad. If only Fareway would see how they win by having coupons. I still bought other stuff. But now, sad to say, I am not going to shop at Fareway. If they don't want my coupons, then I don't want them.

3M Picture Hanging Strips

Found a coupon for these. Never used them but might be worth a try.
You cand download the pdf coupon here.

South Beach Bars at Walgreens

Today brought me to Walgreens yet again. They tempt me with their $10 off a $40 purchase. Today wasn't as sweet of a score, but one thing that I thought was a pretty good deal was their South Beach bars. They are on sale for $2.50 per box. And if you get $15 of Kraft or Nabisco products, you get a $5 rebate via Walgreens. There are $2 off coupons off of the bars. We now have a stock of 6 boxes. Like I told Mark, we won't be going hungry any time soon. And our 1/4 of a cow is coming this Sunday. We definitely are set.

Caution: Last time I used this $10 off $40 purchase, my awesome cashier guy rang up this coupon after Walgreens coupons and before manufacturers coupons. I was hoping that would be the case today, but I had a rule follower cashier who rang it after all the coupons. I ended up having to get chapstick to get up to $40 and it was buy one, get one, so now I have about 4 extra chapsticks if anyone needs any.

Kashi at Target

I'm not sure how long they're doing it, but Target will give you a $5 gift card for every 4 Kashi products you buy. Right now their frozen waffles are $1.58 so you can get these waffles for $0.33 per box after you figure in your $5 Target card (which has to be used at a later transaction). This is pretty sweet. You can also get their cereal which is on sale for $2.75 per box and after figuring your Target gift card, this is like getting it for $1.50 per box....or you can use the $1 off the Go Lean Crunch cereal making this an even sweeter deal. Now go rock it!! Mark and I ended up hooking up 12 Kashi items. We are set.

Help

Alright my ladies. Let me know in the comment section what sites you frequently check for coupons and what money saving/coupon/deal blogs you read and I will post them off to the right so they are easily accessible.

They are just Giving stuff away

If you haven't checked out or heard about the various deals you can get at Walgreen's right now, I highly recommend that you look into it. Walgreen's is becoming my favorite store.

This week (so far) I have gotten free Chex Mix, made $7 and got 3 bottles of Robitusin , and got free Crest Pro Health mouthwash. I think that Money Saving Mom is a great place to find out about these deals, but I've recently started checking Mom's By Heart and she seems to know what's giong on in the Walgreen's world.

Wal-Mart - Suddenly Salad

Did you guys know Suddenly Salad is on sale at Wal-Mart for $.94? I used a couple leftover coupons and picked up 3 boxes. I was at the Altoona Wal-Mart, but I assume it would be the same at others. End of season deal or something... 

The magic of vinegar

This isn't exactly a "deal" found at a store, but it could save you a lot of money of cleaning products. I have been trying to be more "green" at our house. We try to only use the reusable shopping bags (does everyone use theirs at HyVee? 5 cents off for each bag you use!), we recycle, and we are even switching over to cloth diapers for our 9 month old (my husband was a hard sell on switching, but now every time he uses a cloth diaper he gets excited and says, "That is one less diaper in a landfill")

Anyway, I have heard from several sources about how vinegar is such a good cleaning product. So I Googled it the other day and found this website with a lot of different ideas for using vinegar. In fact, there are 1001 ideas. The site is called simply vinegartips.com. Who knew distilled white vinegar had so many uses. Not I. I admit I have not tried any yet, but am excited to as soon as my other cleaners run out. I'd love to hear if anyone else has tried some of the tips and what worked for them.

A Few Fareway Deals

I checked out the Fareway flyer yesterday and headed to the store to see if the deals were true. Here's what I found:

Jolly Time Popcorn is on sale for $1. There's a $1 off coupon.

Green Giant Steamers are on sale for $1.25. There's a $1 off coupon here. You just need to watch out for this. I thought all the varieties were on sale, but it's not true. It may be that just the plain vegetable packs are the ones on sale.

Ever since I got the sample of the True lemon packets, I've wanted more. (They totally won.) I finally found them at Fareway. There were $2.48 but if you got the sample, they sent you a $1.00 off coupon.

Of course, I had to hook up the Blue Bunny ice cream, so I got $1 off $2.48. I like free, but I can handle spending $1.48 on a container of great ice cream.

And I actually stopped at Wal-Mart too (I'm addicted to shopping with coupons) to see if I could use this Vlasic $1.00 coupon. I did and got a jar of jalapeno slices for $0.58. The rumor that the Macaroni Grill pasta dinner things were on sale isn't true. I was looking forward to hooking some of those up for free, but no.

I've come to a conclusion since all this price checking and couponing thing started. I don't think any one store is cheaper or more expensive than the other (Aldi might be the exception). Each store has some good prices on some items and then higher on others. I think the goal is to get things on sale or just know where the best price is.