Albertsons 2/10-216

Not the greatest week, but we still have a few catalina deal matchups and we do have double coupons for the whole week!

Deals:

• Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast $1.88/lb
• Minute Maid Orange Juice $1.99
• Ronzoni Pasta $1, use $1/2 (with double coupon=2 free!)
• Whole Pineapple $1.29/lb
• Kiwis 2 for $1
• Pop Tarts $1.88, use $1/3 from 2/7 RP (with double coupon=$1.21 each when you buy 3)

Del Monte Catalina: (2/7-2/20)

• Buy 3-4 get $1
• Buy 5 get $1.50
• Buy 6 or more get $2

*Participating Products: 14.5 oz Mixed Veggies, Tomatoes, Carrots, Green Beans, Beets, White Potato, 14.75 oz Corn, 15.25 oz Corn, 15 oz Peas. All are sale for $1 this week. Use $1/5 veggies or $1/4 tomatoes from 2/7 RP.

Scenario:

1. Buy 6 veggies,
2. use $1/5 coupon and a double coupon
3. pay $4 get $2 cat, so it makes the cans 0.33 each! You would have to buy in separate transactions of 6 each to get this deal

Kellogg's Catalina deal: (2/10-3/10)

• Buy 3 get $1
• Buy 4 get $3
• Buy 5 or more get $4

*Participating products (10 oz or larger): Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Cocoa Krisipies, and Honey Smacks. Use $1/3 from 2/7 RP (or if you have the $1/1 coupons found in packages) Cereals are priced at $1.88 each.

Scenario:

1. Buy 6 boxes $11.28
2. use 2 $1/3 coupons and 2 doubles
3. Pay $7.28 get $4 cat so it makes the cereal boxes 55 cents each!

*This post is part of the grocery gathering for Albertsons in Oregon.

Deal of the week

Definitely the deal of the week! Buy three Ziplocs at Albertsons or Fred Meyer (Kroger stores) get a $2 catalina coupon. Through Tuesday, some Ziplocs are $1.99 at Albertsons.

Scenario:

Buy three Ziplocs $1.99

Use $1/2 from 1/10 SS

Use0.40/1 from 1/10 SS

Pay $4.57

Submit for $5 SC Johnson rebate (buy three participating products get a $5 rebate)

Plus get $2 catalina=Get paid $2.43 for three packages of Ziplocs!!

Pants, pants, pants

The Super Bowl is over, but you can still try to win free pants. Dockers is giving away 427 pairs of pants everyday this week. Click here to enter through February 15. Thanks, Freebie 4 mom

Rite Aid 2/7-2/13

The only $5/$25 coupon I can find in on redplum.com and it won't print for me, but maybe you will have better luck. Don't forget video values to earn your $5/$20 coupon, the rest are usually pretty valuable too. Of course, there are a few weeks left on the Game of Life. I heard my local store had a couple of Wii winners and a Eugene store had a $5,000 instant winner. Has anyone won anything, please share. Now on to the deals:

Freebies:

• Post cereal 4/$7 ($1.75 each) use $2 for overage of $.25!
• Carefree $1.99, use $2 video values coupon from January (I am thinking I should start watching and printing them all!)
• Dove Men Care Body Wash $4, $4 SCR, use $1.25 coupon from 1/31 RP for $1.25 overage!
  

Deals:

• Hershey's Kisses 2/$5 use $2/2 from 1/31 SS stack with $1 video value from January=2 bags for $2!
• Comtrex Cold $3.99, $1 SCR, use $2 coupon from 2/7 SS=99 cents
• Hershey's Bliss $2.99, use $1 coupon from 2/7 SS stack with $1 video value from January=99 cents!
• GE Reveal 2/$5, $2 SCR on 2, use 2 $1 coupon from 1/3 SS stack with $0.40 coupon from video values=60 cents for 2 packs! BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Finish $4.49, $1.50 SCR, $0.40 from 1/10 SS stack with $1 video values coupon=$1.59

Nivea SCR Deal, spend $15 get $5 Rite Aid Card

• L0tion $5.99, use $5/2 and/or $2/1 form 1/3 RP
• Body Wash $2.99, use $2/1 from 1/3 RP
• Lip Care $2.99, use B1G1 Free from 1/3 RP
• All of these are also BONUS TICKET ITEMS

P&G Grab the Gold, spend $25 get $5 Visa Card, spend$50 get $15, spend $100 get $35 (last week to do this) I looked over the sales and the P&G inserts to try and get the best deals to get your total up. Remember the total, like all other SCRs is before rebates and coupons!

