Weekly Store Deals 6/5 - 6/11/11

Here are this week's store deals:

KCL's Target Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals


Happy Shopping!! Don't forget to post your brag to my facebook page - there's goodies in store if  you do!!  :o)

Weekly Store Deals 5/29 - 6/4/11

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!  We usually spend Memorial Day at the lake but, I'm glad we weren't - it was WINDY!! 

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals

The Krazy Coupon Lady's K-Mart Deals



Happy Shopping!!

Joplin Relief Efforts and Weekly Grocery Store Deals 5/25 - 5/31/11

After seeing the devastation in Joplin over the weekend, my husband and I decided to donate some of our stockpile. We have been judged and have gotten stared down at stores while supplying our stockpile but now, I hope that all of those people who thought of us negatively know why we do what we do. At this point in time, we cannot donate money but, we can ABSOLUTELY donate some of our extra tolitries and food to their relief efforts. Here is what we are donating:

If any of you have a stockpile or even just some extra tolitries and/or non perishable food you can donate, any amount will help! We saw this story on the news last night and decided this would be the quickest and easiest way to help.

Here are this week's grocery deals:

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals  - Frugal Fritzie lives IN Joplin.  Fortunately, her home was not affected by the devastation on Sunday.  In this post, she has noted items that the City of Joplin is needing for donation.

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals


Again, I'm sorry for not keeping blog updated but, as I said on my facebook page, I PROMISE to keep updated.

Happy Shopping!!!

Weekly Store Deals 5/8 - 5/14/11

Here are this week's store deals:

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals

KCL's Walgreens Deals

I went to Walgreens tonight to take advantage of the Cottonelle deal and to TRY to get some Clean & Clear.  They were out of the Clean & Clear (I knew I should have gone yesterday!!)  Since the BOGO coupon expires Sunday, I didn't even bother with trying to get a rain check.  I hope you all have better luck!!

Happy shopping! :o)

Weekly Store and Grocery Deals Week of 4/24-4/30/11

Sorry for the delayed posting of this week's store deals.  Between this being a holiday week and being busy with another project, I just simply procrastinated. 

STORE DEALS:

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Walgreens Deals

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals



GROCERY DEALS:

Frugal Fritzie's Aldi Deals  - I don't shop here too often but I like to check out their produce.

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Leekers/Checkers Deals  - Double Dollar Week!  Yay!!

Become a Coupon Queen's Homeland Deals

Money Saving Mom's WalMart Deals


Happy Shopping!
And, don't forget to post your brags on my Facebook Page!!

:o)

No Inserts This Week

There are no inserts this week.  This is a great time to catch up on organizing your binder (or whatever system you use).  If you do need coupons this week, check out Centsable Clippers.  They are local to the Wichita area and have a local pick up option so you can grab your coupons and GO!

Here is a great article from The Krazy Coupon Lady on how to start a binder if you haven't already.  I will post pictures of my binder this week.  :o)

Happy Easter!!

Weekly Grocery Store Deals 4/20-4/26

Here are this week's grocery store deals:

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Money Saving Mom's WalMart Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals


Happy Shopping!!  :o)

Weekly Store Deals 4/17-4/23/11 and Giveaway Reminder

Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals



I would love to hear about/see the great deals you get this week.  Post a picture on my Facebook page if you want to brag.  :o)

Happy Shopping!!

And, don't forget that there's still time to enter Centsable Clippers' giveaway.  All you have to do is "Like" their Facebook page, comment on the picture titled "THE GIVEAWAY 4-11-11", send your friends to the page and have them like your comment (and Centsable Clippers, of course!).  Hurry over there - the contest ends at midnight!  Over $300 in coupons for liking a page and leaving a comment - THAT'S A GOOD DEAL!! 

:o)

Freebies!!!

