Shopping on Friday

Well, went to Superstore, Walmart, Sears and London Drugs.  Met some very nice people and saved a BUNCH of money.  Gave out some coupons and had a good day with the girls shopping.  I found my trick to shopping with them and having little room in the cart for stuff...I take reuseable bags and hang them over the hooks on the back of the cart seat.  This keeps the girls from getting into the stuff and also makes it easier to get it out of the cart when it comes time to pay! Worked like a charm.

The cashier at Superstore was lovely for a first thing in the morning shop.  We had like $200 worth of coupons and only spent $50.  Wonderful savings!  There was another lady there I chatted with who was stocking or price checking or something while I got some dog food.  Hope so picked up a few shopping tips and maybe I will even see her visiting me here. :)

Walmart was a long painful process but everyone was nice and the manager even called corporate to clarify the coupon policy (so glad I was correct about the policy)  Bummed to find out they missed like $17 worth of coupons but I will clear that out next time I am able to go into the store. Got a literal buttload of stuff!

Sears was GREAT.  They were having a super clearance on Easter stuff so I bought a couple of small teddy bears for the girls' stockings at Christmas time and they had a 70% off sale so grabbed the girls and outfit and a few pairs of pants, each of them a hat, me a new card harder for my wallet, some candy and the reason for my visit...two bottles of carpet cleaner...all for UNDER $40!!!!!

London Drugs was shopping as usual.
 (2) bags of diapers
(2) bags of Pullups
(2) ladys body wash
 (5) different men's deodorant
(2) bottles of crest
(4) different men's body wash
(2) bottles of Tums
bottle of foundation for me
(2) lotion
(2) body wash
(3) bottles of shave gel
(2) packages of disposable razors
(1) table and chair set for toddlers----a BUNCH of stuff, maybe more I can't remember.
Met a nice lady who was amazed at my coupons, gave her like $25 worth of Olay coupons, made her day! I hope to see her here one of these days!!!  There was a gnetleman at the checkout who said "You have a lot of coupons, you must save a lot of money"  I told him that after today's(yesterday's) shopping trip I saved over $2,000 this year alone by using them!!! He was visually surprised!

So, after all that shopping I realized that I am running out of room to hold some of the stuff so I gave Grandma a call.  She told me what she could use and as for the rest...we are going to be giving baskets to a Hutterite family that has (2) adults (4) sons and (2) daughters!  When we make up the baskets I will take pictures and post them here to share :)

WHAT A DAY!  It took us (me and the girls) from 8:30am till 2:30pm to finish our shopping!  They were amazingly good considering their ages (2.5 years old and 18 months old)

COUPON ALERT!

Proctor and Gamble is putting their newspaper coupon insert in this Sunday's paper (in the States) AND you can order a set online too, or so it seems!

https://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/register-eds.jsp

Get yours if you will be doing some shopping in the States soon!!!

Walmart

I went shopping at Walmart today to try out their new coupon policy.  I was highluy disappointed.  All of the items that I have overage coupons for, were gone.  The store being a total mess for renovations didn't help matters any.

Met a father and daughter there, chatted a little bit about couponing.  I gave them a link to the blog and links to free online coupon ordering sites.  Hope to see them around here getting a few tips.  I saw they were buying diapers, so I gave them a $2 coupon. Not much but it always feels nice to help people out a little.

Shopped at Giant Tiger too. Nice haul. Details coming later.  Having some people over to teach them how to coupon effectively :)  Have a nice night everyone.

Finally figured a way to manage the coupon stacks!

I hear about people using ziplock bags to hold their stacks in and I thought that was super cool but wondered at the amounts I would go through especially if I wrote ON the bags. Never initated that practice because I never seem to be able to get the good deal on free Ziploc bags....several weeks have passed and then...

There I was, cleaning up my DH's gaming crap (not to be confused with my treasured gaming items) when I found a stack of Magic the Gathering protector card covers and thought..."these are the same size as the pockets in my coupon binders"...a moment later.."STACKS...I can put my coupon stacks in them and use them over and over and over again AND I can see what stack it's for and when it expires!"

