Back on the coupon bandwagon. Saved $111.17 today at Target, Lunds and Rainbow. Spent $139.21 on two weeks worth of food, a month worth of diapers, and household products. Some great organic deals this week!
Tons of friend wanted to know how I did it. So here is what I put together.
1. Target
Target allows you to pair a target coupon with a manufactures coupon on the same item.
So for instance this week……
I had a target coupon for $2 off any 2 Kraft items. So I then used 2 manufactures coupons as well.
I bought 2 A-1 Steak Sauces @2.59 a piece
$5.18 price
-2.00 Target Coupon
-.75 manufacturers
-.75 manufacturers
Total price for 2 bottles= $1.68
Same goes for diapers (which can be a great deal when they offer the $5 gift card)
Huggies Jumbo packs $8.99 buy 3 get $5 gift card
$26.97 (3 packs)
$6 Target Coupons (I had 3 $2 off coupons from register check out)
$6.50 (manufacturer $2, $2, $2.50)
Total = $14.47
Plus $5 gift card at check out
Total for 3 pack $9.47. (80-100 diapers depending on size)
I recommend signing up for targets mobile coupons, online coupons, watch them mail, etc. Oh and SAVE those check out coupons. You can tell it is a Target coupon right on top of the coupon.
Here is my favorite site for matching target coupons up to the weekly deals:
2. Rainbow
On Wednesday and Saturday Rainbow will double your first 5 coupons up to a face value of $1 after you spend $25.
This can be a great deal also.
So this week they had Ken’s salad dressing on sale. For $1.50 (not me favorite brand for eating, but great for marinades)
I had a $1.00 coupon, which I used on Wednesday so this product was free (and the paid me .50 )
If I have more then 5 coupons that I want doubled I will purchase the first $25 worth of food (5 coupons) and check out. That way I save $10 (if each coupon has a face value of $1.00)
I will make a second trip in and purchase $25 more of groceries and use the 5 other coupons. $10 again (hopefully)
Seem like a pain, but it really is not that much more time consuming and I save $20 on a $50 grocery bill (best case)
3. Lunds
I only usually shop here is they have their Buy one get one sale going on.
This week they do and I scored big!
Pork tenderloin on sale for 9.99 (for 2 marinated roasts) I had 2 $1 off coupons.
So for 7.99 I got 2 pork tenderloins
Also scored on chocolate milk
BOGO 1.59/ apiece
I had 2 $1 off coupons (that made the final price .59 per half gallon of Land O lake Chocolate Milk
I have not found a good site that matches these, but it took me 5 minutes to figure the best deals out there this week.
4. Tips
The red plum and smart source coupons that you find in the Sunday paper now comes to my house in the weekly junk mail. Not sure about this in other areas.
I organize the coupons by writing they date of the coupon publication in big letters on the first page. You can find this in tiny print on the side. Many of the sites refer to the publication date so this is very useful.
I only cut out the coupons that I plan on using based on the match up sites and then print off any online coupons I need. Links are usually provided on the sites listed above. For those coupons that require personal information such as an e-mail address I have a dummy yahoo account I use so my person e-mail stays spam free.
I organize them into plain white envelopes labeled for each store. For the Target items I match up the manufacturer coupon with the target coupon ahead of time.
I list all the items I plan on buying at Target (or rainbow) on the front of the envelope. I mark those items that have coupons associated with them with an *
Ok…I think that is it. Last week it took me less than an hour and I did it watching TV.
