Just a little FYI

If you are headed out to Smith's this week to take advantage of their madness promotion then be aware that you can only do up to 3 $4.00 off instantly at checkout per transaction. So if you are planning on purchasing more then split them up!!

CVS 101 part 1

This is going to be a three part post with one new post each week. This post is dedicated to those of us who are newbies and don't typically shop at CVS. CVS is a great place to stock up on every day household and hygiene items for a small amount of money and rewards!!!

The first thing you need to do is to get a CVS card and make sure it's registered online to your name, address and email.

After you have received your card go here to read about all the benefits of having a card and also a list of FAQ's.

Next understand the lingo. Just like Albertson's and Smith's CVS runs promotions where you can earn money off your next purchase. These are called ECB's or Extra Care Bucks. These are like store coupons and can be combined with manufacturer coupons. They do expire so watch the expiration dates!!!

You can earn ECBs by purchasing certain products, quarterly rewards (2% of spending) and filling prescriptions.

You can find the ECB deals in weekly ads and in the monthly ad and also on the grocery smarts website!

Busy Busy Busy

Life has been crazy busy lately with my new calling and my new goal of teaching at least four classes a month so again I apologize for the lack of posts but I wanted to give you a quick run down of my killer deal at Albertsons this week!

Last week I was feeling kind of lazy and didn't want to roll my transactions because that would require more effort than I wanted to put into my shopping trip. So I bought everything on one transaction and after it was all said and done I spent about $80.00 and walked out with $22.50 in catalinas to use for the next week.

So this week I was looking at the sales and nothing really super popped out at me, except for the chill promo going on at Albertsons so I decided I would use my catalinas and coupons to pay for the items I wanted in the chill promo and then use the catalina I received from that to pay for my miscellaneous items so here is what I bought (sorry for no picture)

4 boxes of Red Baron french bread pizzas
4 Healthy choice frozen dinners
2 breyers ice cream (this is my family's favorite ice cream especially the triple chocolate so YUMMY!!!)

After coupons this came to exactly 22.50 so I used my catalinas and it made all of that FREE
I the received a $10.00 catalina and bought

1 roast
3 taco seasoning packets
6 candy bars/ m&m's that were on sale for .50

That equaled out to $10.07 so I used my catalina and bought all of the ingredients listed above for only .07!!!!

Not too bad huh!

THE EARNING POTENTIAL IS UP TO YOU!!

How would you like to receive a minimum of a $6 gift certificate to Albertsons and a maximum of as high as you want? All you have to do is host a class, invite your friends, coworkers, church members, relatives, running buddies, etc. over to your house, which I am sure you do on a regular basis already, and invite me over as well to teach the people you love and care about how to save MEGA BUCKS at the the grocery store! Literally the only thing you have to do is invite your friends over and I do the rest!

In fact I will even provide the dessert and drink! I will then give you a $3 gift certificate to you for every household that orders the paper from your class! I will also surprise you with another gift just for you during my presentation.

I promise your friends and family will be grateful for you inviting them over to learn how to save them money! So call me today to book your class!

As an added bonus if you book your class for either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week I will also give you the book Shop Smart, Save More which is full of couponing tips and recipes! This is a must have book for serious couponers!

Call Today my schedule is filling up fast! 702-362-8959!!!

P&G INSERT THIS SUNDAY!!!

I just found out from a little birdie that there will be a Proctor & Gamble insert in this Sunday's paper!!! I am so excited!!!! because I get four papers so I will receive 4 P&G inserts on sunday which is AWESOME!!!

Albertsons is AMAZING this week!

If you haven't had a chance to check out the lists this week then you better hurry over and check out the Albertson's list! There are three amazing promos this week and a sweet 8 hour promo sale on Thursday as well! If you don't get the P&G inserts be sure to head over to Coupons by Dede and order them right now they are only .35 an insert!

Also if you check out here you can find even more great promo's and hints for shopping the sales this week!

Happy Shopping!

p.s. be on the lookout tomorrow for a $50.00 or less shopping example . . .

It's a breakfast kind of day

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and if you took advantage of the sale at Albertson's this past week you definitely won't be hurting for breakfast food for a while!

Today I went to Albertson's and picked up the following items:

8 boxes of frozen Aunt Jemima waffles
2 boxes of Frozen Aunt Jemima breakfast entrees
13 boxes of General Mills cereal (lucky charms, cheerios, reese's puffs, cinnamon toast crunch)
2 Grands biscuits
2 boxes of BarS Corn Dogs
1 Orbit pack of gum

I picked up all of this for only $37.30 and saved 56.75!!! Hurry in to Albertson's before the sale ends it goes till midnight!!!