This weekend’s runs…

Posted by littlemissknowitall

September 20, 2008 |

Over the past two days I’ve made 2 runs at Meijer, and really cleaned up.Â Seems this week is the week for the Know-it-All’s to stock up on drinks!Â With two in sports and two kids in school, we go through Powerades and Capri-Sun juice so quick.Â And I love the Sobe’s and Vitamin Water’s.

Here’s a photo of Saturday’s run, half the totals listed below:

10 boxes Capri Sun 100% Juice
5 boxes Capri Sun
11 Sara Lee Whole Wheat White bread
12 20 oz Sobe LifeWaters
10 20 oz Vitamin Waters
16 32 oz Powerades
6 Buddy Bars
7 Glade Scented Oil Warmers
4 Wheat Thins–Sundried Tomato and Basil, Family Size box
12 Kool Aids
2 Gallons Milk
3 1/2 pint whipping cream

Total before coupons:Â $152.35
Total after coupons:Â $27.89
Total savings:Â 124.46 or 82%
Total in instant rebates/Catalinas:Â $31
I made: Â $3.11!!

Coupons used:

3 $3/5 participating Kraft products (Capri Sun)
5 BOGO Vitamin Water
5 Buy 2 Vitamin Water get 1 Powerade Free
11 Free Sara Lee Bread (recently expired but OK’d at front desk)
2 $3/3 Johnson and Johnson Children’s medicines and Buddies Line
2 BOGO Glade Warmers
5 $4 off Glade Warmers
4 Free Wheat Thins WYB 3 participating Kraft products
6 BOGO Sobe LifeWater
6 .50/1 Sobe LifeWater

Add in a deal at Meijer for buy 10 Vitamin Waters get 5 Powerades free, and all the Catalina deals, and we really loved Meijer this week!!

Comments

13 Comments so far

Kris on September 20, 2008 6:24 pm
Okay…have a question for you…How did you use the $3 on 3 Johnson and Johnson baby products Q…I didn’t see any baby products in your list of items purchased. Is this Q really good on some other products that I don’t know about? Please help…if there is something else I can use this Q on, I’d love to! :)As always- thanks!!
Kris on September 20, 2008 6:26 pm
Okay, nevermind. I can’t believe I didn’t know what a “buddy bar” was! We even have these in our house…guess we just never paid attention to what they are formally called (instead of just “soap”)! LOL…Sorry!
molly on September 20, 2008 7:57 pm
I am new to this and just when I think I have it I missed it! I see how you got the deals, but I cant seem to find the q’s that you are using, hep with a hint please!

MY
littlemissknowitall on September 20, 2008 9:32 pm
Almost all of the drink q’s were off Ebay. There were Vitamin Water/Powerade q’s in the paper recently–look at the database over at HCW (Hotcouponworld) to find the dates they were in the paper. The Wheat Thin q’s were in the August All You magazine. (If you don’t already subscribe to that, find a kid selling magazines for school and get it! Get 4! Its worth it!!) Sara Lee, Glade and Johnson and Johnson were all in recent papers. Sara Lee is expired, earlier this month, but I had permission from the store to use them.
littlemissknowitall on September 20, 2008 9:34 pm
Kris, I love the buddy bars. They last longer than regular soaps, they don’t slip out of your hands, and they lather nicely. I give them to my grandparents–they can grip them easily!
molly on September 20, 2008 10:09 pm
Thanks for the advice, I found a large amount of q’s on HCW. Love it!!!
littlemissknowitall on September 20, 2008 10:33 pm
HCW Rocks!!!
kristin on September 21, 2008 1:05 am
Didn’t the All You Kraft/Wheat Thins Q have the size and price on it? Was it able to be used for the family sized box? How did that work?
Mandy on September 21, 2008 10:04 am
the buddy bars shouldn’t have been purchased with a johnson’s BABY coupon. the buddy products are not part of the “baby” line. they are the buddy line.

sorry.
littlemissknowitall on September 21, 2008 2:06 pm
Mandy, sorry, I put in the wrong coupon in my description. I used the second coupon from that circular, the one that covered Children’s products and Buddy Products. I still have the Baby coupon in my binder. I’ll go correct it now.
littlemissknowitall on September 21, 2008 2:10 pm
Kristin, The All You coupon doesn’t say size, it only says “Free Up to $4.50 WYB xyz.” The boxes were 2/$6 at Meijer last week, making them only $3 each.
Fred on September 21, 2008 5:11 pm
Ok got a question… I see on the Powerade and Caprisun shopping that you did and the totals that you actually made money…but how much did you pay for the coupons from Ebay? I think that should be figured in to get the real picture of what you saved. Don’t you?
littlemissknowitall on September 21, 2008 7:49 pm
Fred, that is very true. I didn’t figure them in because of the amount of math involved. I typically buy my coupons in 20 or more per bundle. Since each deal involves well less than the amount of coupons purchased, I didn’t do the math to divide a per coupon cost x the number used. Let me go back and do that…

Okay, based on a cost of .08 and .10 per coupon purchased (only the Sobe, Capri Sun and Vitamin Water q’s were purchased) then you can add $2.40 to the total bill. That takes me to a little over 80% savings.