Free Sample of GoodNites


Free Sample of Oxygen Botanicals Skincare


Juicy Juice Coupons


$2 off Freschetta Simply Inspired coupon - "Like" their Facebook page to print a coupon (you should be able to print it twice)


Sign Up to Receive Kellogg's Coupons


$1 off 2 Peeps Coupon - "Like" their Facebook page to print a coupon


Free Atkins Quick Start Kit


Free Sample of Jamun Tea


Free HealthiFeet Sample - (while supplies last)


Free Sample of KY Intrigue

My Stockpile Pictures

So, I figured I should post some of my stockpile pictures since the name of my blog is Stockpiling Sunshine!  :o)

Ahhh... gotta love free ramen.  Thank goodness my family likes ramen because right now, we have 49 containers of it!!  My next goal is to come up with recipes using this ramen.

I'm glad we have a deep enough cabinet to store at least SOME of the ramen...  Oh, and Better Oats Strawberries and Cream is AMAZING!  Go "Like" their Facebook page for a BOGO coupon.  Yummy!

More of the pantry.

Our Heath and Beauty collection.   There is NO reason why anyone in this house should smell.  Haha!

Well, there you have it.  This stockpile has been a lifesaver over the last few months since only one of us is working. 

The good thing about having this much stuff is that I don't have to run out to the store to buy really anything.  The only things we're lacking are things that spoil like meat, produce and dairy products.

Since I don't need a lot of things and I'm not using as many coupons right now... I'm thinking a giveaway may be in order...... 

"Like" my Facebook Page and details will be coming soon. 

Thanks!!!!  :o)

Grocery Deals 4/13-4/19/11

Krazy Coupon Lady's WalMart Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Weekly Store Deals 4/10-4/16/11

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Walgreens Deals

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals

The Krazy Coupon Lady's KMart Deals


Happy Shopping!!

Weekly Store Deals 4/3-4/9/11

Deal Detecting Diva's Walgreens Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Target Deals

The Krazy Coupon Lady's KMart Deals

Weekly Grocery Deals 3/30-4/5/11

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Centsible Clippers - A Wichita Coupon Clipping Service

A coupon clipping service is a service that finds, sorts and clips coupons then mails them to you. There is a fee associated with getting coupons from a coupon clipping service but the fee is not for the actual coupons, the fee is for the time the service put in to finding the coupons, clipping them and sending them to you.

These services are great for people who don't have the time or the patience to cut and sort coupons but still want to save money on their shopping trips. This also gives people a way to get only the coupons they want without having to sort through the rest of the coupons that come in a Sunday paper.

By using a coupon clipping service, you are able to order multiple copies of one coupon to stock up on that particular item. It is also possible to find coupons that are "regional" or not available to your area.

There are many of these services available on the Internet so look around and see what suits your needs but I recommend Centsible Clippers. They are local to the Wichita area, offer local pick up and a "simplified pricing structure" which means they are only charging $0.20 per coupon.

They do have a Facebook page and are doing a coupon insert giveaway right now. Once they reach 100 "Likes" on Facebook, they will do 3 separate drawings for 20 sets of inserts!

Weekly Store Deals 3/27-4/2/11

The Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals

KCL's Walgreens Deals

KCL's KMart Deals

Weekly Grocery Store Deals 3/23-3/29/11

Deal Detecting Diva's Leekers Deals - Double Dollar Week!  YAY!

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Money Saving Mom's Wal-Mart Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Freebies!!

Minute Maid $1 off Coupon - "Like" their facebook page to print a $1 off coupon

*Possibly* Free John Frieda Hair Color - "Like" their facebook page then take a survey to see if you qualify for a free product coupon

Free Plackers Grind-No-More Dental Night Protector

Free Playtex Sport Sample

Free Sample of Dove MenCare

Free MiraLax Sample

Free Sample of Natural Nibbles Dog Treats

Weekly Store Deals 3/20-3/26/11

Krazy Coupon Lady's Walgreens Deals

Krazy Coupon Lady's Target Deals

Money Saving Mom's KMart Deals

Weekly Grocery Deals 3/9-3/15/11

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Money Saving Mom's Wal-Mart Deals

Freebies!!

