Albertsons--Campbell's Catalina Deal

I was at Albertsons this morning, and I noticed a Catalina deal that they have on select Campbell's Condensed Soups.

Buy 4 select Campbell's Soups and receive a coupon for $1.00 off your next purchase at check out.

The Campbell's Soups that are included in this deal are priced from $1.00 to $1.79.

The best deal that I could come up with is:

Buy 4 Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup ($1.00 each)
-use 2 coupons for $0.50 off two Campbell's Great For Cooking Soups (found here and also in the Save Big. Dream Big. Coupon Book) (These will both be doubled)
Final Price: Pay $2.00 AND receive a $1.00 Catalina Coupon at check out. (That's $0.50 per can, and you have $1.00 to spend on your next transaction)

You'll need to be careful when doing this deal. Not all Campbell's Soups are included...ONLY the ones that are labeled in the aisles.

I noticed this for the first time today, but I'm not sure how long it has been going on. It might be a new deal, or it might be something that has been going on all of August and will be ending after today. Either way, it is definitely something to look for the next time you are at Albertsons

Coupons Expiring Today

I just wanted to remind you that a LOT of coupons will be expiring today since it is the last day of August. There are a couple of them that I would definitely try to use today if you will be out.

$1.00 off Tide Detergent (found in 8/1 Proctor and Gamble insert)
-I always save these coupons until the end of the month. If there are no good sales on Tide during the month, I use these coupons to buy the travel size Tide packages at Target. These are priced at $0.97 and have enough detergent in them for one load of laundry. I've been doing this for several months, and I now have close to 40 of them. I could have been throwing them out, but now I have the equivilant of one GOOD size bottle of Tide for FREE!

$1.00 off two Charmin Products (found in 8/1 Proctor and Gamble insert)
-HEB has Charmin Basic packages (4 double rolls) on sale for $1.50...with coupon you can get a package for $1.00. I've always had a hard time finding toilet paper at a great stock up price. When I can find a double roll of toilet paper for $0.25 or less I stock up. I'm not sure what these are priced at Wal-Mart, but you should be able to find a comparable price...if not, you can always price match.

Would you believe that I have not clipped coupons in almost a month? I have over 70 different inserts that are just waiting to be clipped. I've been putting it off for the last several weeks, but I think that tonight I need to start tackling the stack of coupons. Hopefully I'll get a few knocked out tonight and will get caught up in the next couple of days.

I've gone through some of the inserts and clipped a few that I knew I'd be using on my shopping trips, but most of them are still waiting for me. Wish me luck! :)

3 lbs. of Coupon Inserts

I know I've posted about paying to have coupon inserts mailed to me every two weeks. I just received a shipment of three pounds of coupon inserts, and wanted to show you just how many inserts come in each package!

This shipment had 43 coupon inserts:

6 7/25 SmartSource Inserts
2 7/25 RedPlum inserts
5 8/1 Proctor and Gamble inserts
6 8/1 SmartSource inserts
3 8/1 RedPlum inserts
5 8/8 RedPlum inserts
2 8/8 General Mills Inserts
6 8/8 SmartSource inserts
3 8/15 RedPlum inserts
5 8/15 SmartSource inserts

I know several of you have mentioned buying newspapers and not receiving all of the inserts that are scheduled to have been in the newspaper (usually the RedPlum inserts). I also know that a lot of you buy the newspapers JUST for the coupons and end up throwing away the rest of the paper.

I started having the 3 pounds of coupon inserts mailed to me for several reasons:

1. In order to REALLY shrink your grocery budget, you need to STOCK UP when items are on sale. To do this effectively, you need to have multiples of the same coupon. More and more often, I'd go to buy newspapers at the store and find that they had already sold out of the papers.

2. Our local newspaper does NOT have the same amount of coupons or the high value coupons as big city newspapers. The coupon inserts that are mailed are from larger cities, so they tend to be higher dollar coupons. (A BIG plus!!)

