Mail Freebies and Trip to Target!

Freebies from the mailbox today included 4 coupons for FREE Fancy Feast Elegant Medleys. Each coupon good for 2 cans up to $1.98. That's a savings of almost $8.00. If you're interested in joining, the coupons came from www.recyclebank.com. It's a site intererested in promoting healthy environmental habits. We also got a FREE Luna bar, Mint Chocolate Chip and a $.50 coupon off of a future Luna bar purchase. Not bad.

Today we went to Target to try to use some of my coupons that have been building up. I didn't do too bad, but didn't do as good as I thought I was going to. Altogether though, I saved 53% off of my purchases! I had a BYGO Reeses cups, but you won't see those shown, because we ate them, ha ha! Both the Nivea Men's body wash was .04 after $3 MC. The Degree were both about $1 after coupons. The Lysol wipes were FREE after $1.50 MC (cost was $1.27). The Aquafresh Xtreme Clean toothpaste was free after coupons since MC didn't specify size ($1) each. The Head and Shoulders Conditioner was free after buying Shampoo ($4.74). Catfood normally $7.99, on sale for $7.49, but we had one MC for $2.00 off and one TC for $2.00 making it $3.49! Lipbalm was already in a bonus pack (one normally cost $2.59) and we had a buy 2 Nivea lip care products get $2.00 off MC making the final cost for each lip balm actually $.79! The pizzas are normally about $6.00 dollars, only paid about $3.00 each with MC and TC. We hardly ever get frozen prepared foods. We had $2.00 Aveeno MC and a $1.00 TC and so we got the Aveeno facewash for about $3.49, normally $6.49.

Before coupons, the cost was about $80, after coupons the cost was about $40. We unfortunately had to get Bissell carpet cleaner, and no coupon for that, so it cost $8.79 and the pretzels $2.69. Overall, not bad.

Just a heads up, we called ahead and spoke to a Manager at Target before going shopping. We confirmed that you can use ONE manufacturer's coupon AND ONE Target coupon PER ITEM! Unless either coupon prohibits it. We did pretty good!!

*Note* MC = Manufacturer Coupons and TC = Target Coupons

Coupons...

So, my newest freebies, Frebreeze was doing a FACEBOOK fan Teacher appreciation contest. For a short time, you could nominate a teacher (Nick nominated the head teacher he works for) and you got a Wood Wick candle and Luminary. One for you and one for the teacher! AWESOME!

Above that is my "gift" from pampers gifts to grow. It's a Gillette Venus Spa Breeze razor, it came with a free sample of Olay body wash AND they threw in an extra razor, not sure why! I've found codes that people have listed on top of getting codes from diapers, and have had enough to get the razor! SWEET!

You will find a lot of FACEBOOK FAN giveaways and contests. This is where I've had almost all my luck! Keep a lookout. I have "befriended" a lot of freebie addicts on FB, they do all the work for me!

I won a COOBIE bra (didn't even know who they were until joining on FB) I simply joined and they randomly selected 1,000 people after they got 20,000 fans. I got free ketchup coupons for joining Heinz, and got free sauce from telling "Country Bob's all Purpose Sauce" what I was having for dinner! Yesterday, Ori-Ida gave away coupons for a free bag Sweet Potatoe Fries to the first 100,000 who signed up!

If you're interested, tomorrow 4/29/11 you can get FREE frito lay coupon when you "like" frito lay and are one of the first 25,000 to get a coupon at 3PM tomorrow afternoon.

Some of my Freebie Friends (sounds funny) on FB are Free4mommies, Freebies, Enza's Bargains, I Love Freebies, ~The Daily Goody Bag~, etc. They do all the work, I just LOOK FOR IT! Ha ha! FOLLOW THEM AND YOU'LL GET AWESOME STUFF TOO!!!!

Onto Coupons....

