$2.99 Quiznos coupon still available!

Wow, the Quiznos coupon is STILL AVAILABLE! But I don’t think that it will be much longer.

Go here to print your coupon.

I LOVE coupons!

Do you ever have those days when you literally want to call every number saved in your cell phone to share how much you saved?  When you just can’t stop smiling all the way home because you still can’t believe you saved as much as you did?

Well, today was one of those days for me.  And since I refrained myself from calling everyone in my phone book, I will share it with all of you! :)

It started out as any normal day.  But at lunch I met a contractor to pay for some materials for a big home remodel project we are doing.  I was able to find a coupon for Home Depot and saved $152 with it!!  That was enough to make me giddy for the rest of the day but it didn’t end there.  :)

Many people have found $10/$20 purchase peelie coupons for Kohl’s on their paper this weekend.  I did and got quite a few copies of the paper too!  I also had a 20% coupon for Kohl’s.  So I headed to the mall and checked out 5 times using my 20% coupon and a $10/20 coupon each time.  I got several clothing items my husband and I needed and a few household needs (one of which didn’t work and I will return later this week.)

This is the total sale price (not regular price) of all of my transactions - $114.57

- (5) $10 coupons

- 20 % coupon

I paid: $48.44 (a savings of $66.13)

(The bottom of my receipts state that I saved $164.95, but who are they kidding?  I would never pay full price in Kohls!  I only buy things when they are at least 50% off there.)

But here is the best part!  With each transaction (regardless of how much I spent or how many items I bought) I received $10 Kohl’s cash valid on children’s apparel!  So I earned back $50 in Kohl’s cash – $1.56 more than I had spent!  I plan to go back next week to use the Kohl’s cash and hope to do all my nephews and nieces Christmas shopping for FREE or very, very cheap!   Ok, I was skipping out of the store at this point and yes, I did call a few people in my cell phone! :)

Then, I headed to Kroger to take advantage of the FREE toothpaste and toothbrushes this week and the $5.00 catalina on Kraft products.  My total was $62.60 - $5.00 mega event savings.  I saved $44.00 in coupons and paid $13.60.  But I got back a $5.00 coupon off my next purchase!

Oh, and we also got a FREE smoothie and a FREE frappe at McDonald’s with the coupons from yesterday’s paper – a savings of 5.00!

So total savings of the day (not counting regular prices to sale prices, just what I actually saved with coupons) is $272.13!!

And the best part is I still have CVS, maybe Rite Aid, and another Kroger trip to do tomorrow and I am so excited!

How about you?  Are you having a mega savings week?  I would love to hear about some of your deals!

2 great coupon offers

I have mentioned Groupon here before.  You sign up for their emails, and hey send you a daily offer up to 90% off on something in your town from restaurants to attractions to services.  Once a “group” (certain number) of people purchase that offer it becomes a “Groupon”.  You can sign up here.

I just got a $10.00 gift certificate to Cold Stone Creamery for $5.00 from Groupon last week!  Yummy – can’t wait to use it on a date with my husband!

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There is another site that it is a lot like Groupon, but will have different offers than Groupon.  It is called BuyWithMe.

BuyWithMe offers deals up to 90% off on things for the best restaurants, spas, and retailers in your area. 

It is currently available in the following cities: Boston, New York City, San Diego, Washington DC, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Vegas, Chicago. 

Since it is not available in Atlanta yet, I can’t tell you about the good deals available. :) You will have to share them with me!

Go here to sign up for BuyWithMe!

Hot Quiznos coupon: Sub, chips, and drink for $2.99!!

Go here to print a coupon for any small sub, chips and regular fountain drink from Quiznos for $2.99.

This coupon went extremely fast last time, so hurry and print it if you want it!

What’s for dinner : cheap pork chops, Crockpot recipe, and a whole meal bought with coupons!

Kroger has boneless pork loin on sale for $1.99/lb. this week. Boneless pork chops usually cost $3.99/lb.  But did you know that you can just buy a loin and get it cut into pork chops, saving yourself 50% off the price of pork chops?

 

You can get the butcher to cut it in store for you (they should do this for free) or you can cut it at home into thick pork chops.  This will allow you to get boneless pork chops for $1.99/lb. instead of $3.99/lb!  That is 50% savings!

