Free Coffee at Starbucks April 15

To celebrate Earth Day, Starbucks is offering a free brewed coffee to anyone who brings in their own reusable travel mug, instead of requiring a paper cup.

This is a good habit for all of us to be in, not just on Earth Day!

More information can be found HERE.


Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Another Rite Aid Swiffer deal

If you're thinking of doing some Swiffer deals- you might consider buying a Swiffer dry starter kit. Don't forget to use the Free refill wyb kit coupon from the Homemade Simple Booklet. That refill will count toward your Swiffer rebate. The kits come with coupons, and one person said the coupons were GREAT ones! $2/1 refill coupons! These can make your deals even better.

Let me know if you find these great q's!

Allergies got you down?

If you're an allergy sufferer like me, the spring is beautiful, but hard to get through. I know my days are one sneeze at a time. Itchy, watery eyes, sneezing, blowing my nose. It's lots of fun. I have been keeping Visine, Benadryl, Zyrtec and tissues in my car. Just in case.

So luckily for us, the drugstores are taking care of us to keep the cost of those allergy meds down!

Benadryl at Wags
monthly deal: Buy two Benadryl, Sudafed, and ear $5 rr.
Benadryl is regularly priced $4.69 at my store, and several other of the varieties are $4.99 on sale this week.
The new $5/2 coupon in today's paper would be good on this, BUT! The coupon is coded the same as the RR deal, so if you use the coupon and buy the products, you won't get the RR. The register thinks you've used a RR to get the same deal, and we all know you can't do that. There is a way around this. 1) You can ask "pretty please" if the cashier can manually enter $5 vendor coupon instead of scanning the coupon. (if your store knows you, or is aware of the problem with his coupon, they may be fine with this. I did this today and it worked fine.) or 2) You can buy them without the coupon, then say oh, OOPS! I forgot to give you my coupon! And they will reimburse you the $5.

So, if you can get this deal, Free (or MM) Benadryl! Woohoo!!

Zyrtec deals at Rite Aid
Seriously SUPER Zyrtec deals at Rite Aid. Not only on brand name Zyrtec, but also on the Rite Aid brand Zyrtec (Cetirizine or something).

With Zyrtec, you get a double dip.
*Zyrtec and Benadryl have a 3-limit Allergy SCR #553 deal, Spend $75 on Zyrtec or Benadryl and get a $20 Rite Aid Gift Certificate

*Purchase $50 in participating products (of which Zyrtec, Cetirizine, etc) and receive a $25 gift card

Zyrtec is on sale this week for $18.99
-$4/1 Rite Aid coupon emailed to Rite Aid customers on the mailling list
-$4/1 Zyrtec mq 4.4.10 SS (or other places!)
=$10.99
~Buy $1.01 of other items and use a $5/20 coupon to save more and earn $18.99 toward your rebates!

For the Rite Aid brand Zyrtec product, Cetirizine, you also qualify for the Allergy Rebate.
Here is a $5/1 Cetirizine Rite Aid coupon HERE that you can print multiples of.
The week of 4.25.10 The Cetirizine is bogo, so you could buy two for the price of one and use two of the $5/1 RA coupons.

Do this:
2x Cetirizine $17.99 bogo
$2.01 filler
Use $5/20
$5/1 Cetirizine RAq's x2
=$5 oop and earn $17.99 toward the Allergy rebate!

Rite Aid and Swiffer deals

Rite Aid has Swiffer refills on sale this week for $3.99/ea (wet and dry!)

Also there are a few deals this week.

*Complete Multi-purpose Solution 12 oz $7.99 get $7.99 SCR #34
=Free after SCR

*Visine (various prices) $3.99
-$2/1 in-ad coupon
-$2/1 4.11.10 RP
=Free

*Nivea Lip Care $2.99, get $2 SCR #38
-$.50/1 mq from booklet found in store (I found at Rite Aid, CVS, KMart and Wags)
=$.49 after SCR

*Crest White Vivid Toothpaste $2.99, get $2 SCR
-$1/1 Crest mq P&G 4.4.10
=Free after SCR

*Puffs $.99
-$1/1 mq Vocalpoint home mailer
=Free

Swiffer $3.99
-$.50/1 mq P&G 4.4.10
-$1/1 mq (inside package)
-$2/1 mq (inside package)
=$3.49- $1.99 (depending on coupon used)

*Brita Replacement Pitcher Filters, 3pk $12.99

(Brita / Burt's Bees / Green Works get $5 rite aid gc wyb $25 scr #75)

-$2/1 VV coupon

*Zyrtec $18.99
(double dip on rebates with the Zyrtec rewards program and the Allergy SCR)
-$4/1 mq
-$4/1 RA q (emailed to you when you join allergy program)

=$10.99 after coupon (use a $5/20 with a small filler and do several transactions to earn the Zyrtec and allergy rebates)


Sample Scenarios:
Remember, you don't have to buy all the items for a SCR deal in one transaction. You may separate them into separate transactions.

