Good Deal Alert - Berries and Soda @ Walmart

My Walmart (Belvidere, IL) had 1 pound packages of Dole strawberries and 12 oz. packages of blackberries for $1.00 each today.  This is an awesome price for berries, in season or not!  If you happen to be at Walmart grab a few packages and make a yogurt parfait....YUM!  Report back if you find them at other Walmart stores so everyone can benefit from this great price.

By the way, these berries look spectacular too!  Sometimes when you see them this cheap they are over ripe and mushy or even sometimes starting to get moldy.  Not these, they are firm and vibrant in color!

Next, if you can get your hands on a Jewel ad you can price match for an awesome deal on soda through the end of the day on Wednesday (tomorrow).  Jewel has Coke and Pepsi products on sale for 4/$8 with a $20 purchase.  Today I price matched 8 - 12 packs of both products with no problems.  They weren't  even concerned about looking closely at the ad so I am guessing they would not notice that a $20 grocery purchase is part of the sale.  If you have coupons this is an even sweeter deal!  I had a $3 Pepsi coupon from a local grocers ad and a $2 Coke coupon from a Jewel coupon booklet.  In the end I paid $11 for 8 - 12 packs.


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Walgreens Super Hero

Today I stopped in at "my" Walgreens to scope out some deals. It felt great to get back into the swing of deal seeking! Our house project (photos to come soon!) is just about complete. There's just a few more outside things that need to be finished up then we are done. Our tenants moved in yesterday because the inside is all finished.

So, in trying to catch up and replenish my stockpile, I hit Walgreens and Walmart today. While I was wandering the aisles at Walgreens I turned from deal seeking coupon shopper to Walgreens Super Hero.

I was standing at the back of the store by the end of aisle 8 checking my list and organizing coupons when I looked up to witness a woman open boxes of cold medicines and dump them into her purse and throw the empty boxes down on the shelf. At first I was really caught off guard, and had a hard time believing what my eyes had just seen. I watched her walk away, grab a 6 pack of Coke and head toward the registers. My quick thinking kicked in so I grabbed the empty boxes and started searching for the manager who I had just had a conversation with minutes before. I swiftly handed them off to him and told him what I saw. By the time he got up to the front of the store, she was already in the parking lot, and had also stuffed the 6 pack in her very large purse. He was able to get her license plate # and watched her blow through a red light to get the heck out of dodge. He came back into the store and immediately contacted the police department. By the time I checked out and got out to my van the police were pulling up.

Fast forward a couple hours later, after the rest of my errands, I was home and the phone rang. An officer was calling to get my side of the story, which I politely explained in detail. He then reported to me that they caught her, and she admitted the whole thing. It's hard to deny it when there's an eye witness and camera footage!

Does't this woman know that theft doesn't pay, but coupon shopping does? ;-)


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Printable Hormel Coupons

Here's a link to some printable coupons for Hormel products.  This is what you will find:

 - Save $1.00 on any one Hormel Completes KIDS microwave meal
 - Save $1.00 on any one Hormel Always Tender product. Any variety.
 - Save $.55 on any two Hormel Pepperoni products. Any variety.
 - Save $1.00 on any three Hormel Completes microwave meals. Any variety.

We don't see coupons for these products too often, so get them now while you can!  I don't know the price of the kids meals, but that has got to make them in the range of 50% off to FREE. 

Come and report back if you find a great sale to use these on!

Crimson Ridge Clearance - Today ONLY

**UPDATE**  This is also continuing on Sunday, May 22 - last day!

My frugal pal Melissa just texted me about this HOT, HOT clearance sale.  Crimson Ridge has a clearance store on Perryville in Rockford, IL right next door to their regular store.  Today ONLY everything in the clearance store is only $1.00 each.  Melissa reports that there are thousands of items in the store.  The store is open until 5 PM today so get over there quick! 

For those of you who don't know, Crimson Ridge is a gift shop with many items like jewelry, flowers, trinkets, knick-knacks, Vera Bradley bags, etc.  If you have gifts to get, or just want to treat yourself to something special today would be the day to get out and get it!   

Come back and report all your great finds!  I would love to hear what you got. 

I am going to try real hard to get over there before they close, but I can't get there until later, which means everything may be picked over by then.

In the Home Stretch

WOW, it's been a busy couple weeks.  We are in the home stretch of our frugal adventure!!  If you want to see the progression so far, start here, then look here, and here.  Our renters are moving in over Memorial Day weekend and I think all will be complete and ready for them by then, maybe with the exception of a few last outdoor projects to finish up. 

Watch for final photos real soon, I hope to get them up as soon as I have the last little ends pulled together.  Someday in the distant future I will sit down and look at all the numbers so far and see just where we stand in our frugal adventure.  We are no where near our goal yet, but we also ended up doing a lot more to the house than we originally planned on.   

Since I have been putting in lots of hours working on various things there, I haven't been in the stores at all.  The only place I have set foot in, aside from Menards, is Wal-mart to just grab some of the essentials like milk and bananas.  I think this is the first week since I started couponing that I haven't walked into the door of a Walgreens store!  I miss my deal seeking adventures and hope to be back at it soon.  And when I do you can rest assured that I will be passing along the great deals to you again too! 

I think it is going to take me a week to organize, clean out and clip several weeks of inserts, but I am looking forward to getting back on track, especially with summertime right around the corner.  Time to stock up on all things summer!  I also think it's going to take me some time to get everything at my own house back on track, I may be slow in getting back to deal seeking, but I will get back at it! 