3. I felt terrible throwing out all the newspapers that were never even read! I had grand plans of recycling them, but our city is not very recycling friendly, so the majority of the time my stack of newspapers would grow until I got so sick of it that I'd just throw them away.

4. I realized that I would be saving money having coupon inserts mailed to me...not just at the grocery store, but actually on the coupons themselves. The newspaper that I used to buy every Sunday cost $3.00 for each one! Having the coupons mailed to me costs $33.00...less than $1.00 an insert! If I only use one $1.00 coupon from each insert, I will have made my money back, but I can assure you that I will use MANY more coupons than just one from each insert!!

Each shipment of coupon inserts is $33.00. That might sound like a lot, but I easily make that up in ONE shopping trip!! I really think that it is a wonderful investment. You might think that you would never use that many coupons...but as you can see there are several of the same inserts, so think about going in with a friend and splitting the inserts. (Most of the time you receive even numbers of the same inserts, so should be very easy to split!)

I receive my inserts from a small company called American Consumer Services. I contacted Mr. Daniels (the owner) and asked him if it would be okay if I wrote a blog about his business...I wanted to make sure that if any of you were interested in receiving shipments that he would have enough coupon inserts in stock to accomodate new orders. He told me that he should have enough. He did say to have new orders mention that they heard about his business on Lucrecia Wingfield's blog. If you do this, he will take $3.00 off your first shipment...so you'll pay only $30.00!

This is a smaller company, and he does not have a website. You can contact him at 1-866-790-5088 or email him at americanconsumer@comcast.net.

Hope some of you take advantage of this offer...make sure to tell him that you heard about this on Lucrecia Wingfield's blog, so you can be sure to get in on his mailing list. Oh, and this is not something you have to sign a contract to join...try it once, and if you aren't satisfied call and cancel. I signed up to have it delivered once a month, and as soon as I received my first shipment I emailed him to ask if I could get it delivered every two weeks!

Shopping Success!!

My friend, Shelli, sent me an email with a picture of her latest CVS and Walgreens shopping trip. Sorry that the picture is so small, for some reason I wasn't able to enlarge it. She purchased:
2 Clorox Disinfecting Wipes
2 Store Brand Sandwich Bags
2 packages of Hershey's Chocolate Bars (each package has 6 candy bars in it!)



She only spent $1.50 on EVERYTHING!! For less than the cost of one item at most grocery stores, she was able to buy all six items!! Way to go Shelli!!

Keep the pictures coming. I love to hear about your shopping trips!!

Wal-Mart - FREE BallPark Franks!

If you still have the awesome coupon for $2.00 off any BallPark product that I posted about here, you will be able to use it to get FREE BallPark Franks at Wal-Mart.

I ran into Wal-Mart this afternoon and noticed that select BallPark Franks were priced at $2.00. Personally, I think it is a better deal at HEB...spend a little more but get 5 extra products. If you don't have an HEB near you, or you just don't shop there then I'd definitely take advantage of FREE hotdogs at
Wal-Mart!

Save Big. Dream Big. Coupon Book

While you are out shopping, keep your eyes peeled for this new coupon book. My mother-in-law picked it up for me at the commissary, but you can usually find these coupon books at Wal-Mart, HEB, and Albertsons as well.

Coupons that are included in this book:

$1.00 off two jars of Prego Italian Sauce
$1.00 off two BIC Stationary Products
$1.00 off two Pop Secret Products
$0.50 off any Success Rice Product
$0.50 off any two Campbell's Condensed Soups (excluding Chicken Noodle, Tomato, and Creams)
$0.50 off two Campbell's Spaghettios
$0.50 off any two Campbell's Condensed "Great for Cooking" Soups
$1.00 off any two Swanson Premium Chunk Chicken Breast
$1.00 off any two V8 100% Vegetable Juice
$1.00 off any one Campbell's V8 Soup
$0.55 off any one Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Bread
$1.00 off any two V8 V-Fusion Juice
$0.35 off any one bag of Goldfish Crackers