Free Sample of Rage Pre-Workout Supplement

Free 1-2-3 Collections Binder

Free Sample of Rachel Ray Nutrish Dog Food

Free Sample of GreenTea Hawaii

2 Free Breathe Right Strips

New Recipes!

In my 2/15/11 post, I mentioned Hungry Girl.  I've been receiving her emails for several years and really enjoy her tips and swaps.  She now has a show on the Cooking Channel.   Tonight, I made 2 different recipes (complete recipes can be found HERE)... 

Yum Yum Brownie Muffins

181 cal, 3.5 fat, 2 fiber

This recipe is VERY simple.  It's 1 can of pure pumpkin (I used Libby's) and 1 box of devil's food cake mix - nothing else.

I HATE pumpkin.  I know that hate is a strong word but ,seriously, I couldn't even deal with the smell/texture when I opened the can.  I was really afraid that these would taste like pumpkin, the batter kind of did.  BUT, THEY DIDN'T AT ALL!  I was pleasantly surprised.  

Hungry Girl-nola

Very, very good.  I'm snacking on some right now actually.

 I bought one of Hungry Girl's books about a year ago and had bookmarked several recipes but had not tried to make any until now.  After seeing how easy they are to make on her show, I decided it was time to try some.  I'm looking forward to making more (and sharing pictures, of course)!!

Freebies

Here are some freebies from my inbox:

Free Organize in Style Coupon Booklet

Free Sample of Purex Laundry with Zout

Free Chips and Queso at Chilis - join their email club to get news, offers and free chips and queso

Pure Protein Bar - subscribe to their newsletter to receive a $1.00 coupon

Free ♥ Nurses Items - I did this one awhile back and got a couple of magnets for my step-mom

Free Benny Bullys Dog or Cat Treat Sample

Free Sample of Always and Tampax

Free Sample of Flix Dental Stix

Free Sample of Gas-X Prevention

Free Jiffy Cookbook

Wal-Mart's New Coupon Policy

This is directly from Wal-MartStores.com:

Walmart accepts the following types of coupons (see guidelines below):
The following are guidelines and limitations:

• Coupons may exceed the price of the item. Change may be given or applied toward the cost of the basket purchase.

This means that they WILL ALLOW OVERAGE!  I guarantee (and have experienced) that all Wal-Mart employees are not familiar with this policy so taking a copy of the policy is advised.
My sister-in-law and I went to the Wal-Mart at Pawnee and Broadway Saturday night and we were hassled about it.  The manager came over and wasn't very nice about it.  We pulled out our policies and started explaining that this is a recent change that does allow overage (the fact that we had to explain their policy to them is unfortunate in my opinion but... yeah).  The manager was still very hesitant until we stated that we pulled this information directly from their corporate website then he backed off a bit telling the cashier to go ahead and accept our coupons.  My sister-in-law's total was in the negative but to not confuse the cashier anymore, she picked up a package of gum.
So, I don't have experience in getting change back and I'm not really sure how they would do it but, it was nice getting everything I got for $1.50!

Weekly Store Deals 3/13-3/19/11

Deal Detecting Diva's Walgreens Deals

KCL's Target Deals

Money Saving Mom's K-Mart Deals

Grocery Deals 3/9-3/15/11

Money Saving Mom's Wal-Mart Deals  Wal-Mart is looking good this week!!  :o)


Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals


Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Weekly Store Deals 3/6-3/12/11

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals

KCL's Target Deals

Money Saving Mom's KMart Deals

Grocery Deals 3/2-3/8/11

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals
Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Store Deals 2/27-3/5/11

Here are this week's store deals:

KCL's KMart Deals  - KMart is doing Super Doubles this week which means that they are doubling coupons up to and INCLUDING $2.  There are some stipulations though: you have to have a KMart Rewards Card, only the first 5 coupons are doubled after a $25 purchase of grocery, pharmacy or HBA items.

