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Cart Buster Deal of the Day

13 Oct

The Kroger family of stores is having a Cart Buster Savings Event.  Each day of the sale, you can get a new digital coupon.  Yesterday’s coupon was $2 off your purchase when you buy an 8 pack of Bounty paper towels.  The Bounty paper towels are on sale for $6.99, so with the coupon, it made it $4.99.  Today’s coupon is a free 12 pack of Pepsi Throwback or Mountain Dew Throwback when you buy 5 Pepsi 2 liters.  Pepsi 2 liters are $1 each for the sale, so for $5, you get 5 1 liters and a 12 pack.  At the bottom of the page, you can see what products will have coupons throughout the event, but the amount isn’t shown until the coupon come up for that day.  You can only get the coupon for the day it is available, so remember to log in each day to get it.  You can click on the picture above to take you to the Deal of the Day site to load the coupon each day.

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Kick Off to Savings

14 Sep

Kroger family of stores, including Fry’s Food Stores, has a new promo game out, Kick Off to Savings.  You can play once a day and win up to 2 prizes through 9/24/2011.  I didn’t win anything today, but I will be back to try each day!

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How I Got Started with Coupons

12 Sep

I have been putting off posting about coupons since I’m my coupons are a little disorganized and I keep putting off organizing it since other things have taken priority.  But, I thought today I would finally sit down to share how I got started with coupons.

I have heard stories of helping my mom with her “poo-cons” when I was small.  She and my aunt would get together to clip coupons and get deals.  Something must have stuck at that early age, because now that I have a family of my own and we are a 1 income household, I am always looking for a deal.  I handle all the finances for our household, and after our second daughter arrived, I knew it was really time to buckle down on our finances and find more ways to save money.  We had already taken a lot of extras out of our budget, things like cable TV, minimum house phone and cell phone services, but we still needed a way to save more.  I occasionally would use coupons, but generally would forget.  Around this time, a friend of mine really started to get into coupons. She was my motivation for getting more into coupons, and in April of 2010 I really started paying attention to sales ads better, getting multiple newspapers each Sunday for the coupons, and reading coupon blogs.

I found that I needed better organization, so I created my first coupon binder.  I bought a 2″ binder, 16 dividers with pockets, 2 packs of 9 pocket pages (like for baseball and trading cards), and 50 full sheet protective sleeves.  I decided that I would clip and organize by store aisle, so I created a cover page with my name and contact phone numbers in case I left my binder somewhere (and yes, this has happened a couple times) and a list of the sections I would divide the coupons into.

Then, I went to work each week clipping and organizing my coupons in the 9 pocket pages.

9 pocket page with coupons

I used the full sheet pages to put inserts I hadn’t clipped yet and to put the weekly store ads in.

Full sheet protectors with unclipped weekly inserts

This method worked for me for quite a while.  I also was reading blogs like The Krazy Coupon Lady and “The” Cents’Able Shoppin to get the coupon match ups for the weekly sales.  After a while, I made some changes to my organization, which I will talk about after I can get my coupons organized better and get some pictures to share what I do.

If you want to get started in coupons but don’t know where to start, I really like The Krazy Coupon Lady’s Beginners page.  It talks about different ways to organize your coupon binder, how to find coupons, how to change your mindset about shopping, how to understand sales cycles.  Another great resource for getting started is Jill Cataldo, founder of Super-Couponing.  You may have read her columns in your local newspaper.

With coupons, you have to be willing to give up some brand loyalties and decide what prices you are willing to pay and knowing how low of a price you can get on something.  It can be rather confusing at times, plus it’s a lot of work, but in the end, the payoff is worth it.

Huggies Deal at Target

8 Sep

There is a great deal on Huggies Slip-On diapers this week at Target!  If you haven’t tried these new diapers yet, they are a lot like the Huggies Pull-ups, except that they are more absorbent like a diaper.  I like them for S right now, she’s not really showing a lot of interest in using the potty, but likes to occasionally sit on the potty and pretend.  It’s a pain to take off and put a regular diaper back on, but since she’s not really going on the potty yet, the Pull-ups don’t absorb well enough.  I have heard mixed reviews on how well other people like them, but if you need diapers, these are fairly cheap to at least try to see how they work.

Buy 2 big packs of Huggies Slip-On diapers at Target, $19.79 each
– Use 2 $3/1 Huggies Slip-On diapers from 8/14 Smart Source
– Use 1 $2/1 Huggies Slip-on diapers Target store coupon (I only say 1 in this scenario because the Target coupon is limited to 1 per transaction)
Pay $31.58, get $10 Target gift card back

Now, to make this an even better deal, if you have a Kroger family store near you, like Fry’s Food Stores, stop in there and purchase a $25 Target gift card first to use on this diaper purchase.  The 4x fuel points promo is still running right now, so you will get 100 points for the purchase of the $25 Target gift card, which will get you $.10 per gallon on your next fuel fill up at a Fry’s fuel station, or select Shell and Circle K fuel stations.

This deal is good through September 10, 2011.

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Current Promos at Fry’s

5 Sep

Right now, there are some great promos at the Kroger family of stores, which includes Fry’s Food Stores here in AZ.

First, there is the Spin to Win game.  This promo is going on while they are having the Buy 4, Save $4 P&G sale.  You load 4 P&G coupons onto your rewards card and get a chance to spin the wheel.  You can spin the wheel once a day, and you can win 2 prizes throughout the promotion.  My mom has gotten $4 and $2 on her Kroger card, I have gotten $3 on my Fry’s card and now keep landing on Tips.  Click on the picture below to play and see if you win!  This game will be available to play until 9/10/2011.

Second, there is a fuel point promotion with gift cards.  For any gift card you purchase, you get 4 times the fuel points instead of the normal 2 times the fuel points.  They have a variety of cards to choose from, but it excludes Kroger family gift cards, Green Dot prepaid reloadable products, MoneyPaks and American Express Variable Load, Visa Variable Load, 1-2-3 REWARDS Reloadable Visa Prepaid Debit Card and MasterCard Variable Load gift cards.  If I know I need gift cards for a gift for someone or if I know there is somewhere I have budgeted a purchase for the month, like Lowe’s or Target, or if we are planning to eat out at Olive Garden or Chili’s, I go get a gift card at Fry’s first so I can earn the fuel points.  Why get so many points?  Because for every 100 points, you get $.10 off per gallon of gas.  Currently, you can redeem up to 1,000 points at a time to get up to $1 off per gallon of gas.  Gas is expensive right now, so every little bit helps!  Click the image below for more details.  This promotion runs through 9/13/2011.

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