I was so excited. Took a couple pictures to share. You can find these at your local gaming store, or if you plan on doing a trade with me, I will trade them away. I have no idea what type of value they should have but if it helps out my fellow couponers, WONDERFUL.

The image is a little difficult to see but it is a clear protector

COUPON TIME!!!

yes, it's Monday already! Time to order your coupons from GoCoupons, Save.ca and Websaver.  If you have not already ordered your new brandsaver coupons, be sure to add that one to the list.


You might also want to call a couple of companies and request coupons. 

Don't forget to keep your eyes open when out shopping, lots of new tearpad coupons out right now!

Happy collecting.

COUPON TIME!!!

It's that time again, time to order your coupons! GoCoupons, Save.ca, brandsaver.ca, Websaver. Order them all!  Don't forget, this weekend's newspaper has coupon inserts! I know I'm looking forward to the diaper coupons.

My coupon holders

I have (4) coupon holders. 
1-Trade only
1-Main Personal Binder
1-Diaper & Greenworks Binder (mini)
1-Mini Shopping Binder with calculator

Main Coupon Binder

SAFEWAY MAR 18-24

Okay, here we go to Safeway deals and coupon savings!

Michelina's Entrees or Zap Em 5 for $5 limit 10
Sidekicks 5 for $5 limit 10
Kraft Dressing 3 for $5 no limit
Case Cambell's soup $5 limit 4
Refreshe soda 2for $5
Coca-Cola/Pepsi 2L 3 for $6
Campbell's Tetra broth 2 for $4
Cheese Wiz 1kg $6.99
Jumbo Special K $4.99
Kellogg's Muslix 2 for $6
Kellogg's Vector 3 for $6
Philidelphia cream cheingles 1kg 2 for $7
Cracker Barrel cheese 600-750g $9.99
Kraft Singles $7.99
Kraft Peanut Butter 750g-1kg $3.99



Huggies Mega Pack $15.99

London Drugs (LD) March 18-23

V8 $2.88
Ocean Spray $2.88
Clamato $1.99
Fibre 1 cereal 2/$7.00
Cloverleaf flavored tuna $0.99
Campbell's broth 3/$5.00 ($1.66 each)

Gillette Shave Gel $2.99
Satin Care shave gel $2.99
Gillette Fushion blades $12.99
Gillette Fushion razor $9.99
Venus Razor $9.99
Degree Deodorant $1.99
Crest ProHealth $2.99
Crest ProHealth Rinse $3.99
Colgate ProRelief $3.99

Huggies Mega Pack 2/$26.99
Pampers Mega Pack 2/$26.99

NeoCitran $6.99
Tums $2.99

Febreeze Luminaries refill $4.99

Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) March 19-25)

Thanks to the people at Smart Canucks for the flier posting:

Saturday, March 19 to Monday, March 21 - 8,000 to 50,000 points when you spend $50 or more on almost anything in-store (you will get a reveal card)!!!

Sunday/Monday:

Royale 2-ply (24 roll) or 3-ply (12 roll) $3.99
Dove or Balea bar soap 2 x 120 g $1.99
Pampers Mega Diapers or training pants selected types and sizes $13.99
Q-tips (400), Vaseline petroleum jelly or Dove baby wash $2.99
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Royale tissue .69
Always Infinity Maxi Pads (28-36) or Tampax Compak (36) $7.99
Colgate toothpaste and toothbrushes $1.99
Colgate 360 toothbrush or Sensodyne toothpaste $3.99
Natural Instincts hair colour $5.99
Stayfree Maxipads (16-24) or Carefree Pantiliners (36-60) $2.99
Speed Stick or Adidas deodorant $1.79
Poise pads (30-72) $15.99
Alcan foil, Dawn dishwashing liquid (304 ml) or Lifebrand lightbulbs $.88
L'Oreal Root Rescue root colouring kit $6.99
LifeBrand soda 12 x 355 ml $1.99
Benylin tablets (50-100) or Tylenol muscle and aches (72) $7.99
Sunlight 2x laundry detergent $4.99
Pringles 3/$5
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Aquafina, Dasani 2/$9.99
Campbell's Chunky Soup 3/$5
Kellogg's Vector Energy bars, funpak or Mini-Wheats $2.99
Secret roll-on or Old Spice deodorant $3
Dove bodywash $5
St. Ives lotion $5
Mott's Garden Cocktail 945 ml 2/$3
V8 Vegetable cocktail (6 x 156 ml) 2/$5
Kashi cereal $4
Advil $9
Huggies pull-ups (21-24), overnites (20-31), pure & natural (30) $11.99
Poise pads (16-30) or pantiliners (44-48) $6.99