I bought one a few weeks ago and the butcher was unable to cut it for me since their machine was broken.  So I cut it into about 1 inch chops when I got home.  My pork loin cost  $9.63 but I had a $1.50 Kroger mailer coupon off fresh meat so I only paid $8.13.  And I got 12-13 pork chops out of it!

I put the ones that I was not going to use for dinner that night in freezer bags and labeled them.  I used about 1/2 of the pork chops that night.

Then we had this Crockpot recipe for dinner that night.

Chicken Fried Chops

Combine in a bowl:

1/2 cup all purpose flour

2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. ground mustard

1/2 tsp or garlic powder

 

Dredge pork chops in the mixture.

Brown the chops on both sides over medium high heat until lightly brown.

 

Place chops in crockpot.  Combine 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup with 1/2 cup of milk and pour over chops.

Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours (or I have also done them on high for 3 1/2 – 4 hours.)  Once it is done, you can use the soup and drippings as a gravy, thickening them with some cornstarch if you want.  The pork chops will be so tender they will just fall apart!  Yummy!

Everything we ate that night, I had bought with coupons at various times (which, honestly is most of our meals now!)  We had enough for 2 servings at dinner and my husband had 2 meals of leftovers so it was 4 servings total.

Here’s the totals:

Pork chops: $4.07

Cream of chicken soup - $0.89

Betty Crocker Potatoes - $0.30 after coupon

Steamfresh peas – FREE after coupon

Crescent rolls: $0.70 after markdown and coupon

$5.96 for 4 servings or $1.49 each!

(Thanks, Judy for sharing this recipe with us!  We have enjoyed it many times! :)

More CVS deals

Here’s a few more deals I saw in my ad today.

Milk, gallon - $3.59

Get back $1.00 ECB

$2.59 after ECB

(not the best deal for milk but if you were going to spend ECB’s to buy it anyways, it would be nice to get some ECB’s back!)

Ivory Bar Soap 3 pk. - $0.99
Use $0.50/1 coupon from 6/6 PG
$0.49 after coupon

Tide 2X Ultra Laundry Detergent 48-64 loads - $10.97

Get $2.00 ECB (Limit 2)
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 7/4 PG
$7.97 after coupon and ECB

Xtra 2X Detergent  - $1.99
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 6/6 SS
$0.99 after coupon

Check your parade or USA weekend magazine: FREE McDonald’s smoothie coupon

Make sure to check your Parade or USA weekend magazine from today’s paper.  There is a coupon inside for a FREE smoothie (or frappucino) coupon from McDonald’s!  Yummy!

Guess a FREE regular sized smoothie is better than a sample anyways!

CVS deals: July 18 – 24 – Free chocolate, cheap diapers!

Celsius Green Tea 4 pk. - $7.99
Get $7.99 ECB (Limit 1 )
Use $2.00 printable coupon
or $3.00 coupon from 5/23 SS
FREE after coupon and ECB


Bayer Contour - $14.99
Get $5.00 ECB (Limit1)
Use $10 coupon from 4/25
FREE after coupon and ECB


Huggies Diapers, Pull-Ups, GoodNites or Overnights, jumbo pk  - $8.99
Get $3.00 ECB (Limit 1)
Use $2.50/1 printable
Or use $1.50 coupon from 7/11 SS
$3.49 after coupon and ECB


M&M’s Pretzel Chocolate Candies 1.1 oz., - 50¢
Get $1.00 ECB when you buy 2 (Limit 1)
Use BOGO coupon from 6/27 RP
FREE plus $0.50 moneymaker after coupon and ECB


Gillette ProGlide power or manual razor - $9.97
Get $5.00 ECB (Limit 1)
Use $4.00 coupon from 6/06 PG
97¢ after coupon and ECB

Dial Body Wash 16-18oz or bar soap 8pk  - $3.88
Get $1.00 ECB (Limit 1)
$2.88 after ECB


Paper Mate Pens, 8 ct. bag  - 33¢


Also Jenny over at Southern Savers has some great scenarios planned out to get FREE diapers and get back $4.00 ECB’s.  Page down to where it says Scenario idea.

Biotrue now a moneymaker at CVS!

Have you bought your Bio True solution yet at CVS? 

It was in the ad the first week of June, but it is actually a monthly deal.  I didn’t know that it was a monthly deal and actually have a raincheck for it.

