Home Sweet Coupons

Taking a vacation from all things (including couponing...for the most part) left a lot of coupons to print and clip when I got back home and settled.  I literally spent about 6 hours catching up on printing, clipping and purging my q's and putting together my weekly shopping.  I still have this past weekends q's to clip...

I made three stops on Sunday, with my bestie in tow....towards the end of our little jaunt she was starting to get a little overwhelmed.

First stop was CVS for a diaper deal and some freebies:)  I don't shop there too often...but this one was worth a venture out.

I had to do 4 transactions to use all of my q's...and I picked up 2 q's from the CVS "magic machine" for a free candy bar and a box of band-aids.  I paid a total of $18.05 OOP, and got back a $10 gas card (which I have to wait for in the mail since the computer didn't trigger it for some reason...but $10 is $10).

Transaction #1:

• 1 package Huggies slip-on diapers $8.99.  Used store prinable $2/1 and manufacturer printable $3/1 = $4.66 with tax

Transaction #2:

• 1 package Huggies slip-on diapers $8.99.  Used store prinable $2/1 and manufacturer printable $3/1 = $4.66 with tax

Transaction #3:

• 1 package Huggies slip-on diapers $8.99.  Used store prinable $2/1 and manufacturer printable $3/1 = $4.66 with tax

Transaction #4:

• 1 package Huggies slip-on diapers $8.99.  Used store prinable $2/1 and manufacturer printable $3/1 = $3.99
• 1 Carmello candy bar $1.19.  Used in-store q = FREE
• 1 box CVS bandages $3.79.  Use in-store q = $0.50 MONEYMAKER

We took a couponing intermission to stop and grab some breakfast at our favorite diner and then a brief stop at Target.  I didn't pick up anything too exciting there except a couple trial size packs of Cascade dishwasher tablets for free.

Dom's is the star of the week this week for all of the cheap cereal that I happily brought home and added to my stockpile.  They are now doing a program called "deal match" that you can load to your frequent shopper card and it paired nicely this week with the buy 4, save $4 deal they were running.  It made most boxes of cereal $0.99 before I used my q's.  Here is my first trip this week:

• 1 box Cinnamon Toast Crunch $1.07.  Used .50/1 printable = $0.57
• 8 boxes Cocoa Puffs $7.92.  Used 4 printables .75/1 and 2 printables $1/2 = $1.92
• 3 boxes Honey Nut Chex $ 4.47. Used J4U q .75/1 and 2 printables .75/1 = $2.22
• 6 boxes Van's Frozen Waffle $15.00.  Used 3 printables $1/2 and store q $5/$15 frozen food = $7.00
• 4 Pillsbury Sweet Moments Bite-Size Brownies $7.96 (with in-ad q).  Used 4 $1/1 = $3.96
• 3-4 packs Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt $4.47 (with in-ad q).  Used 3 printables $1/1 = $1.47
• 1 bunch Bananas $1.07 (had JFU personalized price of $0.49/lb)
• 2.5 lbs black seedless grapes $2.52
• 1 package Johnsonville Cheddar Sausage $4.99.  Used J4U q for free sausage = FREE

I saved a total of $81.74 in q's and store promos...that's a 79% savings.  I was pretty happy with my deals for the day and even got a little coupon stoke...it was so good, I went back on Monday:)