Butter $2.99
Eggs $1.99
Aunt Jemima, Smucker's jam or Skippy peanut butter (750g) 2/$5
Healthy Choice Steamers 2/$7
Delissio pizza $3.99
Breyer's Double Churned ice-cream $3.99
Lipton soup (4's) $2.49
Lifebrand, Minute Maid or Five Alive (1L) 99 cents
Kraft salad dressing, Miracle Whip or Grissol croutons $1.99
Kellogg's All-Bran Strawberry Medley, Fibre Plus Harvest Brown Sugar or Special K cereal $3.99
Christie Oreo cookies or Triscuits $2.49
Starbuck's ground coffee $5.99
Jello pudding cups .99
Malteser's or M&M's $3.49 (165-230 g) (20 x the points!)
Schneider's Redhots $1.99
Kraft handi-snacks .99
Activia or Silhouette 2/$7
Gillette Venus or Fusion Razor $9.99
Advil nighttime liquidgels (10) $6.99
U by Kotex $4.49

Zellers Mar 17-23 sweet deals

Kraft BBQ Sauce $0.99
Cheese Wiz 500g $3.99
Kraft Salad Dressing $1.29
Christie Cookies $1.99
Christie Crackers or Premium Crackers $2.49
Kraft Dinner $1.00

Campbell's soup $0.59
Coca-Cola & Pepsi 12 packs 3 for $11.00

Purex laundry soap $2.99
Irish Spring 6bars $2.99 -$2.50 from newspaper insert
Pert  Shampoo $1.77
Dawn Dish soap $0.88
Lysol Wipes $1.99

Walmart Heads-up! March 17-23

Cheese Wiz 1KG $5.97

Kraft Singles $2.97

Christie Cookies $2.47

CocaCola & Pepsi 12 pack  $3.67

Hunts Snack Pack Pudding $2.97

Cracker Barrel block cheese $3.50

Kraft HandiSnacks $1.00

Kraft Salad Dressing $1.25

Smart Ones frozen entrees $2.00

French's Mustard $2.00

Bick's Pickles $2.00

Bullseye BBQ sauce $2.00

Hellmann's mayo $2.00

Royale Bathroom Tissue $5.98

Glad ClingWrap and Ziplock Bags $2.50

Gillette Fushion shave gel $3.00

Always & Tampax $3.00

Meow Mix $3.97

Heads-up!! Giant Tiger Sale March 17-23

Schneider Red Hot Hot Dogs $1.77
Kraft BBQ Sauce $0.88---$1.50 WHEN YOU BUY 2 KRAFT PRODUCTS/$3.00 WUB 4 KRAFT PRODUCTS
Primo Soup $0.99
Beatrice Chocolate Milk 1L$0.98
Janes Pub Style Breaded Chicken $4.97--$2.00 FROM THE COMPANY/$1.50 FROM TEARPADS
Pepsi 2L $1.27
French's Mustard (asstd) $1.97---$2.00 WUB 2 FROM WEBSAVER
Ruffles or Cheetos $2.49
Motts Clamato$ 2.97---$0.50 FROM UNKNOWN SOURCE
McCain Pizza Pockets 4pk $2
Valley Farms Fries $0.89
Gold Seal Tuna $0.99
Fruit Gushers/Dunkaroos $2
Quaker Granola Bars/Cafe Squares $2
Fibre 1 Bars $2--$1.00 FROM SAVE.CA
Pillers Sliced Meat $1
Maple Lodge Farms Cold Cuts or Chicken Wieners $1
Carnation Hot Chocolate $1.98
Voortman Cookies $2---$1.00 WUB 2 FROM NEWSPAPER INSERT


This is a great shopping week at Giant Tiger.