Transaction 1
2x Visine 3.99
2x Swiffer 3.99
Crest White 2.99
Puffs $.99
= $19.94

Use
$5/20
2x $2/1 Visine in-adq
2x $2/1 Visine mq 4.11.10 RP
$.50/1 Swiffer
$.50/1 Swiffer
$1/1 Crest
$1/1 Puffs
=$16

=$3.94 oop
earn $2 SCR
earn $5.98 toward Swiffer rebate HERE

Transaction 2
2x Visine 3.99
3x Swiffer 3.99
=$19.95

Use
$5/20
2x $2/1 Visine in-adq
2x $2/1 Visine mq 4.11.10 RP

3x $.50/1 Swiffer mq
=$14.50

=$5.45 oop
earn $11.97 toward Swiffer rebate

Transaction 3
Zyrtec 18.99
Swiffer 3.99
=22.98

Use
$5/20
$4/1 Zyrtec RAq
$4/1 Zyrtec mq
$.50/1 Swiffer mq
=$13.50

=$9.48 oop
earn $3.99 toward Swiffer rebate & $18.99 toward Zyrtec SCR and $18.99 toward Allergy SCR

~Submit for Swiffer rebate and get $10 gc
~Earned $2 SCR

Transaction 4
Zyrtec $18.99
Nivea $2.99
=$21.98

Use
$5/20
$4/1 Zyrtec RAq
$4/1 Zyrtec mq
$.50/1 Nivea mq
=$13.50

=$8.48 oop
Earn $2 SCR (Nivea) and $18.99 toward Allergy and Zyrtec SCR

Transaction 5
Zyrtec $18.99
$1.01 fill
=$20

Use
$5/20
$4/1 Zyrtec mq
$4/1 Zyrtec RA q
=$13

=$7
Earned $18.99 toward Allergy and Zyrtec rebates- This completes the $50 requirement for the allergy rebate, SCR#552, earning a $25 gift card!

Transaction 6
Repeat Transaction 5

This will complete the Zyrtec rebate, earning $20 gift certificate!

Total for all above transactions: $41.35
Earned: ($59 total)
$2 SCR rebate (Crest)
$2 SCR rebate (Nivea)
$20 Rite Aid Certificate (Zyrtec rewards)
$25 RA Gift Card (RA Allergy)
$10 Visa Card (Swiffer)

Total profit $7.65!

Possible great deal on Huggies!

Those of you in need of baby wipes might consider running into Target with any Huggies wipes coupons you have. Some stores are reporting Huggies 64ct tubs on price cut, priced at $1.66.

-$.50/1 3.21.10 SS
-$.75/1 printable HERE

=$1.16 - $.91 /ea depending on coupons used.

(there are also a bunch of home mailers out there!)

Nearly free Swiffer wetjet refills at KMart

Option A
Swiffer Wetjet pad refill $6.99
Swiffer Wetjet liquid refill $4.99
Swiffer Wetjet liquid refill $4.99
Swiffer Wetjet liquid refill $4.99
Swiffer Wetjet liquid refill $4.99
=$26.95

-$.50/1 mq (doubled to $1/1) 3.7.10 P&G x5
=-$5

=Total $21.95

Submit for $10 Mastercard from KMart's P&G offer (tearpad found in KMart) ($10 wyb $25 of P&G products)
AND
Submit for $10 gift card offer from Swiffer here ($10 gc wyb $20 of Swiffer refills)

Total after rebates: $1.95 + tax

Option B
Swiffer Wetjet pad refill $6.99
Swiffer Wetjet pad refill $6.99
Swiffer Wetjet pad refill $6.99
Swiffer Wetjet liquid refill $4.99
=$25.96

-$.50/1 mq (doubled to $1/1) 3.7.10 P&G x4
=-$4

=Total $21.96

Submit for $10 Mastercard from KMart's P&G offer (tearpad found in KMart) ($10 wyb $25 of P&G products)
AND
Submit for $10 gift card offer from Swiffer here ($10 gc wyb $20 of Swiffer refills)

Total after rebates: $1.96 + tax

Why I don't run out and use the good q's

So as a beginning couponer, you wonder. When do I use a coupon? I have this great coupon, so should I use it now?

Over time, here's what I've started doing: If a super coupon comes out, I print it (if it's a printable, which many of the REALLY good ones are) and hang onto it. If it's an item I really REALLY need then I'll go ahead and use it, but I will try to hold onto it and wait for a good sale to pair it with. Most coupons I will hold until right before expiration and then use it the day or so before it expires.

Think of it this way, you can always use a coupon on a regular priced item, so hang onto that sucker and if you don't get a sale, then you can use it before it expires on the regular priced item.

A good example: I received some of the Vocalpoint mailer q's for Kashi Heart to Heart cereal. In the pack was a "free" box coupon and some $1.50/1 coupons. I could have run right out and used my free box coupon, but I chose to wait. A couple of weeks later I found the new Whole Foods booklets which have a $1/1 Kashi product coupon and several of the Publix stores here accept Whole Foods as a competitor. Then, the Kashi cereals went on sale 2/$5. So stacking the Whole Foods coupon with the $1.50/1 coupons gave me free cereal. And when I stacked the Whole Foods coupon with the "free" box coupon, I got a dollar overage.

And here's another example:
A month or so ago, some printables were out on cookingwithkraft.com for the Oscar Meyer Deli Creations sandwiches. There was a BOGO Publix coupon and a $.75/1 Publix coupon printable. I could have gone out and used those for a good deal, buy two and use the $.75/1 and the bogo. But I thought I would wait.
Then a coupon came out to save $1 on Publix brand water wyb a deli creations sandwich. Alright, now we're getting there!

But today, there's a coupon HERE for $1/1 Deli Creations sandwich manufacturer coupon. Aha! Now, the last time I was in, I price checked and these were 2/$5. If these are the same price, I can buy two and use one Publix bogo coupon, one $.75/1 Publix coupon and two $1/1 manufacturer's coupons as well as save $1 on Publix brand water.

Now I've gotten water, and two sandwiches for a moneymaker of $.25.

That's what I call a good deal.