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