Shopping for Free (Week of 12/11/11)

I decided I would post my shopping trips each week in which I purchase items for Free! Nothing is better than Free!

This week I scored the following:

CVS:

3 Centrum Vitamins - $9.99 each
Total $29.97
Used 2 - $5.00/1 Printable coupons
Used 1 - $7.00/1 MQ (12/11 RP)
Stacked with 1 - $5.00/1 CVS Coupon from scanner
Total - $7.97
Paid with ECBs and got $10.00 (gift card to CVS back!)
$2.03 MONEYMAKER!!

Combos - $2.00, Get $2.00 ECBs back - FREE!

WAL-MART:

2 K-Y Jellys - $2.82 each
Used 2 - $3.00/1 printable coupons
$0.36 MONEYMAKER!!


2 Tide Packets (trial size) - $0.97 each
Used 2 - $1.00/1 MQs (found these in the Tide aisle- someone left them)
$0.06 MONEYMAKER!!

1 Old Spice Body Wash (trial size) - $0.97
Used 1 - $1.00/1 MQ P&G Home Mailer
$0.03 MONEYMAKER!!

TARGET:

4 Glade Holiday Cheers Twin Refills $2.50 each (the one in the photo is the only one scanning at $2.50)
1 Glade Premium Room Spray $2.50
Used (4) $2/1 Plug Ins Scented Oil Twin Refill Coupon (will need access to 2 computers)
Used (1) $.55/1 Glade Room Spray (12/4 SS)
Stacked with $1.50/3 Glade Home Fragrance Target Store Printable Coupon
Paid $2.45, Get back a $5 Gift Card
FREE and $2.55 MONEYMAKER

2 Eucerin Hand Creams (trial size) - $0.97 each

Used 2 $1.00/1 Target Printable

FREE and $0.06 MONEYMAKER

2 Playtex Sippy Cups - $3.99 each

Used the coupons I posted about HERE and stacked with same

FREE and $0.02 MONEYMAKER!!

Don't forget the Nivea tins, I posted about here - My store was out!

FAMILY DOLLAR:

6 packs Snausages Treats - $1.00 each

Used 2 $1.00/1 Printables

Used 2 $1.50/2 Printables

$1.00 for all 6

I know not completely free but that's only
$0.17 a pack!!!


I use moneymakers to purchase cat and dog food since I can't get it completely free, generally!!

Wal-Mart - Free K-Y Jelly, Plus MoneyMaker!

Print the $3.00/1 Any K-Y Jelly Coupon and then take it to Wal-Mart where the 2 oz. tubes are priced around $2.62, making it Free, plus get $0.38 in overage!! I use my overage to buy cat food!

CVS, Wal-Mart and Target Trips - $0.89 for ALL!!!

I'm still loving my Sunday shopping trip with my little sis to CVS and my free mornings between Kindergarten drop-off and heading to work!

Check out my CVS purchase for only $0.89!

I don't have the breakdown, but thought I'd share the photo!!






At Wal-Mart I purchased the 4 juices for FREE! I had a $1.00/1 coupon (no longer) and they went on sale for $1.00. I used $2.00/2 MQs for the Airwicks making all four come in with a profit of $0.24! The Febreeze warmers were free by using the $3.00/1 (P&G 8/28) and made a $0.06 profit. The Aquafresh's were also free by using the $1.00/1 MQ and made me a profit of $0.06! I used the profits to purchase a can of cat food for free!!

At Target I got these items FREE!!

Whiskas Treats - $1.00
Used 2 $1.00/1 Target printable coupons
FREE

Aveeno - $2.99
Used 2 - $2.00/1 Recyclebank Printable
Used 2 - $1.00 Target printable

Facebook Freebie - Aquafresh Extreme Clean Trial Size

"Like" the Aquafresh page and click to sign up to print a $1.00 off any Aquafresh Extreme Clean Toothpaste. The trial sizes at Wal-Mart and Target are usually $0.97, allowing for $0.03 overage!! Don't forget to hit back and refresh to print it twice!!

