Originally Posted by
cally
Well what a week this was for getting the freebies! Because of my foot problem, I couldn't get around this week and had to depend on my dear, sweet DH. hehehehe.....*wink*
SO.... on Tuesday I asked him to grab (6)Old El Paso Tortillas bowls @ Sobey's since I saw them the day before for $2.99 - on separate receipts (3 on one...and 3 on another) so we could both claim the CO51. He came home and said they each rang up for $2.49ea! NICE! *big kiss!*
Than on Thursday (the worst day for my foot so far!) he came home for lunch and I handed him two bundles of coupons, each paperclipped, nice and neat. Told him I would text him, in detail, what we needed. I was only having him pick up items that were either going off sale or I wanted to make sure I was able to claim any rebates.
So I texted him to grab (2)Drano's at CDN Tire - they were on sale for $3 - we had two $2 coupons, plus a $2.50 CO51 rebate each. Again, separate receipts, etc. He comes home with (2) LIQUID PLUMR'S!!!! LOL!!! I was like NO!!!!! He said they didn't have any Drano but the Liquid Plumr was on sale for $3 each! HAHAHA!!! Best part - they took the Drano coupons! And I gave him the balance to pay with Cdn Tire money. I was like "honey....we needed it to be Drano in order to claim the $2.50 each" He was like "oh". Hahaha! SO.....we went back OUT to a different CDN Tire (since he said the closer one was out of Drano) and bought (2) more DRANOS.....good thing I had more $2 coupons! And when he got back in the car after getting the right product, he admitted he just saw $3 and Liquid Plumr and thought it was the same. Hahah. Little bugger....so all in all....the (2) Liquid Plumr's cost us zero and we made just over a $1 a piece on the actual Dranos. Not bad. ;)
Also in the text I asked him to go to RCSS (Since they are side by side to CDN Tire in my town) and pick up (8)Barilla PRONTO pastas - gave him the size and asked him to pick a variety of pastas. Just didn't want 8 the same. So he comes home with (2)PRONTO's and (6)regular Barilla. LOL! He's defense was they were all on for 0.97!!! haha. I said yes, but the coupon was strictly for PRONTO and he said, the girl at the checkout took them. LOL! He has the craziest luck! Whenever I go - they scrutinize my coupons....and I'm always conscious of that so I stick exactly to the wording, but my DH??? Nope! They let him just slide on by! (He doesn't know I'm going to milk this foot problem, just to get him to coupon for me - he's luckier!) So that makes (8) FREE boxes of pasta. :)
I than asked him to grab (2)$2.99 Pampers Wipes Sensitive for my shower gift for one of my bestie's baby shower. Did that perfectly! Exactly what I needed and I was able to use my $3 printable plus claim again on CO51 - good little money maker! ;)
Also, my girlfriends and I are throwing a country themed baby shower for our friend. Since money is SUPER tight I told the girls I would find a way to contribute through the magic of coupons! So far I have gotten a TON of baby items for literally pennies. But my greatest acquiry was this weekend with the $2 Sweet Baby Rays. I decided a while ago that I would trade for a bunch of these coupons in hopes of a sale just like this one! I guesstimated that we would need around 25 bottles. So I traded and got 25 coupons and headed to RCSS last night. (my ability to walk has gotten better and I wanted to make sure I was at least there to help with my hubby, who did all the real heavy lifting! ;) ). I was worried that the shelves would be empty! But nope! There were tons there - so we grabbed 25. I had my DH ring through 12 and me 13, for two reasons. One, in case they had a limit or to at least seem that it wasn't so much at one time. And I like to split our groceries to increase our odds of it showing up on one of our PC PLUS cards in the following week. So...again we rang it all through - with a few odds and ends...and when I looked at our receipts - the guy cashier only charged us for 24 bottles and took 25 $2 coupons! This never happens to me! Lol. Usually I look at it and I've been overcharged or something. :) So now I'm going to see if Dollarama has some inexpensive gingham ribbon in pink that I can wrap around the bottles and I want to print out the word "Girl" on little stickers (which I have leftover from my wedding invites) and than over the words "Rays" I'll stick "Girl" so it'll read: Sweet Baby Girl! ;)