But now it is not only FREE after ECB’s – it is a moneymaker! Coupons.com has released a $2.00 coupon for it!

BioTrue contact solution – $2.99
Get $2.99 ECB (limit 2)
Use $2.00/1 printable coupon
FREE plus $2.00 moneymaker

New printable coupons!

There are several new printable coupons you might want to print:

$0.75/1 Goldfish Grahams - (I am so addicted to the chocolate variety of these!:)  Kroger will have these on sale for $1.00 - $1.25 quite often.

$2.00/1 Smart Balance milk

$0.50/1 Softsoap -   Kroger runs these $10/$10 all the time so would be FREE after coupon!

$3.00/1 Chef’s requested coupon  (Walmart sells the bacon wrapped varieties of these steaks for only $3.28, making them $0.28 after this coupon!)

Super cheap Kraft cheese products starting 7/19 at Kroger

 

I purchased a few packages of cheese at Kroger this week since I had Kroger mailer coupons for them and they were part of the mega event sale (after mega event discount Kraft cheese packages $1.88, Philadelphia cream cheese - $0.99.) 

When I checked out the catalina machine printed this announcement:

Buy 5 participating Kraft products, get a coupon (catalina) for $5.00 off your next purchase!

So that means:

Kraft block or shredded cheese on sale for $1.88 w/ mega event = $0.88 after catalina

Philly Cream Cheese on sale for $0.99 w/ mega event = FREE after catalina.

You do still need to buy 10 items to get the mega price but I plan to split my transactions up – 5 cheese + 5 other mega items in each.  Then I will use my $5.00 catalina to pay for the next order and so on. 

Better go, need to go make some room in the freezer for lots of cheese! :)

You can check out all the mega event items and Kroger sale prices starting July 18 here.

Crazy Coupon Caper: Below budget in groceries and got overage of $5.01 in ECB’s this week!

I love mega events at Kroger but sometimes they can tend to blow my budget!  Not this time though!  There didn’t seem to be as many freebies or really cheap deals in this mega event so I only bought 20 items this week.  I do plan to do buy more next week because there will be super cheap cheese next week (read about that in a post in a little bit.)

Kroger

Sale price: $103.16

- $5/$45 purchase coupon (from Kroger mailer)

-$10 in mega event savings

-$61.95 in coupons

I paid: $26.21

The kitten chow and toothbrushes were free after coupon, the wipes were $0.19 each after coupon, and the batteries were free with an e-coupon from playing the Kroger summer of savings game and were part of the mega event!

Publix

Not much to get at Publix but I did stock up on a few of the really cheap items.

Sale price: $20.63

- $17 in coupons

I paid: $3.63

The razors gave me $0.25 overage, the Hershey’s syrups were $0.50 after coupon, the Lea Perrins Worcestshire sauce were $0.29 after coupon and the Kraft Mayo was FREE after coupon.

You can view all these deals and more with coupon matchups at Southern Savers.

So my total for the week for groceries was $29.84, $10 under my $40 budget!  But I will probably use that $10 next week to buy some more mega items since cheese will be cheaper next week, and make an extra trip to Aldi.

CVS

Transaction #1

Sale price: $20.31

Use $2.00 coupon on Complete

Used (2) $3.00 coupons on John Frieda

Paid with $10.98 ECB

Subtotal: $0.00!  (I will explain how to do this in my new series: CVS shopping tips)

I paid: $1.33 (in tax)

Got back $13.98 in ECB’s 

Profit of $3.00 in ECB’s!

Transaction #2

The John Frieda had to be purchased in separate transactions for the ECB to print.  So I broke up my transactions – 2 on one day and 1 on another.

Sales price: $22.76

Used (2) $3.00 coupon for John Frieda

Paid with $5.00 ECB

Subtotal: $–0.01

I paid: $0.76 in tax

Got back $6.00 in ECB’s

Profit of $1.00 in ECB’s

Transaction #3

I had a raincheck from the last time that CVS had Electrasol on sale with an ECB deal.  (Buy $20 worth of Electrasol – on sale for $4.50 each, get back $10.  So had to buy 5 to get to the $20 total.) But I was waiting until the $2.50 Electrasol coupons came out again.  (I will also explain how to effectively use CVS non-expiring rainchecks to your advantage in my new series: CVS shopping tips)

Sales price: $34.78

Used (5) $2.50 Electrasol coupons

Used (2) $3.00 John Frieda coupons

Paid with $13.99 in ECB’s

Subtotal: $0.01

I paid $2.29 in tax

Got back $15.00 in ECB’s

Profit of $1.01 in ECB’s

No FREE Smoothies at McDonald’s July 22 - 24th

****Update****

McDonald's has now said that they are cancelling their FREE smoothie sampling days.  They have had such high demand for the smoothies this week, their production cannot keep up with the demand.  At least they are telling us this know instead of repeating another KFC fiasco from a while back!

