FREE Dog Treats @ Woodmans

If you are heading over to Woodmans here's one to add to your list:

These Chew-eez Purina dog snacks are regularly priced at .99 each.  If you use the $4.00 off 4 manufacturer coupon from the 9/12 RP insert you will get 4 FREE for each coupon that you have.  If you are lucky enough to get a cashier that lets it go, you will get .04 overage with each coupon you use. 

Don't have a dog?  Consider grabbing these for the animal shelter, a friend or as a cute holiday gift for a neighbor's pooch.  I always like to have little dog treats around so when my sister stops over with her fur-baby I have treats to spoil her with! :)

(Thanks to CW for this great tip!)

Free Ronzoni at Hilander

I just realized I'd left my favorite deal of the week at Hilander off my earlier post. I have so much spaghetti sauce from my garden tomatoes I was very excited about this one. As part of the buy 10 items, save $5 promotion going on through Wednesday, Ronzoni Garden Delight Pasta is $.69. There is a $1/1 coupon in the 10/3 SS, a .75/1 printable here and here, and there are also .50/1 peelies on some boxes at the store (which may or may not double based on your cashier). These should all make for free, cheap, or MM pasta. All of the above coupons should work without beeping since the price is actually $1.19 before the discount. Make sure you have enough in your cart to cover it or watch your coupon deductions closely - I actually did go negative on this one and had to have them credit some coupons back to save for later :)

Coupon Search Engine/Database Tips

Many of my frugal friends have commented on some of the coupon search engines and using them to locate coupons for products.  Some of you seem to have better luck with certain search engines and prefer those over others.  I wanted to pass along a tip about using any of the search engines to locate coupons.  I have found that the easiest way to find coupons at any of the coupon databases is to use a very vague description rather than the brand name.  For example, if you are searching for a coupon for DiGiorno pizza, instead of typing in DiGiorno, try just typing in "pizza" - it works for me every time.  You may get more coupons that come up that you have to look through, but it seems to be easier to find coupons this way rather than by brand name. 

I don't know why this is.  Maybe the name might be entered into the coupon database just a little differently, maybe with a space, like Di Giorno, or maybe your spelling is different than the actual product spelling (I have done that many times!). 

There are two different coupon search engines/databases listed on the sidebar here under "coupon search".  Either of these are good places to find coupons quickly but if you have a specific one that you use that is not listed here, please send me a note with the link and I would be happy to add it.  I want to have all the tools you need right here in one place so all you have to do is point and click...and why not share what works for you with everyone else?

Attention Jewel Shoppers: Watch Your Mail!

If you have a Jewel preferred card you are going to want to watch your snail-mail for some coupons directly from Jewel.  Just today I received this lovely assortment of manufacturer and store coupons.  Make sure you don't throw this away thinking it's just "junk" mail. 

Here's what was included in mine: (all exp. 12/5/10)

$1.00 off ONE Ice Mountain
$1.50 off TWO Wesson Oils
$1.00 off TWO Welch's sparkling grape juice
$.70 off any ONE Jewel lunch meat
$1.00 off any 4 Campbell's gravies
$2.00 off any ONE Heineken or Amstel Light 12 pack
$1.00 off any ONE Nestle Toll House refrigerated dough

and 2 - $6 off any $60 purchase coupons (with staggered exp. dates thru 11/20/10)

 YAY -  Can't wait to work a great deal on these!

Also, when you shop at Jewel you are going to want to watch the Catalina machines closely.  It's being reported on CW that random Catalina's for FREE items are printing out.  Here's what I have seen so far:

Free 1lb Jewel Butter/Margarine (max $4)
Free 4-5lb Jewel Flour (max $2.50)
Free Dozen Jewel Eggs (max $2.40)

So, if you aren't expecting a Catalina still make sure to check the machine - you never know what you might end up with!

Hilander Deals 11/4-11/10

This is looking to be a good week at Hilander. They are running another buy 10 products and get $5 off instantly promotion - and this time the coupon match ups are good! The deals and prices listed below are assuming you buy 10 items and get the $5 ($.50 per item) discount.

Propel Fitness Water $.49 - buy 2 and use a B1G1 printable to get 2 free (should take off the .99 price)

Colgate Toothbrushes $1.00 - use the $1/1 from coolsavings.com to get this for free too.

Campbells Cream of Chicken or Mushroom Soup $.49 - buy 3 and use the $1.50/3 coupon from campbellskitchen.com to get these free.

And while we are not lacking in soup in our house, additional varieties for free are always nice so ...
Campbells Chunky Soup $.99 - use the .50/1 coupon from campbellskitchen.com to get a free can of soup AND
buy 2 and load a $1/2 onto your card from the Hilander site and pair it with a $1/2 from campbellskitchen.com or a .50/2 from the 10/10 SS (which will double) to get 2 more cans free.

Campbells Healthy Request Soups $.99 - load a $1/2 coupon to your card and pair it with the $1/2 from campbellskitchen.com to get 2 more cans free.

And finally Annie's Organic Macaroni and Cheese is $.49 - there are no mainstream coupons out for this, but this is great mac n' cheese and this is definitely a stock up price since it usually runs around $1.79 per box.

