1 week it's groceries.
Another week it's electronics.
Another week it might be baby items.
Then clothes.
Etc.
So when I grocery shop I'm buying for 6 weeks. Besides my normal weekly trip to get perishable foods like fruit,milk,eggs, cheese, etc. When I grocery shop I know that sale items will come back every 6 weeks. About every 4-6 weeks certain items will be back on sale. So I stock up on those items to last me until that next sale.
This week Target had a crazy amazing sale. Buy $50 worth of food and get $10 gift card back automatic. So automatically I'm getting $10 off my order. And to lower that price down more I added coupons, ibotta, and cartwheel to my items.
I looked on those coupon sites I mentioned before and seen what items I could get for free with coupons. I added those items to my shopping list of course.
So my goal was to get my total to be at $50. Get my $10 gift card. Then hand over my coupons to get my total lower. So those free items would be key to dropping my amount to near zero.
I repeated this process 5 times so I can maximize my savings. On some transactions actually walked away not paying a thing.
Here's what I did:
2 hours, 5 transactions, and close to 100 coupons later. I walked out of Target like I owned the place! Retail $230! Sales,coupons, gift cards,red card, cartwheel,ibotta= Out of pocket $21!
My phone died while in the checkout lane so once I charged it I went back and they gave me the money back.
#1
3 Pepperidge milano cookies @2.69 with cw
1 pataks sauce 2.06 -75q
2 King's Hawaiian rolls @1.14 with cw and $1/2 q
1 market pantry french bread 1.59-cw-50q
1 lipton green tea 2.19- cw- 40centq-$1 target q
1 5lb halo oranges 5.99-50cent q
2 evol sandwiches 1.99-$1q each
3 Starbucks viva coffees 6.39 each - (3) $2.25 q when you buy pepperidge cookies and starbucks
2 rice krispies 2.75
1 jet puff marshmallow FREE with rice krispie purchase
6 Pantene curl gels 3.99- several different coupons
total 52.69 - a gift card from last week= $25.06 oop
gained $10 gift for food, $5 gc for starbucks, 2x $5 gc for pantene, $1 ibotta, $2.69 for cartwheel malfunction, $5 starbucks promo gift card
#2
3 glade aerols 1.02- 55 cent q each
2 popchips, crazy hot flavor. $2 each- cw- $1/2 q
3 Pepperidge milano to-go cookies $1-$1 q each
1 oceanspray juice 1.68-cw
2 kings hawaiian rolls 1.14-cw- $1/2q
market pantry rolls 1.19-cw-50cent q
bear naked granola-cacao and cashew 3.99-cw
4 green giant veggies $1e- $1/2q
1 evol sanwich 1.99-1q
2 nestle cookie dough 2/$4- 50 cent q- 55 cent peelie-ibotta
3 pillsbury cresent rolls 3/$5
1 pillsbury pie crust 2.50 -cw- (2) $1/2q
2 mp eggs .99-cw
3 dannon oikos 1.14- $1/3q-ibotta
2 soft soaps 3.02-$1q each
1 quattro razer 5.69-$4q
4 hotpocks $2=$8- (2) $1.25 q catalinas- $1/4 target q -cw
2 country crock butter 2.14- (2) 70 cent q- 50 cent off 2 target q
1 medal flour FREE with country crock purchase
4 cerave lotion/ointments 3.59 b3g1free-(4) $3
total 38.87-used giftcards from transaction #1= paid 8.34
got back $10 gc for food, $5 gc for personal care, $4.14 for cw malfunction, $1ibotta.
#3
2 soft soaps 3.02- $1q each
4 tresemme gels 3.89- (2)$3/2q
total 21.60 minus coupons $13.60.used gc from #2 to pay so free.
Got back 1 $5 gift card for person care, $5 for tresemme.
#4
2 softsoaps 3.02-$1q each
4 tresemme gels 3.89- (2) $3/2q
total 21.60 minus coupons = 13.60. used gc from #3 to pay. oop 3.54. got back $5 gc for personal care. $5 gc for tresemme.
#5
1 extra gum 99 cents-cw
1 mp fruit snack $1-cw (both these items were added on since my total wasn't at $50 yet)
2 simply balance berry juce 3.39-cw- (2)75cent q for juice
3 justin almond butter packets 1.17 each
1 smuckers jelly 1.98
1 MP PB 2.04-cw
2 best foods mayo-cw-$1q each
4 MP tomato sauce 39 cents each -cw
2 udi's steak,rice burritos 2.99-cw-$1q each
3 milks 1.99-cw
2 mp dozen eggs 99 cents-cw -$4 off $20 purchase of Market pantry, archer farms, or simply balance,
1 mp large eggs 2.99- Free eggs coupon up to $2.49 with purchase of 2 best foods mayos tear pad
1 dannon smoothies-cw-$1q
1 dannon light and fit 3.54-cw
Used gifts from #4. oop $30.98.
earned $10 gc for food. $3ibotta, $13.64 for cartwheel malfunction and missed coupons <---dont shop with 4 kids.
plus I got my bonus from ibotta for making the march madness so that's an extra $3 in my account. So doing the exact math I believe it was a total of $262.91. then out of pocket $21 since I have a couple of gifts left and my Ibotta app.
So these deals too some time to put together but SO worth it! Hope this helps you inspired to go out and cut those coupons and save those big bucks!
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