But there is a coupon on their site here for $1.00 off a smoothie or a frappe.  I saw an advertisement stating the smoothies cost $2.29 each so this would make them $1.29 after coupon.

McDonald's is giving away FREE 5 oz. Fruit Smoothie Samples July 22nd - 24th from 7am to 7pm! This is a new item they are adding to their menu and are made with non fat yogurt and real fruit! Yummy and healthy!

Make sure to check your local store to see if they are participating.

Our frugal date night!

My husband and I strive to have regular date nights every other week or so. 

Here is the plan for our date tonight! :)

We will enjoy a movie and pizza at home.  We plan to watch the new family movie, The Jensen Project (airing at 8/7c), on NBC and enjoy a $0.49 Tombstone pizza!  Then we might have hot Nestle chocolate chip cookies ($0.50) and Breyer’s vanilla icecream ($2.00) - bought with coupons of course!

How is that for a frugal date? Under $3.00! :)

What dates have you done in the past that were frugal?

7/18 Sunday coupon preview

Go here to preview the coupons that will be in the 7/18 Sunday paper. 

There should be just one SmartSource insert.

FREE online money management!

Here is a great freebie for you that might actually help you save more money!!

Sign up today with Mint.  It is FREE to sign up!  Mint is an online program that helps you manage and organize your money and budget.  We all need help with that and what better than a FREE program to help us do that!  There are many programs that will help you with managing your money, but you can pay $100 or more for them!  Mint comes highly recommended as the best FREE program that will help you manage your money.

I am actually starting to use it too.  I know that we can save more money by just managing the money that we have better! 

Have you tried it?  And what was your thoughts about it?

Get 50% off at Coldstone Creamery

Have you signed up with Groupon yet? 

Groupon can be thought of as a “group coupon.”  You get a daily email with an offer for a restaurant or service in your area at 90% retail price!  Once a certain number of people agree to buy that deal, it becomes a “groupon”.

Today’s deal is 50% off at Coldstone Creamery.  You can get a $10 giftcard for $5!!  Yummy!!  Sounds like a perfect summer date to me! 

The gift certificates can also be bought as gifts!  So you might find you can start doing some of your Christmas shopping early – spa day at 75% off would be a great present for someone.

Sign up today to access today’s deal and a new one each day!  There have been some really good deals recently

Have you joined MySavings?

Ever wonder where myself and other bloggers find about the deals we share with you?  It is from people like you who post deals in a online forum or community.  MySavings is one of those online coupon forums or communities.

There are many things you can do at MySavings.  You can chat with others or read what others are saying about deals they are finding at the stores.  This is how we all find about unadvertised deals! 

You can also get access to many printable coupons and sign up for lots of FREE samples!

Check out MySavings today!  You might find some great deals even I have missed! :)  If you do, I’d love for you to share with me!

Coupons in the News

Here are 2 more great articles written about coupons:

7 steps to an organized and ant free pantry

How to have a stockpile but not let it take over your entire house! :)

Save big by AVOIDING the “Every day low prices” stores

My favorite!  It really can be cheaper to avoid (for the most part) stores like Wal-mart and stick with the grocery stores.  Two main reasons: supermarkets double coupons, Wal-mart does not,  and Supermarkets have more rock bottom price sales that beat Wal-mart’s everyday low prices.

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I would love to hear your opinion after you read the articles!  Are you a supermarket shopper or “Every day low price” store shopper?

Join Centsible Savings on facebook!

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If so, join Centsible Savings on facebook!

I sometimes publish “facebook only” posts right to my facebook page and even offer facebook only giveaways from time to time.

(In fact, I am having a facebook only coupon insert giveaway over there right now!)

So go “friend” me there now and enter the giveaway!