Target and Wal-Mart Trips - $0.35 and $0.28 OOP!!!!!

Now that my son has started Kindergarten, I have some free time between drop-off and my arrival to work. I'm using that free time to start working on couponing other stores more regularly besides CVS. I have 3 mornings a week with about half an hour of free time. I think I made pretty good use of my time by only spending $0.59 on all you see pictured!!

Wal-Mart Breakdown (1st photo):

4 Airwick Warmers - $0.94 each
Used 2 - $2.00/2 Any Airwick Item
Cost: -$0.24 MONEYMAKER!

4 Tide Packets (trial size) - $0.97 each

Used 2 - $1.50/2 Any Tide MQ (8/28 P&G)
Cost: $0.88

2 Cascade Packets (trial size) - $0.82 each

Used 2 $1.00/1 Any Cascade (8/28 P&G)

Cost: -$0.36 MONEYMAKER!

The overage offset the Tide cost and I paid just $0.28 for everything in the photo!!

Target Breakdown (2nd photo):

1 Nivea Body Was - $2.99

Used $1.00/1 Target Printable

Used $2.00/1 MQ

Cost: -$0.01 MONEYMAKER!

2 Cans of Friskies - $0.90

Used 2 Cans Free Coupon from Recyclebank

FREE

2 Cans Whiskas $1.48

Used 2 Cans Free Coupon from Recyclebank

FREE

2 Visine Eye Drops (trial size) - $1.99 each

Used 2 - $2.00/1 Any Visine

Cost: -$0.02 MONEYMAKER!

2 Degree Deodorants (trial size) - $0.97 each

Used 2 - $1.00/1 MQ (8/28 RP)

Cost: -$0.06 MONEYMAKER

1 Rimmel Eyeshadow - $2.49

Used $1.00 MQ (8/28 RP)

Used $1.00 Target Printable

Cost: $0.49

Plus I received a $0.05 credit for using a reusable shopping bag!!

The overage offset the eyeshadow and I paid just $0.35 for everything!!

$2.00 Toy Story Operation Game at Wal-Mart!

Today I got the Toy Story Operation Game at Wal-Mart for $2.00!! It was priced on sale at $10.00, but when I scanned it at the price checker it rang up $5.00! Pair with this $3.00 off Operation Coupon (look under toys) My final price was $2.00! My son's Easter basket is looking pretty good!!

Wardkey Advanced Nutrition Fish Food - FREE with coupon

Print a coupon for $2.00 off on any Wardley Advance Nutrition Fish Food Product. I am understanding (but haven't had a chance to check myself) that the small containers are priced under $2.00 at Wal-Mart making this a Freebie!! Since we have fish - I'll be checking this out for sure!

Free Ice Cream at Wal-Mart Tomorrow

Be sure to stop by your local Wal-Mart tomorrow between 11 am and 4 pm to receive your free ice cream. To be sure your store is participating go here and enter your zip code. You can choose from a 1.57 oz. DIBS snack pack, 2.4 oz. Blue Bunny Aspen Frozen Yogurt Granola Bar or a 4 oz. Ben and Jerry's Flipped Out Cup!

YUM!!

Wal-Mart for $0.33 and making a 2nd trip!

I got the above for 33 cents! How you ask? Well, it's simple - coupons! I received a free coupon from Del Monte for the 9Lives cat food for a free bag. I used a $1.00 off any Kotex (which came inside a sample Kotex pack which I told you about in other posts so I simply bought a $1.00 pack of Kotex. Wal-Mart had the Gillette for $2.00 (some was over $3.00 so I had to look) and I used a $2.00 off coupon as well. Bottom line, I only paid tax!

I had several other coupons for free, or close to free items, but didn't get to finish shopping as my little one was feeling pretty rough and we were headed to the doctors. Just as well because I received a coupon for a free bag of Iams dog food in the mail today to add to my stack! I am going to try to finish up tonight or tomorrow!

I love coupons!

