A few walgreens notes

There aren't many deals at Waglreens this week but there's one moneymaker, if your store will allow it.

Visine $3.99 (regular price)
-$2/1 mq (found in allergy booklets at Rite Aid)
-$2/1 wagsq in-ad
-$2/1 Wagsq in monthly booklet
= -$2.01

If you don't have the $2/1, there's a $1/1 Visine q in the 6.13.10 RP. A note, today, I could only get one per transaction. When I tried to get 2, the wags q's did not multiply.

There is a similar deal on Listerine, but I did not do that deal as I didn't have any mq's with me.
Listerine regular prices, $5.49 and $5.79.
If you have any $2/1 Listerine q's, you'll get a little overage with the two $2/1 Wags' q's.

There is supposed to be a 15% Friends/Family discount coupon available from tomorrow through Wednesday on Facebook, so that will lower the oop a little for your purchases.

CVS scenario and super cheap diapers

Here's my plan for CVS this week, starting with NO ecb's. :)

Transaction 1
2 CVS brand pantiliners 2/$1
=$1 oop+tax

earn $1 ecb wyb 2 CVS pantiliners

Transaction 2
Biotrue 2oz $2.99 (monthly deal)
-$2/1 ip (no longer available)
-$1 ecb
=$0 oop+tax

earn $2.99 ecb wyb Biotrue

Transaction 3
Kotex U $4.99
-$1/1 KotexU printable HERE
-$1/1 CVS q from magic coupon machine (if you don't get this, there's a $1.50/1 in the RIB magazine)
-$2.99 ecb
=$0+tax

Earn $4.99 ecb wyb KotexU

Transaction 3
Celsius Tea $7.99 (monthly deal)
-$2/1 Celsius printable
-$4.99 ecb
=$1.99 oop+tax

earn $7.99 ecb wyb Celsius

Transaction 4
Photo Book $7.99
-$7.99 ecb
=$0 +tax oop

earn $7.99 ecb wyb Photo Book

Transaction 5
Pampers Box diapers $21.99
-$3/1 Pampers mq (from Vocal Point, or $2/1 6.6.10 P&G)
-$4/20 (if you have it, if you haven't received a coupon in your email in a while, re-register and you should get a $4/20 in your email)
-$7.99 ecb
=$7.oo oop+tax

(check your printed cvs q's from the magic machine! I had a $4.50/1 Pampers Big Box that just expired and my CVS will take expired q's, making my oop $2.50!)

Earn $10ecb wyb Pampers box


Grand total oop: $9.99+tax with $10 ecb left!! (and for me, I have the $4.50 CVS Pampers q, so my oop will be $5.49!!!)

If you don't have the Biotrue q, add a RIB mag in the first transaction, don't do the second transaction and change the third transaction to the $1.50/1 Kotexq and the $1 ecb, throw in a candy bar to cover the $.50 difference.

Publix deals this week, 7.28-8.3.10

Here are the super deals I see this week at Publix! There are tons and tons of deals this week, but here's my favorites!!

Cascadian Farms Granola Bars 3.99 bogo
$1/1 Cascadian Farms printable (register and coupons will be emailed) HERE
$1/1 Cascadian Farms Whole Foods printable HERE (if your store accepts Whole Foods as a competitor)
=Free with both q's

Gardein Garden Protein Meat-free entrees $3.99 bogo
$1/1 Gardein mq HERE (or contact the company and they will send you some!)
=$.99

Toufayan Pita Bread $1.29 bogo

Bertolli Pasta Sauce $2.95 bogo
(Great price for Bertolli, I only wish there were manufacturer's coupons available!)

Mt Olive Sweet Relish or Pickles $2.19 bogo
-$.50/1 blinkie
=$.10 each with doubles

Sprout Organic Baby Food $.99 bogo
-Bogo mq from Publix Smary Savings booklet
=FREE!! (Even in our area where it rings up half price- because the cashier enters the coupon as $.50 so the register will automatically double it. :D

Yoplait GoGurt $2.19 bogo
-$1/1 ip HERE
=$.10
(I recommend the Simply GoGurt - no added coloring or HFCS)

Starbucks or Ben & Jerry ice cream pints $3.79 bogo
-$1/1 Starbucks HERE
-$1/1 Ben & Jerry's Whole Foods (competitor coupon) from Whole Deal booklet or printable, no longer available
=$.90

Hunt's Ketchup $1.65 bogo
-$1/2 FLip (with a scannable barcode, but labeled store coupon?)
(there's also a deal with the Conagra booklet, but I don't think we've found it here in TN)
=$.65/2

