Common Sense With Money

Enjoy a day of shopping at BJs without worrying about any membership fees.  Click here to get your one day shopping pass.  It expires on 3/4/09.

BJs is the only warehouse club I know that lets you use manufacturer coupons.  Here are some high value manufacturer coupons that you can use at BJs only:

$2 off any Johnson and Johnson’s Baby product

$2 off any Listerine Mouthwash or breath freshener

$3 off any Splenda product

$4 off any Tylenol or Motrin IB.

Edited to add: Please note that these coupons say “Redeemeable at BJ’s only” in the right lower corner.  Please don’t try to use these coupons in other stores as chances are the store won’t get reimbursed for them.  Don’t make acceptance of internet printable coupons any harder than what it already is.

Happy Savings!

When I wrote earlier in the week about the catalina promotion Jewel has going on, I was asked by a reader if Albertson’s had the same promotion going on.  Albertson’s, Jewel and Shaws are all part of the same chain of grocery stores.  The good news is that the catalina promotion starts today 1/7 and runs through 1/13. Erin from I am Frugal has worked out the best deals for you.  Make sure to stop by and check her coupon matches.

How I wish my grocery store ran competitive promotions like this.  Enjoy your savings those of you with an Albertson’s, Jewel or Shaws grocery store.

These are the best deals I could find for this week. Remember that coupons are doubled when your order is more than $25 after store discounts and promotions and when you use your card. You also have the option to split your order to get more than five coupons to double. I regularly do two transactions at least. I list most of the totals after doubled coupons so you can get an idea of what could be cheap or not. The final decision of what to double is yours.

Coupon Deals

Lean Cuisine Entree 5/$10
Use $1 off two internet printable coupon
Pay $1 each after doubled coupon

Buitoni Pasta 2/$6
Use $1/1 from 12/7 Smartsource insert
$1 each after doubled coupon

Electrasol 2/$7
Use $2.50/1 from 1/4 inserts
Pay $1 each after coupon

Hunt’s Tomatoes 10/$10
Use $1/3 internet printable coupon
Pay $0.33 each after doubled coupon

Bar-S Bologna or Cotto Salami 10/$10
Use $0.25/1 internet printable coupon
Pay $0.50 each after doubled coupon

Wet Ones Wipes 10/$10
Use $0.75/1 internet printable coupon
FREE after doubled coupon

Ocen Spray Light or Diet 2/$5
Use $1/1 internet printable coupon
Pay $0.50 each after doubled coupon

Healthy Choice Mixers 2/$6
Use $1/1 internet printable coupon
Pay $1 each after doubled coupon

Fiber One Pancake Mix 2/$5
Use $0.60/1 coupon from 1/4 insert
Pay $1.30 each after doubled coupon

Register Promotions

Get $5 off your next shopping trip when you buy $20 in participating Nestle products. Ends 1/14/09.

Lean Cuisine single serve entrees 6-12 oz 5/$10
Stouffer’s varieties 6-96 oz
Buitoni Refrigerated Pastas, sauces and cheese 2/$5
Nestle Juicy Juice 100% Premium Juice 46-64 oz
Nestle Raisinets 11 oz
Nestle Crunch, Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and 100 Grand fun size candy bars 11.5-12.5 oz
Boost 6 pk
Hot Pockets 7-54 oz
Lean Pockets 8-54 oz
Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Cookie and Brownie Dough 13.5-19 oz 2/$4
Nestle Hot Cocoa Mix
Carnation Instant Breakfast 4-10 ct.
Powerbar single bars
Powerbar Pria single bars

Happy Savings!

On January 8th, Suze Orman will be launching her new book Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan. As part of the book launch Oprah will be offering an electronic copy of the book for free on her website.  The book will be available for a whole week.  Make sure to check out Oprah.com on January 8th to download your free copy of this book.

Here are other freebies:

Free Recipes and chance to win Kitchen Aid Mixer from Cook Central

Free Sample of Sunsilk Shampoo.

Free sample of Barbara’s Bakery Organic Cereal.

Free sample of Gold Bond.

Free sample of Emergen-C.

Walgreens currently has Hershey’s chocolate single bars on sale for 2/$1 after in ad coupon.  The offer also includes Reese’s Whipps.  There was a coupon for $1 off two Reese’s Whipps in the 1/4 coupon inserts.  Combine both coupons to get FREE chocolate.

Thank you Megan!

Enjoy!

One of my favorite coupons last year was the coupon for $5 off Febreze Noticeables.  Even though at the time I was “getting paid” to buy other air refresher brands I had heard really good things about Febreze Noticeables and wanted to give them a try.  We have two small dogs and I am always fretting that my house smells like dog.