KCL's Walgreens Deals

KCL's Target Deals

Happy Shopping!!  :o)

My Leekers Deals + Weekly Grocery Store Deals 2/23-3/1/11

Leekers is doubling coupons up to and INCLUDING $1 (excluding internet coupons) this week!  I look forward to this week every month (is that weird?).  Anyway, I stopped by there today in between job interviews and this is what I got:

Hot Dogs: on sale 10 for $10.  I used three $1/2 coupons that made them FREE.

Ritz: on sale 2 for $5.  I used two $1/2 coupons making them $1.50 each.

Pasta: regular price $2.09.  I used three $1/1 coupons that made them $0.09 each (!!!!)

Pringles: on sale 2 for $3.  I used three $1/2 coupons making them $0.50 each.

My total was $11.37!  Yay!

In other news, here are the weekly grocery store deals:

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Leeker's Deals

Freebies from my Email!

Free Sample of SOS NightFever - free sample of SOS Nightfever hangover curing supplement.
 
Free Sample of EmergenC 

Gevalia Coffee - AWESOME coffee deal. $14.95 for 2 boxes of tea or coffee, coffeemaker and stainless steel coffee mug
 
Free Sample of Miracle Whip - click on the "Free Sample" link to receive 2 free packets of MiracleWhip. It doesn't sound like much but there may be some coupons too!

My Target Deals 2/22/11

After a conversation with my mom this afternoon, we decided to make a trip to Target this evening.  There are a lot of good Target coupons on their website right now - making lots of things super cheap.
Here's what I got:

And what did I pay????  $7.17

I got the 2 pairs of jeans for FREE!!  These jeans were marked down to $4.98 and I had a $5 coupon from Target's site. 

The notebook paper was marked down to $0.70. The cheese was $0.29 per bag after a Target coupon and 2 $1/1 peelie coupons (from some cream cheese).  The bleach was $0.47 after Target coupon and the cleaner with bleach was $0.37 after Target coupon.  The mouthwash was $0.39 after coupon and the ibuprofen was free after a Target coupon.  Not bad......

We went to Dillons after we were done with Target and all I bought was some coffee creamer and some reduced meat.  I only saved 37%.  My mom did well though!  Her receipt said she saved 58% so that was good (better than me - she didn't have a problem pointing that out, hehehe).

I'll be back tomorrow to post the weekly grocery store deals (it's DOUBLE DOLLAR WEEK at Leeker's!!!).  Maybe I'll post some pics of my stockpile too??  Hmmm...

Deals for the Week of 2/20-2/26

Here are the weekly deals for the week of February 20 through February 26:

KCL's Walgreens Deals

KCL's Target Deals

Happy Shopping and let me know if anyone finds any good deals!

More Freebies + Weekly Grocery Deals = Happy Thursday!

Here are even more freebies found in my inbox:

Free Sample of Shout Color Catcher - Also, if you "Like" their facebook page, you can get a $1.00/1 coupon!

Aquafresh Coupons - if you print the $1.00/1 coupon, you could get the trial size toothpaste for cheap or possibly free.  There are also a variety of other coupons.

Free Subscription to Maxim

Grocery Deals for 2/16-2/22

Frugal Fritzie's Dillons Deals

Deal Detecting Diva's Homeland Deals

Money Saving Mom's Wal-Mart Deals

More Freebies In My E-Mail!

P&G Samples and Coupons!

Free Lactaid Samples

Free Quest Protien Bars

Free Sample of Origins Plantscription Anti-Aging Serum  - “Like” their Facebook page then click on the FREE Sample tab.

Free Daily Emails, Recipes, Swaps and More!! – I’ve been receiving her emails for about 3 years and I LOVE her!  She also has a show on the Cooking Channel.

Freebies!!

Here are some of the freebies I found in my inbox today!