Olay Products on Sale at Target

Deb mentioned the get $20 when you buy $50 worth of Olay rebate here. Here's how to make this one into a money maker .... This week Olay products are on sale at Target and you also get a $5 gift card for every 2 you buy, so ... buy 8 Foaming Facewashes ($3.50) and 8 Refreshing Toners ($2.84) which will equal $50.72. You will get back $40 in gift cards for buying 16 products and when you submit for the $20 MIR, it will be a $9.28 MM. Other types are also on sale, so check the isle for other products you might use as well.

Note: The signs were not up indicating the Toner as part of the sale at my Target on E State, but I had them scan it at the register and it is included.

Also Note: There are coupons out for Olay Facial Cleanser or Moisturizer ($1/1 in the 10/10 PG and 10/31 PG), but they will only work if you understand how to avoid the register GLITCH (This is the best explanation I have found from Totally Target). The coupons will make this a bigger MM, so if you want to use them, I suggest taking your receipt and coupons directly to customer service after checking out and having them apply them as 'forgotten coupons' rather than dealing with the hastle of the registers.

Clearance @ Wal-mart

You might want to stop in over at Wal-mart and take a quick stroll by the clearance racks - you never know what you will find!  Yesterday I picked up some boys Ocean Pacific swim trunks for $1.00 each.  The men's swim trunks were $3.00 each.  There were a couple clearance racks out in the main aisle and that's where I found these.  Halloween merchandise is also on clearance for 50 % off.

New Month = New Coupons!

It's the first of the month and that means that there's new coupons at the printable coupon websites!  Check out Coupons.com for new printables like:

- Glade Automatic Spray Starter Kit - $4.00 off 1
- Huggies Little Snugglers - $2.00 off 1
- Danon Activia - $0.75 off 1
- Wisk Laundry Detergent - $1.00 off 1
- Pillsbury Savorings - $1.00 off 1
- Garnier Fructis Anti-Dandruff Shampoo - $1.00 off 1
- Minute Rice - $0.50 off 1
- Huggies Pure & Natural - $2.50 off 1
- Pillsbury No Fuss Frosting - $1.00 off 1
- Aleve - $2.00 off One 80 count
- Monistat - $3.00 off 1
- Florastor Probiotic - $7.00 off 1

You will also want to look around over at Smartsource.com and Redplum.com for any newbies! 

New Olay Rebate

Olay sure is generous with the rebates! Here's a link to a $20 rebate wyb $50 worth of Olay Facial Moisturizers, Facial Treatments and/or Facial Cleansers. All purchases must be made by 1/31/2011.

Keep your eyes open for a great sale and coupon match up to really make the best of this one!

Walgreens 10/31 thru 11/6

It's not that often that Walgreens can get me out shopping on a Sunday morning, but this week was an exception!  I started my shopping early this week because there's a couple good money makers that I wanted to be sure to get in on.  With an extremely busy week ahead of me I wanted to be sure to get a jump start in case I had to hit up a couple different Wags stores to get the stock that I have coupons for.  Here's what I got:

Zarbee's Cough Syrup is on sale for $5.99 with a $6 RR in return.  If you were lucky enough to grab some of the $3 printables before Zarbee's pulled them down, then this one turns into a $3 MM.  I was able to print them but they pulled them down so fast that I didn't even have time to get the link posted here before it was no longer available.  I think I just found the coupon link in the nick of time.  Zarbee's realized that the coupon would turn this into an awesome money maker and pulled the coupon off their site and Coupons.com until after there RR promo ends. 

The other really great MM this week is unadvertised.  Vick's products are on sale 2/$10 with a $5 RR in return for purchasing them.  The ad shows 20 ct. or 10 oz. NyQuill or DayQuill or 6 oz. Formula 44.  The MM with this promo is on the Vicks Sinex products.  Both daytime and nighttime formulas work for this, but it has to be the 20 ct. liquid caps.  So, grab TWO of the 20 ct. Sinex products (day or night) and use two of the $4.00 off one coupons from the 10/10 P&G insert.  You will pay $2.00 OOP and get back a $5 RR for a $3.00 MM on each set of two that you purchase.  That's the easy part - the hard part is finding this product in stock!  At 4 different Wags stores I have only been able to find these two in the photo.  Good Luck in your search!

Ricola Cough Drops are FREE again this week.  They are on sale for .99 each so grab TWO bags for every coupon that you have.  Stack the $1.00/2 from the 10/17 SS and the .50 off  Wags in-ad coupon (will take $1.00 off for TWO) to get these with .01 overage for each bag - make sure you hand over the manufacturer coupon first and then the in-ad coupon.

56 oz refill bottles of Softsoap are on sale this week, $7.99 each, B1G1F.  Since we use a ton of this soap and I needed a "filler" item to use up some RR's I thought this would be a good purchase.  Not free by any means, but still a good deal.   There's a .50 off coupon from the November ALL YOU magazine  and I stacked that with the .50 off TWO store coupon in the November monthly Wags store coupon booklet to get these for $6.99/2 or $3.50 each.  That comes to about .07 per ounce.  Not a bad price at all going into the winter season. 

Another good filler item to roll RR's is Campbell's soup this week.  Chicken Noodle (regular and low sodium) and Tomato soups are both on sale for .50 a can.  If you need something cheap to add an item to your transaction this is a good one to use. 

Halloween merchandise is on clearance @ 50% off starting today so you can always stock up on Halloween items for next year, and use them as fillers for rolling RR's. 

Lastly, 10/17 SS has a $2.00 off ANY size/variety Purina One dog food coupon.  Wags has the small, trial bags for $1.99 each hanging on a strip in the pet food aisle.  FREE dog food with .01 overage!