• Metamucil $9.99, use $3 from 2/7 PG BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Cover Girl B1G1 50% off, combine with coupons in 2/7 PG, including B1G1 Free, $1 off any, and $2.50/2 for some pretty great deals! BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Tide $10.99, use B1G 1 Free Tide Stain Releaser (priced at $5.99, so you should get $16.98 towards your Visa Card)
• Downy $5.99, use $1 (on liquid) or 0.50 (on sheets) from 2/7 PG
• Bounty $6.99, use 0.25 from 2/7 PG BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Charmin $6.99, use 0.25 from 2/7 PG
• Vicks Nyquil or Dayquil $3.99, $1 SCR, use $1.50 from 2/7 PG=$1.49 BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Pampers Jumbo Packs $8.99, $2 SCR, use $1.50 from 2/7 PG=$5.49! BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Duracell $11.99, use $3 in ad coupon and stack with $1.00 from 2/7 PG=$7.99
• Oral B Cross Action Power Tooth Brush or Refill Head 4 for $24 $10 SCR on 4 (you get the $10 SCR plus $24 counts towards you Grab the Gold rebate total!)
• Herbal Essenses 2/$6 use free styler when you buy shampoo/conditioner/styler from 2/7 PG=2 for $3 BONUS TICKET ITEM
• Venus Embrace $7.99, use free Olay Body Wash when you buy Venus Embrace from 2/7 PG (again both products totals will count towards you total) Olay is a BONUS TICKET ITEM

This post is part of the grocery gathering at becentsable.net. Click on over for more matchups.

Friday Food for Thought: Beware of the PDF

Just this week, Albertsons told me that they "no longer accept internet coupons that allow for a free item" when I tried to use the spend $100 get a free gallon of milk coupon. I believe this stemmed from people copying the $1 oatmeal coupons last week. Also Rite Aid was very scrutinising of my interent coupons. The cashier, one of my favs, showed me a list of fraudulent coupons out there that they were supposed to refuse. They were for large amounts like $9 off razors and $7.50 off diapers, but the rest of the coupon looked very similar to legit ones from reliable sources. My message in this rant, be careful. A few fraudulent coupons can ruin it for everyone! It is only a matter of time before they will just pull all internet coupons, most of which are higher value than inserts. Make sure you are getting your coupons from a reliable couponing site or the companies actual site. Please don't use random "email" or "pdf" files that are floating around in cyperspace, especially if they are manufacturer's coupons and if you know they might be fraudulent. The stores will not get paid for these and lose revenue. Enough lost revenue could alter their coupon policy. Here are a few tips for using internet coupons:

1. Print with colored ink (I had a few printed in black and white because my color was out...these are heavily scrutinized.)
2. Whenever possible use a "clipped" coupon. Sometimes identical coupons are in the insert and they are generally accepted much easier. (However, many times the internet coupons are of higher values.)
3. Only print your fair share. When you run to several other computers to print "two" off and then use them all together it draws suspicion. Plus, it take the opportunity to print that coupon from someone else.
4. If you suspect a coupon to be fraudulent, do not use it. Cashiers will trust you more, if they know you are an honest couponer.
5. Respect the cashiers/managers decision, don't make a scene over a couple of dollars. Remember they are just doing their job, they could also face reprimanding for taking bad coupons. Also if you have a bad or especially GOOD situation report it. A lot of times the employees might get special bonuses/recognition for being a GOOD employee.

Last of all remember couponing is a game. If you play the game unfairly or cheat, you lose and eventually the game is finished for everyone. Let's all keep the game fun!

Rite Aid Recap

Today was a good day at Rite Aid, after SCRs I was paid 15 cents to take home 2 Chex Snack Mix, 2 Cheez-it crackers (for my daughter's school), toothpaste, contact solution, and dish soap!

1. I added $1.87 to my envelope from an old rebate (woohoo!)
2. Spent $8.98 from my envelope and $9.84 out of pocket.
3. Retail amount spent to date: $288.86
4. Amount spent out of pocket in 2010: $61.88

Albertsons 2/3-2/9

There are some really good matchups this week. Here are my favorites:

In ad coupons:

• Darigold Sour Cream 99 cents, limit 3, stack with B1G1 Free from 1/24 SS=99 cents for 2!
• Philadelphia Cream Cheese 99 cents, limit 3
• Fresh Express Salads $1.47, limit 4
• Mission Flour Tortilla $1.49, limit 6, stack with 0.75 from 1/10 SS=74 cents
• Pork Loin Babyback ribs $2.99/lb, limit 10 pounds
• Bar S Franks 88 cents, limit 4, stack with $1/2=76 cents for 2!

