Ok. So I am a little late with this this week to be able to quickly order coupons. But you could get a good deal without many coupons. Just use what you have :) You can order if you want but I can't guarantee they will get here in time... Typically it takes three days. So they might be in Saturday... but maybe not worth the gamble.
First is the cereal deal! It's a Giant. When you buy 4 GM cereals you get $4 off instantly and then a coupon prints for $4.50 in milk. This is a catalina and works when you buy milk. Wait, milk isn't $4.50! No worries :) You get the overage. So make sure you don't just get milk. If milk is $3.80, and you have $10 in groceries, you will pay $5.50. Make sense?
There are coupons out there right now for cereal. It's $1/3 GM cereals. Not awesome, but pretty good.
The best way to do this deal is to do it 3 times. That makes for 12 boxes of cereal. This way you have a coupon for each of the boxes. So you will use 4 of the $1/3 coupons but get 3 of the deals with $4 off and the milk coupon.
I am not exactly sure what the cost of the cereal is. The cheaper and smaller boxes you pick, the better off you are going to be. There is also going to be a restriction on the size on the coupon. It's normally about 12 ounces. So let's shoot high and say each box is $4 each (we should be able to get it cheaper than this!)
12 boxes x $4 each = $48
$4 instant x 3 = - $12
$4.50 milk x 3 = - $13.50
$1 MC x 4 = - $4
Grand total = $18.50 for 12 boxes of cereal!!!! That's $1.50 a box! Not bad!
Now... The real fun comes in when you go online.
On www.coupons.com there are two good coupons. One is the $1/2 boxes of any Cheerios (which are GM) and .50 off one box of Cinnamon toast crunch. You can print these twice from one computer. If you have two computers in your home, you can print a total of 4 times (2 from each) and so on.
The best deal to have is the Cheerios. Do it as many times as you want. Let's look at doing it once. So you will print from one computer the 2 coupons and get 4 Cheerios (any style) from the store.
Say $4 a box:
$4 x 4 = $16
- $ 4 instant
- $ 4.50 milk
- $ 2 MC
Total = $5.50 for 4 boxes of ceral
I think there will be cheaper boxes than $4! Get the small boxes! I know it's less cereal but it will be sooo cheap!
Say $3 a box:
$3 x 4 = $12
- $ 4 instant
- $ 4.50 milk
- $ 2 MC
GRAND TOTAL = $1.50 for 4 boxes of cereal! Be excited with me on this one :-P
If you don't like cheerios you can still get a good deal. Without any coupons and pick any $4 box your total is $7.50 for 4 boxes of cereal. If you are just getting into the couponing or don't wanna take the time, this is a good option and still getting you over 1/2 off! :)
Now, as for Rite Aid and the skin care/personal care products
On the last page of Rite Aid's ad is a spend $30 get $10 in UP rewards. There is some good potential! The first item, the lighter, isn't part of that $30 thing. Also, Rite aid has a thing running this month that if you spend $100 on items with the "buy & save" circle buy them you get $20 up. This is the case for all the items in the spend $30 get $10 thing. So if you spent $100 in these items, you could get $30 back.
Items:
Zippo candle lighter $9.99
- $5 UP
- $5 single check rebate
**If you haven't done Rite Aid single check rebate before, you can make an account online and just enter in the receipt number. NOTE!!! You DO NOT submit the rebate until the end of the period. You can only submit once and you might want to enter more receipts for more rebates later. They run a rebate period every month. So you don't wanna submit til the end of January... Trust me, I screwed this one up the first time I did it.
TOTAL: FREE!!!
Thermacare heat wrap 1 ct $3.99
- $3.99 UP
TOTAL: FREE!!!
$30 promo items:
1. Clean and Clear skin care B1G1 50% off (range in price at CVS online from $5-$7)
-$2/1 MC Order
2. Carefree pantiliners 2/$5 36-60 ct
-$1/2 in Rite Aid ad
-.50/1 MC Order
3. Neutrogena skin care B1G1 50% off (range in price at CVS online from $6-$8)
-$1.50/1 MC Order
4. Neutrogena make up
-$2/1 MC Face makeup Order
-$1/1 MC Lip and eye makeup Order
5. Avenno lotion, hair care, and baby B1G1 50% off (about $8.50 on CVS online for an adult lotion 12 oz)
(hair care online CVS $7.50 and baby items from $6+)
-$1/1 on lotion or baby item printable at http://www.coupons.com/
-$1/1 on hair care printable at http://www.coupons.com/
6. Johnson and Johnson baby care $3.99
-$1 UP on 1 (limit 1)
-$1 baby oil printable at http://www.coupons.com/
So do two transactions:
1. Buy the lighter and heatwrap
Total after tax: $14.82
Will get $8.99 UP and $5 rebate for a total of 13.99 (you just paid tax)
2. Get your $30 stuff. Remember this is before coupons but after the 50% deals. And this can look different for everyone. **If you did the first transaction don't forget to use the UP rewards on this!
Idea 1:
4 Clean and Clear cleansers @ $5 each (2 will be 1/2 off)
Total before coupons and toward $30 = $15
- Use (4) $2/1 coupons = $7 to you.
2 Carefree items 2/$5
Total toward $30 now = $15 + $5 = $20
- Use $1/2 ad coupons and (2) .50/1 MC = $3 to you + $7 = $10
2 Aveeno lotions @ $8.50 + $4.25
Total toward $30 = $20 + $12.75 = $32.75
- Use (2) $1/1 printable = $10.75 for you.
Total for you with coupons = $20.75 + tax = $22
$22 - $10 UP = $12!!
Idea 2: No MC coupons
2 Aveeno hair care products @ $7.50 + $3.75 = $11.25 total
(2) $1/1 hair care printable
2 Aveeno lotions @ 8.50 + 4.25 = $12.75
(2) $1/1 lotion printable
Carefree 2/$5
$1/2 in ad coupon
Johnson baby care $3.99
$1/1 baby oil printable
$1 UP reward
Total before coupons = 32.99
After coupons = 26.99 + tax = 28.61
You get $11 back in UP.
$17 total
There are TONS of combinations. You just need to look at the coupons you have the printables that you are interested in! Good Luck!
0 comments:
Post a Comment