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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

My "I'm bored, let's go to Target and Walmart with the 8/1 P&G when I SHOULD be cleaning" trip 8/31

So I'm not going to show a picture since I think it would be cruel considering every single coupon I used expired today, except one (the gain dish liquid).  Instead I will just tell you a couple of the awesome things I found.

First, Target:

You know those Lysol no touch hand soap things that were $2 at CVS a couple of weeks ago?  Well I've been using mine since the day I bought it (in my bathroom) and I absolutely love it.  The dispenser never gets dirty or water marked because I never touch it!  And the amount it dispenses, along with the scent, are perfect.  So I saw them at Target today for $6.04!!!!  The sign said price cut, and for once in Target's history with me, I believe them.  This is a big price cut no matter where you shop.  I remembered that when I bought the one at CVS I cut all 5 of the coupons I had rather than just 1 because I thought I could find them cheap at Walgreens too.  So turns out I just happened to have 5 of the $3/1 coupons from the 7/11 SS that expire today!  Well I didn't want to buy that many even though $3.04 is a phenomenal price, so I bought 2.  I figured that if Lysol doesn't put out coupons for the refills for a while I'm set using the refills in these 2 packages.  Yay!!  (I put my other 3 coupons on the products themselves just in case a shopper noticed them tonight and could take advantage of them).
That was really the only exciting thing at Target.  I got some travel size Tide and a clearanced kid toothpaste for the other frugal blonde's kiddo.  My total for everything was about $7.

On to Walmart:

The only thing I knew for sure I would pick up at Walmart was the Gain dish liquid.  There is a $1/1 in the 8/29 P&G and Walmart is selling the small bottles for $0.97 and the larger bottles for $1.97.  My store had the original scent and the lavender scent.  Lavender somehow reminds me of my allergies so I bought 4 of the original scent.  And the computer accepted the coupons at face value so I got $0.12 overage.
My exciting find at Walmart: In the 8/1 P&G there was a $3/1 Febreze Noticeables Warmer OR Starter Kit. The warmer was priced at $2.54.  The incredible thing?  This is not a sale or anything special.  It was the regular tag.  I'm telling you, I read the packaging and the coupon at least 10 times to verify that I wasn't crazy and it was the right item.  Guess what?  I got the face value of these coupons too!  I bought 4, so that's a total of $1.84 overage.  Now, these didn't come with any actual oil, but I couldn't pass up making money on them. Some day soon I will buy the refills with some grand coupon we get.  So I knew if I got overage I'd have $1.96, so I just picked up one of those huge packs of gum in the checkout line and my total was $0.66!!!

Yay for easy shopping trips!

3 comments:

mtrentham said...

great Walmart update! Need more Gain for sure.

Elizabeth said...

Thanks! Yeah, gotta love free! And it smells grrreat.

Anonymous said...

awesome! Someone must have raised you right