Free Nescafe Tasters Choice Coffee

Free Arm and Hammer Toothpaste

Free Platex Sport Tampons

Free Vaseline Intensive Rescue Lotion

Free Maybelline New York Fit Me Foundation

Store Deals

Here are some of this week's store deals.  These prices are effective 2/13 through 2/19.  I will post grocery store deals on Wednesday when the ads are posted.  :o)

KCL's Target Deals

Frugal Fritzie's Walgreens Deals

:o)

My Deals 2/11/11

My mom has been on vacation all week and since we were snowed in part of the week, we decided to get out of the house and go shopping (without kids – whoa!).  First we hit up SAM’S.  Mom didn’t really want to go there because really, who wants to visit their job while their on vacation?!  I needed to go to stock up on some meat so I talked her into coming with me.

I got a package of chicken breasts, a package of boneless skinless chicken thighs (for a recipe I saw the other day – I’ll post it when I make it next week), a package of chicken drumsticks, some thin buns, eggs and 2 four packs of Glade Christmas candles that were marked down to $3.91.

Our next stop was Walgreens.  WOOHOO!  My best Walgreens trip EVER!  Here’s what I got:

 

Wanna know how much I paid?  NOTHING!!  They actually paid me $2 (with a Register Reward)!!

Here’s how (and keep in mind that not all stores have the same clearance items so I don’t know if this scenario can be duplicated):

2 - Scrubbing Bubbles – while browsing the aisles, I came across these with a bright orange clearance tag below them.  The tag said they were $3.49.  I found out at the register that the tag was put in the wrong spot and they were supposed to be $9.99 each!  Anyway, I had 2 $5.00 off 1 ($5/1) coupons that made these free with $1.51 overage.  (I’ll get into the overage thing in a minute…)

5 - Febreeze Flameless Luminaries – these were marked down to $3.79 each.  Again, I had 5 $5/1 coupons that made these free with $1.21 overage.

4 – Hershey Pieces - on sale 2 for $5 with a $2/2 Walgreens instant coupon making them 2 for $3.  I stacked that with a manufacturer’s coupon for $2/2.  I paid $0.50/bag.

2 – Full Bars - these were buy one get one free.  So, they were 2 for $2.98.  I had a $1/1 coupon that made them $0.99 each.

Here’s where it gets weird.  With these items minus the overage, the store actually owed me a refund of $2.10.  They obviously cannot do that so I had to get filler items to bring my total to $0 or more.  There just so happened to be some Reese’s Drops at the register that were 2 for $2 and some Laffy Taffy near the register for $0.10.  That brought my total to $0.  BUT WAIT!  THERE’S MORE!  A Register Reward printed from P&G (from the Febreeze things) for $2 off my next order! 

I’m not really too sure that the cashier should have taken off the full $5.00 for the Scrubbing Bubbles and the Febreeze.  The Walgreens Coupon Policy says that the value of the coupon cannot exceed the price of the item. I don’t know if the cashier wasn’t paying attention or what but the register did not beep or anything.  Maybe the face value was acceptable?  I even said what the policy stated and she didn’t change anything.  Hmm…

Anyway, my receipt says that my total savings were $106.74.  AWESOME!!

Our next stop was Dillons.  Mom had just received her Dillons coupons in the mail and was itching to use the free coupons they sent her.  I wasn’t expecting to get much.  Maybe just some of the $0.88 frozen corn since the price of corn just skyrocketed and I also had some stuff I knew I could get for free.  Here’s what I ended up getting:

I paid $31.31 for this stuff!

Oh yeah… and here’s my free stuff from Dillons!  :o)

After our shopping trips, we took Gabby to basketball practice and then went to Genghis Grill and WOW!  If you haven’t eaten there yet, you should!  It was SO good!  Even my picky eater, Dakota, said “I know I got $5 worth! We have to come here again!”

