Long Time But I'm Still Saving Money!!

Here's the picture from Thanksgiving but I don't think I'll have a picture of all the stuff from the Dec 21 & 22nd shopping! CVS was giving away the store! On the Thanksgiving Day shopping trips I bought all this for under $4 dollars! I got tons of candy for a Christmas gift that I was making for friends and family. The candy bars are for my MIL and there's also a baby's 1st Christmas ornament. A fish aquarium (really cool - I think Rain will love!) Lip stick, razor, Dove facial cleaner, cookies, contact cleaner, and 2 pretty purses with lotions attached. I think I did pretty good that day.

Then today (& yesterday) I bought tons of stuff for pennies on the dollars PLUS they gave me tons of ECB's back. An ECB is CVS money that you can use at CVS just like money, so if they have an item like they did this Sunday & Monday for LOreal make-up for 6.99 with an 6.99 ECB printing and I happen to have a $2 off coupon - it's like they are paying me to take their make-up off their hands!! I say sure, no problem. I got tons of stuff for next to nothing.

I hope you all have been reading up on how to do your deals and steals - workin' the system with either IHeartCVS.com or SouthernSavers.com (or even CouponMom.com). They are all great help in making CVS work for you. Just do a little reading and start out with small items and work your way up.

Normally CVS is an expensive little store but if you know how to shop there you can really make out!!

May you all have a blessed Christmas!

Huge Giveaway on The Centsible Sawyer

$500 Yes, you are reading that right, can you believe it?!?!?!? $500 Who couldn't use $500 dollars right about now? Even if Christmas wasn't just 2 weeks away - oh my gosh, it's only two weeks away folks!!

Anyways go on over and check out Denise's site - I'm not sure when it's over but prolly soon!! It's over on Monday the 15th so you have time!! She has some great ideas for helping you save money!

Cool (easy) rebate coming up!!

CVS will be having some really good deals the week of the 21st thru the 27th and if you can get two newspapers this weekend (& possibly for the next little bit at least) you can get work on getting something really cool: A bonus coupon book from P&G worth $120!! It has tons of coupons in the booklet they will send you - most are worth $1 and over. You have to buy $50 worth of products during a month and a half and there's lots of different products in the list of items that qualify as P&G products.

When I read the fine details I couldn't tell if you had to buy the $50 worth of P&G products all on one receipt (which wouldn't have been so great but somewhat doable at CVS) but I emailed them and they were very nice and emailed me back and said No, it doesn't have to be on one receipt!! So save those receipts dated from 12/14/2008 and 1/31/2009!!

Go to: http://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/en_US/jsp/EDS_Page.jsp?pageID=Year-of-Savings for all the details and a list of the products and the rebate form that you have to mail in with your receipt(s).

Some of their products that qualify:

• Febreze
• Old Spice
• Secret
• Charmin
• Luvs
• Pampers
• Puffs
• Duracell
• Camay
• Ivory
• Olay
• Zest
• CoverGirl
• Always
• Tampax
• Dawn
• Joy
• Head & Shoulders
• Pantene
• Herbal Essences
• Clairol
• Bounty
• Mr Clean
• Swiffer
• Cheer
• Era
• Gain
• Tide
• Gillette

Okay, I know that you are gonna go shopping sometime in the next week or two and I'm sure that most of the products on the list are things you usually buy anyways, so keep your receipts!

Have a blessed day - sorry I've been slack lately!!!

e-coupons I think I love you!!

Okay so yesterday I had to go up to Fort Wayne and I've been doing some shopping while I'm up there cas they have some stores up there that we don't have in our little ole hick town here. And I saw my first negative amount on the cash register!! Holy Cow that is an awesome site!!! It was minus 31 cents - I hadn't planned on a negative amount so wasn't prepared for it and I just grabbed DH's favorite candy bar to get back over to postive! I paid 23 cents!!

The only “bad” thing was is that the store I went to (Kroger/Scott) is split up into two different stores - the pharamacy stuff (shampoo, body soap/ wash) is in a different building so I could have gotten a way better deal but I’m not complaining!! For both "trips" I got:

• 2 Reddi Wips
• 2 GG Vegs
• 2 Cottenelle TPs
• block of cheese
• candy bar
• 2 Olay Ribbons body washes (the second "store") 55 cents

all this stuff for 78 cents!! (I could have gotten it all minus the candy for I think 24 cents, tax is sometimes hard to figure. )

this is the trip stash:

Go to SouthernSavers and she'll tell you all about Kroger stores and all about e-coupons that you "load" onto your Kroger card. You can totally save big time and "double dip" so to speak like I did. You get overage this way by using your paper coupons with the e-coupons. Have a blessed day!

