$2 Battleship Game

Target has Battleship on sale this week for $9.  Coupons.com has a $4 off coupon.  And Target has a $3 off coupon.  Use both coupons on the one game and get it for $2.  Early Christmas/Birthday/Easter shopping.

$4 coupon

Target Coupon

$0.50 Beach Towels

In the $ section at Target, they have beach towels for $2.50.  There is a $2 off a beach towel coupon HERE.  I'm not sure how many you'll be able to print, but you should be able to print at least one, and that is one cheap towel!

Free Ben and Jerry's Day!

Yipee!  I love free cone day!

Tomorrow is free cone day....get your details HERE!

Guess where the kids and I are going for an after breakfast snack?

Princess and the Frog deal

Our closest Kmart is in Burnsville and this might be a good enough deal for me to drive over there.  It's probably only 15 mintues, but feels like an eternity.

Princess and the Frog deal scenario:


Buy The Princess and the Frog DVD $20.99
Buy the Princess Tiana Doll $10.99
Total = $31.98
Get $10 off automatically at the register for buying the DVD and doll
Total now = $21.98
Use the new $10 off $20 Kmart coupon
Plus, use the $5/1 manufacturer’s coupon from HERE
Final cost ONLY $6.98 for both the DVD and Doll!

We haven't seen the movie yet, but I bet it's cute and I bet one (or both) of the girls would like to have a doll from the movie once they've seen it!

Free Holiday Coffee

Go HERE to print your coupon for a free 20oz coffee or cappucino at Holiday Gast stations.  Back when they had their last free coffee coupon I stopped in frequently and I must say, it's not bad.  Flavored syrup, flavored cream, good coffee....and free!  Can't beat that!  The coupon doesn't expire until 3/28....use it again and again.

Great Deodorant coupons

Go HERE for several different high value deoderant coupons.

$1.25 off 1 or $3 off 2

Degree, Dove, Suave....maybe one other brand, I can't remember.  Remember you can print each coupon twice!

Cheap Hasbro Card Games

Coupons.com has some coupons up right now for $4 and $5 off Hasbro games.  Walmart has some Hasbro card games (Scrabble, Pictureka, Monopoly, Sorry, et al.) for $5.24.  Using the coupons.com coupon makes these very cheap.  Also, grab a pack that has the yellow "starburst" int he corner that says "$5 Bonus" (or something like that).  Inside is another $5 coupon that also works on these games with no beeps from the registers.  Cheap fun!  Might make nice little gifts for last minute birthday invites for the kids.

Update:  Now it seems that coupon is missing from their website...but you can still find the $5 off coupon inside the packages...

Rainbow Double Daze

I tried something new today.  I went to Rainbow Foods for their coupon double day.  Typically at Rainbow, on Wednesdays (and sometimes Saturdays), you can double up to 5 coupons with a $25 purchase.  Although intriguing, 5 doubled coupons didn't seem like enough to get me to rearrange my Wednesday schedule.  But, today, they were willing to double 10 coupons.  You can double any coupon $1 and under.  I had plenty of $1 coupons so I wrote down my plan and set forth.

I did two transactions.  16 items in both transactions.  I spent $24 in transaction #1 and saved $27.  I spent $24 in transaction #2 and saved $37.34.  However, with the coupons I had, my doubled coupons only saved me $13.80 and $22.99, respectively.  The other "savings" reported on my receipt were from things being on sale. 

Although I think those are great numbers, I'm not sold on this process yet.  We typically do our grocery shopping at Walmart for most everything and Super Target or Cub for produce.  And Rainbow, that store is just plain expensive.  Even with a doubled coupon, I ended up paying more for some items than I would at Walmart without a doubled coupon.

Ex:
Ritze Crackers at Rainbow = $3.46
$1 Coupon doubled = -$2
Total = $1.46

Ritz Crackers at Walmart = $2
$1 Coupon (no double) = -$1
Total = $1

Ex2:
Skippy Natural @ Rainbow = 2.29
Total after doubled coupon = $1.59

Skippy Natural @ Walmart = $1.82
Total after coupon = $1.47

I have more examples, but that's enough.  It's not to say I didn't score some good deals (free coffee mate, tuna, and yogurt).  I think if I shopped at Rainbow enough to know what was a good deal there and what was overpriced there, and then used my coupons accordingly, I could make this system work.  But, in the meantime, I think I might remain loyal to good ol' Wally World.