I feel like today was a pretty good day.  Actually it was a GREAT day.  I even got an email from Dakota’s teacher saying how great he was today!  It’s been several weeks since I’ve seen one of those so I was pretty happy to see it.  He was so proud of himself too!  I gave him some free DS time for his great day which he thoroughly enjoyed.  I will probably give him some free time tomorrow during Gabby’s basketball game too – he was pretty good the rest of the evening.

Now, I just anxiously wait for the ads to come out this Sunday so I can plan my next attack!  I plan on linking up the ads so everyone can see the deals and the match ups that my favorite blogs post.  They are SUPER helpful!

:o)

Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!

So I finally did it… I finally started a blog to share my couponing adventures!  Over the past year, I’ve had so many people ask me “how do you do that?” or “where do you find your coupons?”  In this blog, I’ll offer the information that I have received, I am still receiving and I am constantly on the lookout for!  I hope that this information helps people discover the joys of couponing – something that I SHOULD have discovered a long time ago!

I’m also going to use this blog as a place to share our experiences while raising our children.  We are a blended family of four.  Cody and I were both very young when we had children.  Cody was 17 and after some time with Dakota’s mother, they decided they were not compatible in a relationship and parted ways.  I was 2 weeks shy of 19 when I had Gabby and just like Cody story, Gabby’s father and I decided we weren’t compatible in a romantic relationship and were better off as friends.  We parted ways when Gabby was 2.  Both parents are still active in Gabby and Dakota’s lives. 

Here’s a little background:

Gabby

In December of 1999, three months after I had turned 18, I found out that I was pregnant.  That was one of the happiest and scariest days of my life.  I was a senior in high school and I was failing all of my classes.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my life until the day I saw those two pink lines.  At that moment, I knew that I had something to live for.  On August 27, 2000 at 8:29pm, we welcomed a beautiful 8 lb 13.8 oz baby girl.  Gabrielle Elizabeth changed my life for ever. 

 

She is now 10 years old and turning into quite the young lady.  She has gotten to the point where we can carry on conversations with her without having to dumb things down.  Gabby definitely lives up to her name though – she will talk your ear off if you give her the chance!  She’s also very funny and is constantly cracking little jokes and showing her wit.  

Gabby is currently on a recreation league basketball team and also plays trumpet in the 5^th grade band.  She wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up and plans on going to KU so she can live in Lawrence, drive a VW and hang out on Mass Street.

Dakota

I met Dakota in the summer of 2003.  Cody’s mom brought him to Wichita for his 1 week visitation.  Dakota was 1 ½ at the time.  The first time I met him, I was so intrigued by his beautiful big blue eyes!  I mean, his eyes are AMAZING.  Check ‘em out!! 
  

  

In June of 2006, we got residential custody of Dakota.  We enrolled him in pre kindergarten and helped him to settle in.  That’s when we noticed that things just weren’t “right” with him.  His temper, his attitude, his picky eating, his quirks to name a few.  We chalked it up to him being a typical 4 ½ year old boy and the transition from his first home to our home.  When he started pre k, his teacher noticed these things too and that’s when we decided to take him to the doctor.  After checking him out, the doctor said that she would like to put him on an ADHD medication.  That seemed to calm things down a bit but he was still a very… active child.  The next school year, we took him to a therapist and had him actually tested for ADHD.  He sat down to take the test and about half an hour later, he and the doctor came in.  I remember this day because it was kind of funny how excited he was about this test.  He said “Mom! Dad!  I got a 99.9% on the test!!”  Hehe… that 99.9% meant that he tested 99.9% positive for ADHD.   

After trying several different medications and different combinations of medications, his doctor has now diagnosed him with bipolar disorder too.  The medications combo he’s on now seems to be working pretty well but we definitely have our good days and bad days.

Dakota is a very smart, funny and imaginative little boy.  He loves to build very intricate ships out of Legos and LOOOOOOOOVES his DS.  And, he still has those gorgeous blue eyes!!

So yeah… that’s us!  Well, that’s the kids anyway.  Sometime, I’ll post about how Cody and I met and the courtship that followed.  That's always a fun story to tell!  

:o)