Progresso Soup 4/$5
-$1.10/3 Progresso printable HERE
-$1/2 Progresso Rite Aid Video Values coupon
=$2.30/6 if your store allows more than one RA coupon

Softsoap 10/$10
-$.50/1 Softsoap printable HERE
=Free


We don't actually eat Pop-Tarts (terrible for you and most flavors have Gelatin, which is a meat by-product) but this is a good deal on them, plus, you can enter codes for free movie tickets
Kelloggs Pop-Tarts $1.99 bogo (at my store)
-$1/2 blinkie or HERE
=$.99/2

A deal at Rite Aid

Rite Aid has been hit or miss lately for me, what with the hiddne Up+ limits, the changes to the registers (not allowing coupons to go into tax) and so forth. So here's a deal I discovered that made me pretty happy! ;)

Colgate $3.00, earn $3 Up+
-$1/1 mq 7.11.10 SS
=$2.00 oop

Rolaids 12ct Chews $1.00 w/card
-$4/2 mq 6.6.10 RP
=$2 overage when you buy two

So here's my transaction
Buy
1 Colgate $3
2 Rolaids $1/ea
=$5

-$1/1 Colgate
-$4/2 Rolaids
=$5

Pay tax, earn $3 Up+

Repeat. This one is unlimited per card, so you will continue to get Up+s. If you do this enough, you can be on your way to qualifying for the Oral Rebate Gift Card.

Working Walgreens

A lot of people have Walgreens issues with their stores accepting coupons, overage and all other sorts of things.

yes, I have problems too. Several stores that are convenient for me (near my grandparents' house) do not accept internet printables at all, so that stinks.

There are a few tips that will help you at Walgreens, and these are not wrong, fraudulent, or illegal. It just helps prevent beeps, and therefore drama.

These tips are mostly only valid at stores that have not converted to the new registers (as I have heard the new registers do not allow overage)

When purchasing an item that provides overage, always hand over the manufacturer coupons first, and the Wags coupons last. If your store insists on doing wags coupons first, try this: Hand over the items, then the mq's. (don't have the wags q in sight). After a second of hesitation, say, oh! i forgot about the in-ad/monthly coupon! And then flip through to find it. At that point, they usually won't void the transaction to re-ring it, although some stores may do it.

If your items involve overage on mq's alone, your last q will beep, so try doing this:
Let's say I want 10 bags of Purina One dog food at $1.99/ea and want to use ten coupons for $2.00/1. My last coupon will beep because I am now over the threshold of the total purchased vs. total amount of coupons presented.

So what I do is get 11 bags. I then (somewhere out of sight of the cashier) pull out ten coupons. I make sure to get something small to eat the overage. Then I hand over all my items. 11 bags of food and one filler. Cashier scans all items. I start counting out my coupons as I hand them over, commenting "let me count these to make sure I have the right ones". then I count... When I get to the last two, I make a "huh?" sound and pretend to look through my coupons as I hand over the last two, numbers nine and ten. Then I say, "You know what? I thought I had eleven coupons, but I only have ten. I must have put the other one in a different folder (used it already, etc) Let me take one of those off and just get the ten." The cashier will then void one item. No beeps, no drama. And I get to use ten coupons on ten items. Wags gets reimbursed full face value, so there is nothing wrong with outsmarting the register like this.

I did exactly the above three times this week while trying to use up all my dog food q's at stores other than my regular store ;) I didn't have any trouble, even at the difficult stores.

High Value hot dog coupon

We don't eat hot dogs, so I don't know if this will equal a good deal, nor do I know anything about this brand, lol, BUT
There's a $2/1 Farmer John hot dog coupon HERE
(if you don't see it, try zip 30013)

A few more Kroger deals

A few more deals I noticed at Kroger this week-

Fisher Bologna is $.88 (non-Mega sale)
-$.40/1 mq 6.13.10 RP (doubled)
=$.08/ea

Michelina's entrees $.88 (non-Mega sale)
-$.50/1 Michelina's Breakfast entree 5.9.10 SS (if included and doubled)
=Free (you won't get overage on the double)

Joint Juice singles $.99 (only at some stores) (non-Mega sale)
-$2/1 mq 6.6.10 SS
=-$1.01
(Thanks Melissia!!)

Honest Tea $1.00 (non-Mega sale)
-$.50/1 mq HERE
=Free
(Thanks Melissia!!)

Spaghettios $.49 (after Mega)
-$.50/2 Spaghettios HERE
=2 Free after doubles

Crest toothpaste $1.00 (non-Mega sale)
-$.50/1 Crest mq 6.27.10 RP, 6.6.10 P&G, 7.4.10 P&G
=Free