Friday, February 22, 2013

Made a quick trip to Target tonight:

5 General Mills cereals (2 Cheerios yellow box, 2 Lucky Charms, 1 Honey Nut Cheerios Medley).  Target is having a buy 5 get a $5 GC, and the boxes are $2.50.  I used (2) $.50 coupons for the yellow box of Cheerios (coupons.com), and $1/3 General Mills coupon.  There are lots of other coupons for this, including $1/2 Chex (didn't know they were included until I got there), and $1 Honey Nut Cheerios Medley that is NLA it went so fast to print.  I'm saving mine for the Tom Thumb sale, though, since it didn't make a difference if I used just that $1/1 or $1/3.
5 General Mills Cereals $2.50 = $12.50 - $.50 - $.50 - $1 = $10.50, got $5 GC

Buy any 3 Pediasure products, get a $5 GC.
3 @ $9.99  = $29.97 - (3)$3 (printable on their website, sign up and they'll email it to you) - $2 (Target mailer) = $18.97, got $5 GC, makes them essentially $4.66 each, a 54% savings

1 Cascade trial pack $1 - $1 Feb. P&G (no size restriction) = Free!

I used to $5 GC I recieved from previous transactions, and one $10 GC I got from the shopkick app!  You guys should seriously sign up for this thing, it is the easiest thing ever.  I was going through my history and most of my kicks were simply walk-ins to Target!  You can receive kicks for scanning products in-store, linking your card and making purchases, or (my favorite) walk-ins.  Simply by walking into the store they will give you 35-80 kicks (sometimes more, like on Black Friday when they gave away 200k per store!).  My $10 GC cost 2,500 kicks, so I've been saving up for a while, but you can redeem it for a $2 GC with as little as 500k.

Overall, I paid $9.22 and got $10 back in gift cards!  There's nothing like shopping for free.  ;)


Total saved this year with paper coupons:  $160.68
This number is not reflective of savings as a result of sales, e-coupons, or gift cards.
Total spent to get coupons: $10.15


So wishing I could include gift cards with this, because, honestly, if it wasn't for the gift card promos, I wouldn't be using these coupons!  I have to stick with the plan, though, we want to see how much we save vs. the cost of acquiring the coupons (the cost of ink, essentially, and newspapers).

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