Boy, it’s been a busy three days! Farm Fresh & Harris Teeter held Mega Coupon Events that started today. Since Farm Fresh released their ad last night, I was able to be at Farm Fresh (with the kids) by 6:30am. That would normally be unheard of for me with matchups.
I bought salad and buns for dinner tonight plus used an old Tilex coupon to pay $0.79 for cleaner (a bit higher than I prefer) and I used two $2/2 Reach Toothbrush coupons to get the kids toothbrushes for $0.99 each. That is WAY over my goal price, but I didn’t want the coupon to expire and I think my kids eat their toothbrushes 🙂
My best deal was 4 FREE bags of Beggin’ Strips. Bella literally leaped with joy!
Total Paid: $13.05
Total Saved $59.99
I used $4 in CATS
*Look for $1/1 Nabsico belVita tearpad coupons inside your local Farm Fresh
I wasn’t as impressed with Harris Teeter this week but I did manage to stock up on yogurt, used my raincheck for Organic Milk, stocked up on bacon and bought a few necessities. Many thanks to the Hanbury location for finding more M&M YoCrunch for LuLu in the back. She was thrilled!
I need to go back for a few things that were sold out such as the Garlic Knots, but I doubt I’ll have another 20 10 coupons worth of products to buy.
Total Paid: $44.69
Total Saved $62.36
Earned $1 CAT for buying 8 YoCrunch singles
Yes, my total was high but I bought 2 organic milks for $10, 3 bacon, veggies, grapes, 2 Seattle’s Best Coffee, sugar, and well, you get the idea.
LuLu was a very happy girl when we left Harris Teeter this morning. If the kids behave in the store, they are allowed to have either a cookie or balloon after we checkout (Harris Teeter provides this free).
LuLu scored the Deal of the Day with her HUGE Valentines Day balloon. They were getting rid of the balloons that didn’t sell yesterday, so all the kids shopping this morning benefited. All the other balloons were smaller hearts which any kid would think was fantastic, but my little lady really knows how to get a good freebie 😉
How did you do on your shopping adventures?
Great job and thanks so much for all your hard work! i had the opposite happen though. i was thrilled with HT this week. I stocked up big time, used all 20 coupons and everything worked. I had a total over $90 and brought it down to $25 and received a $1 catalina (for yogurt i bought) I am anxious to go back tomorrow. But FF? I was so very disappointed. I couldn’t get there until 10;30 and almost everything was gone or the sale sizes didn’t match the coupon I had (like the rochere candy and a1 off the top of my head..also the whisk..and I couldn’t find the glade expressions starter kit that was under $8.) so I was very disappointed. I only managed v8 fusion, some garnier, and the lactose meds for my daughter (but only one box?? weird..I didn’t think that would be one to be almost sold out) So yeah..I felt it was a waste of time to even go today unfortunately and I definitely have many stops ahead of me to try to fulfill the items at another time. Ah well. I can only do so much you know? I have one child getting on the bus at 7:10 and another at 7:50 and then one who comes along with me and catches a bus at 10:15 so I’m finding it tough sometimes to work it in there until after I get the last one off to school 😉 but perhaps another day I can get some body wash and meds and deodorant and halls cough drops and jergen’s (pout) Name of the game though, eh? Glad you had a great trip!
I couldn’t find a few of the things at FF either. A price will be listed online but it didn’t end up being in-store. That is so odd about the Lactose meds. I would never have guessed it would almost sold out.
Next year you should have more time 🙂
I had a good trip to FF today. My first transaction was 1 mt. olive pickles, 2 hunts ketchup, 6 healthy choice soups, 4 campbells soup at hand (recieved $1.25 in CAT), 2 v8 smoothies, 6 uncle bens rice, 4 chef boyarde raviolis, 2 packs mission tortillas, 2 packs skinless chicken breasts, 1 whole chicken roaster, 1 pack pork chops. Total $30.19, saved 51%.
Transaction #2 was 1-50 oz. wisk, 1- 100 oz. wisk, 1 generic foil, 1 jergens lotion, 2 halls cough drops, 1 fructis shampoo. Used $1.25 CAT from first order and $1.00 CAT from last week, total was $10.83, saved 64%.
