I had more coupons for Excedrin and wanted to take advantage of that deal. For the record, I am not keeping a single box. I don't use aspirin. So they will all be donated. I have quite a collection of soon-to-be donated meds this week, actually. But the great thing about the Excedrin deal is that there is overage. To be used on things that are not coupon-able this week. Buying FREE Excedrin has in part paid for milk, eggs and sausage so far this week. It has covered bits of laundry, hair and cereal products too. They all need to be paid for in separate transactions and that's a pain. But I have been able to go to Target twice and do four transactions each day. Today, no one was near me in line the entire veeeeerrrrry looooooong time I was there. Thank goodness!
But there is a bonus too! Not only does the Excedrin deal give you overage (differs depending on what manufacturer coupon you choose to use), but it also produces a $1/1 Excedrin manufacturer catalina coupon for each transaction too! If I had more printers/friends with printers I could do this all day and walk away with boat loads of much better than FREE Excedrin. Crazy! But hey, if Target wants to give me nickles and dimes, who am I to turn that away?
So here are how my four transactions went today
Transaction #1:
1 Tide Stain Release - clearance $3.48 (reg: $6.99)
- $3/1 manu coupon
1 Hormel sausage links - $1.89
1 Excedrin (includes bonus baby bottle too) - $3.34
- $3/1 Target coupon
- $1.50/1 manu coupon
3 Granola bar boxes (4 ct) - $1/each
- $1.50/3 Target coupon
- (3) $0.50/1 manu coupons
Total out of pocket: $1.37
Earned: $1/1 Excedrin manu coupon
Transaction #2:
1 Tide Stain Release - clearance $3.48 (reg $6.99)
- $3/1 manu coupon
3 Granola bar boxes (4 ct) - $1/each
- $1.50/3 Target coupon
- (3) $0.50/1 manu coupons
1 Excedrin (includes bonus baby bottle too) - $3.34
- $3/1 Target coupon
- $1/1 manu coupon
1 dozen fresh eggs - $1.19
- $1/1 manu coupon that I can't figure out but it is listed on my receipt
Total out of pocket: $0.17
Earned: $1/1 Excedrin manu coupon
Transaction #3:
1 Tide Stain Release - clearance $3.48 (reg $6.99)
- $3/1 manu coupon
1 Excedrin (includes bonus baby bottle too) - $3.34
- $3/1 Target coupon
- $0.75/1 manu coupon
1 Dentastix dog treats - sale price $3
- $2/1 manu coupon
Total out of pocket: $1.59
Earned: $1/1 Excedrin manu coupon
Transaction #4:
1 Tide Stain Release - clearance $3.48 (reg $6.99)
- $3/1 manu coupon
1 Excedrin (includes bonus baby bottle too) - $3.34
- $3/1 Target coupon
- $1/1 manu coupon
1 Kelloggs Nut Crunch cereal - $2.50
- $1/1 Target coupon
- $1/1 manu coupon
Total out of pocket: $0.60
Earned: $1/1 Excedrin coupon
Grand total paid at Target today: $3.73
Earned: (4) $1/1 Excedrin coupons and found a $2/1 toy coupon
Saved (figuring in the Tide at regular price): $53.78
It was honestly not a long trip to Target until the second transaction when the Tide coupon (from the 02/27 PG insert) wouldn't scan. The cashier said it did, but I knew it didn't. So it required him to call over a manager and then he said I had to go back to customer service. And they thought I was scamming them. But they finally paid me back my $3 and I think we were all happy in the end. I was delighted anyway. I've found the key to these coupon mishaps, which seem to happen fairly often for me, is to remain very calm (on the outside while sweating like a hog and panicking on the inside) and super polite.
I've never used Tide Stain Release before am excited to try it. I ran out of Oxy Clean two weeks ago and have missed having a booster in my light wash cycles. As I said, the Excedrin is a donation. As are the granola bars. The cereal is for my father. And the eggs and sausage were part of tonight's dinner.
I really hope the Colonie Target starts selling groceries because I am a rock star couponer at the big red bulls eye!
3 comments:
Where did you get the stain release coupons?
It was in this past Sunday's PG coupon newspaper insert. I buy several papers (and starting this Sunday will have them delivered @$0.25/each rather than the $2/ea I used to pay for them) and also have a neighbor who gives me all of her inserts. I quickly learned that the key to being able to stock up is having several of each coupon.
But by stock up- I mean buying four of something and not 400.
KK
Well I am officially impressed! : )
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