Kmart, Walgreens, and rite aid.

What a day! Kmart started doubling coupons starting today up to $2. Stores in our area do not double coupons very often. I was SO excited I woke up at 5 am to clip today's coupons.

Kmart took about 2 hours.
I'm not sure I'm reading the recipt correctly, I know some of the items were on sale before coupons. After doubling the coupons added up to $56.49. I spent $47.12.

Worth at least $103.61
Saved with coupons $56.49
Paid $47.12

Riteaid

2 flex tastics $10
Synovium pain relief $5

Before deals $26.97
After sales $15
After rebate $5
After coupon $3



Walgreens

Before deals $90.06
After sales $67.36
After coupons $48.36
After rebate $43.36
SHOULD have gotten $14 in register rewards but only $7 printed.

Today I bought $220.27 worth of stuff for $93.66 ($80 if you count the register rewards)

Here is today's bounty:

Rebates everywhere

I just requested my rite aid rebate of $32.94. I forgot to request my April rebate check of $17.94 and they were holding it hostage! The check wasn't mailed till June 28! Months after the rebates were done! Its irritating to say the least, I had better be more diligent about requesting my money back. June was a slow month for Walgreen's, our rebate will be $10. I need to mail that today. We also have a rebate for $30 blue tooth head piece, a $40 mp3 rebate, and a $5 gallon of paint rebate. Total that's $130.93 in rebates. I want to start depositing these checks in a savings account, generally they get cashed and spent on random things. Instead of that I would like to save them up perhaps in a vacation fund?

Organix rebate

My Walmart has a rebate for Organix shampoo or conditioner. The rebate form was on the bottle. I believe it was $5.98 before the rebate, I would check but my receipt and form are already sealed in an envelope.

Rite Aid

Total before everything $26.90

After sales
2 glade candles $5.98 on sale for $5. ($4 after coupon)
1 glade trio $9.99 on sale for $7.99 ($3.99 after coupon)
1 soft soap $2.19 on sale for $1.49 ($.49 after coupon from coupon book)
1 sunsilk conditioner $3.99 on sale for $3 ($1.5 after coupon)
1 sunsilk shampoo $3.99 on sale for $3 ($1.50 after coupon)
1 buckleys cough syrup on $5.99 on sale for $4.29

Total after sales $24.77
Total after coupons $13.90
After rebate $5.63 (for $4.29 buckleys, $2 for glade candles, $2 for glade trio candles)

Walgreens spa rewards-update

I received my walgreens spa certificates a few days ago. I'm beyond thrilled! $100 in spa certificates for spending $4 on 4 cough syrups? That's wonderful! $4 for 4 cough syrups is a great deal by it self but spa rewards on top of that? I'm quite happy! Thanks crystal for the information!

Sunday money update

Ok so we fell off the cash band wagon. We stopped at Home Depot to kill some time ( waiting to pick up freecycle stuff) and I grabbed the thanksgiving weekend ad. They had a set with an 18v cordless drill, cordless saw, sweet flashlight, and radio for $60. Remember the $7 used drill? It gets the job done but very, very slowly. So we splurged on the Ryobi 18v drill, with cool extras. I'm glad we waited to purchase the drill because now hubby has a drill he really likes at a great price. We did put it on the credit card because we were not carrying enough cash and we were 20 minutes from home.

We also bought a power strip and bottle of nail polish from Rite Aid, free after rebate. We paid cash for those! :)

$60ish dollars on credit card
$7 rite aid free after rebate

My rite aid rebates

I like to know how much money I save. It helps motivate me to save more! So I'm going to post my rite aid rebate totals because every month an old month's totals drop off.
May was $9
Looks like for shampoo and sunscreen.

June was $5.98
Looks like conditioner and some make-up.

July I missed! Man! I'm not to surprised that's the month we bought our house, moved, its our anniversary month, and my husband's birthday. Plus it took 3 weeks to get our Internet set up.

August was $25.75
looks like 3 conditioners, 1 manly body wash, pens, light bulbs, chewable antacid, toothbrush, mouth wash, air freshener, and duct tape.

September was $18.95
Looks like tooth paste, imodium, mylanta, body heat patch, and calcium pills.

October was $29.22
Looks like toothpaste, stoppain, Zucol, pepcid ac, vicks, cold eeze, lypsyl, and a toothbrush.