COUPON TIME!!! Monday Coupon Reminder!

This is just your friendly weekly Monday reminder.  Order your coupons from gocoupons.ca as well as checking http://www.save.ca/ and http://www.websaver.ca/ to see if there are any you have missed.

On Thursday I will start reviewing the weekly advertisements again as well as preparing to take you with me as I make my weekly shopping list.  I didn't go shopping this week only because I had other pressing business on my plate.  I did miss it but will make it up to you and to myself with a wonderful shopping spress full of coupon use!!!  I will even take you through my coupon stacking for my next trip to London Drugs!!!

If you find yourself enjoying this website, feel free to visit any of my sponsors. :)

If you have a particular request that you would like me to focus on, let me know and I will put it on the todo list!!!

Rexall Flier Revistited 11-17

Huggies-Pampers Mega Pack $13.99 (good price to PM to London Drugs and coupon stack!)

Gillette and Satin Care shave cream/gel $2.99  $7 when you buy 4 satin care/$4 when you buy 3 Gillette

Spectro $9.99 - websaver has $5 when you buy 2 and $2 when you buy 1

Colgate Sensitive $1.99 - $2 off one from websaver

Reach toothbrush $0.99 - $1.00 coupon from save.ca

Gum toothbrush $0.99 - $2 when you buy 2 from Rexall calendar

Gain laundry detergent $5.99 - $1.00 when you buy one or $3.00 when you buy 2 from websaver

Cottonnelle flushable wipes $2.99 - $1.00 from newspaper insert coupon

Charmin $3.99 - save $0.50 from P&G brandsaver.com or newspaper flier

Nature Valley bars $1.99 - $0.99 from save.ca

They also have saran wrap, alcan wax paper and aluminum foil on sale for $0.99 each (no limit)  This is a great buy without coupons.  You can occassionally find peelie coupons on the saran wrap products.

Giant Tiger 10-16

• Hamburger Helper $1.69 each - use $0.50 coupon
• Saturday-Sunday ONLY Honey Nut Cheerioes $1.88- there are $1.00 coupons out there. I do not have any but $1.88 is a great price by itself!!!
• Dunn Rite Chicken Breasts 1kg $8.97

Walmart Flier 11-17th

• Kellogg's Rasin Bran 375-750grams  $2.47  use $1.00 coupon from Websaver.ca
• Old El Paso kits and Salsa(650ml) 3.47 each - use $1.00 coupons from Save.ca
• Jane's chicken $8.00 - use $1.50 tearpad coupon or $2.00 off obtained from calling the companyNOTE better deal than Safeway unless you want the airmiles!
• Sunlight dish detergent $1.50 - use $1.00 coupon from save.ca
• Nature Valley Granola bars - $2 each - use $1.00 or $0.99 coupon from save.ca
• Cloverleaf Tuna $0.87 each - use $1.00 when you buy 3 or $0.50 when you buy two available from tearpads in the stores
• Irish Spring body wash $4.00  use $1.50 off coupon that was sent out via post to all addresses
• Irish Spring bar soap 6 bars for $2.50  use $2.00 coupon that was in the newspaper
• Advil Nighttime $3.97 - use $4.00 off coupon that was on tearpads in the stores

As I look through coupons and other fliers, I may notice more good deals.  If that is the case, I will add them as additional posts.

Rexall Flier March 11-24

Rexall is having a HUGE sale from the 11th to the 24th. So huge that it is going to take me an hour or more to go through this flier!!! I will be adding additional comments to this post as I go through this flier.  I love shopping at Rexall, looking forward to this flier's sale prices.

SAFEWAY FLIER March 11-17

So, here are some really good deals and associated coupons for the week of March 11 at Safeway.