I am glad I gave Febreze Noticeables a try.  The scent is more subtle and long lasting than other brands.  So when I was offered a chance to try Febreze candles I jumped on it.  Febreze candles also provide a subtle scent that spreads throughout the room.  This is something I really appreciate since overwhelming smells turn me off.  Not only will the candle help rid of odors but it will also provide a nice warming ambiance to your home.  It comes in five scents and provide up to 30 hours of burn time.

I have the chance to give two of these candles away.  There will be two winners to this giveaway.  All you need to do is leave a comment with your name, email address once.  Comments without contact information will be considered ineligible and deleted.  This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.  This giveaway ends 1/7 at 9 PM CST.  At that time I will select the winners.

Good luck!

Walgreens has a Register Rewards promotions going on for Flinstones Vitamins: Buy $20 in product and get a $10 in Register rewards back.  This is the transaction I detailed for you in my weekly deals post:

Flinstones Children’s Vitamins 60ct $5
Buy $20 get $10 in register rewards back
Use $1/1 internet printable
Use $1/1 from Coloring Book
Pay $0.50 each after coupons and register rewards

There was a mail in rebate form in the 1/4 coupon inserts:  Bayer Special Half Price Offer up to $10 Refund.  The offer does exclude coupon savings, so if you bought $20 in product and used $4 in manufacturer coupons then your rebate should be up to $8.  After mail in rebate you should come out ahead $6.

Also, there was a coupon in the same inserts for buy one get one free Stayfree product.  There is also a coupon for $3 off any Stayfree 28 or 48 pack in the weekly Walgreens ad.  The 28 count bag of Maxi pads sells for $6.99.  This is how you can get two for free:

$13.98 for two Stayfree products
-6.99 buy one get one coupon
-1 internet printable coupon
-6 (deducted when in-ad coupon gets scanned)
= FREE after coupons

Remember to hand in coupons in this order to avoid any beeping.

Anita also emailed me with this deal she got on Centrum Vitamins.  They are also part of the “Buy $20 get $20 in RRs back” deal.  The Centrum Silver (100ct) and the Original (130 ct) are on sale for $7 each.  There were $3 off coupons in these past Sunday inserts.  After coupons and register rewards you pay $2 plus tax for three bottles.

Anna from Thirteen and Frugal, sent me an email to remind us that the One Touch Mini glucose meters are on sale for $14.99 and there was a $20 off coupon in these past Sunday’s inserts.  These make wonderful donations to free clinics.

Ton’s of deals at Walgreens this week.  Happy Shopping!

Are you wondering where to use your $2.50 off one coupon you got in your Sunday insert?  Here are your best options:

Walgreens has it on sale this week for $3.49 but you also get $1.50 back via their rebate program when you buy one box.  Unfortunately the limit is one box.

Target has Electrasol on temporary price cut for $3.25 through 1/19.  I noticed my Target carried “bonus” boxes with five extra tabs.

If you don’t have a Target or it is out of stock, you can buy it at Walmart where it is on rollback at $3.50.

Finally, Kmart has Electrasol products on sale for $4 each through 2/2.

Those are your options at the big box stores.  The coupon expires pretty quickly so you don’t want to delay in using it.

Happy Savings!

I want to point your attention to a very important issue that is going on now.  Starting on February 10, 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act comes into effect.  A major impact of this program is the mandate that everything sold for children 12 and younger will have to be tested for lead and phthalates.  Anything that isn’t tested or that fails the test will be considered hazardous and cannot be sold.

This has a direct impact to small clothes and toy makers, thrift and consignment stores.   They can’t afford to send out each and every item they receive out for testing and will probably be forced to stop selling children clothes or close doors altogether. To make matters worse most of those clothes that previously were donated will now probably end up in a landfill.

This will also impact families who relied heavily on thrift stores to dress their children.  Demand for new clothes will probably go up impacting the price upwards.  Read more about this here, here and here.  You CAN do something about this: sign this petition to help small business owners or write to your local Congressman (this link has a letter template you can use) and ask that used clothes be left out of this program.

What are your thoughts about this?  How much do you think this will impact your family?

The CVS deals area little bit scarce this week.  Not quite many freebies but a couple of chances to roll ECBs.

ECB DEALS

Buy Fructis Hair products $2.99, Get $2 ECBs (Limit 1)
Use $1/1 coupon from 1/4 inserts
Free after coupon and ECBs

Buy $10 in Johnson &Johnson products Get $10 in ECBs back (Limit 1)

Best Deal
Buy two Listerine Whitening Pens $10 each
Use $2/1 internet printable coupon
Use $3/1 CVS Beauty Booklet Coupon
Spend $10 plus tax out of pocket and get $10 ECBs back

Another Deal Idea
Buy four Stayfree Products and one Carefree products $4.50 each
Use Buy one Get one Stayfree coupon from 1/4 Red Plum insert
Use $1/1 coupon from 1/4 Red Plum insert
Spend $12.50 out of pocket and get $10 in ECBs back

That’s all I could see.  Did you find any other great deals?  Please leave a comment and share with us.