Five Freebies For Friday

Earthblend Dog Food – click here

Schick Quattro Titanium – click here

Gillette High Performance Deep Cleaning Shampoo (Wal-Mart sample) – click here

Free Oatmeal Crisp cereal (Wal-Mart sample) – click here (These are great single breakfasts, but also great as a snack for the kiddos dry!)

Another Kotex Sample (Sam's Club sample, no membership ID required) – click here

New Wal-Mart Samples and More

New Wal-Mart Samples

Benefiber Sticks sample - click here (not to be confused with an earlier Benefiber sample)

Kotex Sample - click here

Tide Total Care - click here


Other Samples:

Metamucil Berry Burst – click here

Glad Force Flex Trash Bag - click here


For the kids:

Free Planet Heros DVD “The Ace that Jumped Over the Moon” - click here
This is geared for ages 3 and up – a 16 minute story!! I saw this on Freebies 4 Mom and ordered right away!! Can't wait to get that in the mailbox!!

Another Batch of Free Samples

Free box of Cheerios - click here

Free sample of FiberOne Honey Clusters Cereal - click here

Free CFL lightbulb - click here

Playtex Sport (Wal-Mart Sample) - click here

Pond’s Clean Sweep Towlettes for removal of makeup (Costco sample no membership number required) - click here

Degree Deoderant (site takes while to load, click on the moving deodorant) - click here

Gas-X Thin Strips - click here

Rebate offer:

Rebate here on Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats Blueberry Muffin or Smart Start Strawberry Oat Bites Cereal

No Shopping This Week – Only Freebies!!

This week I haven’t been able to get it together enough to plan a shopping trip. I checked out all the ads and just couldn’t make it work. I even had a $4.00 off $20.00 CVS coupon that expires today and still couldn’t make a deal I was happy with. Remember I only buy if I need something and then try to stack on free items. This week it just wasn’t in the cards.

I do however have a pretty good list of freebies...

Free potty training DVD - click here

Enfamil sample - click here

Dove Hair Care - click here

Pantene Color Expression - click here

Scott Xtreme Rags - click here

Biore - click here (Wal-Mart Sample)

Free Coke Zero – click here (You have to have an account, search for coke zero – no points)

American Baby Magazine - click here

Not quite free, but worth looking into if you print pictures online:

Snapfish – click here You can get 50 prints for 1 cent each. Use the code JUL4PENNY08 at checkout through July 12th. If you are new you get 20 prints free also. I ordered 70 prints this morning for $5.17 (shipping and the 50 cents)!!

One good thing this week is I received my first rebate check. I have listed the rebates I am waiting for on the sidebar by date sent. I received $4.69 for the Excedrin Back & Body just the other day!! That’s $4.69 to put towards a bill!!

More Freebies and Other Rebates

New Wal-Mart Freebies:

Nivea for Men Extreme Comfort Shave Cream - click here

Old Spice Red Zone - click here

Other Freebies:

Garlic Gold - click here

Arm & Hammer Toothpaste (click on the toothbrush) - click here

True Lemon - click here

More Rebates:

6 Pack of Ensure - click here

Gerber Nuk bottle - click here

Noxzema Razors - click here

That does it for today!! I'm going to try some grocery shopping with coupons tonight at our Kroger store. Hopefully it will turn out the way I want it to. If so be prepared for pictures and a breakdown of cheap grocery shopping!!

Free Samples

Wal-Mart is probably one of the best places that offers free samples from their web page that arrive quickly in your mailbox! Surprised? I was too. I'll try to post a photo of some of the free items I have received from them soon. Sometimes the product comes with a great coupon too!! This week you can request the following free samples from Wal-Mart (you can either click the links provided which will take you directly to the page and then click where it says get my free sample or the like or you can go to Wal-Mart's webpage and do a search on free samples:

Benefiber - go here
Playtex Personal Cleansing Cloths - go here
Multigrain Cheerios - go here
Pantene Pro-V Expression - go here
Tena Underwear - go here
Playtex Gentle Glide - go here
Weather Works by Frizz Ease - go here
Huggies Pull-Ups - go here

This makes checking the mail so much funner!