All I have to say is, a week without Walgreens is like a whole week without sunshine!  ;-)

Clearance Finds at Wags

My frugal pal, Danielle, texted me today to alert me of some awesome clearance finds at our Wags. Danielle found tons of kids games and toys on clearance for $1.74 and less! Time to stock up for gifts, goodies and special treats because it doesn't get much better than that!

She also found the Crayola on the go Color Wonder packs clearanced at .99 each. If you picked up one of those calendars that I previously mentioned with coupons inside, these end up being .50 each because there's a couple coupons inside for $1 off 2.

It's worth a stroll down the toy and clearance aisles at your store to see if you can find some of these good deals too!

Great finds Danielle - thanks for reporting and sharing with us!


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Easter Clearance @ Shopko

For those of you who live near a ShopKo store, my frugal pal Natalie sent me this alert:

"I was at Shopko today and they have a huge clearance on Easter items.  1.5 oz. bags of Cadbury Mini Eggs are on sale for .07 a bag and so are the Creme Eggs.  Whoppers Robin Eggs are on sale for .24 for a 10 oz bag. Raspberry "Yogurt" pretzels are .39 for a small bag (they also have blueberry) and mini egg gum is on sale for .14 a container.

They also had baskets and some other items, but I didn't have time to look them over."

Thanks for sharing your clearance find with us, Natalie!

Clean & Clear Price Match @ Walmart

The new Clean & Clear body wash is on sale for $5.99/BOGO this week at Wags. There's a BOGO coupon in the 3/27 SS insert so if you use it in conjunction with the sale you get TWO free. The problem is, Wags doesn't usually have enough stock, so if you find that your Wags doesn't have any of the Clean & Clear body wash in stock this week you can still get two free bottles before the sale ends on Saturday. Take your sale flyer and coupons to Walmart where they price match competitor's sales. You shouldn't have any problems getting TWO free there, it worked great for me today. YAY! More FREE body wash! ;-D

Since you are heading there for FREE body wash, why not grab some other deals too?

Bring along your $5.00 off any Just My Size coupon from page 14 of the May All You magazine to get some good overage. I found some JMS items on clearance for under $5. I didn't have a lot of time to search the clearance racks because I had two antsy kiddos, but I did find several shirts priced at $3 each. It's being reported on the blogs that $1 items are being found, so if you have some time to really search, there's some good overage to be had!

You will also want to keep your eyes open for WT's while you are there. My Walmart has been restocking good WT's every week. These have been $1 off produce, $1 off deli purchases and $1 off your total grocery purchase. These tags are awesome since produce and deli are things we don't see a lot of coupons for.

I saw lots of hang tags, peelies and tear pads while I was there so if you have time, there's lots of good coupons to be had. When you are collecting them, think of your frugal friend and grab a feW extras! :-)

Super Bread Deal - No Coupon Needed! Local Frugal Friends Only

I have an awesome, ongoing deal to report to all my local frugal friends.  It's not too often that deals are great just by them self, with no coupons needed. 

In our small town we have a butcher.  It's Wayne's Country Market at 801 W. Grant Hwy, Marengo, IL.  Their # is (815) 568-2728 .  EVERYDAY their bread is only .50 a loaf, yep that's the regular price for ALL bread with the exception of raisin or cinnamon raisin which is $1.00 a loaf and some packages of Hawaiian breads that were only .15 each.  This includes hamburger buns, hot dog buns and whole loaves of name brand breads like Healthy Life and Cinnabon.  What a deal!  I stopped for bread today and walked out with 1-Cinnabon, 1-Healthy Life hot dog buns and 1-Healthy Life whole grain bread for $2.03.  WOW!!!  The shelves were not super full, but there was plenty there.  They told me that they get shipments on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday around 1-2 in the afternoon.  The expiration dates weren't too bad, they were close on some of the loaves, but I searched around and got some that were about 4-5 days out.  The only thing that would make this better is if they take coupons (I forgot to ask) because there are usually Healthy Life coupons pretty regularly.

Look for these at Wags - Coupon Calendars

Kudos to my 6 year old son for spotting these on clearance at my store! It just so happens that he's got a thing for light-houses right now, so when he saw this calendar on clearance for $2.50 he asked for it.  How can I resist when I see that there is $20 in coupons inside!?!?!  These are all manufacturer coupons, but they state "Redeemable exclusively at Walgreens" on them, so YMMV using them at other stores like Walmart. 

There were several different calendars to choose from and they all had coupons inside.  Some of the coupons are expired because this is a 2011 calendar and each month has coupons on the page.  The second photo shows all the unexpired coupons that I cut out of it.  Mostly school supplies and Hefty bags, but still good coupons if you can grab one of these calendars. 

I got this last week (sorry so late in posting!) so you may or may not still have luck finding these. 

Thanks, Dylan! :)

Coupon Inserts 5/1

This week is a great one to get out and grab some extra copies of the Chicago Tribune.  There's loads of great coupons in the inserts this week, and lots of inserts!  There's two that I wanted to point out so that you don't over look them.  Make sure you don't toss these in the recycle bin thinking they are just ads. 

There was an extra insert called "Moments to Save" with manufacturer coupon in it, and here's a pic of it:

Then, to my surprise I received ONE of these Target store coupon inserts in the 5 papers that I got inserts from this weekend:

All of these are store coupons, great for stacking, which it advertises right on the front of the insert.  I am just really perplexed that I only got one of these, with 5 papers.  Anyone else get these?