Are you Swaggin'?

Have you heard of Swagbucks? Neither had I until I came acrossed it on another couponing blog. Basically it's a free site. You use it as a search engine (just like google only I downloaded the toolbar so I don't have to type in an address) and you randomly win "Swagbucks." You can cash in these "Swagbucks" for rewards. 45 Swagbucks=$5 Amazon Gift Card! I signed up yesterday afternoon and I already have 5 Swagbucks and haven't really used the toolbar that much. So, if you want to persue this avenue, PLEASE click on the banner on THIS blog. Then when you win, I'll win too (supposedly). It really hasn't been any hassle so far for me.

CVS Diaper Deal starting tomorrow

:: Diaper Deal
Pampers Jumbo Pack Diapers or Easy-Ups, $8.99
Get $5 ECBs (limit 3)*
$1/1 Pampers Diapers or Pants, exp. 7-31-09 (P&G 6/7/09)
$2.99 ea. after coupon and ECBs!

*I recommend printing this page and taking it with you since this is not advertised in the weekly ad.

Decent Meijer Week

I made it to Meijers tonight and it was a REAL stress free trip. I've read that Meijers is now excepting more than one Mealbox coupon per order for like items and so tonight I managed to get ALL my stuff in one transaction which I find WAY easier. I'm sure I'll go back for more free water and cheap Crystal Light. The deal is that you use the $1/1 or $2/2 and the $1/1 Mealbox to get the Crystal Light for $.88 each and then you get a free 24 pack of Meijer water! Some have reported that if you buy 4 Crystal Lights in one order that you get a $2.00 OYNO but I wasn't that lucky. The Chex Mix was also free with printable coupons (which I did only get to get 2 of since I only wanted to do 1 transaction and only 2 coupons double. The Ritz deal was pretty sweet to. Use $1/1 Ritz printable and $1/1 Meijer Mealbox AND the coupon for a free Wheat Thin if you buy a Ritz cracker and get BOTH the Ritz and the Wheat Thins for $.50! I had also found a tearpad in the center aisle of Meijers a couple weeks ago for $1/1 Ritz and picked up three coupons then so I'm set! I can do this deal one more time too!

Spent $28.00

Saved $68.00

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Meijer deals this week

I tried to upload pictures of my trip(s) but for some reason I can't upload tonight so I'm just going to give you a list of what I found that was a good deal. (Not NEARLY as many things as the past couple weeks)

Vitamin Water=$1.00
-.55/1 printable coupon (I'm not sure where I printed this but it was a PDF so I printed 25 and got them all FREE! (but it took A LOT (12) of transactions and a lot of 3 trips but this price drop has been going on for awhile so I just stuck 2 in every transaction I did for the past 2 weeks.)

Chi Chi's Salsa=$1.00
-.55/1 coupon from the 5/17 Smartsource
=FREE!

Airwick I-Motion=$2.99
-$4.00 coupon from 5/17 Smartsource (and older insert and printables too!)
=Free (I had to get a raincheck for this)

I also took advantage of a deal (3 times) for Nabisco 100 calorie packs..but that ended today.
It ended up that I was able to get a box of them for .19 each.

AWESOME Kroger Pull Ups deal

Get 2 Packs of Huggies Pull-ups for 99 cents!
Here is the breakdown:
2 Pull-ups 8.99 each = 17.98
minus $3 Kroger instant savings =14.98
minus(2) $5/1 home mailer coupons = 4.98
minus (2) $2/1 Shortcuts coupons = .98

AWESOME DEAL!!
Or if you need diapers:
2 diapers 8.99 each = 17.98
minus $3 Kroger instant savings = 14.98
minus (2) $3/1 home mailer coupons = 8.98
minus (2) $1.50/1 Shortcuts coupons = 5.98 or 2.99 each

Of course I don't' have 2 $5.00 mailer coupons so my breakdown isn't as good. I also haven't been keeping up to date on loading my shortcut coupons on my Kroger card (which I HIGHLY recommend because sometimes they have the same coupon at different times with different expiration dates and they BOTH would come off during the same purchase) Anyways, my breakdown will be like this.

2 Pull Ups=$17.98
-$3.00 Kroger Instant Savings
-$5.00 mailer coupon
-$2.00 mailer coupon
-$2.00 Shortcuts coupon
=$5.98 for two packs. Not too bad!

If you haven't made it to Meijer this week...GO NOW!

This was BY FAR my BEST Meijer trip EVER. They paid me .92 for each bottle of Kraft dressing PLUS I got free produce with each bottle I bought! (Most of) The Ragu was free. The water was free, as well as the Country Crock, A1 (actually I got free meet because of the A1 too!),and frozen veggies. AND I got to use my rainchecks from last week and got more Mac and Cheese and got a $2.00 OYNO!An AWESOME stockpile week. I spent about $30.00 on all of this and saved $140!