It was really easy to put my list and coupons together this week. Thank you Dana for getting those matchups posted early and the little boxes to check and print a list. I was out of the door in no time!
You took advantage of a bunch of the sales! Glad the printable list was working properly, so you could print and go!
I had a good morning shopping @ Chimney Hill FF. I purchased :
2 muellers elbows
2 palmolive dish liquid
1 gain firework
1 downey unstoppable
1 tilex cleaner
2 v8 smoothies
1 yocrunch
2 rightguard deodorants
2 jergen lotions
2 softsoaps
1 fructis cond.
1 fructis shamp.
Bananas
Total: 64.12
Total after coupons: 22.12 savings of 68%.
Thank you for all you help!!!
Nice savings! I still need to try those downy unstoppables
Hey,
Did anyone else have a problem with their $2 coupons not doubling? They went through as $1 coupons which doubled and of course I did not realize this until I left. Thought my total was a little higher than it should have been.
Ahh, sorry to learn your $2 coupons didn’t double. I hope they took care of it for you when you returned to the store
Dana, I have to say I had the same issue with FF as Stacey did this morning. As soon as I walked in I was approached by a cashier and told that they will no longer allow multiple transactions in a single day. As I walked around I found that the prices I thought were good turned out to be no sale at all. Mostly “see how much you save over a competitor store price. I also found that items were highly inflated and even after my coupon I have gotten it cheaper(ie.. Johnsonville sausage normally 3.99 and was raised to 7.??). Sorry FF. thats not a deal. I ended up walking out with a few Knorr pasta sides cus I had a coupon 1.00 off 3. and a few other items. total.22.10 paid 10.35.
HT was much better. I found the Smithfield bacon for 2/7.00 and got cheaper then what FF wanted with 1.00/1 coupon. total 121.63 paid 65.37 that included the b1g1 bone in steak
Yes, some of the prices were a bit higher this time. I was also glad to get bacon for just $1.50 each. I’m getting a bunch to freeze and use for months since we don’t eat bacon too often.
Farm Fresh in Poquson
3-Hunts spag sauce
3-Hunts pet. diced tomatoes
4-Uncle Bens Rice
2-Lipton Pasta Sides
2-V8 Fusion
2-V8 Smoothie
2-Swanson Flavor boost
2-Secret Deordorant
1-Softsoap Bodywash
1-Gillette Fushion Shaving Gel
1-Garnier Fructis shampoo
1-Garnier Fructis conditioner
Total – $42.30
After coupons $6.30
85% savings
Awesome savings!
you should have gotten 1 more V8 Fusion, you would have gotten a $2 catalina, making it free 😉
Sad, my kids were drinking the Mango for breakfast too
Tried my hand at FF Super Doubles for the first time – I think I did ok 🙂
2-Silk half gal.
2- V8 Fusion
2- Garnier Fructis 2-in-1
2- Halls VitC drops
2- Ess. Everyday Oatmeal
2- Shoppers Valu Spaghetti
1- Shoppers Valu Alphabet noodles (I couldn’t resist for my 5yr old) 🙂
2- Healthy Choice soups
3- Starkist Tuna
3- Zatarain Rice
4- Uncle Ben Country Rice
4- Hunts Diced Tomatoes
1- Homelife Alum Foil
Total – $45.98
After Coupons – $24.38
48% savings
M’thinks I will be returning for more Uncle Bens, Garnier, and Softsoap Bodywash (since they were out)… Now off to HT
My Farm Fresh deal was nice tonight.
3-Trident Gum
1-Gain Booster Crystal
2-Campbells soup bowls
1-CB Ravioli
4-Uncle Ben’s Rice(able to stack my B3G1 free coupons w/manufacture deal.)
3-Zatrain’s
2-Adam & Eve Fruitable juice boxes
1-Kraft Parmesian Cheese
1-Swanson Flavor Booster
1-WhoNU Chocolate Chip cookies
Total: $37.23
After coupons: $14.23
Total savings: 63%