Help for Couponing and Shopping!

This site has got lots of info and this link below has lots of different stores listed out for you - one may be near you!! It's a great resource for finding different blogs that will teach you how to get the best deal at your particular store. (Or you can click the image to go to the home page.)

My closest stores are: Marsh, Lances, Aldi's, & Wal-Mart. Oh and now we have a Meijers Store here in town - got love the competion for (against?) Wal-Mart!! - Meijers doubles coupons so I'll go there before I go to Wally World now! Meijers prices are in line with Wal-Marts. Also I go to Fort Wayne every once in a while, there's a Kroger up there and I can check Southern Savers for what deals to pick up while I'm there! Food for Free!! Gotta love that!

http://www.becentsable.net/Default.aspx?pageId=331691 - This has the "local" stores in the list (Aldi, Marsh, Kroger, Meijer, Fry's, Jewel-Osco, etc).

http://www.becentsable.net/Default.aspx?pageId=331690 - This has the "national" stores (CVS, Walmart, Target, etc) on this list.

Have a wonderful day!

My Fav's for Marsh:
http://bargainbriana.com/category/marsh/
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Marsh

My Fav's for Meijer:
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Meijer
http://bargainbriana.com/category/meijer/
http://www.thecheapsk8mom.com/search/label/Grocery%20Gathering

My Fav's for Kroger:
http://ingoodcents.blogspot.com/search/label/Kroger
http://www.southernsavers.com/category/kroger/
http://www.thriftyandchicmom.com/search/label/Kroger

My Fav's for WalMart:
http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/search/label/Walmart%20Deals
http://www.dealseekingmom.com/category/walmart-deals/

All around Fav's: http://www.thecheapsk8mom.com/

Free Stuff

Free Dr Pepper - call 1-888-DRPEPPER to request your coupon. Guns and Roses finally made their record. Only good (yesterday &) today and their website has been down for the last 2 days because of this free coupon! Call asap!!

Win a Free Ergo Baby Carrier Embroidered Organic Hands Free System. Submit your entry by midnight on December 15, 2008.

http://www.alongfortheride.biz/Win-a-Free-Organic-Embroidered-Ergo-Baby-Carrier-s/49.htm

Free Bertolli Sauce: http://www.condenet.com/promo/bertolli/sweeps/saucegiveaway/entry/long/

Black Friday Info Sites: tgiblackfriday.com, Black-Friday.net, BlackFridayCentral.com, or BlackFriday.Info.

Also I'm thinking of doing most of my Christmas shopping by way of the Internet and have been reading a lot about Ebates.com - go check it out if you do a lot of online shopping. Get money back for shopping online! And finally I read that Visa is doing some great deals too (free shipping & money off, etc): http://www.lifetakesvisa.com/

Happy Shopping! And get your free stuff now!!

Black Friday?

Well I never do Black Friday (http://www.black-friday.net/) but this year since I've gotten back into the whole coupon thing (btw, yes, I'm back from the black hole of cleaning up my computer - thanks for asking :-) I thought that I might do some Black Friday shopping - as long as I can save money in the long run, cas I really hate the early hours they always seem to have and I hate the crowds!!!!!! But it'd be worth it if I could get some good deals for Christmas and be almost done with my shopping all in one day... hmmm, something to think about.

I always try to keep a pretty tight hold on the wallet for Christmas but I've been hearing of some pretty good deals to be had, so I just might try it out this year. And last year one of my DD's best friends made out like a bandit on some great deals - I was sooo jealous.

Also I was reading MoneySavingMethods.com (http://moneysavingmethods.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-to-buy-for-christmas-gifts.html) and she has found out some of the places that will be closing up shop (Sharper Image, Linen and Things) after the new year for all you folks that like to buy gift cards and also for anyone that gets a gift card - check out her site to see how quickly you'll have to spend that card!! You don't want to waste your money or throw away someone else's money!!

Do you all know of some places that you'll be going to get your Christmas gifts this year? How are you going to be saving money this year as opposed to last year or are you one of the few that will be able to spend more this Christmas than last year?

I did find a couple cute ideas for some far away friends (I like to get unusual gifts that are small for shipping purposes):

• http://www.teroforma.com/istar.asp?a=6&id=00331!VTSOA - Stone Ice cubes (I know it sounds weird but oh so "cool" for that person that's hard to find a gift for!!)


• http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/detail.jsp?select=C78&byCategory=C1005&id=2339HZLNUT - Sonoma Syrup, yummy


• http://www.tazachocolate.com/thegoods.php - chocolate

Okay tell me some of your favs for mailing to far away friends and family! And don't forget to give me your ideas for Black Friday!!