November I'm up to $48.52!

I'm not going to list all that stuff because I posted a picture.
All of that adds up to $132.47! My husband and I are thinking about doing something specific with the money from rebates. It tends to get absorbed into our normal spending money but instead I would like to put it into a savings account for something specific. We're not sure what just yet. However we are looking into adoption so we could save for that. We were thinking foster care but we are not sure we could deal with it. Its a wonderful thing to do and I would really love to but my heart is very soft and I'm not sure I can. My Dad is just positive I can't! :) He does not want to see his daughter hurt. But he would support us if we did go through with it. Adoption is very expensive!

Rite aid rebates

My goodness they had good stuff today! We were there WAY early, about 9:30 am so we were able to get everything we wanted. That never seems to happen! The downside is they dont have the ad up yet so you have to be very careful (double checking the ad) to get the exact product in the exact size. But I think its worth it to get all this great stuff for free. The big purple bottle is a fancy shampoo that i'm excited to try. Dh is excited about his brut cologne, and adidas body wash. The fancy shampoo and cologne would make excellent christmas presents. The body wash would be good too especially if given with a loofa. Or new towel set. The small blue box off to the left is ginger gum, cures motion sickness. I get motion sickness often in the car. I hope it tastes alright. My last batch of dramamine was chewable and had the most horrible flavor, it made me shudder! Anyways I estimate our rebate to be about $55.

Rebates

So far this week I only picked up the freebies. I haven't had time to cut and sort my coupons. But I try and get the freebies as soon as possible because they go fast. On Sunday (The day the ads come out) they were already out of Aquafresh toothpaste, and almost out of crest. I got the last tube :) I check my stockpile, we now have 5 reserve tooth brushes and 3 extra tubes of toothpaste. Which means I will only pick up those items if free, or money making. If we should acquire too many then the items are easily donated. I wonder if anyone takes un-opened aspirin? I find antacids on rebate almost ever week, which is a blessing. I have a prescription but sometimes forget to take it (or misplace the bottle!) and my darling husband uses them as well.

I bought my first batch of ebay coupons. Well, I should say i paid someone to clip me a batch of coupons :) as it is illegal to buy or sell coupons. I'm waiting for them in the mail. Two of the batches were for dog bones. I have a lab that is a bigger chewer, and a corgi who loves to chew just not as fast. It would be wonderful to find a sale on the items, if not I'll head to a store that carries the item cheapest.I keep meaning to try homemade dog biscuits but haven't been able to. I would love to make one similar to a dog's kong treat as they enjoy them. Today is rainy with a nasty storm predicted so dh and i were not able to finish painting, maybe tomorrow!

More rebates

Yesterday dh and i did our monthly rebates from walgreens. Walgreens is a little different from Rite Aid's rebates. Some of Rite Aid's rebates have to be purchased during a particular week in order to qualify. Meaning i shop rite aid weekly, but generally monthly for walgreens. Currently Walgreens doesn't have online rebates so they take longer then Rite Aids, and require one to be diligent about sending them in. In order to send them in you need the receipt and rebate booklet. I try and add everything up just as soon as i get home and get the rebate in the envelope all ready to go. Last night we purchased $95 worth of stuff for $81 dollars using coupons and sales. BUT after the $57 rebate we will have spent $25! $25 dollars for what? 3 garnier conditioners, 1 pantene shampoo, 2 garnier hair colors (for the hubby!! :) 2 garnier facial cleansers, tooth brush, 2 glade refills, 1 rimmil foundation, Celadrin Dietary Supplement, and an eight pack of Zantac. Being frugal is so much fun!

From rite aid we picked up 24 top romans for .08 each(1.92 total), 3 single box puffs with lotion for .88 minus 2 .40 coupons ($1.84 total) 2 soup at hands for $1.25 each minus a $1 coupon ($1.50 total) 2 campbells soup bowls for $1.25 each minus $1 coupon ($1.5 total) ajak dish liquid for .88 minus a .20 coupon (.68 total) and viactive calcium pills for $5.99 minus a $3 coupon (2.99 total). Total before sales $31.21 Total before coupons $16.43 after coupons $10.43 after 2.99 viactive rebate $8.26

Between Walgreens and Rite Aid we bought $126.21 worth of stuff for $33.26!!! Fun!