Deals:

• Lots of B1G1 free meat deals, good time to use your $3 meat catalina coupon from Old El Paso deal.
• Gatorade or G-2 80 cents each when you buy 5, use 0.50 off G2 from 1/10 RP
• Huggies Big Box $19.99, use $3 manu coupon in ad. Also look for MOM-umental savings booklets inside specially marked packages.
• Ziploc Bags $1.99, use $1/2 from 1/10 SS. If you buy three submit for SCJohnson $5 rebate

In ad Manufacturer's coupon, (non-stackable) The ones I like best are:

• Save $1 on two Herdez Salsa, final price 2/$3 (this is the only company I know that makes green salsa!)
• Save $1 on All Detergent, final price $2.49
• Save $1 on Two Arrowhead Water 24 packs, final price 2/$6.98 and through Sunday a $2 catalina will print Please read this post for more ways to cash in on this catalina deal

Hormel promo, Buy 4 products, instantly save $1, best deal idea:

• Buy 4 Hormel Chilis ($1.29 each), use 0.55/2 from 1/24 SS, save $1 instantly=4 for $3.06

ConAgra Promo, spend $20 get $5 catalina. Bonus offer-mail in for $25 worth of savings (coupons) when you spend $10 on select Con Agra products. (Participating in both promos: Manwich, Rotel, Crunch 'n Munch, Banquet, and Hunts)

• Manwich $1, use $1/3 (you have to play a game and it takes forever to print...)
• Rotel 99 cents, use 0.30 from 1/24 SS
• Van Camp's Pork and Beans 79 cents
• Sparkle Paper Towel $5.99
• Brawny Paper Towel $5.99, use $1 from 1/24 RP
• Act II popcorn, David Sunflower Seeds, Crunch 'n Munch all $1 each
• Alexia Crunchy Snacks B1G1 Free
• Gulden's Mustard $1.39
• Hebrew National Franks $2.99
• Hunts Ketchup and Spaghetti Sauce $1 each (go to Manwich link above to earn $1/3 of any Hunts products
• Banquet Brown 'n Serve Sausage 4/$5
• Pam Cooking Spray 2/$5, use 0.35 from 1/24 SS
• Snapple $4.99, use $1 from 1/31 SS
• Dixie Plates, Bowls, and Cups , use 0.55 from 1.24 RP

*This post is part of the grocery gathering at becentsable.net for Albertson's deals.

Food Storage Item of the Week

I am going to try and highlight good food storage items once each week. This week of course there is the Quaker oatmeal at $1 each, when you buy in multiples of 5, but I am going to highlight Arrowhead water. Arrowhead water has a catalina deal running at both Fred Meyer and Albertsons through 2/7/2010. Buy 2 get $2, buy 3 get $3, buy 4 get $5. Both stores have the 24 packs priced at 2 for $7 (Albertsons through tomorrow, Fred Meyer through Saturday). There are also two great coupons to go with this deal:

• Save $1 on 2 24 packs from January All You (Total out of pocket=$4.00 for 2 packs!)


• Get one free Arrowhead 700 ml 6 pack when you buy any two 24 packs available at coupons.com (sidebar) (Total out of pocket=$5.00 for two 24 packs and a 6 pack!)


• Or buy 4 packs, use both coupons and get four 24 packs and a 6 pack for $8!

*My Albertsons was out of stock, but I got a rain check to honor the price for when it comes in.

Rite Aid Video Values Coupons

The February coupons are up at video values at riteaid.com. Lots of high value coupons you can earn by watching short videos. Remember these are Rite Aid coupons, so they can be stacked with manufacturer's coupons, rebates, and other promos. My favorites for this week are:

• $1 off Cottonelle (on sale this week for $6.49)
• $1 off Welch's Juice (on sale for $3 this week)
• $1 off Garnier shampoo/conditioner/styler, stack with manu to get product for 0.50 this week

Monthly Deals: February

Things you can get on a good deal in February:

• Electronics: the new models of MP3s, DVDs, and digital cameras are released. Take this chance to save on last year's models.
• Fragrances: just in time for Valentine's Day, cheaper fragrances.
• Humidifiers
• Candy (look for great deals on candy and flowers the day AFTER Valentine's)
• President's Day Sales!