So, I realized about a month ago, that certain websites for certain stores have their own coupons... Walmart and CVS to name a couple. Did you know that you can usually have ONE manufacturers coupon AND ONE store coupon PER ITEM??!! If you get some high value coupons, you get some GREAT deals! At CVS, I bought some Huggies babywipes with 1 $2.00 store coupon AND 1 $.75 manufacturers coupon.

I've also found that if a coupon exceeds the price of an item (very rare that this will happen), it's a MONEY MAKER! The full price of the coupon is taken off.

If stores have REWARDS programs, USE THEM! Petsmart, Babies R Us, Shaws, Stop and Shop, etc... Can save you money on TOP of using coupons. I still have a lot to learn, but this has been SO helpful to us, as we're just trying to GET BY right now...

Fedex came with my newest SURPRISE!

Today, Fedex showed up with my newest FREE samples! I got a box of Park's & Co.ffee! It came from a promotion I heard about through Facebook. The first response was so overwhelming that they had to postpone the promotion, but it will continue! If you're interested, "like" CoffeeGIANT on facebook and stay tuned. The value of the free coffee is $7.99 and it came in a really cute box. There are nine packets in it, all good for a FULL POT of coffee! We're very excited!

So, keep your eyes peeled and maybe you can get some free coffee too! And if you have a Keurig, it looks like they have GREAT options and variety for coffee, at GREAT prices!

As an FYI, if you're interested in some great coupon sites for printable coupons:

http://www.coupons.com/

Last I checked they had Reach floss coupons $1, that's FREE floss in most stores!

http://www.couponsuzy.com/

http://www.allyou.com/

This is a magazine put out by Walmart and they have some great coupons at times

http://www.smartsource.com/

http://www.aquafresh.com/

You have to sign up, but you get great coupons towards tooth paste, and may just have to pay cents for some toothpaste at Walmart!

My Weekly Freebies!

The Freebies I have gotten from following different people who care about finding freebies and SAVING MONEY!

The upper left picture is from today 4/22/11, I received a FREE sample of Valspar Paint, and got a FREE Origins facewash (by giving an old one to recyce), and FREE samples of Victoria Secret "sparkling and new. forever your angel" scent. LOVE!

Upper right picture: Freebies from 4/18/11, We received FREE Ketchup, Little Swimmers, Nivea body wash, Friskies Cat Food (4 cans), floss AND Tide! Yay!

Lower picture, not everything was free... but I went to Babies R Us, Market Basket, Bath and Body Works, and CVS. Spent about $50, BOUGHT $130 worth of stuff. Proud!

Some of the sites I have used to get my freebies, believe it or not...

Collecting points at http://www.huggies.com/ and http://www.pampers.com/ . I got free diapers from huggies by playing a silly game, and a free razor coming from pampers by adding up points! Great for moms!

http://www.recyclebank.com/ is a place to make earth friendly decisions and committing to healthier living opportunites, etc. This is where we have gotten FREE cat food, believe it or not! About 10 cans free of Friskies and Fancy Feast!

www.ruelala.com/invite/michellem10 . Rue La La is by invitation only, but if you sign up NOW (by 4/25/11) you can get FREE $20 CREDIT, which could lead to FREE STUFF! Just use your credits by 5/25/11. There are great BOUTIQUE items at reduced costs! FUN! And no strings attached!

I'll post more advice soon!

FREE or almost free NIVEA!!

In the paper today 4/17/11, or if you go to http://www.redplum.com/, you will find coupons for $3.oo off of Nivea men body wash, AND Nivea women body wash. These will be FREE products at Walmart (or almost free), most of the prices towards the bodywash is about $3.00 at Walmart. ENJOY! I'm sure the coupons will go quick!

Who doesn't need paper?! How about FREE paper?

Staples is currently having a promotion, buy a package of HP paper (about $5.99) and it's FREE with easy rebate! Unfortunately, the blog isn't letting me post the coupon site... if you're interested, and on facebook, I'll post it on my site. It's a great deal! Hurry, offer ends on April 16th 2011!