• Kraft Dinner buy one get one free use $1.50 when you buy 2 Kraft products OR $3 when you buy 4 Kraft products.  note you can use up to (12) of the $1.50 coupons or (6) of the $3 coupons because there are 12 boxes of macaroni and cheese to a box and you would be buying 2 boxes or the equivilent of 24 boxes of macaroni and cheese.  These coupons were found on tear pads in the store.
• Royale Bathroom Tissue (double 12 roll or 24 rolls) buy one get one free   use (2) $1.00 of any multipack of Royale bathroom tissue.  These coupons can be obtained through GoCoupons.ca
• Jane's Pub Style Chicken Breast strips, nuggets or burgers $8.99 (earn 20 extra reward miles when you buy 2)  use either the $2.00 coupon you can get from contacting the company directly OR use the $1.50 off any Jane's product that was available on tear pads in the store.
• Lucerne Large Eggs $1.79 a dozen - $2.00 when you buy 2 dozen eggs - coupon was available in the newspapers around Christmas time last year.  total price for 2 dozen =$1.58
• Cheese Whiz $4.99- $1.00 off - found at save.ca
• Hamburger Helper $1.99 when you buy 5 or more - use (5) $0.50 coupons from instore tear pads bringing the total of (5) to $7.45
• Panteen 375ml price match at London Drugs and stack your coupons to $3.99

Now this is not to say that Safeway doesn't have other items on sale that are "worthy" of purchase, it is just saying that these are the one that are really good with the coupons that I am currently aware of and have access to.  Meat is not an item that you will readily see coupons for so for that type of item it is best to keep an eye out for good prices and stock up on them as you have freezer space and money to do so with.  Happy shopping.  I will be adding more store flier information as the fliers become available to me.  Questions?

COUPONING STEP 1-2-3

Subscribe to every store's free points programs.

Start gathering coupons. Go to the following websites (Canada) join and order your coupons.
Save.ca
Websaver
GoCoupons
Brandsaver

If you live/shop in the USA visit the following:  Brandsaver   Coupons

Decide how you want to organize your coupons. I have a huge amount of coupons so I use a binder.
You can use envelopes, a check file, a binder...it doesn't matter hwat type you choose as long as it is big enough to hold your coupons and you like it.

Sometimes it can take a week or more to recieve the coupons after ordering them so get on this ASAP.

Stay tuned for more steps

Nice find at Rexall last night

So I went to Rexall to pick up some Coca-Cola and Dr. Pepper (they have soda on sale this week) and I grabbed some Fruit Loops ($1.99 a box) and I found a Dora the Explorer Electric Toothbrush for $3.97! Always check out the clearance items at Rexall. Grab some good cereal and soda while you are it!

I prefer shopping at the Rexall on Portage

Coupon Reminders

I will send out coupon reminders to the blog.  So....subscribe to the blog and watch for the subject line "COUPON TIME!"  I will send out weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reminders to get your coupons!

Want to spread the word about YOUR coupon or YOUR great deals? Let me know and it will be posted here for all my coupon followers to see!

Coupons in this weekend edition of the paper!

There will be coupons in this weekend's edition of the newspaper. 
http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/188531-current-redplum-issue-march-11-12-a-canada/

My favorite is the $10 Multibioneta coupon.  That vitamin often goes on sale at Shopper's and you get get it for like $1.00! YAY!

There are also coupons for pet food, toothpaste, cookies and other items.  I will definately be picking up a few copies of this newspaper!

Saving Money Tips

So, what would you like to know more about? I am, obviously, going to cover couponing and coupon stacking here but would you like to see things like meal planning (to save on your grocery budget), canning/preserving, recipe ideas (to go along with the meal planning) or something else? Pop me a message and let me know!

Next Major Shopping Trip

My next major shopping trip will be with fliers that are valid during the week of the 20th!  As soon as the fliers come out I will start compiling my list of things to buy and the associated list of coupons to match!

Stay tuned!

Also coming----Follow me and get reminders of when and where to order your coupons from the internet!!! That is a helpful little thing, IMO. Can't save with coupons if the ones you have are all expired.

More useful information---I will be posting company contact information (some of them will mail you coupons if you ask for them!)

Stay tuned for more information, helpful tidbits and super sales.

Well, here I am!

Many of my friends have suggested that I start blogging my money savings methods.  These involve (but are not limited to) canning, couponing, bargin-hunting, hand crafting items and so many more.  If  you are interested in saving money, this is the place to watch.  I will be posting my weekly shopping tips and lists as well as coupon reminders.  This is the first post, so we will see how things go.  Am I forgetting something? Feel free to let me know!

Now...off we go!